Why You Need to Find a Functional Medicine Doctor in Your Community

Honestly it still baffles me to the degree to which most people still default to just going to the regular doctor when they don’t feel well. As a wellness coach and consultant with over 15 years of experience in this industry I avoid going to the doctor at all costs. It is the last option on my list for myself and my children unless it is something I know requires acute antibiotics or intervention. If it is a general, ‘not feeling great’ or these XYZ symptoms won’t go away I first try to solve it with food, hydration, rest, sleep and herbal solutions like teas and essential oils.

More often than not, anything that can be solved with an over the counter drug can be solved with home remedies.

From there if there is something more serious going on, and especially if you have already been to a doctor, did a bunch of tests, and didn’t get answers I would go to a functional medicine practitioner, a holistic health doctor, a Chinese Medicine doctor and/or an Acupuncturist next.

“Modern Medicine” or Medicine 2.0 as it is referred to, is broken. It is based on treating isolated symptoms, body parts and systems and not looking at you as a whole energetic being. Traditional doctors are specialists in managing disease not preventing it or holistically connecting the dots.

This month and next I host a series of really incredible women, most of them doctors who are trying to bridge the gap in the system. This inability to find solutions that don’t involve prescription drugs, big pharma and/or surgery is only going to get harder if you stay inside the traditional hamster wheel of a system.

Now is the time, if you haven’t already, to find and develop a relationship with a functional medicine practitioner and/or any of the other options of healers I mentioned above. Why? Because this is the future of medicine and the best option you have to get holistic, long term solutions to your health concerns.

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