Mental Health and Lifestyle Integration: Treating the Whole Person

More Than Just the Mind For many years, mental health was treated as something separate from the body. You went to one doctor for physical problems and another for stress, anxiety, or depression. But research now shows what patients have always sensed: the mind and body are deeply connected. Functional medicine takes this truth seriously. It […]

Why Functional Medicine Has a Different Purpose: The Teleology of Health

When most people think about medicine, they think about fixing what’s broken: lowering blood pressure, shrinking a tumor, killing a bacteria. Traditional medicine is excellent at crisis response. But what if the real goal of medicine is not simply to remove disease, but to restore your body’s ability to thrive? This is where functional medicine […]