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In this episode Dr. K is joined with Gaby Udabor, a Nurse Practitioner (NP) and wellness expert. Gaby is the founder and CEO of Gaby U Health and Wellness Hub https://www.gabyuhealthhub.com. I this podcast Gaby discusses the elements of functional health and how it serves to prevent and reverse chronic illnesses. Functional Medicine is a systems biology-based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of a disease. Functional medicine clinics take the holistic approach to understand who you are, knowing that every person is unique and should have a medical plan that is custom fit for their needs. Instead of determining which drug will cure a disease, functional medicine clinics have doctors that discover why you have an ailment in the first place, and to restore what’s no longer functioning. Think of medicine in terms of a science experiment. Experiments with limited variables are easier to find solutions for. The more complex the problem, the more difficult the solution becomes. The human body is full of variables. Lifestyle, genetic makeup, personality, and environmental factors are just a few, and within each of these basic categories are countless more variables. Too often, traditional physicians treat the disease and not the patient. They don’t take the time–and, in their defense, can’t take the time–to understand all of the variables that make you unique. While the standard model of care works well for acute diseases, trauma, infection, and emergencies, it fails to care for the chronic diseases. Visit designandwellness.com Join our private women's facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/153651943307031/