Functional Medicine Cincinnati, OH

Functional medicine focuses on the underlying cause, prevention and treatment of chronic disease. Eating a balanced diet, exercising and taking a multivitamin is simply not enough. Each person’s body is unique in its own way. Due to the complexity of the human body, an individualized healthcare approach is the only way to guarantee optimal results.

Your body is a delicate balancing act between interrelated systems. Stress, family, genes, environment, toxins, diet, lifestyle, medication, and exercise can effect hormone levels, neurotransmitters, nutritional status, and inflammation in the body. When this internal balancing act is thrown off, our bodies respond with symptoms, illness and disease. By working to restore balance among your body’s systems, the team at Spine and Wellness Cincinnati can help you move from chronic illness toward lasting wellness.

Spine and Wellness Cincinnati offers the leading nutritional tests using the most advanced laboratory technology. These advanced blood tests from ALCAT, Cell Science Systems, SpectraCell Labs and others, can reliably determine the underlying causes of your symptoms including, nutritional deficiency and food sensitivity.

Vitamins-LowHere in America we love vitamins and herbal supplements spending billions ever year on all kinds. We hope for relief, remedy, and cure. But what’s really in your herbal supplement? Is your body nutritionally deficient? Will your supplements be properly absorbed? Are you just wasting your money? Our approach to functional medicine in Cincinnati helps you find accurate answers to these questions because you want to optimize your healthcare spending on the things that work and matter most.

Nutritional balance plays a key role in optimal wellness, chronic disease prevention and management of the aging process. Think about your life.

Do you find yourself feeling stressed, fatigued and tired?
Do you feel anxious or depressed?
Is it difficult for you to lose weight?
Do you take prescription medicines to alleviate symptoms of certain conditions, but wonder why the condition exists at all?
Do you want to boost your immune system to possibly prevent chronic disease later?
It’s your life. Be proactive, NOT reactive.
Traditionally, a person waited to go to the doctor until the first signs of a symptom. Today, individuals are looking for a way to not only manage illness with personalized treatment plans, but also achieve a higher level of health through wellness and prevention programs. Based on the result of your diagnostic tests, treatment recommendations will be custom tailored to the individual needs of your body. Your personalized care plan may include botanical medicines, nutritional supplements, therapeutic diets, detoxification programs, musculoskeletal treatment, and counseling on lifestyle, exercise, or stress management techniques.

Pain, stress, and addictions seem to be plaguing everyone living in a modern society. Addicted to sugar, caffeine, and cell phones, surrounded by toxic chemicals, and stressed to the max, the human body has never before dealt with so many health taxing challenges. Each of these can be a cause and an effect, a trigger and a mediator. All three are fundamental underlying causes of chronic disease, obesity, and early death. The best functional medicine doctors in Cincinnati know how to restore balance to your body’s systems and will guide you from chronic stress and illness to peak health and lasting wellness.

Long-term stress can aggravate chronic pain and trigger other negative states of physical and emotional pain. The link between unmanaged stress and addictions can no longer be ignored. The link between chronic pain and drug addiction is now well known. At Spine Wellness Cincinnati, our experienced team provides cutting-edge Ohio Functional Medicine in Cincinnati to help reverse the modern drivers of chronic disease.

Functional medicine focuses on the underlying cause, prevention and treatment of chronic disease. Eating a balanced diet, exercising and taking a multivitamin is simply not enough. Each person’s body is unique in its own way. Due to the complexity of the human body, an individualized healthcare approach is the only way to guarantee optimal results. 

Your body is a delicate balancing act between interrelated systems. Stress, family, genes, environment, toxins, diet, lifestyle, medication, and exercise can affect hormone levels, neurotransmitters, nutritional status, and inflammation in the body. When this internal balancing act is thrown off, our bodies respond with symptoms, illness and disease. By working to restore balance among your body’s systems, the team at Spine and Wellness Cincinnati can help you move from chronic illness toward lasting wellness.

• Our society is experiencing a sharp increase in the number of people who suffer from complex, chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, mental illness, and autoimmune disorders.
• The system of medicine practiced by most physicians is oriented towards acute care or symptom management. Physicians apply specific, prescribed treatments such as drugs or surgery that aim to treat the immediate problem or symptom.
• Unfortunately, the symptom management approach to medicine lacks the proper methodology and tools for preventing and treating complex, chronic disease much less achieving optimal health. In most cases it does not take into account the unique genetic makeup of each individual or factors such as environmental exposures to toxins and other aspects of today’s lifestyle that have a direct influence on the rise in chronic disease in modern Western society.
• Most physicians are not adequately trained to assess the underlying causes of complex, chronic disease and to apply strategies to treat and prevent these illnesses in their patients while helping them achieve their optimal health.

Functional medicine involves understanding the origins, prevention, and treatment of complex, chronic disease. Hallmarks of a functional medicine approach include:

• Patient-centered care. The focus of functional medicine is on patient-centered care, promoting optimal health beyond just the absence of disease. By listening to the patient and learning his or her story, the practitioner brings the patient into the discovery process and tailors treatments that address the individual’s unique needs.
• An integrative, science-based healthcare approach. Functional medicine practitioners consider the complex web of interactions in the patient’s history, physiology, and lifestyle that can lead to illness. The unique genetic makeup of each patient is considered, along with both internal (mind, body and spirit) and external (physical, social and environmental) factors that affect total functioning.
• Integrating best medical practices. Functional medicine integrates traditional Western medical practices with “integrative” medicine, creating a focus on prevention. Data is obtained through the use of the latest laboratory testing and other diagnostic techniques. A comprehensive plan is then prescribed for the individual patient which may include hormonal balancing, medications, botanicals, supplements, therapeutic diets, detoxification programs, and stress-management techniques.