What is functional medicine, and what are the main goals?

Question

Hello doctor,

I would like to know about the following -

What is functional medicine?
What is the focus of functional medicine?
In what cases might a patient do well to see a functional medicine practitioner versus another type of health care provider?
Are there any other details or specifics about it?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi,

Welcome to icliniq.com.

Functional medicine is like unscientific medicine and contains interaction between nature or disease and the organs involved (endocrine, immunity, etc.).

Sometimes, some functional medicine provider does well in some chronic diseases and end-stage diseases like cancer, but sometimes it deflects people to the wrong treatments. Some patients with chronic illness are trying this, but some get cured, some get another disease.

Collectively, in my view, functional medicine is a pendulum of treatment science. Sometimes, it has 100 % results, sometimes 0 % results.

Regards.