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Health is more than simply the absence of disease. This principle embodies the very essence of Functional Diagnostic Medicine (FDM), a field of medicine that minimizes your risk of developing life-threatening illnesses. FDM offers you a significant breakthrough in assessing, treating, and preventing numerous health problems – by looking beyond your symptoms to focus on the underlying causes of your health conditions. FDM is built upon a progressive wellness model, with optimal health at the positive end and mortality at the negative end (see chart 1). By identifying your risk factors for health problems, FDM practitioners empower you to take preventive and restorative measures that keep you at or near the positive end of the progression.
Here’s what happens to you as you age. Your body experiences metabolic changes, even without symptoms, that lead you away from optimal health and toward illness. During the early stages of this decline, conventional testing results will make you seem "normal," even though detrimental changes are evolving just below the surface in your endocrine, GI, immune, detoxification, and neurological systems (See chart 2). FDM not only reveals these changes, but it also gives you the building blocks to restore and retain your healthy body systems and return to peak health.
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