Functional Medicine: the new frontier in medicine and how it can help you.

When the NHS started, in 1948, it was made for acute medical conditions; a broken leg, heart attack, surgery and family GPs were king, they knew everything about you, your family, your job.

Forward to 2024 and chronic conditions such as; diabetes, dementia, infertility to name a few has rocketed. As the population grows and our environment moves further and further away from what nature intended, the NHS is stretched and there isn’t the time or budget to treat these conditions.

This is where functional medicine (FM) steps in and supports chronic conditions with the time and in-depth investigative work necessary to help people.

In FM we believe symptoms are there to tell us something, the bodies way of telling us somethings not right. We translate those symptoms and find the root cause. The root cause is usually when something is out of balance. This could be anything from lifestyle, nutrition, relationships to sleep.

FM also uses the latest in scientific research. Did you know it can take 15 years from scientific research being published to it getting used in practice? In FM we go straight to the latest research for each client.

Most importantly we ask a key question, which unfortunately doesn’t get asked in conventional medicine; WHY? Why do you have the problem to begin with? What has led you to become ill? Rather than focussing on the label of a diagnosis we go upstream and find a root cause and let your body heal itself. No side effects, only health and happiness 😊.