Strom Family Holistic & Chiropractic Clinic

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Dr. Oz has talked multiple times on his show about functional medicine, and has labeled doctors that practice functional medicine "Disease Detectives". But what is functional medicine? And how is it different from traditional medicine? Simply put, functional medicine is health care that treats the person, not the disease. If you imagine a picture of the iceberg, there is above and below the water. The ice above the water represents the diseases normally treated in the traditional medical approach ie. (with medication). The ice below the water are the root causes of the diseases, or the base for the disease above the water. The goal of functional medicine is to determine which of the underlying causes are present, and treat the root causes directl