Center For Family Wellness

Nutritional Medicine

The goal of Nutritional medicine, as with Traditional medicine, is to identify and treat dysfunction of the body and its organ symptoms.

What differentiates Functional medicine from Traditional medicine is the timing and depth of analysis. Traditional medicine treats disease that is already obvious. Functional medicine not only looks for the obvious, but also the subtle underlying symptoms and patterns in the function of a particular organ or system. A simple analogy is Functional medicine looks for the smoke in addressing a problem while Traditional medicine typically comes into play once the fire has already erupted into flames.

In order to detect subtle problems at the cellular level and determine probability of future disease, Functional medicine utilizes leading edge technology and detection techniques.

Once the underlying causes have been uncovered, a treatment plan is developed for the individual using botanicals (herbs), nutrition (vitamins, minerals & enzymes), diet, exercise and other lifestyle changes.

Early and accurate detection of dysfunctional and potential trends is consistent with its underlying philosophy of preventive medicine and emphasis on helping people achieve, not only an acceptable quality of life, but more so, an optimum quality of life.