As we all know, Western Medicine is known for testing and treating full-blown diseases with drugs and/or surgery. Functional Medicine (and Functional Nutrition) are about something entirely different. These disciplines look for concrete, though subtle, signs that something is amiss in our bodies, and work (through diet, exercise and supplementation) to prevent these signs from progressing into full-blown diseases— through a preventive, largely natural, approach.

Conventional allopathic medicine, on the other hand, is mainly focused on attempts to cure already developed diseases. For instance, conventional medicine basically views Cardiovascular disease as a malfunction of an engine, or a part of an engine, which can be "fixed" or "repaired" with either drugs or surgery, whereas Functional Medicine (and Functional Nutrition) view this same condition as a result of negative lifestyle choices that can be changed through sound nutrition combined with various forms of exercise to alleviate already-existing symptoms and to prevent others from developing.

-- Linda Rodriguez, CNC, CPT

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