While conventional medicine largely focuses on the suppression of symptoms, functional medicine addresses the underlying causes of disorders.

Root Cause

The good news is, whatever caused your issues - be it traumatic childhood experiences, genetic weaknesses, environmental exposures, a poor diet, or unhelpful lifestyle habits - all these elements can all be addressed and the body supported back to better health.

Holistic

Functional Medicine recognises the body’s systems are all connected. We cannot isolate one diagnosis from other symptoms in the body. For example, chronic inflammation can cause depression, arthritis and diabetes, to name just three disorders. This is why the focus is on the whole you, not your disease.

Individual

Regardless of your diagnosis, the reasons you are ill are many and varied, and unique to you. For example, depression is the name of a set of symptoms which could be due to many diverse causes, including poor thyroid function, pre-diabetes, vitamin D deficiency, and even antibiotic use.