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Nutritional counseling can help you achieve a variety of goals such as increasing energy, boosting stamina, developing a healthy relationship with food, losing weight, and more. It can also help you manage and prevent chronic diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, and certain cancers. It is personalized, one-on-one dietary guidance tailored to you and your goals through gradual, sensible dietary changes you can maintain over the long term.
Lab testing is foundational to functional medicine. Functional medicine practitioners rely on optimal lab values to reveal meaningful patterns indicating biochemical and functional dysfunction contributing to patient symptoms and disease progression. Specialty, or functional, lab testing is a collective of labs dedicated to providing diagnostics for a particular subset of human health. By analyzing blood, stool, urinary, salivary, and hair samples, functional labs measure biomarkers not routinely measured by traditional labs it will provide an in-depth perspective into the spectrum of health.
Functional labs also use different reference ranges to distinguish between normal, optimal, and pathologic health states vs. traditional medical labs. Traditional reference ranges are determined by taking the average of a specific population, even if this population consists predominantly of unhealthy individuals. Additionally, these reference ranges often have a very large variability. While these values can detect the presence of disease, they don’t provide much benefit for people invested in taking control of their health before the disease presents itself on lab tests. By using functional medicine lab testing, clinicians can catch a health trend much earlier in the disease process while it can still be slowed, halted, or reversed.
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It is important to note that not all supplements are created equally. While it is convenient to run to the nearest supermarket and pick up supplements, choosing high-quality supplements over lower quality ones is important for several reasons. High-quality supplements are generally more effective and safer than lower quality ones. Lower quality supplements may contain harmful contaminants or not contain the ingredients listed on the label. Additionally, high-quality supplements are often formulated with better absorption and bioavailability, meaning that your body can more easily absorb and utilize the nutrients in the supplement. When choosing supplements, look for products that have been third-party tested for purity and potency.
For that reason, we use Fullscript, which offers patients access to professional grade supplements, so you can rest assured you are purchasing quality products.