Western Medicine versus Functional Medicine and Holistic Health

Western medicine approaches the body as if it were designed in parts. We think of the mind as being separate from body, or the heart and blood vessels are a stand alone system. We think of our own health in this way, and wonder why we take a medicine and it doesn’t really help. Western medicine doesn’t care about getting to the ‘root cause’ of a person’s problematic condition, it simply wants to treat the symptoms. And if they improve for a while, then it is considered successful. But more and more people are becoming dissatisfied with today’s approach to medicine, and are looking for something that can actually restore them to a state of equilibrium, or a state of wellness and balance. The body is designed to withstand stress, whether it is physical trauma, infection, chemical exposures, emotional trauma, genetics etc. It shifts and adjusts in order to absorb the impact, and re-establish homeostasis. But occasionally the impacts from the outside come in rapid succession, leading to the inability to restore balance, and disorder or disease ensues. This is things start to breakdown, and this is where whole body/mind medicine is needed to offer support and resources that enables the individual restore physiologic equilibrium.