At Pathways Functional Medicine, we promote wellness by focusing on the fundamental underlying factors that influence every patient’s experience of health and disease. Your pathway to better health is your choice. Due to today’s information overload, navigating the landscape of ‘Dr. google’, social media, fad diets, Keto/Paleo/FODMAP/Lectins/Gluten/Dairy free/Whole30/Elimination/High Fat/High protein/Low carb/ etc… can be overwhelming and lead a motivated person to get lost and make little progress towards their health goals. If you have felt lost, or feel like you have been to multiple doctors or practitioners and found limited results, together we want to help guide you down the right path to wellness.
The foundation of Pathways Functional Medicine is to assess the patient’s individual biological status relating to modifiable lifestyle factors and fundamental clinical imbalances through careful history taking, physical examination, and laboratory testing. We will consider multiple factors, including:
Environmental inputs – The air you breathe and the water you drink, the particular diet you eat, the quality of the food available to you, your level of physical activity, and toxic exposures or traumas you have experienced all affect your current health status.
Mind-body connections – Psychological, spiritual, and social factors all can have a profound influence on your health. Considering these areas helps the us see your health in the context of you as a whole person, not just your physical symptoms.
Genetic makeup – Although individual genes may make you more susceptible to some diseases, your DNA is not an unchanging blueprint for your life. Emerging research shows that your genes may be influenced by everything in your environment, as well as your experiences, attitudes, and beliefs. That means it is possible to change the way genes are activated and expressed.
Through assessment of these underlying causes and triggers of dysfunction, we can begin to understand how key processes are affected. These are the body’s processes that keep you alive. Some occur at the cellular level and involve how cells function, repair, and maintain themselves. These processes are related to larger functions, such as:
Detoxification pathways
Hormone Balancing
Neurotransmitter Balancing
Immune system function and resilience
Inflammatory responses
All of these processes are influenced by environmental factors and your genetic make-up; when they are disturbed or imbalanced, they lead to symptoms, which can lead to disease if effective interventions are not applied.
Most imbalances in your body’s function can be addressed; some can be completely restored to optimum function, and others can be substantially improved.
Prevention is paramount. Virtually every complex, chronic disease is preceded by long-term disturbances in functionality that can be identified and effectively managed.
Changing how the systems function can have a major impact on the patient’s health. By examining a wide array of available interventions we can customize a treatment plan that is unique and individualized to you based on your condition and your goals.
Beyond Pharmaceutical Drugs. Treatments may include combinations of botanical medicines, nutritional supplements, therapeutic nutritional diets, or detoxification programs. They may also include counseling on lifestyle, exercise, or stress-management techniques.
At Pathways, Functional Medicine focuses on the underlying causes of your ailments. When the root causes are addressed and patients often find pharmaceutical interventions can be reduced or eliminated completely. We want to partner with you to be your best teammates and guides in your health journey. We truly care about you and your results and we want to empower you to become an active partner with us. Such a partnership allows you to be in charge of improving your own health and changing the outcome of disease.
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