Functional medicine promotes a proactive approach to supporting people as early in the journey as possible.

Focus is on finding the root cause of your symptoms, asking WHY do you as an individual have this illness or symptom.

Functional medicine looks at improving the physiological function within the systems in the body, by identifying imbalances. This can be from disease state or preventative. We are looking at how well your body is working, take digestion, we aren’t just looking for a disease, or a nutrient deficiency, we are asking can you actually break down fats and proteins, are you functioning well.

Functional medicine promotes a personalised approach to care, tailoring protocols to your history, genetics, environment and diagnosis. 5 people with the same diagnosis could be on different protocols based on their root causes.

We look to the interconnections of the whole body, to bring the body back to balance.

Finding your baseline and assessing your health over time, with regular support and ongoing care. Monitoring of conditions, retesting and evaluating change are central to the functional medicine model.

Functional medicine requires patient involvement. It requires you to be an active part of your healthcare and progress. You must be willing to give it your time, your resources and make change. This isn’t to say you don’t need support to do this, but you must be a willng participant. The positive to this is it gives you back power and control.

Uses standard conventional testing as well as advanced functional testing to dig deeper and assess physiology. With retesting to assess progress and see whether a patient can maintain new levels.