Functional Integrative Medicine
Our medical approach is totally person-centered
The disease and the process of becoming ill are unique in each person. And it is in the comprehensive understanding of this singularity that the most convenient therapeutic strategy will reside.
Each person has their own unique genetic profile, their family of origin with predispositions to certain diseases, their experiences, values, interpersonal relationships and life-long conditioning experiences. Each person creates their own habits and lifestyles and faces the vicissitudes and responds to life's challenges with the physical and psychological capacities at their disposal and is conditioned by all of these in multiple ways.
Each person acts and interacts with their environment - family, social, professional, cultural and environmental - in a way that is specific to them and also conditions them.
Each person feels in a particular way and attributes his/her own meaning to his/her life story, clinical course and emotional events that may potentiate synergies that trigger the most varied diseases.
In Integrative Medicine the person is the centre of our attention.
The name of your disease diagnosis is a very important medical classification, but the person who has that disease is the central core of the intervention in Integrative Medicine.
And we seek to go further. In Integrative Medicine, the patient, once informed about the scientific evidence of the various possible therapeutic options, is invited, whenever possible, to participate responsibly in the decisions of the diagnostic and therapeutic intervention, further emphasizing their centrality in their clinical and therapeutic process.
Many factors that are related to lifestyle and to the relationship with oneself and the surrounding environment intervene in the process of installation of chronic diseases.
In Integrative Medicine, we stress the importance, crucial, and appeal to the adoption of healthy lifestyles for a consistent health recovery process. We give special emphasis to nutrition, physical exercise and movement techniques, the stimulation of enriching family and social relationships, personal development, maintaining a balanced mind-body relationship, and the search for an ecologically healthy environment.
This is an area that everyone has a responsibility to promote on an ongoing basis.
It is a path that no one can take for another person.
The classical medical method, which seeks to find, for each disease, a single cause and a specific treatment, has been facing increasing difficulties, as it does not fit the needs posed by the complex chronic diseases of modern societies.
Functional Medicine approaches the understanding of a patient with a complex chronic disease, or with a complex set of various diseases and symptoms, through a matrix composed of eight cores that correspond to eight functional biological balances. These are: Immunological Vigilance, Digestion, Absorption and Barrier Integrity, Structural Integrity, Oxidative/Reductive Homeodynamics, Inflammatory Process, Detoxification and Biotransformation, Hormonal and Neurotransmitter Regulation, Psychological and Spiritual Balance.
Understanding the functioning of these eight cores in people with complex disease allows for a more assertive strategy of functional diagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment, with greater probability of success in global health recovery.
Thus, Functional Integrative Medicine assumes itself as an innovative and comprehensive medical approach, strongly centered on the person, in which the intervention of a multidisciplinary team and the use of multiple knowledge enhance the synergies of health recovery and is recognized in the emerging medicine of the XXI century.
In an innovative way, our method integrates the strategy of Functional Medicine in the concept and method of Integrative Medicine.
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