A skilled functional medicine practitioner can help patients with complex, chronic conditions that traditional medicine has not been able to nor has the understanding to. Functional medicine practitioners do not ‘treat’ or ‘cure’ disease. Rather, we investigate the underlying or ‘root’ cause of why individuals have chronic health issues and consider factors like diet, genetics, hormonal changes, and other lifestyle components as potential causes and treatments for patients’ diseases. After a thorough investigation into physical, emotional and lifestyle history, as well as specialty testing, we utilize nutrition, movement, stress management, lifestyle modifications and evidence based supplementation (herbals and vitamins/minerals) to strengthen physiological weakness or to eliminate, for example, things like bacterial or fungal overgrowths that are contributing to a patients ill state.