Functional Medicine
Functional Medicine - An Overview
Functional Medicine
Many patients we see continue to have health concerns and experience symptoms, despite previous investigations, diagnoses, or treatment.
Our medical doctors carefully connect symptoms, diagnoses, and biological systems, looking at all aspects of your health together. This thorough approach allows for a better understanding and treatment of complex and chronic health conditions.
Understand your health better, wherever you are in the UK.
Functional medicine is an established and well recognised medical approach in the UK for the management of chronic and complex health conditions.
Rather than focusing solely on symptom management in isolation, our functional medicine doctors identify and address the underlying processes that can contribute to ongoing symptoms, chronic illness, or disease progression, providing you with a more complete understanding of your health.
Most chronic health conditions are
complex by nature
complex by nature
as the body’s biological systems continuously interact and influence one another over time.
These are some of the more common areas we see within the clinic, however, many patients come to us with overlapping symptoms, multiple diagnoses, or more complex health concerns and symptoms:
Rather than relying on a single treatment approach, our functional medicine doctors carefully combine a wide range of clinical tools to address the specific biological factors influencing your health.
These can include a combination of the following where applicable to your individual treatment plan:
Functional medicine testing plays an important role in helping us understand the wider biological picture of your health and underlying cause of your symptoms and health concerns.
Depending on your symptoms, medical history, current diagnoses, and previous investigations, our doctors may recommend conventional blood testing or specialist functional medicine testing where clinically appropriate.
We offer access to a wide range of conventional and specialist testing, which can assess:
The main difference between our consultation options is the level of clinical depth, time with your doctor and number of tests that are interpreted. Your package fee reflects the extensive clinical process, analysis of multiple data points, and in-depth consideration of your symptoms and health history, not simply the time spent in the consultation room.
You don’t have to know exactly what you need, our team will help you understand what will work best for you in a discovery call.
Functional medicine is a personalised medical approach that looks beyond symptom suppression, to instead understand and address the underlying biological factors contributing to complex and chronic health conditions.
An important part of functional medicine that we feel particularly passionately about, is that patients feel empowered and come away with a better understanding of their health.
Functional medicine is built around a number of core principles which guide how doctors assess and manage complex health conditions:
Looking beyond symptoms to understand the multiple biological factors and processes that may be contributing to illness.
Treating the whole person, recognising that the body’s systems are interconnected and influence one another, and that nothing works in isolation.
Personalised care, with treatment plans tailored to your symptoms, medical history, lifestyle, and health goals.
Identifying contributing factors, rather than relying solely on a diagnosis or symptom-based treatment.
Using evidence-based medicine, combining clinical expertise with the latest available scientific evidence.
Supporting long-term health, with the aim of helping patients feel better today while also improving their future health.
Conventional medicine and functional medicine share the same foundation of evidence-based medical care, but they often approach chronic health conditions from different perspectives.
Conventional medicine is highly effective at diagnosing and treating acute illness, medical emergencies, and many chronic diseases using established medical therapies.
Functional medicine is exceptionally good at identifying the root cause of health concerns and connecting everything together. This approach works best for chronic and complex health conditions. By identifying the underlying cause and addressing it, balance can be restored within that system, and the systems that it impacts.
