Why You Should Choose Functional Medicine
Functional Medicine (FM) is patient-centered medical healing at its best. Instead of looking at and treating health problems as isolated diseases, it treats individuals who may have bodily symptoms, imbalances and dysfunctions. Physicians who have been trained in the art of Functional Medicine have the skills needed to identify what is happening within your body and even within your external environment that has contributed to what has been diagnosed as a disease. For examp

ARE STRESS HORMONES THE REASON I CAN'T LOSE WEIGHT AND CAN'T BUCKLE MY BELT?
Cortisol is a steroid hormone, known as a glucocorticoid, made in the cortex of the adrenal glands and then released into the blood which transports it all around the body. Almost every cell contains receptors for cortisol, so it can have a lot of different actions depending on which sort of cells it is acting upon. These effects include: raising blood sugar making you hungry and crave sugar reducing your ability to burn fat suppressing the HPA-axis, which exists between you
