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

What if your own body's fat cells are major environmental factors that contribute to the onset and progression of autoimmune diseases like RA (rheumatoid arthritis), lupus, IBD (inflammatory bowel disease), multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and thyroid disease such as Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. What if fat contribues to more fat? What if fat increases the risk of heart disease and increases the risk of death from heart disease? What if