As functional medicine clinicians, we try get to the root cause of your symptoms versus just band aiding the problem.

 

Most of the time we can already tell there’s  is a connection with your stress, anxiety, weight gain and gut issues. Adrenal imbalance as well needs to be addressed which could be a root to your issues. So alot of this process involves looking at all layers of your being physical + emotional + psychological + spiritual. I believe that holistic medicine . I mean this this how we are built as beings.  We just need to find a way to balance it all. So By the time our physical body demonstrates symptoms, it’s already way downstream from the other deep root issues such as stress, mal-alignment with our purpose or limiting beliefs or even past traumas. 

 

So with all of that said , it is important for us to address tangible, practical issues such as sleep, hormones balance, gut health, pain/inflammation, etc. in order to facilitate thus process of whole health healing. This could involve things like functional lab testing, the  elimination diet, targeted supplementation, hormonal balance, mindful movement, yoga, stress and breathwork and deep contemplation.