What is Functional Medicine and how it worksAbout Functional MedicineAbout Functional Medicine: a patient centered approach."People are fed by the food industry which pay no attention to health and are treated by health care Physicians that pays no attention to food we eat". Health consequences of not paying attention to food have led to dramatic increases in chronic diseases. Dramatic changes in our food supply and eating habits has driven many of your population caught in the web of complex chronic diseases. And sadly our health care physicians' training in clinical care has not kept p with need for food and nutrition base interventions, despite increasing evidence of value of healthy diet. Food is the most pervasive influence on human health. Thinking of food as ultimate upstream medicine are both exciting and revolutionary! A 'food first' approach to treating chronic diseases focuses on dietary strategies that can reverse illness and restore health and vitality. From a functional nutrition perspective, this means applying personalised dietary interventions adapted to each patient's specific circumstances. As chronic, complex diseases continue to increase in prevalence, we see more and more patients who present with common complaints like fatigue, chronic pain, or mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, obsessive behaviours, eating disorders, and other conditions often occur in concert with health conditions such as metabolic syndrome, autoimmune disorders and cardiovascular concerns but nothing seems to make them better. And if we continue to use only conventional medicine approach to treat them, most of them wont get better. The Functional Medicine approach recognizes that the same symptom may have myriad of causes, so it makes no sense to give all patients who have symptoms the same treatment. Such approach often merely suppresses symptoms, yet does nothing to correct the underlying problem. Functional Medicine is a tailor-made to help these patientsThe Functional Medicine approach recognises that the same symptom may have myriad of causes, so it makes no sense to give all patients who have symptoms the same treatment. Such approach often merely suppresses symptoms, yet does nothing to correct the underlying problem. Functional Medicine practitioners treat patients, not symptoms. We examine all the possible causes of chronic dysfunction and ferret out a solution that addresses the cause for that patient. Best of all, this approach allows us to help far more of those “hard to treat” patients. So when we see a patient that has for example a chief complaint that is fatigue, we feel sense of hope and confidence that we can reverse the progression of disease. We, at the Wellness Pharmacy in Tower Bridge, adopt the Functional Medicine approach to help you treat your diseases. The key to reversing the rapidly spreading tsunami of chronic diseases is to address the underlying causes and solutions for chronic diseases, which are primarily driven by lifelong daily interaction among an individual’s genetic, environment and lifestyle choices. Functional Medicine is fundamentally different model for treating these patients, a model that provides methods to: Transform patient lifestyle
Nutritional changes can address both physical concerns and mental health issues. Hence our treatment protocol involves "The individual - not the disease is the target of the treatment" by encouraging the use of phytonutrient dense foods and herbes as medicine. Hippocrate inspires our Passion: Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. Walking is man's best medicine. Everything in excess is opposed to nature. “The Physician’s high & only mission is to heal the sick. The highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle & permanent restoration of the health, or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the shortest, most reliable and most harmless way, on easily comprehensible principles." Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), "The Organon of Medicine" |