Functional Medicine is a biology-based, interdisciplinary approach that focuses on the complex interactions within human systems. It sees the body not as a collection of isolated symptoms but as a dynamic, interconnected whole.

Healing occurs when we treat the person, not just the disease.

Functional Medicine targets disordered function to help the body restore balance and free itself from dysfunction and disease. Decades of medical literature support the idea that the body has innate wisdom and the ability to heal, IF the internal terrain and external environment allow it.

Even Louis Pasteur, the French chemist known for pioneering germ theory in his debate with Antoine Béchamp (a proponent of terrain theory), is believed to have admitted:
 

“Béchamp was right. The microbe is nothing; the terrain is everything.”

A Paradigm Shift: From Disease to Function​

Functional Medicine challenges the conventional idea of disease. As Dr. Jeffrey Bland, founder of the Institute for Functional Medicine, puts it, it is a “disruptive technology that will overthrow the tyranny of the diagnosis.”

In this model, disease is not a fixed entity you “have” or “catch.”

A diagnosis doesn’t explain what is causing your symptoms, it simply labels them. In traditional medicine, diagnosis is the end of the conversation. In Functional Medicine, it’s just the beginning.

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You don’t “have” a disease. You are experiencing a disordered function that is expressing itself through signs and symptoms; symptoms that can be understood, addressed, and reversed.