The first thing a doctor asks you is "What are your symptoms?"  Symptoms, when interpreted skillfully, give a good idea of what is going wrong with our health.  We provide clients with extensive symptom questionnaires that help to evaluate underlying health issues.

Functional Medicine Testing is unique in that it aims to identify the root causes of health issues.  The goal is not to end up with a diagnosis which leads to a drug prescription.  Rather the purpose to identify what is out of balance so that it can be corrected with changes in diet, health habits, supplementation and other holistic remedies.

Each person's path to healing is a little bit different.  There are lot's of commonalities (like detoxification, healthy sleep, reducing stress, optimizing nutrition) but still, each of us has a unique health issue.  We use extensive questionnaires to help evaluate symptoms and functional medicine testing to identify causative root causes of health issues.  This allows us to give each individual their best healing plan.

Stress is a widespread problem and a primary root cause of many health issues.  Chronic stress depletes our body's metaboic reserve and blocks our innate self healing processes.  De-Stressing is necessary to help turn the tide so that real healing can begin.  De-Stressing doesn't only mean relieving emotional stress, but also stressors like environmental toxins, chronic infections and chronic pain too.

Getting rejuvenating sleep each and every night is now recognized as absolutely essential for health.  For many people the biggest block to weight loss is chronic stress and the resultant chronic insomnia.  Researchers consider insomnia to be the "new smoking", meaning that sleep is as or more detrimental to our overall health than smoking.

We are being bombarded by toxins.  Our food, water and the air we breath are full of foreign chemicals that disrupt our body's chemistry.  This toxic load builds up and eventually blocks our cell's ability to burn fuel and generate energy.  Cellular detoxification helps to restore mitochondrial function and energy production, helping to relieve energy deficits that cause ill health and fatigue.

We are all familiar with the immune system's role in defending us from viruses, bacteria and so on.  But not many people understand that another major role of the immune system is cleanup and self repair.  When we suffer chronic stress, bad sleep, poor nutrition, and toxic overload our immune system is unable to perform it's vital role of cleanup and self repair.  The result is a slow decline in our health.  But there are powerful ways to restore immune function so that we can rejuvenate and repair ourselves.

The American diet really is S.A.D. (Standard American Diet).  It is devoid of key nutrients that our body requires in order to burn energy efficiently.  Providing these super nutrients can restoke the fires of a healthy metabolism and restore one's health and energy levels.

So much of the health information that we've been taught over the past three decades has been wrong.  Fortunately researchers haven't given up and we now have begun to solve the health puzzle.  Super health is even within our reach when we know what to do and how to do it.  Small adjustments in eating and exercise habits can make all the difference.