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Functional medicine is the evolution of health care to create a more sustainable client centred approach, which empowers you to take control of your own health. Functional medicine takes a more global approach and endeavors to build overall health, and identify your unique root causes of dysfunction, rather than merely treating the symptoms.

 

As your functional medicine practitioner, I spend more time with you investigating your health concerns in detail. The functional medicine model provides you with constant practitioner support outside of consultations, and a comprehensive ongoing coaching model that helps to ensure your success.

The health building approach is a multi faceted one that looks at all areas of your life. Functional Medicine enables you to be an active participant in your health, and rather than just taking a prescription, you are encouraged to create change by paying attention to your body, and your environment. 

 

There are no quick fixes, and no magic pills, to get results you must be willing to do the work. Building your health means optimising your lifestyle factors like nutrition, recovery, movement, stress reduction and supplementation to seek opportunities to heal and promote health.

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There is no one size fits all magic pill for chronic health symptoms or conditions.

The causes are different in each individual, and so you have to find out why this is uniquely happening for you!

Why Functional Medicine?

 

While traditional medicine is brilliant at treating acute disease and injury, it’s not so efficient at treating chronic illness, and lifestyle diseases like Diabetes, IBS, Alzheimer’s, Depression, Heart disease or Chronic fatigue. The traditional medical model is based on chasing symptoms, finding a diagnosis, and treatment of that diagnosis, rather than hunting for the root cause of dysfunction. On the contrary functional medicine is an exploratory process that recognises that no two people are the same, and thus seeks to identify your unique disruptions in health. For example classically depression is treated with anti-depressant drugs whereas the functional medicine model recognises that depression is a disorder of inflammation that could be occurring due to disruptions in circadian rhythm, hormones, blood sugar, exposure to toxins or an inflammatory diet. 

Chronic disease and a general lack of wellbeing is a growing epidemic and in most cases is completely reversible or preventable. In our highly stressed and busy lives, we often struggle to juggle key pillars of health like nutrition, hydration, recovery, good quality movement, and a balanced mental and emotional state.  As these seemingly simple lifestyle factors shift out of balance, our bodies start to provide us with vital feedback and symptoms, indicating that we need to make some changes.  

 

Pain, fatigue, digestive trouble, headaches, poor sleep or disease, are all cries from a body that needs some serious help. Although symptoms may be accepted as normal because they are so common in modern society, they are an indication that our health is starting to slide towards disease. Chasing symptoms or pain, and consequently ignoring the root cause of dysfunction, often takes us further away from health. In order to feel our best, we need to get to the root cause of illness, and address all lifestyle factors.


 

  • Pain management

  • Nutrition advice

  • Mental Health (depression / Anxiety)

  • Allergies and food intolerance

  • Detoxification

  • Brain Health & Neuroscience coaching

  • Mold Illness (Chronic Inflammatory Response CIRS)

  • Healing your gut

  • Balancing Hormones

  • Fat loss

  • Inflammation

  • Chronic Fatigue

  • Weight loss

  • Stress Reduction

  • Sleep Enhancement

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What’s Involved?

As your functional medicine practitioner, I will take a comprehensive look at your health history, and your lifestyle factors before we even meet to identify opportunities to promote health. Together we will investigate hidden internal stressors with intelligent functional lab testing where needed, to identify factors that may be holding you back. Functional medicine testing is very different from traditional medical testing, and seeks to identify sub clinical indications of poor health, before they manifest as more serious conditions.

 

I will help guide you with a detailed, fully customised plan to eliminate health disrupters, and boost your overall health and vital reserve. This is no one size fits all approach, and you can rest assured that you will be listened to, and treated as an individual.  Having experienced chronic illness myself, I have extensive personal experience with what works, and what doesn’t, and can help take the guess work out of the process to fast track your journey.

 

We can meet in person, by phone or on Skype, and we’ll be in constant contact through the process to monitor your progress and make adjustments together as we go.

 

If you have daily health complaints, symptoms or just don’t feel you are at your best, together we can get to the bottom of your health challenges and make great changes. If you want to make powerful and sustainable gains in your wellness and quality of life, invest in your health and contact me below.

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Contact Priscilla to discuss how she can help you improve your health and vitality

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