Functional medicine is a systems biology-based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of the disease.

 

Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of the many contributing to an individual’s illness.

 

A diagnosis can be the result of more than one cause.

 

The precise manifestation of each case depends on the individual’s genes, environment, and lifestyle, and only treatments that address the right cause will have lasting benefits beyond symptom suppression.