Functional Medicine
The illustration below uses a tree to visually represent the core aspects of the Functional Medicine paradigm and highlight the difference between conventional medical care and Functional Medicine. In order to keep a tree healthy and allow it to flourish, you need to support the most basic and essential elements beginning with the foundation roots and soil.
For human beings the foundation elements that determine our health are genetic, environmental exposures including toxins, microbes, and trauma, and modifiable lifestyle factors: nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress levels, and relationships. These foundation elements are in turn affected by events, both psychological and physical, and these outside influences can create imbalances at the trunk level that lead to the signs and symptoms of illness and disease, represented in our tree as the branches and the leaves.
Conventional medical care concerns itself primarily with the top of the tree, the end results of uncorrected or misguided choices. Their solution is a cycle of diagnoses and drugs that rarely seeks out the cause and effect at the roots of illness and disease.
Join NorthPointe Medicine at the ground level where we use the principles of Functional and Oriental Medicine to determine the underlying root causes and guide and support you back into balance with the whole tree of life.
For human beings the foundation elements that determine our health are genetic, environmental exposures including toxins, microbes, and trauma, and modifiable lifestyle factors: nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress levels, and relationships. These foundation elements are in turn affected by events, both psychological and physical, and these outside influences can create imbalances at the trunk level that lead to the signs and symptoms of illness and disease, represented in our tree as the branches and the leaves.
Conventional medical care concerns itself primarily with the top of the tree, the end results of uncorrected or misguided choices. Their solution is a cycle of diagnoses and drugs that rarely seeks out the cause and effect at the roots of illness and disease.
Join NorthPointe Medicine at the ground level where we use the principles of Functional and Oriental Medicine to determine the underlying root causes and guide and support you back into balance with the whole tree of life.
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