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Functional Medicine

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What is Functional Medicine ?

Functional medicine is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of symptoms for serious chronic disease. It is a science-based field of health care that is grounded in the following principles: It is an integrative, science-based healthcare approach that treats illness and promotes wellness by focusing on the bio-chemically unique aspects of each patient, and then individually tailoring interventions to restore physiological, psycological, and structural balance

Functional Medicine focuses on understanding the fundamental physiological processes, the environmental inputs, and genetic predispositions that influence health and disease so that interventions are focused on treating the cause of the problem, not just masking the symptoms.

Basic principles

  • Science-based medicine that connects the emerging research base to clinical practice.
  • Biochemical individuality based on genetic and environmental uniqueness.
  • Patient-centered care rather than disease-focused treatment.
  • Dynamic balance of internal and external factors that afffect total functioning.
  • Web-like interconnections among the body's physiological processes also affect every aspect of functionality.
  • Health as a positive vitality, not merely the absence of disease.
  • Promotion of organ reserve.


    • What is Anti-Aging Medicine?


    Anti-Aging Medicine is a clinical/medical specialty in the field of scientific research aimed at the early detection, prevention, treatment, and reverseal of age-releated decline. It is well documented by peer-reviewed medical and scientific journal and employes evidence-based methodologies to conduct patient assessments. The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine was established in 1992 as a professional physician certification and review board, which offers physician recognition in the form of specialty-based examinatioin in Anti-Aging Medicine. It represents 24,000 physicians, scientists, health professional, and health minded public from 110 countries worldwide.

    (All the information presented here come from www.worldhealth.net)