Functional Medicine
A Balanced Approach

Functional Medicine is a personalized approach that uses system-oriented model that engages patients and practitioners to address underlying causes of disease. This approach helps to achieve the highest expression of health. This is a complex development in the practice of modern medicine that better addresses needs of healthcare in the 21^st century. Instead of traditional disease-centered focus of traditional medical practice, Functional Medicine uses patient-centered approach. This method helps to address the whole person and not just isolated set of symptoms.

Traditionally, a modern approach emphasizes use of drugs or hormones as therapeutic tool to deal with a dysfunction or disease. Examples are conditions including low thyroid function, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, diabetes, allergic reaction, auto-immune disorders and so on. The training in the standard model is care is to diagnose a disease and match it with a corresponding medication. The standard model of care works well for acute conditions, infection, trauma and emergency situations, but sadly fails in the care of chronic diseases that affect at least 30% of population.

Functional Medicine is the field that helps to identify and address imbalances that cause numerous chronic conditions such as digestive, metabolic, hormonal, neurologic, autoimmune and allergic problems that affect most people.

“Functional Medicine, aka Holistic Medicine is dedicated to prevention, early assessment, and improved management of complex, chronic disease by intervening at multiple levels to correct core clinical imbalances and thereby restore each patient’s functionality and health to the greatest extent possible” – The Institute for Functional Medicine

Chiropractic and functional medicine help deal with pain management, prevention of future diseases and improving physical and mental resilience.

We believe in helping patients find optimal health through a personalized approach that sees each patient as a unique interchange of genetics, environment, spirituality and lifestyle. We use systems-oriented approach to find the root cause of disease and facilitate healing by restoring balance bringing mind and body back into alignment.

Healing journey is not about fighting against the illness, it is about creating an environment, where your body gains its strength and heals naturally. The core principle of Functional Medicine “Remove what causes imbalance, provide what causes balance” helps to identify and address triggers that cause numerous chronic conditions such as digestive, metabolic, hormonal, neurologic, autoimmune and allergic problems that affect most people.

5 Basic Principles of Functional Medicine:

• Functional Medicine defines everyone as biochemically and genetically unique with individualized needs. This approach is essential to assist natural healing mechanism, rather than attack the disease itself.
• Functional Medicine is a science based method and backed by latest research to understand and approach complex network of human functions. This helps to approach most complex imbalances naturally.
• Your body possesses “innate intelligence” – very sophisticated mechanism to control and express vibrant balance of all body systems. It is highly organized self-regulated process that has the ability to monitor and heal itself in a presence of essential elements. Functional Medicine principles help to detect and correct the imbalances when this mechanism fails to function accurately.
• Health is not simply the absence of disease. Health is a state of immense vitality that comprises complete physical, mental and social well-being. (Constitution of WHO: Principles)
• Functional Medicine integrates traditional medical practices with “alternative” or “integrative” medicine to create methods of prevention through nutrition, diet, lifestyle modifications, use of latest laboratory and other diagnostic testing. This approach helps to answer questions: “Why do you have this problem in the first place?” and “What can we do to restore normal function?”

Body has innate ability to heal and regenerate itself. Modern science is only beginning to catch up this wisdom. Using 21st century approach to natural healing, we can construct a unique approach that will restore homeostasis between patient’s environment and physiology. Real healing is always about returning body and its systems to normal function.

Our Functional Medicine approach is very unique. In addition to complex lab testing, we also use in-office Bioenergetic Testing to go beyond conventional holistic approach. Bioenergetic Testing offers advanced non-invasive method that measures the energetic state of internal organs, food sensitivities, environmental sensitivities, nutritional needs, hormonal balance, toxin response and much more, that can improve patient outcomes. To learn more, please visit our post “Bioenergetic Medicine & Asyra System”

“Functional Medicine determines how and why illness occurs and restores health by addressing the root causes of disease for each individual” – Institute For Functional Medicine.

• Autoimmune Disorders
• Hormonal Imbalance
• Gastrointestinal
• Microbiological
• Psychological
• Neurological
• Chronic Infections
• Chronic Disease

Functional Medicine is a Healing Art Model of 21st century that addresses healthcare needs by shifting traditional disease-centered focus to a patient-oriented approach. This is not one-size-fits-all treatment. We take a goal-oriented approach to healing and provide education empowering you to become an active participant in your recovery and future physical health.

If you are looking for a Functional Medicine practitioner in New York City NYC, please do not hesitate to reach out to us and see how we can help in your healing journey. Our Functional Medicine practice in conveniently located in Midtown East Manhattan New York City.

While there are numerous health conditions emerged as a result of modern world progress, and the “detective work” to find a root cause of the disease is very complex, we would like to concentrate on the following ailments that we have the best practice with:

• Lyme Disease & Co-infections
• Gastrointestinal Health
• Allergies and Food Sensitivities
• Thyroid Health
• Men’s Health
• Woman’s Health
• Metabolic Syndrome

Depending on a condition and personal history, we will order specialty Functional Testing. Specialty testing is the only way to uncover root cause of imbalance. This approach helps to address the whole person to achieve the highest expression of health and not just isolated set of symptoms. Learn how Functional Lab testing is different form conventional blood testing, read post “Why Functional Medicine Rocks”.

We are contracted with world leading laboratories to collect and analyze blood, urine, saliva and stool samples.

• The Great Plain Laboratory – Organic Acid Testing
• Precision Analytical – DUTCH Hormonal Urine Test
• Accu Refence Medical Lab – Comprehensive Blood Testing
• Trace Elements – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis Testing (HTMA)
• Empire City Laboratories – Integrative Genetic Solution Testing
• Diagnostic Solutions Lab – DNA Stool Analysis
• Doctor’s Data – variety of Functional Testing

While your treatment plan can be addressed with customized guidelines on food sources alone, there are instances when “road blocks” during healing process that may require targeted supplementation to address micronutrient deficiencies, digestion challenges and genetic limitations. These can inhibit your nutrient absorption from food and metabolism utilization. In these instances, I will provide you access to prescription quality nutraceutical through my professional FullScrip Dispensary, Standard Process and Natural Partners with suggested products that have the highest purity and quality certification. Or if you are just browsing our site and would like to get access to these dispensaries, please contact our office to request access information for Standard Process and Natural Partners. FullScript can be assessed without any code. Click on images below

Please contact our office to schedule free 15 phone minutes consultation. After the consultation, we will email to you health form that you will fill out and send it back to us. We have to go over your report of findings to determine the right path so you can start the Journey to Health. All the steps and lab results will be discussed during office visits.

Aleksander Kanevsky, DC – Chiropractic & Functional Medicine office is conveniently located in Midtown East New York City.

Email: atlantchiro@gmail.com
Tel: (212) 888-0520