Dr. Tabatha Barber explains functional medicine as looking at how your body is meant to work from cells up through organs and systems. It identifies what's missing, like nutrients or enzymes, and what's wrong, like toxins or infections, that stop your body from functioning right.
And functional medicine might be a brand new term for some of you, and really what it just means is that it's looking at how the body is created to function down to the level of the individual cells, how the cells create organs, how organs create systems, how the systems all work together, how the body, mind, and soul all work together. And then, super important, how the inner environment works with our body, for bad or good, the food, the toxins, the sunshine, all of it. So that's functional medicine. So if you know how your body's supposed to function, then you can know what nutrient it needs, what enzyme it's missing, what toxin is, you know, preventing it from functioning, what imbalance needs to be addressed? Is there a bacteria invading it and causing an infection or some kind of imbalance?
