Functional Medicine
Frustrated with not being able to find answers to your health concerns? Dr. David Boynton will determine the underlying root cause of your symptoms and create a personalized plan designed to restore you to optimal health so you can get back to enjoying your life and no longer have to continue to remain in despair and confusion.
Functional Medicine combines a comprehensive history and exam with state of art lab testing to determine what is causing the body to not function as designed. There can be multiple reasons you may have symptoms like high blood pressure. Traditional medicine focuses on using drugs or other means to decrease the blood pressure and fix the symptom. While functional medicine focuses on finding the answer to what is not functioning properly to cause high blood pressure. Once the cause is determined, a specific program will be designed to address the underlying factors which are causing high blood pressure to begin with.
Modifying lifestyle, diet, and supplements that will allow your body to function as it was designed, so proper healing can occur from the inside out. Living a life without symptoms is one thing, but you can live an optimal life full of vitality at any age while avoiding the need to rely on medicine to treat symptoms.
We use functional medicine lab ranges that are usually narrower than standard ranges. We use “optimal lab values,” meaning anything outside of those optimal values can show patterns or trends that the patient is heading toward a disease process. With early detection, we can stop and reverse these disease processes before they occur. Most patients have these "functional high or low" values in their labs, and their doctors disregard them because they do not have a disease yet. So, no medications are necessary at the present time. This explains why you are sick and not getting better.
