Functional Medicine is an individualized, patient-centred, evidence-based approach to healthcare that aims to identify the root causes and goes beyond resolving symptoms to restore health.

While conventional medicine focuses primarily on using medications to reduce symptoms, Functional Medicine empowers patients and professionals to work together to resolve the complex underlying causes of illness and promote optimal well-being through changes in diet and lifestyle.

PATIENT-CENTRED
EVIDENCE-BASED
COLLABORATIVE
EFFECTIVE
HOLISTIC

The Functional Medicine TREE (at the right - Source Institute for Functional Medicine, US) encompasses the interconnectedness of all the body systems, and conventional medicine practices and is anchored by an examination of the core clinical imbalances that underlie various disease conditions.

Those imbalances arise as environmental inputs such as diet, nutrients (including air and water), exercise, and trauma are processed by one’s body, mind, and spirit through a unique set of genetic predispositions, attitudes, and beliefs.

Functional imbalances are the precursors to the signs and symptoms by which we detect and label (diagnose) organ system disease. Improving balance – in the patient’s environmental inputs and the body’s fundamental physiological processes – is the precursor to restoring health and it involves much more than treating the symptoms.