Functional Medicine
The Problem
As healthcare costs continue to rise in this country, people are becoming sicker and sicker. Our medical system is primarily focused on chronic disease management and treatment of symptoms with medications, instead of prevention and disease reversal.
While these medications may be appropriate for acute problems like broken bones or infectious illness, they do not address the root causes of chronic illness. In order to achieve good outcomes for the most common conditions in this nation like heart disease, diabetes, depression, thyroid disease, hormonal imbalances, and obesity we need lifestyle change and functional balance, not more and more medications.
Our broken medical system often leaves patients feeling frustrated, hopeless and afraid, but there is hope, you just have to have a different model.
The Solution
The focus of the functional medicine model is to uncover and address the underlying causes of common chronic conditions — environmental exposure, genetics, immune response, stealth infections, hormone imbalance, inflammation or digestive imbalance, for example.
Functional Medicine offers the potential to help you experience unprecedented levels of health and wellbeing, as well as financial savings, freeing you from your dependence on costly medications that are not designed to restore health and prevent disease.
A new way of thinking
Functional Medicine offers a new way of thinking about chronic disease and physical symptoms.
Rather than focusing on a disease, my focus is on YOU. You are a person with symptoms, not a disease. As a partner in your care, first I learn about you - your life, your medical history, your exposures. I educate you on what could be contributing to your personal health conditions and together we make a plan to move forward.
At BluWillo, I use a variety of research backed treatment approaches including advanced lab testing, lifestyle changes, nutritional supplements, herbal remedies, peptide therapy and bio-identical hormone replacement to restore balance and resolve symptoms naturally.
Discover just how good you can feel with BluWillo Precision Medicine.
Functional lab testing
Conventional lab testing, normally ordered when you go to the doctor, focuses on diagnosing a disease, but many people without any diagnosable disease still don't feel well even though their labs are "in the normal range."
Functional lab testing is different because it helps evaluate imbalances in physiology on a spectrum of health, with a focus on optimizing levels to help you feel your best.
Common functional health panels can examine gut health, food allergies and sensitivities, nutritional status, adrenal stress response, chronic mold illness, toxicity, hormone balance, inflammation, genetics and neurotransmitter levels.
If you are interested in taking a deep dive into your health markers, you can order your own functional medicine lab testing through my online LabShop.
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