What is Functional Medicine?
Story Telling
Your story matters. As we deepen our therapeutic relationship, we’ll closely examine your life and personal health history via thorough intake process, review of pertinent medical/ health records, and by having in depth conversations about your current concerns & goals.
Lifestyle Assessment
By taking a closer look at the many aspects of your lifestyle: nutrition, movement, interpersonal relationships, sleep patterns, stress management, environment, and your overall mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being we can begin to understand where you may have an opportunity for growth & expansion.
Testing, Education, & Protocols
In conjunction with your healthcare team, I’ll do my best to resource and explain to you the most appropriate diagnostic tests and protocols to help you unearth and heal the root cause of your current concerns. Each protocol is personalized to meet your individual needs & goals.
Implementation, Support, & Expansion
It takes courage to enter the Krysalis. I will give you the tools and resources you need to walk the path of transformation. It is you who trusts the process, takes action, and does the work of becoming the butterfly. Transformation awaits you!
Benefits of Lifestyle Medicine:
*Understand and address the “root causes” of your health concerns
*Gain tools to change old behaviors and take control of your health
*Address chronic fatigue & brain fog
*Optimize exercise routines and nutrient timing
*Learn how to cultivate a healthy relationship with nourishment/food
*Optimize digestive health and eliminate bloating, gas, cramping, diarrhea/constipation
*Test for food sensitivities
*Address skin concerns: acne, eczema, etc.
*Safely eliminate toxins from your body and your environment
*Build healthier interpersonal relationships
*Kiss seasonal allergies goodbye!
*Learn fun new recipes & learn how to grocery shop
*Optimize your cognitive health
*Prevent chronic disease
*Learn mindfulness & meditation techniques
*Gain more emotional resilience (Factors impairing or affecting emotional resilience can include depression, anxiety, stress, insomnia, and the presence of chronic disease)
*Eliminate/relieve chronic pain by reducing inflammation and learning therapeutic movements
*Balance your blood sugar levels & get off the meds for good!
*Understand your lab results and learn how to improve your numbers
*Learn which supplements/nutraceuticals are right for you and why
*Learn how to reduce stress and welcome relaxation into your life!
*Address sleep issues and get the rest you deserve
*Lose unhealthy weight and learn how to keep it off for a lifetime
*Balance your hormones
*Make chronic illness a thing of the past
*Learn healthy aging tips & techniques
*Balance your microbiome (gut bacteria)
*Manage medications and/or get off them completely
*Manage/ eliminate high cholesterol
*Control/ eliminate hypertension
A note about lifestyle medicine:
Lifestyle medicine, as I know it, is a nexus between functional medicine, health promotion & education, and evidence-based clinical treatment protocols. This approach involves the examination of environmental, behavioral, and psychological lifestyle factors which serve to enhance physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. By investigating an individual’s physical movement patterns, nutritional deficiencies, stress management techniques, sleep hygiene, social relationships, habitual use of toxic substances (nicotine, alcohol, drugs, etc.), toxic environmental exposures (water, air, chemical pollution, etc.), and technology hygiene, a roadmap to a more healthy and balanced lifestyle can be created. In essence, lifestyle medicine is the practical implementation and integration of functional medicine protocols and entheogenic insights into daily life.
