Is there a role for functional medicine approaches in psychiatric treatment?
How do you critically assess the evidence base for functional medicine approaches? How do you respond when patients specifically request functional medicine treatments? If you incorporate functional medicine into care, do you use laboratory work as part of your treatment planning?
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Psychiatry · Private Practice
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Functional medicine is a pretty broad term that encompasses stressors underlying biological, hormonal, nutritional, and environmental impacts on a person’s health. While I am a big fan of trying to get to the root causes of health conditions, including mental health conditions, and think in terms of...
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Psychiatry · Private Practice
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No, I’ve studied it and still don’t understand what it wants to do differently from good medicine.
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