Functional Medicine Restores Healthy Function by Treating the Root Causes of Disease
“Functional medicine provides a framework to systematically identify and address the underlying processes and dysfunctions that are causing imbalance and disease in each individual. By understanding a patient’s genetic, environmental, and lifestyle influences, functional medicine clinicians create personalized interventions that restore balance, health, and well-being.”
- The Institute for Functional Medicine
Functional medicine is a patient-centered collaborative approach to healthcare. While the standard conventional approach focuses on symptom and disease management, functional medicine specializes in prevention, patient empowerment and resiliency.
Based on cutting-edge science, functional medicine offers a whole new way to understand and look at chronic illnesses from diabetes to depression; heart disease to hypertension; autoimmune disease to autism; allergies to anxiety and more. The core concept is that chronic illness is an outcome of imbalances in the key underlying physiological systems in your body. When inflammation, blood sugar imbalance, insulin resistance, oxidative stress, hormonal problems, and systemic upset occur the body spirals out of balance.
Dr. Renaud spends quality time with patients to learn more about their personal and medical histories. Dr. Renaud tunes in to interactions between the environmental, lifestyle, genetic and emotional aspects of a patient’s health.
Dr. Renaud’s goal is to uncover the underlying factors contributing a patient’s health concerns and create a customized treatment plan that promotes long-term wellness.
