Your whole health picture
Gathering data to understand you
FUNCTIONAL BLOOD CHEMISTRY
An integrative approach to restoring balance, improving health, and preventing disease.
"My doctor says my labs are normal."
The Functional Blood Chemistry Review is a consultation to explain each element and provide a useful strategy to move forward.
Running comprehensive tests shows a complete picture of how your body is behaving, instead of small fragments.
Looking at the whole picture, we find areas to focus on with lifestyle enhancements.
Functional Medicine looks at the values for healthy people who feel great. We want to move your blood markers to that place.
The optimal range indicates good health, where your blood chemistry markers are in alignment and do not have symptoms of distress.
As values creep outside the optimal range we follow the patterns as clues to underlying conditions that may only be in the beginning stages.
Why wait until you are very sick or imbalanced?
Let's get ahead of the curve and intervene before the disease shows up.
We then use lifestyle, diet, herbs, and nutrition guidelines to steer you back toward optimal health.
The FBC Review commonly shows these subclinical disharmonies:
• Electrolyte imbalances
• Malnutrition and improper digestive function
• Endocrine disruptions
• Liver and gallbladder congestion
• Chronic immune activity
• Iron or B vitamin irregularities
• Blood sugar imbalances
• Evidence of inflammation
HERBAL MEDICINE
Chinese Herbal Medicine is a very specific herbal regime. Using various assessments, I create a diagnosis to guide our herbal strategy.
Chinese Herbal Medicine never gives single ingredients. The herbs are combined in formulas with ratios, dosages, functions, and directions.
Like baking a cake or batch of brownies, the ingredients are combined in specific ways to create the proper chemistry of actions.
That's why a diagnosis is important; it brings specificity.
Unlike heading to the local herb shop or vitamin store, these herbs are given with purpose.
Time frame, dose, and directions are based on the individual.
Dr. Erin declares the proper use of herbal medicine as one of her unique features, dispensing a raw herb pharmacy to create custom, and signature, “Teas.”
She meets the patient where they are and provides a signature formula to fit their current pattern or needs.
Pill formulas are available for patients who are unable to drink the teas.
Integrating Herbal Medicine into the treatment plan works on the underlying patterns of disharmony, helping you feel better faster.