Functional Medicine

Functional medicine is personalised medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes, instead of symptoms for the treatment of serious chronic disease and physiological dysfunction. This science-base field of care encompasses both allopathic and advanced nutritional approaches in an aim to provide accurate diagnosis and individualized patient care.

Functional Medicine recognises the web-like interconnections between physiological, mental, emotional, spiritual, environmental and social health. Treatment is patient centred and uses the patient’s story as a key tool for integrating diagnosis, signs and symptoms, and evidence of clinical imbalances into a comprehensive approach to improve both the patient’s environmental inputs and their physiological function.

A wide range of diagnostic procedures is utilized to ensure a comprehensive functional examination of core clinical imbalances that underlie various disease conditions, and to enable more specialized patient monitoring. These procedures include haematological investigations, urine and stool analysis, as well as sophisticated endocrine testing. Treatment is primarily drug-free, though traditional allopathic medicine is used when necessary. Treatment methodologies include dietary and nutritional counselling, combined with the appropriate use of vitamins, minerals, trace elements, essential fatty acids, amino acids, antioxidants, herbs and natural hormones.