Functional Medicine is the future of conventional medicine–available now. It seeks to identify and address the root causes of disease and views the body as one integrated system, not a collection of independent organs divided up by medical specialties. It treats the whole system, not just the symptoms. This discipline takes into account the personalization of healthcare, as each patient care plan by our Functional Medical Practioner at Orange Ray is distinct and unique.
Your body is intelligent and has the capacity for self-regulation, which expresses itself through a dynamic balance of all your body systems. Instead of asking, “What drug matches up with this disease?” Functional Medicine asks the vital questions that very few conventional doctors ask: “Why do you have this problem in the first place?”
After further investigation, our Functional Medicine Practioner will chart out a treatment plan to restore the balance in your body through nutrition and lifestyle changes that will not only get rid of the disease but help you achieve the highest expression of health.
Functional Medicine views us all as being different; genetically and biochemically unique. This personalized health care treats the individual, not the disease. It supports the normal healing mechanisms of the body, naturally, rather than attacking disease directly.
Functional Medicine is deeply science-based. The latest research shows us that what happens within us is connected in a complicated network or web of relationships. Understanding those relationships allows us to see deep into the functioning of the body.