Functional Medicine: The Healing Theory

Traditional Medicine v Functional Medicine

• Your GP and medical professionals will always remain responsible for keeping you safe from very serious disease, but we recognise that their ability to help you with milder health concerns such as hormone imbalance, constipation or migraines can be limited to offering you medication to suppress the symptoms.

• In functional medicine, we try and look for lifestyle factors and to emerging research on your genetics, your microbiome, hormone health and diet to try and understand how this fits in and explains your symptoms. By focusing on enhancing the body’s natural function, we can promote balance and in many cases, and restore adequate function again.

What Is Functional Medicine:

• Functional Medicine is an extended version of nutritional therapy, but the focus is on understanding the ‘pathophysiology’ (the mechanism of the disease/what’s not working) of your health concerns. Many practitioner in the industry, whilst claiming to be functional medicine trained, do not fully understand these underpinning concepts, and therefore struggle to properly understand the true cause.

• At Advanced Nutrition, all our practitioners have degree qualifications from the same progressive university to ensure you receive the best care in the market.