It is a systems biology-based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of complex chronic disease. At the Heart of Functional Medicine is the Mental, Emotional and Spiritual health of each individual. By looking through “three different lenses”: Western, Oriental, and Functional Medicine Dr. Maddoux can create a specific, individualized care plan that is the right fit for you. 

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.

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.
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Join Dr. Maddoux at the ground level where she uses a Functional Medicine systems oriented approach to uncover the underlying root causes of your medical mysteries and guides and supports you back into balance with the whole tree of life.