Functional Medicine
Functional Medicine Foundation
We help you reach your optimal health and vitality with a functional medicine approach. A foundation developed by Dr. Thomas Lewis, a medical scientist, that conducted research on the root causes of chronic disease over a 15-year period at Harvard and MIT.
We identify and resolve underlying causes of poor health and disease. We treat the whole body as one integrated system. Not a collection of individual organs divided by medical specialties. It’s the future of healthcare.
Today’s standard of care is reactive and focused on acute and immediate health problems, a “raging fire.” We also detect “smoldering fire” that often shows no symptoms. You can avoid sudden and future chronic conditions by testing and treating at this early stage.
Most chronic conditions cause a similar response from your body. It doesn’t matter whether it’s diabetes, heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, arthritis. We develop a functional health plan based on precision diagnostics. It serves as a roadmap to optimize your health and reverse disease progression.
Health Risks Drive Chronic Disease
Chronic disease evolves from health risks, to physiological and pathology changes, and ultimately to disease. Biomarkers answer the “what” and objectively positions an individual on the health/disease continuum. However, a robust functional health assessment answers the more critical “why” and drives the care plan. Our program is designed to reverse deteriorating health and disease progression regardless of where you are on the health/disease continuum.
Chronic Disease Mechanisms
Traditional primary care navigates nearly 70,000 diagnostic codes – each tied to a drug or procedure. Dr. Tom Lewis, a renowned medical scientist and collaborator, has determined that 4 mechanisms drive most chronic and acute disease.
- Poor nutrition or absorption that slows repair and recovery.
- Sensitivities that go undetected.
- Constant stress that slows repair and makes you vulnerable.
- Chronic infections or toxicity causing inflammation.
Focusing healthcare interventions based on these mechanisms results in tremendous care efficiencies and superior outcomes. It’s a recognition that most diseases stem from a limited set of risk factors.
Hierarchy of Health
Our hierarchy of health prioritizes the more important interventions to lesser importance. When you build a house, what’s most important. The integrity of the foundation or the windows you choose? The hierarchy of health is a step-wise process of interventions in order of importance.
Functional Assessment (FA)
- Functional assessment (FA) guides a preliminary personalized care plan. Answers the “why”.
- Precision biomarker diagnostics measures an individual’s position on the health/disease continuum. Answers the “what”.
- Personalized care plan developed by integrating (FA) and precision diagnostics.
- One health coaching session to review and engage care plan.
Functional Medicine Programs
Advanced Primary Care (APC)
Proactive, preemptive primary care with a functional medicine foundation. Focus on whole person health. A personalized functional health plan to optimize your health and reverse chronic disease. Care coordination to reduce costly specialist referrals and avoidable procedures.
Functional Medicine (FM)
Virtual program to augment primary care for complex conditions including autoimmune, digestive, metabolic, hormonal, and mental health. Root cause resolution of unexplained symptoms, chronic disease and barriers to optimal health. Dedicated provider/health coach team to engage you in your journey.
Functional Health Plan
A personalized care plan developed by AI/LLM powered functional risk assessment and biomarker analytics. Includes one health coach consultation.
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