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Functional Medicine Is Health Promotion and Disease Management Based On Your Uniqueness & Evidence Based Medicine

Functional Medicine has been defined as "the field of healthcare which employs assessment and early intervention into the improvement of physiological cognitive/emotional and physical funtioning". (J. Bland PhD 1996).

Personalized Medicine is not just nice, it is the best way to practice medicine and it is essential for your optimal health.

Your disease arises out of the sum of life experiences as they interact with your genetic unique predispositions. Therefore treatment must be personalized using diet, lifestyle, and environment as principal tools in both prevention and treatment of specific chronic diseases.

Using the principles of functional medicine, assessment and treatment are personalized to each patients own genetic uniqueness, their current life stressors, their belief systems. We can and must investigate the unique metabolism specific to your genetics and your environmental exposures. These are involved in how you use nutrients, herbs and medication and in what diseases you are prone to. Doesn't it make sense that to the knowledge of these factors is important in your health?

Functional Medicine is Based on the Following Principles

1. Biochemical individualtity---determined by your genes rather than data compiled from a bell shaped curve that determines "normals" in medicine.

2. The definition of health is positive vitality--Health is not the absence of disease. It is bliss and well being in mind and body and it extends to every aspect of life.

3. Functional Health is complex. It is determined by a balance within a system of emotional cognitive and physical processes rather than in one organ system.

4. A dynamic interaction between genes and environment (homeodynamics) establish a balanced body system

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Christine Gustafson M.D., ABHM. Integrative Medicine; Functional Medicine
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Therapies Offered
A list of treatment types used by Dr. Gustafson
Integrative and Functional Medicine; Effective For Many Conditions
A list of conditions with proven response to integrative medicine therapies
Natural or Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy
Bioidentical hormone evaluation and treatment in Altanta Georgia
Functional Medicine Is Health Promotion and Disease Management Based On Your Uniqueness & Evidence Based Medicine
What is functional medicine? How can the science of nutrition combined with medical practice be used to prevent disease?
75% of Americans Go to Their Doctor with a Problem but Have a Normal Check Up
There is an explaination as to why your check up shows no illness but you feel like something is not right with you. Testing is available to detect illness before it shows as an abnormal lab
ADD, Behavioral Disorders, Depression and Bipolar Disorder Can Frequently Be Treated Well Without Drugs
Nutritional insufficiencies are often overlooked in the treatment of behavioral and emotional problems. Specific Protein, Fatty Acid, B Vitamins and Cofactor supplementation result in many patients reducing or eliminating their psychotropic medication
Nature Mind and Body Weight Loss Program
Lose Weight and Reduce Stress; a Program for Life
OFFICE LOCATION
Alpharetta Integrative Medicine , 11810 Northfall Lane, Ste 1201, Alpharetta GA 30004
Suggested Vitamins and Supplements
MD suggested basic vitamins and supplements to stay healthy
MESOTHERAPY
Non- surgical fat removal

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