Functional Medicine
Randi helped me to see I really was not eating healthy and that gluten was not healthy for me. It took a lot of convincing and work to change my diet and take care of myself better but the pay off has been wonderful. She has a talent for helping me do the things I needed to do. She got my hormones in balance too. Functional Medicine changed my life. ~ R.M. Age 47
The Functional Medicine Approach to Assessment
Providers for functional medicine at Green Bay assess fundamental clinical imbalances using thorough patient history, comprehensive physical examination, and laboratory testing. They also look beyond these assessment tools to fully evaluate the patient’s well-being. Functional medicine providers also consider the following:
Environmental Factors
Your diet and the quality of food available to you, the air you breath, the water you drink, your level of exercise, toxins you may be exposed to or traumas you’ve experience.
Mind-Body Relationship
Spiritual beliefs, psychological and social factors, along with relationships and stress. Stress can be linked to many chronic diseases.
Genetics
Our DNA can predispose us to many illnesses and although it is not an unchanging blueprint for your life, it must be considered when looking at the patient as a whole.
Why do we need functional medicine at Green Bay?
- More people are suffering from complex, interconnected illnesses that are in part lifestyle driven.
- Our current healthcare system is programmed for treating trauma and acute illnesses and doctors are trained to prescribe drugs and surgery to treat the immediate problem or symptom.
- This acute care approach does not work well for preventing and treating the more complex, chronic health issues and does not allow for differences in patient’s genetics, environment, or toxic exposures.
- A gap exists today between applying new scientific research and care delivered in medical practices.
Most doctors today do not have the time in their schedule and do not know how to assess the causes of underlying chronic disease and how to use strategies such as lifestyle interventions to treat and prevent disease.
Functional medicine providers, in addition to being licensed medical doctors or nurse practitioners, have completed the Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice (AFMCP) training program through the Institute for Functional Medicine. The Institute for Functional Medicine is a non-profit organization that is accredited by the Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and is dedicated to educating physicians and other healthcare practitioners in Functional Medicine. There are more than 1000 providers in the US who have completed the AFMCP training.
Functional Medicine at Green Bay is what medicine should look like today. It’s a different, innovative, comprehensive approach to healthcare, emphasizing prevention and discovery of the underlying causes of illness as opposed to only treating symptoms.
Functional medicine providers, in addition to being licensed medical doctors or nurse practitioners, have completed the Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice (AFMCP) training program through the Institute for Functional Medicine. The Institute for Functional Medicine is a non-profit organization that is accredited by the Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and is dedicated to educating physicians and other healthcare practitioners in Functional Medicine. There are more than 1000 providers in the US who have completed the AFMCP training.
Functional Medicine is what medicine should look like today. It’s a different, innovative, comprehensive approach to healthcare, emphasizing prevention and discovery of the underlying causes of illness as opposed to only treating symptoms.
Please attend our seminar to learn more about our approach to Functional Medicine at Green Bay to hormonal wellness including hypothyroidism and menopause symptoms.