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Functional Medicine
What is Functional Medicine?
Functional medicine is a medical discipline applied not only for patients but also for healthy people to be healthier. Since it makes the person healthier, it also provides youth and dynamism.
What is Functional Medicine Treatment?
Hormone, immune, energy, detox, gastrointestinal and cardiometabolic system. Then, it comes down to the main reasons of the person's mental and spiritual structure, as well as the main causes of his lifestyle, arranging his diet and drawing up a treatment plan. After filling out the patient form, which includes the person's habits, medications, stress status, sleep, social status, nutrition, relationship with sports, and daily activities, the first long patient-doctor interview is made. Functional disorders that may cause disease are measured with advanced laboratory tests and personalized programs are made.Functional medicine provides a healthy psychology and stress management as well as a healthy diet and lifestyle. A healthy diet, choosing the right nutritional supplements, lifestyle changes, sports and yoga, qi gong, which provides the body's basic rhythm, and activities that provide life energy are added to the treatment.
As a result of advanced examinations that evaluate the information about the chronic diseases developed by genetic, biochemical, hormonal and lifestyle differences at the cellular level, a treatment plan and lifestyle program are created in which people will get rid of their chronic diseases and the drugs they use in the long term.
Functional Medicine Practitioner Works With Other Disciplines
Functional medicine works with other medical disciplines. The aim is to get rid of chronic diseases and drugs in the long term, with the right lifestyle, proper nutrition and effective nutritional supplements.
What is Functional Medicine Nutrition?
Our body communicates with the outside world through our skin and the solid and liquid foods we ingest. For this reason, the biggest cause of diseases is the wrong foods and liquids we take. Functional medicine helps to find the right nutrients with the right nutrition method. The missing nutritional supplement determined by advanced technological tests is given intravenously in the clinical setting. (Glutathione, antioxidant and oxidative high-dose vitamin C, zinc, b-complex vitamins, alpha lipoic acid, choline …). In case of need, personalized protein powder supplements are given, especially in athlete health and chronic diseases, and in cancer treatment.
Functional Medicine and Cancer
The fully functional medicine approach is a discipline that provides cancer prevention. In addition, in cancer patients, it is effective in terms of preparation of the body before radiotherapy and chemotherapy, support of the body during therapy, and detoxification of the body after therapy.
What are Functional Medicine Examinations?
• Sex and stress hormones and metabolic tests (with urine and saliva sample)• Intestinal health panels and stool microbiota testing
• Analysis of our body's heavy metal thimble load in hair or blood
• Intracellular mineral analysis
• Amino acid profile test (Personalized comment and protein powder support in athlete health and chronic diseases)
• Chronic inflammation panel
• Oxidative stress panel (Glutathione analysis …)
• Histaminic intolerance DAO enzyme analysis
• Food intolerance and food allergies panels
"He who does not try to be better cannot remain good." Oliver Cromwell