Genes may put people at risk for certain conditions, and their choices further push them toward illness. Functional medicine works to distance people from those risks by encouraging healthy decisions and lifestyle choices. Functional medicine empowers the patient to take charge of their health and does not label the patient with a "disease" for which they receive a drug to fix said "disease". Functional medicine recognizes that each person is unique. Not everyone gets diabetes, autoimmune diseases or heart disease for the same reason. Your genetics are just one of the puzzle pieces we use to put a plan in place to help restore your health.