Functional Medicine
Caring for your health is so much more than just taking care of each individual system separately.
At Reimagined MD we apply a practical, whole-body approach that engages both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership.
What exactly is functional medicine, and how can this approach help me in my health journey?
Caring for your health properly is so much more than taking an antidepressant for your mood problem along with an acid blocker for your reflux. Since our organs are interconnected and are involved in a complex communication system, this means that we cannot possibly treat them individually and expect to achieve sustainable health results.
Did you know that what you eat is related to how you think, sleep, and perform? Or that your stress level affects your gut, brain, hormones, and sleep?
However, the standard of care hasn’t quite caught up with most of the current science, and conventional doctors are still treating parts of the body separately without taking into account the fact that all these areas greatly impact each other.
When you are healthy, they work together like a symphony in perfect harmony – but when one system is off balance, it can affect nearly every other system.
When you need a “tune-up” so to speak, not only do you need to look at areas that aren’t working right, but also at the rest of your body.
Sadly, most patients will receive medications to treat symptoms associated with a body part that “isn’t working” – when, in reality, their symptoms are oftentimes due a systemic issue that needs to be treated in a completely different way.
In addition, the conventional medical approach doesn’t consider that each person is born with unique health needs, and that one blanket treatment may not be the best for everyone. We need to look at genetic factors, the environment, the types of bacteria that populate the gut, as well as psycho-social influences – each person’s body has a very unique health profile that translates into needing an equally unique healing protocol.
This personalized approach is an integral element of the functional medicine approach. We’ve often seen cases in which patients may share the same symptoms but suffer from very different imbalances.
Unfortunately, our current health care system is not set up to handle this. The average doctor appointment right now lasts 7 minutes. Clearly, the in-depth approach to finding root cause cannot fit into this model. That’s why at Reimagined MD, we follow a functional medicine approach that uses nutrition, lifestyle change, and cutting edge lab testing to add that additional layer to your current medical treatment in order to help you rebalance and finally heal.
Functional medicine is the only approach that considers your diet, environment, emotional health and mindset in combination to determine the root cause of your physicial ailments, and as such it’s the only successful way of treating chronic disorders long-term.
Here is what you can expect from a functional medicine approach with Reimagined MD:
- Personalized care. We prioritize quality over quantity with our patients. We will only make a diagnosis after listening carefully to a patient’s medical history, reviewing lab testing, looking at lifestyle factors that are contributing to the illness, then making a recommendation based on each patient’s unique situation.
- We prioritize natural healing and prevention over the shotgun approach that favors multiple medications.
- We make use of the most modern and advanced medical equipment and tests during your multiple clinical visits with our MD and our health coaches.
- Patients are taught how to take a more active role in their own health and will learn up-to-date nutritional science & lifestyle modifications that can boost their health and overall wellness for a lifetime.
Some of the conditions treated include:
- Infertility (Recurring pregnancy loss, Unexplained infertility, PCOS)
- Digestive Disorders (GERD, IBS, SIBO, Colitis)
- Hormonal Imbalances (Feeling “tired & wired”, Thyroid problems, PCOS, PMS, Hot Flashes, Painful Periods, Mood Swings)
- Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity & Dyslipidemia
- Energy Issues, Stress/Anxiety
- Cognitive Issues (Mild Cognitive Impairment, “Brain Fog”)
- Autoimmune conditions (IBD, RA.Psoriasis, Hashimoto’s, Lupus)
- Obtaining and maintaining optimal wellness for those who are looking to optimize immune functions and enhance their exercise performance.