What are symptoms?
Health issues can be scary and frustrating– especially when your symptoms’ don’t fit into a traditional diagnostic “box”- or when the proposed treatment just doesn’t make sense. If you have already sought conventional care with no result, you may be feeling discouraged, confused or even hopeless.
You are not alone and you have options.
Symptoms are merely warning signals–intelligent responses by your body that indicate underlying functional imbalances. After subtler cues have gone unnoticed (usually for an extended period) symptoms develop in order to catch our attention. While your symptoms vary from day-to-day, the true underlying imbalances often continue to worsen unless you make the necessary changes.
Consider disease like an iceberg. The majority of the issue lays hidden under the surface, building slowly without your awareness. Symptoms represent the smaller portion of the imbalance that finally rears above the surface. We can treat the symptoms alone (most conventional approaches do just that), but they usually return and magnify- the real problem just gets worse.
It’s important to know that there is a way out– a practical path back to health.
Our approach is to uncover the root sources of your symptoms, the underlying cause, using advanced laboratory diagnostics. We spend time understanding the web-like connections between symptoms and balances and expressed diseases. We uncover the functional imbalance(s) at the heart of the matter. Once we do, we design a targeted, personalized program (natural compounds, diet, lifestyle, and other natural interventions) aimed at successfully bringing you back into a natural and dynamic state of health.
We listen, focus, and understand you on every level- mind body and spirit. Many of our patients leave their first appointment in tears, saying they feel heard, validated and hopeful for the first time in years (perhaps their entire lifetime).
Our clinical director is Dr. Brad Rachman whose practice specializes in Functional Medicine. He has developed this approach over 30 years and 70,000 patient visits.
High Tech and High Touch
How do we discover your underlying functional imbalances? Every cell in your body tells a story. Our job is to ask the right questions and listen. The internal chemistry of your body shows obvious and subtle changes when we move from health to illness. Though symptoms are sometimes misleading, your internal chemistry always shows obvious and subtle changes if we look in the right place and ask the appropriate questions.
We implement advanced laboratory testing, look for subtle changes and patterns, and then relate those findings to your original symptoms/illness. We often think of ourselves as being good “ laboratory detectives.”
After identifying the underlying functional imbalance(s), we create a plan of care unique to your needs- returning your body as quickly as possible to its vibrant, self-healing state. This may involve diet, natural compounds, lifestyle and other natural interventions.
Repeat testing tells us objectively if the intervention is working. In essence, the approach is like a conversation. We ask the body a question, then listen. After hearing what it has to say, we talk a little and then listen again. This goes back and forth until the entire “iceberg” of functional imbalance has been removed… permanently.