What is Functional Medicine?
Functional medicine is patient-centered medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes - instead of symptoms - for serious chronic disease. It is an emerging field of health care that is anchored by an examination of the core clinical imbalances that underlie various disease conditions.
It helps clinicians identify and eliminate dysfunctions in physiology and biochemistry of the human body as a primary method of improving patient health. Functional medicine is not a unique and separate body of knowledge, but it does represent a different way of applying the scientific and clinical information that emerges from the research literature and clinical practice of many disciplines.
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