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Functional Medicine Denver: Peak Health Colorado

By Peak Health Partners

Functional medicine refers to the practice of searching for the root cause of an ailment or illness and addressing it directly. Standard medical protocol spends a lot of time treating symptoms of diseases or chronic conditions but stops short at getting to the root of the problem to solve the specific sickness for good. Peak Health Colorado offers functional medicine in several ways and if you’re sick of being sick, you should learn more today.

Your first Peak Health Colorado appointment

You might not know exactly what to expect for your first appointment with Peak Health Colorado. It’s likely to be an entirely different doctor’s visit than you’ve experienced before. The practitioners at Peak Health will spend a lot of time talking to you during this first appointment as they attempt to drill down to the probable root cause or causes creating your symptoms and illness. From this information, a comprehensive plan will be designed for you that will address many different aspects of your life. 

Food as medicine

Much of how you feel on a day to day basis can be linked directly to your diet. A diet full of vegetables, fruits, healthy grains, lean protein, and healthy fats offers a nutritional balance that supports overall health and well being. If something about your diet is off, it could lead to health issues that might even seem unrelated to food. The providers at Peak Health Colorado will work to uncover problematic dietary behaviors and help you change those behaviors.  

Peak Health Colorado health supplements and lifestyle changes

Occasionally the human body needs more of a certain vitamin, nutrient, or mineral than it can get from the foods you eat. There could even be a genetic reason that causes your body to not break down and absorb these nutrients from food. In these situations, supplements might be a helpful way for you to get the nutrients you need to improve your health. In addition, a sedentary lifestyle is a silent killer, and lifestyle changes designed to increase your physical activity will probably be part of the plan. 

What to expect

The medical professionals at Peak Healthy suggest that their patients who are treated with a functional medicine approach experience rapid healing. The practice uses traditional medical techniques, a functional medicine approach, and ancillary modalities that help promote overall healing like chiropractic adjustments, massage, and even light therapy to help patients return to full health.

What is Functional Medicine?

By Peak Health Partners

Entering the 21st century has brought on a new and holistic approach to medicine as a whole. While many conventional medicinal practices focus solely on treating a disease, the new age of medical treatment has shifted to treating the whole patient as opposed to just treating the disease.

So, what exactly is functional medicine?

Peak Health, a functional medicine practice in Denver, defines functional medicine as a form of health care, which works and particularly focuses on curing the whole immune system of the patient. The most deciding difference between functional medicine and traditional medicine techniques is in the root cause analysis of a disease. While a traditional medical approach to a disease or illness revolves around matching the proper drug or treatment with a disease or its symptoms, functional medicine focuses more on the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of the disease rather than the ‘what’. Functional medicine aims to answer the questions of: ‘why is this happening to you and how can we restore function?’

Functional medicine recognizes the differences between each person’s body on a biological level, and uses that knowledge to provide patient customizable care. Instead of the cookie cutter approach to traditional medicine, functional medicine aims to scientifically investigate the underlying cause of a person’s discomfort or illness. This systems-oriented medical approach seeks to integrate a person’s mind, body and soul into their diagnosis. Typically there is a certain level of lifestyle, environmental and genetic research done to identify the root cause of a patient’s disease; once a root cause is identified treatment options are discussed and executed.

Some of the principles that functional medicine is based on are:

  1. Incorporate lifestyle medicine (i.e. nutrition, supplements, stress reduction and exercise) to aid in curing or preventing disease
  2. Your body has the ability to heal itself if properly taken care of and treated
  3. The patient’s disease isn’t treated, the patient is
  4. A Scientific analysis between the internal and external factors of a person’s lifestyle and how that impacts their health
  5. Health is not the absence of disease

When you are seeing a functional medical professional, it is more like a partnership than anything else. Due to the deep level of research into a patient’s biological makeup and environmental influences, a functional practitioner and his or her patient usually have a much closer relationship than a conventional doctor and his or her patient. Visiting a functional medicine practice opens your healthcare options up to a wider range of treatment methods. Because of the in-depth analysis of a person’s health functional medicine provides, doctors are able to identify if a patient’s disease stems from just one cause or multiple causes. Again, each human being is different on many levels, and so functional medicine accounts for these biological variances to provide the most personalized and effective healthcare. Therapies and treatments vary depending on each practice. If you want to learn more about functional medicine in the Denver area, check out Peak Health Partners and the many conditions and treatment methods they specialize in.