Functional | Naturopathic Medicine
Your source for an integrative, science-based healthcare approach
Functional | Naturopathic medicine focuses on addressing the root causes of illness by looking at the whole body, not just isolated symptoms. It emphasizes the importance of understanding each individual’s unique biochemical and genetic makeup to craft personalized treatment plans. This approach is designed to treat chronic conditions by identifying underlying causes like nutrient deficiencies, toxins, stress, or infections and correcting them. At the Riordan Clinic, for example, functional medicine empowers patients—known as “co-learners”—to take an active role in their health, working alongside practitioners to explore their entire health history and customize their care plans accordingly.
One of the hallmark therapies of functional medicine is the use of high-dose intravenous Vitamin C (IVC), which the Riordan Clinic has pioneered. This therapy is utilized to boost the immune system, improve energy levels, and enhance the body’s ability to recover from infections and cancer treatments. Nutrient-based therapies, including supplements of essential vitamins like D, B6, B12, and minerals such as magnesium and zinc, play a central role. These therapies are aimed at replenishing deficiencies and correcting metabolic imbalances that are often overlooked in conventional medicine. Through these methods, functional medicine seeks to create a more sustainable path to health and wellness by supporting the body’s natural healing processes.
As Functional Medicine practitioners, our goal is to help patients realize that health is simply the body doing the best it can with what it has been given to work with. We use a systems-oriented, patient-centered approach that considers the patient a co-learner on the road to wellness. Naturopathic Medicine (or environmental medicine) is a natural fit for a Functional Medicine practitioner because, along with looking at what the body is missing that it needs, the role a co-learner environment may have in burdening it with what it doesn’t need is also considered. Toxins in the environment are identified, and a safe, effective replenishing/cleansing program is initiated.
Functional and Naturopathic Medicine are integrative, science-based healthcare approaches. Practitioners consider the complex interactions of patient history, physiology, and lifestyle that can lead to illness.
Benefits of Functional | Naturopathic Medicine
- Realize the relationship between environment and health/body
- Can prevent some illness when environmental toxins are realized
- Helps treat and relieve autoimmune and inflammatory diseases
Related Research & Information
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- The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM):
The AAEM is an international organization representing physicians who specialize in Environmental Medicine.
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- The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM):
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