AUTOIMMUNITY
The prevalence of AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE, which are often CHRONIC in nature, is increasing. Conventional treatments, primarily pharmaceuticals are often NOT ENTIRELY EFFECTIVE and can have potentially SERIOUS ADVERSE EFFECTS like diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, and infections. In addition, there are SIGNIFICANT COSTS associated with conventional treatments.
Since autoimmune diseases can be challenging to manage with medications alone, FUNTIONAL MEDICINE practitioners can create PERSONALIZED treatment protocols to address the ROOT, OFTEN HIDDEN factors that might be driving immune system dysregulation. In other words, strategies to get to the underlying CAUSE of why the immune system is attacking the body. These include addressing things like SLEEP, GUT HEALTH, and STRESS.
Functional medicine ADVANCED TESTING and treatment protocols accomplish what no drug or scalpel can. They focus on the DETECTION and CORRECTION of NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES and CELLULAR TOXICITIES for a more HOLISTIC APPROACH to care to improve the quality of life in patients diagnosed with autoimmune diseases.
This is the HOPE of Functional Medicine and the PROMISE of The Roadmap To Health!