The Academy of Functional Medicine,
Dentistry and Psychology


The Certification Programâ„¢ provided by The Academy of Functional Medicine, Dentistry and Psychology is an educational, webinar-based  program which focuses on functional medicine testing and treatment strategies as it relates to all healthcare disorders with a special focus on the diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric and psychological disorders. The program is offered to healthcare practitioners and health coaches.
  The emphasis of the curriculum will be on learning how to think about medical and psychiatric disorders through biochemical and physiological investigations, rather than on what to think or simply learning and memorizing facts, which is a more conventional approach to learning about healthcare matters. The primary course objective will be to establish a new way of thinking about medical and psychiatric disorders. Once participants begin to appreciate the wisdom of investigating the unique, root, biochemical causes of suffering in each patient, they may never be satisfied with guessing (i.e., “If you don’t test, you’ve guessed”). This exciting paradigm shift can refresh one’s career as every patient approached in this way can teach us new information if we are willing to investigate the underlying, scientific basis of their suffering.

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Educational Program

 

This is a "live" webinar-based program and you will be able to interact with the instructor(s) and classmates

(All sessions are recorded and you can work at your own pace)

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What is Functional Medicine and How Does It Integrate Into and Potentiate Conventional and Alternative Medicine?

Modern medicine has made astonishing advances in the treatment of acute healthcare problems, but increasingly healthcare consumers suffer from chronic diseases, such as heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, cancer, addictions, depression, anxiety and auto-immune diseases. While many tools to address chronic health problems are in the doctor’s toolbox, Functional Medicine offers a whole set of specialized technologies to assist practitioners in getting to the root biochemical causes of these chronic problems.

Because of Functional Medicine, healthcare practitioners and consumers alike can now relegate palliative models of treatment (i.e., treating only the symptoms of chronic medical and psychiatric problems) to treatments of last resort instead of treatments of first resort.  Because of Functional Medicine, healthcare practitioners have a new treatment of first resort which is potentially curative, because it addresses the underlying risk factors of chronic medical and psychiatric disorders, the nutritional, metabolic, toxicological, immune and epigenetic problems which amassed scientific studies strongly suggest are causative or serious exacerbating factors of all chronic medical and psychiatric disorders.

Functional Medicine also integrates into and potentiates all conventional Western medicine and CAM (complementary/alternative medicine) practices by creating a scientific rationale for prevention through nutrition, diet, lifestyle changes, stress-management techniques and exercise; for the use of the latest laboratory testing and other diagnostic techniques (blood, urine, saliva, stool and hair testing); and for prescribed combinations of drugs and/or botanical medicines, supplements, therapeutic diets and detoxification programs.

The critical and potentially curative, biochemical information provided by the Functional Medicine, is the long-awaited, missing “body” component in the holistic model of mind, body, energy and spirit treatment, which lays the critical, science-based, physical and sustainable foundation for the mind/energy/spirit approaches to actually work.

Review this article: Functional Medicine is a Third Kind of Medicine
 

 

 

 

 




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