Description: Discover holistic health solutions at Alternative Family Medicine. Find a trusted chiropractor and functional medicine doctor near Longmont & Denver. Experience personalized care integrating chiropractic and functional medicine for your well-being.
Functional medicine is a new approach to health care. Functional medicine is a superior way to help tackle chronic health conditions.
Unlike disease-focused medical care, functional medicine is geared toward helping individuals achieve their optimal health. We specialize in getting to the source of symptoms like chronic fatigue, weak immune system, bloating, and hormonal imbalances. Many of these symptoms are very common, but that doesn’t make them normal. We do this by analyzing blood work on a different scale from what the majority of medical doctors use. The commonly accepted reference ranges for blood work are a standard deviation of
We aim to shift the paradigm from a disease-focused to a patient-focused approach to healthcare. Many people do not have optimal health. In the conventional sense, one’s blood work may appear healthy and “normal.” Functional medicine, however, uses a more narrow, research-based reference range, with an aim toward optimal health (rather than just “not diseased.”). Often, labs come back looking healthy and “normal” but many people still struggle with irritating health issues like pain, insomnia, constipation,