"Medicine is 'go break yourself and I'll fix you, maybe.' Functional medicine is 'why did you get sick, what was the root, and let's deal with that so you don't get sick or we reverse the illness.'"
"In functional medicine, we're looking at optimal, not average."
"In functional medicine, what we do is we go, 'Wait a minute, what is the story behind this person's particular illness?'... we start to map the right treatments for that person."
"Functional medicine is... the science of creating health. Yes, and when you do that disease goes away as a side effect."
"Functional medicine is a true second opinion. It's a true approach that digs down into the biology, the underlying biology."
"Doctors once won gold stars for making the diagnosis. But in functional medicine, the diagnosis is just a first step."
"Functional medicine really is a true second opinion. It's a true approach that digs down into the biology, the underlying biology."
"Functional medicine is about understanding the body as a system."
"Functional medicine is the medicine of connectivity... it's the medicine that connects the dots."
"Functional medicine... it's a paradigm shift that's actually happening right now."
"How do we create a terrain in your body right that's soil where cancers less likely to grow."
"I really wanted to ask that question... functional medicine really helped me put all those pieces together."
"Functional medicine is we have a methodology right an operating system to navigate to the root cause."
"We're looking not for disease we're looking for imbalances or dysfunction that we can correct that will help the body do what it's supposed to do."
"So what's different about here at the ultra wellness and what we do in functional medicine is that there's a really deep understanding of the role of nutrition and nutrients in health."
"There are efforts to reverse Hashimoto's successfully with a functional medicine approach."
"Functional medicine... looks at your whole system not just one thing."
"It's one of the most satisfying conditions I treat."
"Functional medicine looks at all the factors causing inflammation and autoimmunity."
"The purpose of medicine is to restore normal function."
"Functional medicine is about the cause, not just the symptoms."
"Functional medicine is about modifying your lifestyle."
"Functional medicine is the ultimate biohacking tool."
"Alzheimer's is a diagnosis, not the cause. Functional medicine helps you figure out what that is."
"The more you can learn about functional medicine, the more puzzle pieces you're going to be able to fit in and affect your patients' health."
"How do you restore a healthy microbiome? Functional medicine approach to really heal the gut."
"Functional medicine is the science of creating health, interpreting all the data and stories from your body."
"The side effect of practicing functional medicine is that people look younger and their skin gets better and all these external problems go away."
"Treat the symptoms not the cause then functional medicine is really about the cause and why not just what disease you have but why do you have it."
"Are they connected? Functional medicine is about looking for the patterns in the connections."
"Functional medicine is about looking under the hood."
"Functional medicine treats things from the inside out, not the outside in."
"Using this framework of functional medicine, it allows us to understand the biology here, get to the root cause of our suffering, and how to learn how to fix that."
"Functional medicine is the medicine of why."
"In functional medicine, we focus on the cause, not just the name."
"It's relatively simple to treat using functional medicine."
"If we just go that little bit extra and a little bit more thorough, comprehensive evaluation based on this new model of functional medicine, we can help so many people."
"House call because we're gonna take medicine to you and help you understand how functional medicine can help your issues in ways that you might not actually have realized and that give you answers when conventional medicine doesn't."
"Functional medicine provides a better framework for understanding root causes."
"We name it, blame it, and tame it. Functional medicine is about thinking and linking, treating each person uniquely based on their root cause."
"That's the power of functional medicine that actually changed my life."
"Treating the cause rather than the effect is the future where we're going. That's functional medicine."
"The good news is that functional medicine has provided a rubric by which to approach these complex issues so that we can fix them and put the patient back into balance."
"Functional medicine is looking for the root cause of disease and that's what we want to spread throughout the world yes the entire world yes thank you."
"In functional medicine, we talk a lot about how inflammation is the foundation for so many chronic diseases."
"Eliminating gluten and dairy are like the one-two punch of a toolbox for a lot of functional medicine practitioners."
"Functional medicine is really what will be medicine."
"My focus has really been on my mission in functional medicine."
"Functional medicine is about getting rid of the things that impair health and putting in the things that help the body thrive."
"Functional medicine is really a science of creating health."
"I'm so glad I had my friend and colleague here... she's been an extraordinary part of our functional medicine community."
"Arthritis is a systemic disease and using functional medicine tools you can really find the sources of those inflammation and then reduce the pain in the joints."
"We call those side effects, but we also know in functional and integrative medicine that we can achieve the same thing when we encourage people to eat a diverse array of plant-based colorful foods."
"It's a pretty exciting model that I think is one of the best applications of functional medicine."
"In functional medicine, what we learn about is a systems biology approach, so rather than thinking about the human body in terms of organs, we think about the body as various systems that all interact with each other and they all affect each other."
"A functional medicine physician is generally a good place to start or a holistic medicine doctor, registered dietitian that uses a holistic approach."
"We're privileged today to have an extraordinary physician and thinker and leader in functional medicine."
"I'm going to back you up a little bit because during the same time where I was discovering the e-stem I discovered this organization called the Institute for Functional Medicine."
"We know in functional medicine the strong connection between the gut and the brain."
"Functional medicine says, how do we restore balance in the system? How do we take out the things that are causing imbalance and how do we add the things that are going to restore balance?"
"Functional medicine is really a new map for navigating the territory, the landscape of disease."
"Functional medicines are more about creating health than it is treating disease."
"That's what makes functional medicine so much fun, being able to actually look at these puzzles and figure out for each person what it is."
"Using functional medicine, we have a map to figure out why, we have an approach to improve the microbiome."
"Traditional medicine is naming and blaming, but functional medicine is thinking and linking."
"Instead of what we do in functional medicine, it's called thinking and linking."
"From a functional medicine perspective, we really deal very differently through diet, nutritional supplementation, various herbal therapies, and other things that can actually help us."