The term Functional Medicine can seem rather ambiguous.
Although this field is becoming more mainstream due to voices likeDr.
Mark Hymanlauding it as the future of health care, functional medicine is still generally unknown to the public.
To fully understand what functional medicine is, it is important to contrast it with conventional medicine.
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Traditionally a medical doctor uses drugs or hormones as therapeutic tools to deal with dysfunction or disease.
Your general practitioner could decide to treat you, or could elect to refer you to a specialist.
A GP and specialist have access to the same basic tool: medication.
The standard model of care works well for acute diseases, trauma, infection, and emergencies.
Sadly, it fails miserably in the care of the chronic diseases that affect over 125 million Americans.
So what exactly is functional medicine and how can it assist the millions of Americans dealing with chronic disease?
Instead of asking, What drug matches up with this disease?
and Why has function been lost?
and What can we do to restore function?
