What is Functional Medicine?

“An integrative, biology-based approach that promotes healing and wellness by focusing on the bio-chemically unique aspects of each patient, and then using individually tailored interventions to restore balance. This approach focuses on understanding the fundamental physiological processes, the environmental inputs and the genetic predispositions that influence health and disease. The interventions aim to address the root causes.”

In the case of Functional Medicine Psychiatry, such interventions are aimed at promoting healing and wellness for those with brain symptoms such as depression, anxiety, mood swings, fatigue, brain fog, hyperactivity, cognitive impairment, social communication deficits and/or psychosis.

In this episode I’ll discuss:

* The advantages and disadvantages of mainstream medicine

* Characteristics of many who seek out functional medicine

* Benefits of functional medicine

* Risks of functional medicine

* How these risks can be mitigated by functional medicine physicians and those seeking this type of treatment

Mentioned in this episode - A Thousand Miles - How I Became a Holistic Psychiatrist

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