If you watched the BBC series, Doctor in the House, where GP, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, spent time with three families for several weeks to see first-hand how the way they lived was directly affecting their health you would have witnessed the amazing results that Functional Medicine can have on the health of people.
The Functional Medicine approach to health is entirely consistent with our own belief and approach to health both personally and for our patients who we value so highly.
Both Arif & Melanie will be offering Functional Medicine before the end of the year to both new and existing patients and are currently reviewing how best to integrate what they believe to be the future of medicine within the clinic.
In May Arif & Melanie will be training and hope to certify in Phlebotomy which will allow them to take blood for analysis in addition to DNA testing. This will build a unique patient profile of their health status and predispositions.
What’s the difference between Conventional Medicine and Functional Medicine?
Conventional medicine usually bases itself on how to treat disease states or a ‘down stream approach’, waiting for a condition to present with signs and symptoms when it can be labelled with for example Type 2 Diabetes and treated with a variety of drugs.
Functional Medicine employs an ‘upstream approach’ where the patient’s overall physical, metabolic, nutritional and lifestyle is assessed and predisposing factors so intervention can be earlier to optimise the patient’s overall health and divert the conditions that cause the patient to progress towards a state of increasing dysfunction or disease.