Caring for your health properly is so much more than just the basics of eating right and exercise. With current medical research, we have discovered that the body is a complex collection of organs and systems and even bacterial colonies (the microbiome) that greatly impact each other. While the standard of care hasn’t quite caught up with much of the current science, conventional doctors and “specialists” are still treating parts of the body separately without taking into account how these complex systems interact with each other.

When you are healthy, these systems work together like a symphony in perfect harmony. But when one of these systems is off-balance, the whole symphony is out of tune! When you need a “tune-up,” you should look at areas that clearly aren’t working right and identify potential hidden problems with other body systems. Sadly, most people take medications to treat symptoms, when in reality, it could be a systemic issue that needs to be treated in a more holistic way.

At the Mood Restoration Institute, we follow a “functional medicine” approach that performs advanced testing, treats your whole body, and uses up-to-date nutritional interventions to help you rebalance and finally heal. This in-depth approach is the best way to treat chronic illness because most chronic illnesses have multiple root causes. Instead of simply addressing different symptoms across separate body systems, functional medicine seeks to treat illnesses at the underlying root cause level.  This approach looks at lifestyle factors such as diet, environment, emotional health, and mindset that often cause or worsen the illnesses patients are seeking to heal.