Welcome to THE Functional Medicine Institute. What many refer to as “Functional Medicine”, is personalized health care for each patient that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of just symptom-based care (sick care) for serious chronic disease. By shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of mainstream health care to a more patient-centered approach, “functional medicine” addresses the whole person, not just your symptoms.


How’s your program different than what I have done or I am doing right now?
The answer is simple.
Currently if you were in pharmacological model, you’re being treated for symptoms and/or lab values and are being given medication to cover up the symptoms which are just gonna bully your body’s physiology to make your labs look normal. We called this treating the smoke versus treating the fire.
In dealing with many diabetic patients, I am constantly puzzled that they don’t know the most common complications from actually having diabetes. You may or may not know but diabetes is not a blood sugar issue. It’s a blood vessel issue.
The failure of the body to regulate the blood sugar is just the symptom. But the complications are from the blood vessel issues.
The No. 1 complications for type 2 diabetes are having a heart attack as well as high blood pressure.
Hey guys welcome back. One of the most common questions I’m asked is “what do I eat or what should I eat?” The answer is that depends. I mean you don’t need me to tell you that you probably shouldn’t eat cupcakes, choco chip cookies, and French fries. The real answer is; it depends on what causes immune system responses with you.
This is Dr. Wander of Integrated Health Center of Maryland. I’m constantly told my patients that their doctor had told them to follow this instructions: lose weight, change your diet, and exercise. Now then I ask, “Well what you were told to do to lose weight and which exercises?”
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