Functional Nutrition
What is Functional Nutrition?
Functional Nutrition emphasizes personalized dietary strategies to enhance health outcomes. Rather than focusing on symptoms, we look at what is going on holistically to get to the root of dysfunction to develop a truly individualized and targeted treatment protocol.
The Process
We follow the ABCDs to get to know who you are and what challenges you are dealing with. Part of what separates our protocols from conventional care is or focus on your history and what makes you, "you". Everyone has a story and we want to be able to understand yours to help guide our planning in conjunction with what your physical body is telling us. Our care model is not a top down dictation or protocol. We work with you to determine what course of action fits your lifestyle and preferences.
How It Works
Functional nutrition is heavily influenced by the practice of Functional Medicine, a whole person approach to medical care that focuses on collaborative coordination of care between the patient, provider, and referrals to specialists. Nutrition is effectively the taproot of the Functional Medicine Tree and works in conjunction with other lifestyle factors to improve health outcomes. We focus on the base and trunk of the tree to solidify and help redevelop a strong base of health and refer out to medical professionals when indicated. Our practice is preventative care at its core, and seamlessly blends into other medical care that may require more direct intervention.
This means that our care is completely drug free and focuses on realistic action steps that can be taken immediately.