Integrative Functional Medicine

To understand alternative medicine in its entirety, you need a completely different way of thinking. All diseases have their purpose. Symptoms are information the body uses as signals to regulate its health. The whole body continually seeks to regulate itself in relationship to its internal and external environment. Seen in this light, symptoms are never diseases but rather signs of the body’s process of adjustment. The human being is part of nature and reacts like everything else in nature. This holistic and biological approach to medicine is so completely different from standard allopathic medicine that it is hard to imagine it ever being taught in medical schools.