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Gluconite Supplement-What exactly is functional medicine?
by fiona basil (2021-06-29)
The term Functional Medicine can seem quite ambiguous. Although this field is becoming more common due to voices from US physicians hailing it as the future of health care, functional medicine is still generally unknown to the public.
Differences between traditional medicine and functional medicine
The term and the field of functional medicine refers to something completely different from what we now know as conventional medicine or the standard model of care. To fully understand what functional medicine is, it is important to contrast it with conventional medicine.
Traditionally, a doctor uses drugs or hormones as therapeutic tools to treat dysfunction or disease. For various conditions, such as low thyroid, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc., the standard of care is generally the same.
Your general practitioner may decide to treat you, or may choose to refer you to a specialist. A GP and a specialist have access to the same basic tool: medications.
Training in the standard of care model consists of diagnosing a disease and relating that disease to the corresponding medication. The standard model of care works well for acute illnesses, trauma, infections, and emergencies.
Sadly, it fails miserably to care for the chronic diseases that affect more than 125 million people in the US alone. A number that is rising not just in the US, but in most Western countries.
Chronic conditions, such as allergic, digestive, hormonal, metabolic and neurological problems, that many people today suffer from on a daily basis, are finding solutions in the field of functional medicine.
So what exactly is functional medicine and how can it help the millions of people with chronic diseases?
5 basic principles that define functional medicine
Herein lies the clear distinction and definition of Functional Medicine. Instead of asking, "Which drug matches this disease?" Functional medicine asks the vital questions that very few mainstream physicians ask: "Why do you have this problem in the first place?" "Why has the function been lost?" "What can we do to restore function?"
In other words, functional medicine seeks to find the root cause or mechanism involved with any loss of function, ultimately revealing why a set of symptoms exists in the first place, or why the patient has a particular disease label.
Blood sugar, or glucose, is your body's main energy source. We get glucose from the food we eat, and our blood carries it around to all the cells in the body to give them energy to function. Glucose mainly comes from the carbohydrates we eat, though our bodies can convert protein and fat into sugar too if needed. Gluconite Supplement