Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how symptoms signal deeper system-wide problems, not isolated issues. She warns that treatments like BHRT can mask underlying dysfunction instead of fixing what caused it.
The idea around functional medicine is that there is a root cause driving dysfunction, usually in other parts of the body, because all of our systems are taking input from the environment, from the other systems. They're, they're communicating, and they're responding appropriately. You might feel like it's not appropriate because of the response that you're getting, AKA symptoms that you find annoying or painful or frustrating, but your body's trying to tell you something. So if you want to understand why you're having the symptoms you're having, you'll have to start questioning what is the root cause that is driving this dysfunction. And I'm here to tell you that BHRT might be another band aid medicine.
