Functional medicine addresses the underlying causes of disease using a holistic approach. Functional medicine involves understanding the origins, prevention, and treatment of complex, chronic disease. Functional nutrition is the practice of considering every aspect of one’s health, diet, and overall lifestyle when giving them nutrition recommendations. In this way, functional medicine follows a systems approach to healthcare that takes into consideration how interrelated every part of the body is. This holistic approach seeks to look at the big picture of health by restoring physiological functioning.

With functional nutrition, symptoms are seen as clues for diagnosing a patient’s primary health problems. While standard healthcare will try to suppress these symptoms with medication, functional nutrition instead sees them as clues for understanding the underlying issues within your body. At Advanced Health & Pain Center, our Science Based Nutrition™certified health professional, Dr. Ghoreshi, will use a patented blood analysis system to formulate nutritional protocols in an effort to support personal health transformations without the use of prescription drugs.