What is functional medicine?
Functional medicine is a doctor-led approach to healthcare that looks for the underlying causes of your symptoms, so treatment can work on why you feel unwell as well as on how it shows up. A functional medicine doctor takes a detailed history, chooses testing that makes sense for you, and builds a personalised plan around your diet, sleep, stress, movement and, where it is needed, medication.
Functional medicine looks at the root cause.
What a functional medicine practioner does differently.
The difference lies mostly in the method, and it rests on a simple idea backed by research: many long-term conditions share the same underlying drivers, such as ongoing inflammation, blood sugar problems and changes in the gut. A functional medicine doctor spends the time to find those drivers, so your plan can work on several symptoms at once.
Dr Noyan maps your health from childhood to today, including infections, medication, stress and major life events, because symptoms that look unrelated often started around the same point.
Your gut, hormones, immune system and metabolism are looked at together, since a problem in one area, such as low thyroid function, can show up as tiredness, weight gain and low mood somewhere else.
Tests are picked to answer specific questions, which might mean a full thyroid panel instead of TSH alone, iron stores, vitamin D, B12 and inflammation markers, or gut and hormone testing where your symptoms point to it.
Your plan focuses on a few specific changes to food, sleep, movement and stress, with supplements or medication added where your results show a need, and your health coach helps you keep going between appointments.
Does functional medicine work?
Functional medicine compared with a standard GP appointment.
Your GP remains an important part of your care, and a functional medicine appointment gives you more time, different questions and a different starting point.
Functional medicine works alongside your medication and specialist care.
Who is functional medicine for?
People usually come to functional medicine at one of three points in their health, and each starting point shapes what Dr Noyan looks at first.
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A sense of what can sit beneath common symptoms
One symptom rarely has one cause. Functional health looks for the systemic reasons behind it, which is why two people with the same complaint often need very different plans.
Why Patients Come
To Arbor Health
Many of the people we see are living with symptoms that affect more than one part of their health. These are the areas patients most often come to us with.
Common functional medicine questions answered.
These are the questions people ask most often before booking a discovery call with Dr Noyan.
Every health story is different.
Let's start with yours.
Book a short discovery call with Dr Noyan to talk through your goals and whether a longevity assessment is the right fit for you.
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