Functional Medicine

What Is Functional Medicine?

It's fun! Functional Medicine allows for a sui generis relationship to develop between practitioner and patient because it is patient-centered health care that addresses the unique interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors influencing both health and complex, chronic disease. Patient and provider must engage in open and honest conversation regarding needs and desires.

• It provides a unique view of both complex and chronic disease and allows the practitioner to view the client from a cellular perspective, taking into account the underlying pathogenesis (or function) of the problems at hand.
• An abundance of research now supports the view that the human body functions as an orchestrated network of interconnected systems. Systems do not function independently of one another. For example, immunologic dysfunctions can promote cardiovascular disease, dietary imbalances can cause hormonal disturbances, and environmental exposures can precipitate neurological syndromes.
• Core imbalances underlie various disease conditions. Imbalances arise from environmental inputs such as diet, air, water, nutrients, exercise, and trauma that are processed by the mind, body, and spirit. the afore mentioned imputs cause  alterations of the fundamental physiologic processes such as cellular communication, bioenergetics (transformation of food into energy), replication, repair, maintenance of structural integrity, elimination (whole body and cellular), protection and defense, transport and circulation, thus causing dis ease. 
• Common core clinical imbalances may arise from malfunctions such as
  • Hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalances
  • Oxidation-reduction imbalances and mitochondropathy
  • Detoxification and biotransformational imbalances
  • Immune imbalances
  • Inflammatory imbalances
  • Digestive, absorptive, and microbiological imbalances
  • Structural imbalances from cellular membrane function to musculoskeletal system
• Functional medicine is dedicated to improving the management of complex, chronic disease by intervening at multiple levels to address core imbalances and to restore each patient’s functionality and health.

A well blended combination of functional, preventive, and regenerative medicine is the new tradition in health care today. Spry Inside Family Medicine uses this blend as the base line for patient care. Please consult Spry Inside today.