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Integrative Medicine Practice Dr. Bridget Briggs, M.D.

Name: Integrative Medicine Practice Dr. Bridget Briggs, M.D.
Uploaded: 2020-06-08T18:46:42+00:00
Duration: 1 min 24 s
Channel: Bridget Briggs, MD
Description: Dr. Bridget Briggs practices functional medicine, which treats the body as interconnected systems rather than separate parts. She focuses on finding root…

8 Jun 2020 · 1 min

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Dr. Bridget Briggs practices functional medicine, which treats the body as interconnected systems rather than separate parts. She focuses on finding root causes of disease by considering each patient's genetics and environment, aiming to reduce symptoms like anxiety and pain instead of just managing them.

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I'm Dr. Bridget Briggs and I am a family medicine doctor. I'm actually also certified by the Institute of Functional Medicine and the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. And I also have a master's in lipidology. Many people ask, what is functional medicine? And functional medicine is really looking at the natural, natural functions of the human body and the functions of the organs and how they're interrelated. So in Western based medicine, we treat the heart separately, we treat the GI system separately, but functional medicine looks at the body in sync and how everything is connected. Our clinic believes in personalized medicine. And personalized medicine means you treat each patient as an individual. That we're not all alike. We all come from a different genetic stock. And our genetics and our genetic tendencies as well as our environmental exposures means that we will all present, possibly differently, in different stresses or different disease states. So our purpose in this clinic is to look at you as a person trying to understand better at how to help our patients look at the source or the cause of disease. You have less excitation, you have less anxiety, you have less pain.