Choose Optimal Health and Live Longer Younger
Optimal Health is not just the absence of the disease or symptoms but the body and all of its systems functioning optimally.
The GooD - The Bad and The Ugly of functional medicine
The Good
The Good
The Good
"The Good" is that functional medicine really works. It gets to the root cause of problems and treats that root cause to the limits of your body.
The Bad
The Good
The Good
"The Bad" is that insurance does not cover functional medicine for the most part. There may be some test like blood or urine test that may be covered but not much is covered.
The Ugly
The Good
The Ugly
"The Ugly" is you have to pay out of your pocket for care. And we get it. Since you're paying out of pocket we have to deliver on the promise to get to your root cause and help you fix your problem.
The right Order: Peeling the onion of chronic dise
As we begin your journey toward optimal wellness, there are often many things to do; and, it is often difficult to choose which to do first. Illness is never simply one discreet process or dysfunction, but rather a bundle of factors - genetics, early influences, environment, diet, lifestyle, habits, travel, stress, relationships, work and beliefs - woven into your story and biology. Understanding the root causes, for your illness is an essential task to determine where we start first, which layer to peel away, or which knot to untangle in the web of physiologic dysfunction, symptoms and disease.
Over the years in practice, the Doctors and health practitioners of Millar Functional Medicine have established principles and well-traveled routes to healing that are straightforward. To this we add the latest in science research and studies. Furthermore, as members of the Institute of Functional Medicine we incorporate IFM tools and methods. These enable us to make sense of chronic disease and involve examining the entire body system.
Not everyone starts at the same place or travels down the same path. At Millar Functional Medicine we customize your health journey and treatment. Some patients just want to treat one problem or one area only. To them we say, Great, Good Start. Let's treat that first problem and see how you like Functional Medicine. And if you want more then we're here for you and your future Functional Medicine needs.
Others come to us and say they want it all. They come to Millar Functional Medicine and say Help me to get healthy and have Optimal Health in all areas. To them we say, we have identified six root causes for illness: Genetics; Inflammation; Toxins, Allergies & Antigens; Infections: (Bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, parasites, and prions); Stress; and Lifestyle. Our task is to identify and implement the five “ingredients” needed for your Optimal Health and biological function. We have found after years of practice that Diet, Rest, Exercise, Activity and Mental State are essential elements of Optimal Health. Then you learn to DREAM Optimal Health and Wellbeing by implementing DREAM lifestyle changes. We use your DNA results to guide us on your Optimal quest.
