Functional medicine is among the most popular
forms of alternative medicine today. The approach views the body as an
integrated whole and the treatments it proposes are applied to the entire body,
not only to the subsystem that is affected by the symptoms.
The functional medicine Denver doctors practice
is different from traditional medical approaches in numerous ways – here are
some of the basic principles that make the functional approach different:
- Personalized care – functional medicine provides treatments tailored to the patient’s unique genetic and biochemical features, in other words, it treats the person instead of treating only the disease.
- Understanding dynamics – functional medical treatment relies on the body’s capacity to self-regulate and heal.
- Searching for the cause – functional medicine does not simply treat symptoms. It digs deep to find the causes, emotional, physical or both, that have led to the appearance of the symptoms and addresses the root cause in a complex and comprehensive manner.
- Combining the traditional and the alternative approach – functional medicine reaches out to traditional medical solutions as well as to integrative, holistic or naturopathic approaches whenever they seem more adequate and more efficient in treating the patient. Functional treatment options include nutrition supplements, exercise, recommendations related to changes in the patient’s lifestyle as well as medicines, so functional treatment provides the patient a comprehensive, tailored system to be used.
