LIFESTYLE & FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE
Lifestyle & Functional Medicine
You Matter, Your Journey Matters, Your Health Matters.
“How you live your life determines how you will succeed on your Health Journey"
While there are many of definitions floating around these days about Integrative, Lifestyle and Functional medicine, there are similarities between all of them. Those similarities involve lifestyle.
Lifestyle means the way you live. 70-80 % of chronic illness is determined by your lifestyle: what you put in your mouth, what you put in your mind and how you move your body.
While functional medicine
focuses on creating individualized therapies tailored to treat underlying causes of illness, integrative medicine seeks to understand the individual as a whole and applies many forms of therapy to improve wellness. While integrative , lifestyle and functional medicine are similar in nature, there are differences.
Integrative medicine
seeks to evaluate the patient as a whole and not just as a disease.
Lifestyle medicine
encompasses helping you create the necessary changes in food, stress, sleep and movement, for lasting health. Remember Real Health is more than the absence of disease. It is living your best life, fulfilling the purpose for which you are here. Lifestyle medicine providers educate and empower patients to take responsibility for their health by changing everyday personal habits and behaviors.
The team at LCOIH, uses the tenets of lifestyle medicine in creating 4 pillar real heal plans for all of our patients. Those 4 pillar plans include Simple Nutrition, Toxin Management, True Motion and Empowered Choices.
Functional medicine
is a branch of medicine that has gained alot of public awareness in recent years. THERE ARE MANY NON-PHYSICIAN PRACTITIONERS THAT PRACTICE FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE. Functional medicine focuses mainly on finding the root cause of chronic illness by using diagnostic testing like stool tests, bloodwork, and saliva testing. Although the team at LCOIH uses functional diagnostics, we do not limit your healing to large quantities of supplements alone.