WHAT IS FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE?

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Functional medicine addresses the underlying causes of disease, using a systems-oriented approach and engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership. It is an evolution in the practice of medicine that better addresses the healthcare needs of the 21st century. By shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of medical practice to a more patient-centered approach, functional medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. Functional medicine practitioners spend time with their patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, functional medicine supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual.

Changing the way we do medicine, and the medicine we doThe mission of Optimum Physical Medicine is to serve the highest expression of individual health through widespread adoption of functional medicine as the standard of care.
The main objective of Optimum Physical Medicine is to reverse today’s epidemic of chronic disease through education, research, and collaboration. Functional medicine provides a powerful new operating system and systems-based clinical model to replace the outdated and ineffective acute-care models carried forward from the 20th century. It enables physicians and other health professionals to practice proactive, predictive, personalized medicine and empowers patients to take an active role in their own health.
The primary drivers of the chronic disease epidemic are the complex daily interactions among an individual’s genetics, environment, and lifestyle choices. Functional medicine addresses these underlying causes of disease and equips healthcare practitioners to help their patients manage this complex, interconnected web.
CORE PRINCIPLES OF FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE
Functional medicine has long been guided by six core principles:
  1. An understanding of the biochemical individuality of each human being, based on the concepts of genetic and environmental uniqueness
  2. Awareness of the evidence that supports a patient-centered rather than a disease centered approach to treatment
  3. Search for a dynamic balance among the internal and external body, mind, and spirit
  4. Familiarity with the web-like interconnections of internal physiological factors
  5. Identification of health as a positive vitality not merely the absence of disease emphasizing those factors that encourage the enhancement of a vigorous physiology
  6. Promotion of organ reserve as the means to enhance the health span, not just the life span, of each patient.

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