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picked up years ago in a foreign country, or you could be reacting negatively to certain foods you’re eating. This approach obviously takes more work than just writing a prescription for an antibiotic; it takes specialized testing along with the knowledge of being able to interpret those tests and making the appropriate recommendations for treatment as well as follow-up testing to make sure that the irritant has been removed.
The following chart demonstrates a simplified comparison of functional diagnostic medicine versus conventional medicine.
Common Categories of Functional Imbalance
? Oxidative Stress
? Nutritional Imbalances
? Intestinal Dysfunction
? Impaired Detoxification
? Endocrine Imbalance
? Immune/Inflammatory Imbalances
Biochemical Individuality
Roger Williams, MD, coined the term “biochemical individuality.” Just as each of us has a unique face,Moncler Men's Sweater, fingerprint, and personality, our biochemistry is also unique. There are a wide variety of “normal” values found. For example, research has found that some babies require four times the vitamin B6 as others, and ranges of serum amino acids in healthy young men varied fourfold on average.
Identifying your unique biochemical needs provides a foundation for functional medicine.
The 4-R Approach to Improving Health
The 4-R approach forms the basis of improving the health of an individual in functional diagnostic medicine and provides the basic treatment philosophy. Although it’s a simple concept, it provides an effective way to resolve difficult and undefined illnesses. The 4-Rs refer to Remove, Re-inoculate, Replace, and Repair. Remove implies the elimination of anything that may be in your body or diet that contributes to your poor health. This can include foods, pesticides, food additives, environmental toxins, invasive bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Often, you may need sophisticated and specialized lab tests to determine the root cause of your illness. However, this is not typically the type of test you would find in a conventional medical office such as a simple blood study or urinalysis; rather, you’d find it in a specialty laboratory where microscopic examinations or cultures of stool samples may be performed looking for not-so-obvious problems.
Re-inoculate refers to the use of supplements containing lactobacillus acidophilus, bifidobacteria, and other friendly flora, also known as probiotics or the “good bacteria.” These “good” bacteria can repel harmful microbes and “bad” bacteria by repopulating the gut with the healthy organisms. Good bacteria are easily disrupted and destroyed by using antibiotics, which not only kill off the bad bacteria but the good bacteria as well.
Replace refers to correcting your diet and/or adding supplementation to support a poor digestive system that’s been destroyed by a disease process or invasion of bacteria, parasites, fungus, or virus.
Repair is the final step in the 4-R process. It supports rebuilding and regenerating the damaged tissue. This may require you to modify your diet and/or supplementation as well as increase the amount of sleep you get. In some cases, nutritional support may be required indefinitely if the body has been too far damaged by a long-term disease or condition. For example, if people with diabetes can no longer produce insulin, they may have to supplement with insulin indefinitely, but perhaps a lesser amount once their diets have been regulated.
Can you see the difference? Traditionally trained medical doctors are taught to evaluate symptoms as indicators of diseases. They then order diagnostic laboratory tests to confirm their diagnoses and start treating the symptoms of the disease while functional diagnostic healthcare practitioners probe for underlying causes.
An Equal Partnership
Your relationship with your functional medicine physician is an equal partnership and therefore rewarding for both of you. You may find your practitioner spends more time with you than a traditional doctor, asking you to fill out extensive questionnaires about your medical history, work history, diet, exercise patterns,Belstaff Bags, stress level,LV Monogram Vernis, hobbies, use of supplements and medication, and home and work environment. As a result, a program that’s specific to your individual needs and lifestyle will be developed.
As part of the program, you may be asked to:
? make changes in food choices and eating patterns
? take nutritional, homeopathic or herbal supplements
? undertake an acceptable exercise program
? go through a detoxification program
? meditate
? see a counselor about life issues
? join a support group
? get massages or other body-work
Types of Lab Testing
Evaluating organ "function" versus organ "pathology" is one of the principles of functional medicine. Many labs have developed a number of assessment tools that allow practitioners to understand a patient's functional status. These tests complement the usual tests that physicians use and can detect problems long before more traditional tests locate anything amiss.
Tests may examine blood, hair, stool, urine, breath, and/or saliva. These common tests check nutritional status, digestive function, food and environmental allergies, amino acid balance, energy metabolism function, hormones balance, and more. Using this approach, your functional medicine doctor is able to determine why your body is out of balance.
For example, food allergy testing can be used in a wide variety of instances. Common ones include:
? children with learning or behavior problems
? people with migraines, skin problems, depression, digestive complaints, and foggy thinking.
If exposure to heavy metals or mal-absorption of minerals were suspected, practitioners would use hair analysis testing. Innovative saliva testing can measure levels of hormones such as DHEA, progesterone, testosterone, and estrogens. Stool testing is used to measure overall digestive function and determine if there is enough good bacteria in the gut. It also determines if certain bacteria, fungus, or parasites are interfering with good health.
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