What is Functional Medicine

By shifting the traditional disease-centered focus of practice to a more patient-centered approach, functional medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. In Functional Medicine, I spend time with you listening to your history and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, Functional Medicine supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual. 

How Functional Medicine Can Support your mental health

Functional Medicine practitioners look “upstream” to consider the complex web of interactions in the patient’s history, physiology, and lifestyle that can lead to illness. The unique genetic makeup of each patient is considered, along with both internal (mind, body and spirit) and external (physical and social environment) factors that affect total functioning.

For more Information

To learn more about functional medicine please go to; https://www.ifm.org/practitioners/marissa-harris/