Functional & Conventional Medicine Difference.
Let’s look at Functional Medicine:
★ Personalized approach
★ The body works as an integrated system
★ Gene expression can be modified
★ Health is about vitality & optimization
★ Health-focused, root-cause approach
★ Disease prevention-focused
★ Lifestyle & nutrition-based
★ Finding the cause
Now let’s look at Conventional Medicine:
★ Disease focused, generalized approach
★ The body is a collection of parts working independently
★ Gene expression is fixed
★ Health is the absence of disease
★ Disease symptom management
★ Disease treatment focused
★ Pharmaceutical based
★ Treating the symptom