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Why is functional medicine important?

The scope and cost of chronic disease continues to rise. Functional medicine has been shown to reverse this trend by providing better outcomes and cost savings to patients and the healthcare system over the long term. The main reasons why functional medicine is important are:

1. Personalized Medicine:

Functional medicine emphasizes individual differences by understanding the factors associated with the symptoms, severity, and duration of the disease, analyzing the treatment, and developing a personalized response. This personalized approach allows for a more precise approach to each patient's unique needs and provides a customized treatment plan.

2. Prevention and Early Intervention:

Functional medicine is not only concerned with the treatment of disease, but also emphasizes the maintenance of health and the prevention of disease. It helps prevent disease and improve sub-health symptoms by assessing the causes of organ function decline and designing “customized” nutritional therapy recommendations and lifestyle guidance. This preventive approach to medicine helps to reduce the incidence and severity of chronic health problems.

3. Comprehensive and Systematic Health Assessment:

Functional medicine testing does not focus on a particular part of the human body, but rather on genes, life style, environment, diet, mind, etc. It systematically examines the intricacies and complexities behind the factors that affect health and lead to disease. This comprehensive and systematic assessment helps to gain a deeper understanding of health issues.

4. Chronic Disease Management:

Functional medicine has shown its unique advantages in chronic disease management. It evaluates the functioning of the human body by detecting factors such as endocrine neurotransmission imbalance, detoxification dysfunction, oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction, immune dysfunction and inflammatory response, gastrointestinal dysfunction and nutritional imbalance. Functional medicine brings new concepts and tools for prevention and treatment in clinical practice. Diet, exercise, stress reduction, and an active lifestyle are the most effective and cost-effective means of disease prevention.

5. Enhancement of The Vitality of Life:

Functional medicine believes that health is not just the absence of disease, but the optimal functioning of the body full of positive vitality. Functional medicine can regulate the network connection of each physiological system of the human body, and enable people to achieve the most energetic state of life with unique diagnostic and therapeutic methods.

6. Basis of Evidence-Based Medicine:

Functional medicine has a strong foundation in evidence-based medicine, and its development of evidence-based research methods has been developed and applied to the management and outcome assessment of patients with complex chronic diseases. This evidence-based approach improves the effectiveness and scientific validity of treatments.

7. Global Dissemination and Application:

With the increase in evidence-based literature, the functional medicine model is maturing and spreading globally, and more and more healthcare organizations and professionals are beginning to adopt the functional medicine approach to improve treatment outcomes and patients' quality of life.

In summary, functional medicine has become a very important branch in the field of modern medicine due to its multiple advantages, such as personalization, prevention, comprehensiveness, chronic disease management, improvement of life vitality, evidence-based medicine foundation and global application.

 

Functional Medicine Practice

Clinicians choose to practice functional medicine for a number of reasons, including improved outcomes for chronically ill patients and increased professional satisfaction. There are also many successful ways to practice functional medicine. In fact, functional medicine practices are thriving in most current business and practice models.

Functional medicine practices include:

1. Disease Prevention:

Functional medicine not only focuses on the treatment of diseases, but also emphasizes the prevention and early intervention of diseases. By evaluating the internal environment and gene expression of the human body to find out the root causes of diseases, and formulating personalized treatment plans according to individual differences to slow down the development of diseases.

2. Clinical Practice:

The clinical practice of Functional Medicine includes the Matrix Interview, Principles of Functional Medicine, and Principles of Functional Medicine Physiological Imbalance Analysis. It also addresses principles of intervention for functional imbalances such as hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalances, redox imbalances and mitochondrial disease, detoxification and biotransformation imbalances.

3. Functional and Clinical Medicine:

Functional medicine has advantages over clinical medicine in the long-term management of chronic diseases, rather than for the management or treatment of the acute phase of disease. Functional medicine focuses more on maintaining a long-term sustainable state of physiological health rather than seeking an immediate cure for disease.

4. Testing Methods

Functional medicine testing differs from traditional clinical medical testing in that it focuses more on balancing an individual's nutritional levels rather than waiting until the disease has progressed to a certain level of severity before intervening.

In short, the practice of functional medicine is a multidimensional, integrative process that combines personalized treatment, evidence-based medicine, and preventative measures that are used and promoted worldwide. Through this practice, functional medicine aims to optimize the overall health and well-being of the individual.

 

Patient Resource Center

FMC helps patients learn more about the benefits of functional medicine and find trained functional medicine practitioners.

FMC is a functional medicine resource center for patients with chronic diseases and a platform that provides comprehensive functional medicine knowledge and services to patients. It serves as a bridge to recommend China's outstanding functional medicine practitioners and medical institutions to patients by integrating high-quality functional medicine resources in China to meet the needs of patients for overall health optimization, prevention of chronic diseases, as well as anti-aging and longevity.

FMC focuses on education and training for the functional medicine profession to help patients and healthcare professionals better understand the principles and practice of functional medicine.The FMC Resource Center provides a support network for patients to exchange experiences and share information and resources with others who have similar health issues.

FMC serves as a patient resource center to promote the establishment of new thinking in the field of functional medicine and to facilitate the development of functional medicine as one of the models of health management in China.