Functional Medicine and Neurology
What is Functional Medicine?
Functional Medicine is an alternative medicine that focuses on improving physiological function as a primary method of improving the health of patients with chronic diseases. The Institute for Functional Medicine defines this approach as “personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes, instead of symptoms, for serious chronic disease”.[1]
Functional medicine practitioners provide chronic care management with the belief that “diet, nutrition, and exposure to environmental toxins play central roles in functional medicine because they may predispose to illness, provoke symptoms, and modulate the activity of biochemical mediators through a complex and diverse set of mechanisms.”[2]
What is Functional Neurology?
Functional Neurology is used to care for patients with any variety of concerns from wellness to comas. The care is non-surgical and non-pharmacological and based on well established neurological, anatomic, and physiologically published research, clinical part experience and clinical therapeutic trials.
What are the Treatment Goals for Functional Neurology and Functional Medicine?
1) Stabilize your Autonomic Sytems: That is the heart, liver, pancreas, gut etc. The way we do that is with laboratory tests and blood work. We find out what’s working correctly and leave it alone; find what’s malfunctioning and SUPPORT it Nutritionally.
2) Balance your Brain Hemispheres: Your brain has two sides, right and left. We perform a neurological examination to discover if you have a problem with your Right Brain or Left Brain. Then we must do the appropriate therapies to bring your right and left brain into balance with each other.
3) Prevent Future Neuro-Degenerative Disorders: This is done through the previously mentioned approaches.
