Functional Medicine in Colorado
Your Experience can change
Does This Sound Like You?
Your primary care provider has helped with a diagnosis, and you are taking medications, but you still don’t feel well.
Medication hasn’t solved your problems
You feel like you’ve tried every possible thing out there. You’re tired of taking one medicine after the other.
You want to incorporate natural solutions
Medicine may be helping you, but you feel inclined to utilize natural elements in your health care journey as well.
You’re looking for additional solutions
Your Primary Care Provider has helped you begin your journey, but you want to add more options to your care.
You’d like to have more personalized guidance
You don’t want to be treated like everyone else who may share your diagnosis. You have individual needs and want those to be acknowledged.
Or You’ve Been Diagnosed With…
Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Decline
Asthma /Allergies
Autism
ADD/ADHD
Autoimmune Disorders
Cancer Prevention
Chronic Fatigue and Mental Fog
Chronic Pain/Fibromyalgia
Depression/Anxiety/Mood Disorders
Lyme Disease
Metabolic Syndrome (Diabetes Type 2, Fatty Liver, Obesity)
Mold Illness
Traditional and Functional Medicine
An Interwoven Approach
Unfortunately, many of today’s patients are often forced to choose between traditional Western medicine and alternative, holistic approaches to healthcare when evaluating their care. We believe both have value and can play an important role in treating a patient. In addition to prescribing medicine, we may also prescribe a new nutrition program or fitness regime. In some cases, a botanical supplement, or counseling, can serve as an effective, much safer alternative to taking a pharmaceutical drug. Each patient is unique and deserves to have the best science-based care from both Western medicine and holistic care. We often work WITH your primary care provider to optimize the best of both medical worlds. We do not replace them or any specialists, but with the right functional treatment plan, our clients often need them less. Please do not stop or change any of your current medications or treatments when you start a functional medicine approach without consulting with your care team.
What you can expect
Why Functional Medicine is Different
The movement of functional medicine grows out of an increasing need for today’s doctors and nurses to be able to address complex health issues. Unfortunately, much of today’s conventional approach to health care is oriented for acute care that seeks to treat a patient’s immediate symptoms over addressing the root causes of those symptoms.
Time With Patients
Due to patient quotas, dictated by insurance reimbursement rates, many providers in today’s conventional medical systems simply do not have the time to adequately examine the complexities of each patient’s health. In some of these settings, patients average less than 10 minutes with their doctors.
Twenty-first-century science
Without a doubt, our collective knowledge grows each year about how to better care for people’s various health needs. Yet, it can often be decades before new medical research becomes common practice. Additionally, providers in conventional medical systems rarely have time to read the latest research due to high patient quotas and busy work demands.
Taking the time to thoroughly understand each patient’s health allows functional medicine doctors to consult the latest research during treatment, effectively reducing the gap between new breakthroughs to improve our clients’ health significantly.
A word on supplement use
We believe that high-quality supplements can greatly improve many of the conditions that our patients suffer from when the right supplement in the right dose are prescribed for treatment. We also believe that the key to a long and healthy life comes from a healthy diet and lifestyle and that long term, supplements should play a supportive role, not a major role in that health.
Taking the time to thoroughly understand each patient’s health allows functional medicine doctors to consult the latest research during treatment, effectively reducing the gap between new breakthroughs to improve our clients’ health significantly.
Your Symptoms Seem Mysterious
Your Body Is A Puzzle
When other medical providers stop, we’re just getting started.
Treating your symptoms is just the beginning. We dig deep into your biochemistry, physiology, and psychosocial history to identify the factors causing your symptoms. We order and interpret advanced labs and then treat the underlying cause in a highly customized way, so you get better.
It’s Your Turn
How It Works
01 Deep Dive
First Visit:
What can you expect as a patient? Everything we’ve got!! We will be fully immersed in taking care of YOU!
Our functional medicine, IFM board certified practitioner will LISTEN to you. You will spend 90 minutes in person (but telehealth is an option if you live out of the area). We complete a highly detailed history to find the root cause of your symptoms or illness.
Next, we order specialized blood labs and stool testing and consider other advanced testing that you may need to find the root cause of your condition(s). We DON’T just repeat what you have already done.
02 Review of Findings
You return to review the results of your labs and initial visit evaluation. A highly individualized and detailed WELLNESS TREATMENT PLAN is recommended that is suitable to your needs and identified conditions. This is a 60-minute appointment with our practitioner.
03 Treatment Planning
We want your experience as a patient in our clinic to be nothing short of stellar. We work tirelessly behind the scenes to make sure the care you receive at our office is tailored to your individual needs. Of course making individualized lifestyle changes will be recommended. You can expect to receive customized nutrition planning and a sustainable lifestyle modification program that is easy to understand and follow. You will schedule sessions with our experienced Health Coach to understand how your past experiences and internal factors are affecting your health and how to gradually make sustainable lifestyle changes to feel well again. We will recommend supplements that are tested, safe and effective in treating your specific conditions for short periods of time to overcome the root cause of your health issues.
The follow-up appointment(s) are geared towards fine-tuning your individual responses to the treatments and taking the next steps to optimize your health. You will be seen by the functional medicine practitioner and health coach.
04 Support for Sustained Wellness
As you near the completion of the treatment sessions, we fine tune your treatment protocols to optimize your wellness and support you to maintain the gain through nutrition counseling and health coaching. Our goal is your long term health sustainability.
When your treatment sessions are completed, you may choose to join our Alumni and come back as needed for any new issues, annual labs, supplement recommendations or ongoing treatment planning as needed.
all the details
What’s Included
Appointments & Communication
Contact with an IFM certified Nurse Practitioner, Functional Medicine certified Health and Wellness Coach.
Lab Orders and Detailed Results
We order your blood work and your specialty lab testing then interpret the results and create an individual treatment plan to help you get better.
Dietary and Supplement Planning
We work with you to individualize a nutrition plan to treat your illness, then help you to transition to a dietary plan for lifelong sustained health. We use supplements in our treatment protocols, but long term, we rely on mostly whole foods to sustain our clients health.
Health Coaching Resources
Working with our Health Coach is a key to success by helping you find that inner strength that you have within you to make long term, sustainable lifestyle changes.
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