“If my labs are normal, why do I feel terrible?”
“I’ve been taking the recommended medication, but I never seem to get better.”
“It seems like no one has the time or answers for me.”
Unfortunately, many doctors don’t take the necessary time with patients to fully understand and comprehend their problems. Before the patient has even fully introduced themselves a prescription is being written and they are out the door wondering if they were heard at all. When the medication is finally acquired, it only acts to cover up symptoms and not address the real cause of the problem.
Our approach is different. With functional medicine and a holistic approach, we start by truly listening to you, so we can begin to change your health story together as a team. The functional medicine paradigm allows us to understand that symptoms are important, but they are only clues and small pieces to what is truly going on. Achieving health isn’t just about having “normal” lab tests and normal imaging, it’s about living life the way you want to do it, full of energy and enthusiasm.
The shift in the mindset starts here. In traditional Western medicine, there is a single point in time when someone is diagnosed with a disease. Whether that be due to evidence on a MRI or a lab value being too high or low, there must be something on paper to make it diagnosable. Once a condition can be given a name, then treatment can begin, whether it be drugs or surgery.
