Our Philosophy

When a disease occurs, regardless of the name of the condition, it is vitally important to try to find out why the disease or symptom developed; otherwise, how can you possibly know how to treat or correct the condition?

Each individual has unique genetic, environmental, and lifestyle influences that determine a state of health or disease. By evaluating and treating these root causes of dysfunction, functional medicine provides a systematic framework for delivering personalized care that restores health.

Instead of simply looking at specific issues, whether they are health complaints like a chronic or acute illness, lifestyle issues such as diet, exercise, or weight gain, a holistic approach to wellness takes every aspect of a person’s life into account in order to find a place of healing, balance, and positive energy.

This is the stark difference between a HEALTH expert and a SICKNESS model expert. Let’s use a flat tire as an example.

Suppose one day you see a tire going flat on your car. You go to a ‘tire expert’ who puts more air in the tire, and that takes care of it, but in a couple of days, it is flat again. The “tire expert” continues to say that you need more air, but now the tire continues to go flat faster, and other problems are developing. Now, you need air more and more frequently, and you may need air every day or several times a day.

Now, obviously, a smart person would want to know why the tire is going flat, fix it, and be done with adding air.

The tire isn’t going flat because it lacks air; something else is causing the air to leak out. You might go to someone who would examine the tire and find that a nail is causing the problem that was leading to the flat tire.

Just adding air did not fix the flat tire problem. This is just like taking drugs to reduce pain, inflammation, high blood pressure, indigestion, or other symptoms. It is not fixing the primary cause of the problem that is causing your symptoms. A good indication that you are getting worse is if you need to take more and more drugs to relieve your symptoms. You are getting sicker. In fact, if the drugs were really working, you would not need them but only for a day or 2.

If you keep getting ‘nails in your tires’ or other symptoms, it will be far better to find someone who is really concerned about your health and will find the true cause of your problems. This way, the symptoms will often resolve rather quickly without the need for drugs.