We use our extensive knowledge of Gut Microbiome and Human Biochemistry,
to find root causes of chronic health issues that people are suffering from.
We believe that all diseases begin in the GUT. And healing begins in the GUT too.
Fixing Digestion and Absorption issues, Ensuring Proper Detoxification, Fixing Deficiencies, Creating a Healthy Microbiome and Balancing Blood Sugar and Other Hormones, can permanently be the solution of many chronic symptoms you face today.
Functional Medicine and Functional Nutrition approach, is the future of Healthcare!
What is Functional Medicine?
Functional Medicine is an approach where the human body is seen as one interconnected system (and not dissected into different body parts and organs), and the focus is on finding and correcting the root causes of any chronic illness or symptom, that a person is dealing with.
Most of the root causes we see, are a result of either gut inflammation because of gut infections and food sensitivities, bad lifestyle habits and exposure to toxins leading to a dysfunctional immune system, and/or blocked detoxification pathways (i.e. liver, kidneys, intestines), and more.
People could be diagnosed with the same disease, but what caused the same symptoms in each person could vary.
Working on correcting dietary and lifestyle changes and providing adequate nutrients to the body to start healing and functioning properly, is the key to putting diseases into remission slowly and steadily. This holds true for something as simple as constant cough, acid reflux, and headaches, to something as serious as depression, autism, or an autoimmune disease.
Functional Medicine v/s Conventional Medicine
Conventional approaches work on suppressing the symptoms only.
Or they provide short-term relief or solutions.
As an example, if you are diagnosed as having depression – in a conventional approach, you will probably be put on anti-depressants.
Our approach says that lack of fats in the diet, lack of proteins and specific amino acids which are needed by the body to make Serotonin can be causing depression.
A diet which is deficient in B6, B9 and B12 vitamins will also not let your body make Serotonin which is the mood lifting hormone we produce. Hence, depression symptoms!
Our neurotransmitters are made primarily in our GUT, and an inflamed GUT reduces that production drastically and affects our Brain Health.
Anti-depressants mostly are a short-term solution.
Working on correcting the root causes is the answer to recovery!
What is Functional Nutrition?
Functional nutrition is a nutritional approach that focuses on fixing the gap between what the person eats, and what his body needs, to function optimally.
It is very different from what general nutritionists do, because our focus is on fixing the broken biochemistry, that could be leading to the symptoms in a person.
For example, a general nutritionist’s approach for a person having acid reflux would be to stop eating certain foods which aggravate the reflux, like tomatoes, citrus fruits etc. This can give some temporary relief, but the root cause of reflux is still there, waiting to be addressed!
We use foods and nutrients to heal and arrest the inflammation. We find out why the reflux started in the first place – was it because the sphincter in the food pipe got loose due to nutritional deficiencies (causing the acid to come up), or is there an overgrowth of H. Pylori bacteria in the gut causing the reflux, or does the person have an imbalanced thyroid which is further causing stomach acid imbalance? It’s all pure science! Address the root cause!
Conventional medicine says take pills and stop the acid from getting produced in the stomach. Take PPIs all your life! However, without stomach acid, how will you digest the food? Stomach acid is needed to break down the food we eat, and that’s why most people with acid reflux issues are constantly low on nutrients, because their body doesn’t absorb a lot from what they eat. They will constantly have low B12, low iron, low magnesium etc.
We are grateful you are here, and we look forward to guiding you to find balance, happiness, and joy, in your journey to health and well-being!
