Georgia Integrated Health Center Blog

How to Get Off Your Diabetes Medications The Functional Health Model can not only help you control your blood sugar issues but heal the systemic effects diabetes has on your other organ systems as well. Granted, blood sugar control is the primary outcome those with diabetes struggle with, but the unseen ravages diabetes has on…

What is Functional Health? Functional Health is a systems-based approach born out of the biological sciences that focuses on finding the root cause of disease. Each clinical diagnosis may be just one piece of the puzzle characterizing an illness or disease pattern. Seven Defining Characteristics of the Functional Health Model The Institute for Functional Health…

Debunking the Scientific Method Functional health has received a great deal of criticism from the traditional medicine folks as it is claimed that functional health is not an evidence-based practice, which cannot be farther from the truth. Over the years functional health practitioners have struggled to follow the evidence-based model but not without trepidation. Evidence-based…

The “Disclaimer Statement” – FDA’s Mantra of Irresponsibility We have all seen this statement. It is on supplement labels and at the bottom of any product that may state a structure or benefit claim for its use. The verbiage we are talking about is “this statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug…

Can Disease be Cured or Just Managed? This is a question many patients with chronic disease ask of themselves and their doctors. The truth is, it is all individual. With some people and some diseases cures do exist and with others, they are only managed until a cure can be found or the right therapy…

Differences Between the Functional Health Model and Your MD The kind of medicine practiced by Medical Doctors is termed allopathic medicine. By definition, this refers to a medical doctor using pharmaceutical drugs, radiation, and/or surgery to treat disease. Only a medical doctor can practice medicine. Other terms for allopathic medicine are Western, orthodox, mainstream and…