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Exclusive Services can Include:
 

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FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE

 

1. Patient (Client)- centered rather than disease-centered

2. Systems biology approach: web-like interconnections of physiological factors

3. Dynamic balance of gene-environment interactions

4. Personalized, based on biochemical individuality

5. Promotion of organ reserve and sustained health span

6. Health as a positive vitality- not merely the absence of disease

7. Function-focused versus pathology-focused

 

Functional medicine aims to address these underlying causes of disease, utilizing systems-oriented approach. It focuses on the whole person rather than just on an isolated set of symptoms. Functional medicine introduces the concept of the “matrix”, which explores the patient’s(client’s) history, together with genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. It focuses on a patient (client)-centered individualization of medicine, prescribing (suggesting) remedies to restore the body’s physiology (the dynamic interactions that maintain life) to normal functioning.

 

 

Lifestyle Medicine

 

“The application of environmental, behavioral, medical, and motivational principles to the management (including self-care and self-management) of lifestyle -related health problems in a clinical and/or public health setting”. It provides interdisciplinary, whole-system approach to the prevention and reversal of chronic and lifestyle -related diseases through modification of the behavioral, social, and environmental drivers. Conditions particularly targeted are those that result from:

• Physical inactivity

• Poor diet or nutrition

• Smoking

• Alcohol overconsumption

• Chronic stress

• Anxiety

• Poor or inadequate sleep

• Social isolation

• Loss of culture and identity

• Other influences of society and environment

 

 

Functional Herbal Therapy

 

• Incorporates the defining characteristics of functional medicine and applies these to the unique properties of medicinal plants

• Also embraces the concept that contemporary Western herbal therapeutics should draw heavily on its empirical roots, acknowledging that the prescribing systems of key Western herbal movements

• Employs diet as a positive aspect of therapy, especially with the use of phytonutrients-rich plant foods

 

 

12 Core Strategies of FHT

 

1. Support – key endocrine responses

2. Eliminate – persistent pathogens: stealth pathogens, viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites

3. Lower- danger signals, boost cellular protection, enhance mitochondrial function

4. Detoxify – and prime the Nrf2 (an emerging regulator of cellular resistance to oxidants) responses

5. Improve – sleep quality and time asleep and restore healthy nervous system function

6. Boost – macro and micro circulation and endothelial health; improve blood quality; promote healing

7. Eliminate – dysbiosis and promote a healthy microbiome

8. Optimize – digestive function

9. Optimize – and balance immune function

10. Resolve – and eliminate chronic inflammation, including neuroinflammation

11. Improve – and enhance natural barriers: gastric acid, gut, skin, lung

12. Address – metabolic imbalances

 

 

HORMONAL LAB TESTING

 

Hormones are powerful, complex messenger molecules in the body. They are sending chemical signals 24/7, to assure activities throughout the body are coordinated in response to our environment. This is the beautiful *dance* of the hormones that includes metabolic, stress, and sex hormones.  Of course, there are many things which can challenge and interfere with that coordination, leading to imbalance and dysfunction (from hot flashes to IBS to anxiety). Our dancing hormones can start “stepping on each other’s toes”.

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Gut Analysis Testing

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As more Americans are affected by poor diet choices, chronic stress, toxic overload and bacterial imbalance, it appears that the prevalence of leaky gut is potentially reaching epidemic proportions. The medical profession is just now agreeing this condition even exists, which is especially shocking considering that “intestinal permeability” (another name for leaky gut) has been discussed in the medical literature for over 100 years!

Why should leaky gut syndrome concern you? In recent years, leaky gut has been called a “danger signal for autoimmune disease.”

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Nutritional Therapy

 

 You already know that eating real food is non-negotiable in sustainable health. However, the advice to “just eat real food” is not enough – not specific enough (do people even know what real food is?), not understandable (isn’t a croissant real food?), not always accessible (I can’t find or afford foods I’ve read I should be eating), and not always doable (I don’t have time to cook, how do I prepare real food?). We need to do more. 

We give you tools and information to help guide you to eat not only healthy, but how to use your food as medicine.

 

Medical Botox

 

Botox injections are noted primarily for the ability to reduce the appearance of facial wrinkles. They're also used to treat conditions such as neck spasms (cervical dystonia), excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis), an overactive bladder and lazy eye. Botox injections may also help prevent chronic migraines.

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