Space Coast Advanced Health - Treating The Root Cause

Lab testing is foundational to functional medicine, and for good reason. It can show you what is causing your symptoms, if you are headed toward a disease (even if you don’t have symptoms), track the progress of your protocol, and motivate you to stick with your protocol.  Lab testing includes many different tests. Some examples of testing used in functional medicine include: -Food sensitivity testing: If a food you eat regularly causes inflammation, this contributes to chronic health disorders.  -Gut testing: Gut problems contribute to chronic health issues. Tests can screen for leaky gut, gut function, parasites, bacterial overgrowth, and autoimmune reactions. -Blood chemistry panel: This is an excellent starting point in functional medicine testing and includes the use of functional medicine ranges (versus lab ranges). Blood testing screens for some diseases and can catch a trend toward a disease while there’s still time to reverse it. -Chemical and metal sensitivi...

Preventing disease in our future starts now. We’re talking to a cancer specialist and learning about a few small efforts that add up in big ways to strengthen our systems daily… PREVENTING DISEASE ISN’T  a perfect science (yet), but there’s no denying the importance of those efforts.  Functional medicine doctor and registered dietitian,  Dr. Elizabeth Boham , wants us to understand that when it comes to cancer, pre-emptive screening isn’t the same thing as active prevention — a process that looks a lot like the healthy lifestyle we’re already working towards. Take note of the simple yet substantial elements of holistic cancer prevention, and explore more with Dr. Boham’s tips for breast cancer prevention  here . Screening for cancer is not the same thing as preventing cancer. Many of us go for our yearly mammograms and our regular colonoscopies, thinking that we are being proactive and preventing cancer. Although these screening exams and t...