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Functional Medicine

Functional medicine deals with the root cause of the disease. It helps identify multiple diseases or conditions at a time and treat them accordingly. In addition, it allows the physician to create customized health plans.

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Kindly explain about functional medicine.

Query: Hello doctor, 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? Any other details or specifics about it?  Read Full »


Dr. Chandra Shekhar

Answer: 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 disease and end-stage disease like cancer but...  Read Full »

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