Fuson Wellness Center, S.c.

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Dr. Mickey Fuson What exactly is Functional Medicine? Functional Medicine 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. Using scientific principles based on research, advanced diagnostic testing and treatments other than drugs or surgery, Functional Medicine restores balance in the body's primary physiological processes. The goal: creating lifelong health! With today’s health care model, medication is typically used to get rid of people's symptoms. If the patient stops taking the medication, symptoms generally return. Functional Medicine approaches health problems from a totally different direction. Instead of masking the problem with medications, Functional Medicine aims at restoring the body's natural functioning. We guide the patient's physiology in a positive direction so the patient may no longer need them. For example, conventional doctors would normally prescribe a pharmaceutical like Prilosec to treat acid reflux or heartburn. When the patient stops taking the drug, the heartburn symptoms come back. In contrast, a Functional Medicine practitioner might find that a patient's acid reflux is caused by Helicobacter pylori bacteria. Eradicating the Helicobacter pylori may lead to the end of heartburn symptoms, permanently. It's also important to understand that in Functional Medicine, treatment for  similar symptoms  might vary tremendously for different patients, according to their medical history and results of advanced laboratory tests. We treat the patient and not the disease! When we look closely at diseases such as Hypothyroid, Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Migraine Headaches, Auto Immune Diseases, Obesity, and many more, they may be caused by imbalances such as:  Hormonal Imbalances - Digestive Imbalances - Inflammatory Imbalances  Neurological & Structural Imbalances - Immune Imbalances  Energy (Mitochondrial) Imbalances - Toxic Chemical Imbalances We Create Health By Correcting Imbalances To support chronic imbalances, Functional Medicine uses these scientific principles: Restore  what's lacking in the body to guide its physiology back to a state of healthy functioning. Remove  anything that interferes with the body from moving toward this healthy state of physiology. Plainly put, your body naturally wants to be healthy. But lifestyles, diet, and environmental conditions may interfere with the things needed by the body to function at its best and might be missing. Functional Medicine first identifies the factors responsible for the imbalances. Then it deals with those factors in a way appropriate to the patient's unique condition. At the Fuson Wellness Center, we use advanced laboratory testing to identify the root cause or causes of the patient's health problem. We listen very carefu