Conventional and natural medicines working together for the best possible outcome for you
More than 11 million Australians live with chronic diseases like asthma, diabetes, heart conditions, arthritis, cancer, and other diseases. This staggering figure has been an ongoing burden to Australians nationwide.
As new as the term “Functional Medicine” would appear to be, the practice of “Functional Medicine” is certainly not. Functional medicine is merely the practice of assessing and treating the body as a “whole”, more commonly referred to as “Holistic Medicine”.
Often when we seek treatment, the focus is on the symptoms and not the problem’s source. Functional medicine aims to identify the source of the mechanisms driving your symptoms and provide you with the best set of interventions required to improve your health. These interventions can include personalised treatments, nutritional plans, detoxification and lifestyle changes, among other approaches.
See how functional medicine at AUSCFM can help you with your health challenges.
The complex nature of chronic diseases is at the heart of the mainstream healthcare problem, which cannot be treated or cured with a single drug or treatment.
Instead, chronic diseases are like the tip of the iceberg: we only see the symptoms of the conditions, but lurking in our body’s depths is an extensive repertoire of problems that cause and maintain these diseases.
The complexity of chronic diseases makes them a difficult challenge for medical approaches following standard treatment protocols. Hence, there is an urgent need to find a better way to approach these diseases.
At your first appointment, time is invested to gain a thorough understanding of your medical history, lifestyle, symptoms and genetic predispositions to autoimmune diseases.
Comprehensive labs and testing are recommended to provide a more accurate understanding of what is happening to you internally.
Recommendations are made in regards to your treatment, including alterations to your lifestyle, diet, supplementation and more, to provide an effective path to healing.
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In order to better understand your condition and offer the best treatment, we may perform the following tests and procedures:
