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Functional medicine is an approach that focuses more on identifying and fighting the root cause of a disease. The patient history is taken into consideration, and the functional medicine specialist helps the patient with insights from the past. Further, they motivate the patients to change their ways and participate in a treatment that helps patients return to their optimal health. Can there be a more holistic way of fighting an ailment? However, the myths associated with this approach are many. The next part of the blog will help you become knowledgeable to stop you from believing in the myths. Myth 1: A functional medicine specialist will increase your intake of medicine    The role of a functional medicine specialist is finding the root cause of the disease and identifying natural methods to fight the cause. The supplements that the practitioner is going to provide you will be quite different from the medicines that you get to cover the symptoms. These sup...

Functional medicine is quite different from conventional or traditional medicine. There is a standard model of medication wherein the medical doctor provides drugs to every disease or dysfunction. Whether it is diabetics, high blood pressure, thyroid or even cholesterol; the specialist treats you with the same basic tool ‘ medication ’. It may work for acute diseases, trauma, and emergencies but fails in providing proper treatment for chronic diseases that have trapped over 125 million Americans. Functional medicine specialists are able to treat chronic diseases like allergies, metabolic, digestive, hormonal, neurologic problems, etc. Then, the next and obvious question is: What is Functional Medicine? The term is quite ambiguous. This type of medication aims to address the source of the disease and curing by using a systematic approach keeping in loop both the patient and practitioner by a brief conversation about the patient’s history, genetic issues, lifesty...