A Functional Approach to Medicine

Functional Medicine is a general approach to health management that deals with chronic diseases and attempts to improve the lives of patients through the prevention and early diagnosis of these diseases. Functional Medicine focuses on caring for individual patients and emphasizes the importance of variations of metabolic imbalances amongst individual patients. The complex balance of internal and external factors within the patient is studied and health is considered as not just an absence of disease but as a more positive and dynamic factor in the lives of patients.

According to the Institute for Functional Medicine website at http://www.functionalmedicine.org there are a variety of core critical imbalances that can affect patients and these include:

• Hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalances
• Oxidation-reduction imbalances and mitochondropathy
• Detoxification and biotransformational imbalances
• Immune imbalances
• Inflammatory imbalances
• Digestive, absorptive, and microbiological imbalances
• Structural imbalances

Functional Medicine examines these imbalances within individuals so treatments can be personalized and made more effective. By emphasizing the power of individuals to change their lifestyles Functional Medicine allows the patient to partner with the health care professional. In this way they can achieve greater health and a higher quality of living at the same time.

At CD Whyte Ridge the concepts of Functional Medicine are the key to everything we do and believe! Private consultations with our specially trained pharmacists can be arranged by phone at (204) 488-1819 or by email.