Top 5 Reasons to Consider Functional Medicine Health Coaching
Personalized Approach
Functional medicine health coaching focuses on the individual. Coaches/ functional medicine providers look at each person’s unique health situation. This means they can create personalized plans that work best for you.
Unlike traditional approaches, functional medicine considers your lifestyle, diet, and environment. This helps in identifying the root causes of health issues. Personalized care can lead to better results, reversal of symptoms, in-depth health guidance because it goes beyond just looking at physical symptoms and addresses mental, emotional, and even spiritual health.
This approach helps in creating a balanced life. It also helps in improving overall well-being. A holistic view ensures that no part of your health is overlooked.
Preventive Care
Prevention is better than cure. Functional medicine health coaches focus on preventing health issues. They help you make lifestyle changes that reduce the risk of diseases. If you are diagnosed with pre-diabetes, what do you do? If you are conscious of your health and would like to diminish chances of developing full-blown diabetes, you would then take steps to make a change. Maybe you will change your diet, start exercising, sleeping better, and learn to manage stress. This is where functional medicine/ health coaching comes in play--to guide you in all these lifestyle changes, so diabetes does not set in.
They educate you on how to make informed decisions. This empowerment can lead to lasting changes in your health and well-being.
Supportive Relationship
Health providers empower you. Functional medicine provides you with the knowledge and tools needed to take control of your health. Having a functional medicine health coach means you have a partner in your health journey.
This supportive relationship helps you stay motivated. It also ensures that you have someone to turn to when you face challenges.
Connect the dots
Functional medicine providers help connect the health dots, especially if you have multiple blood labs (for chronic diseases) or have been prescribed cocktail of drugs and need help understanding why these treatments are in place. Helping connecting the dots mean, providers help you understand truly what is going on with you by understanding your complex symptoms, reviewing multiple blood labs, your past and present health conditions, and then breaking it down to explain exactly what's going on with you. Unlike, conventional providers that prescribe medications as per symptom (example: prescribing lisinopril (for high blood pressure)), instead of also addressing modifiable risk factors of high blood pressure including, stressors, high intake of sodium/ salt, less veggies, eating more fatty meats, no exercise, etc. Functional medicine providers are adept at researching comprehensive health issues and educate patients on their condition.