Functional medicine also offers HOPE.
When it comes to chronic health issues, our healthcare system is not really set up to cope with them. In the UK, our NHS is great at dealing with trauma, injuries, and other acute medical conditions. BUT, over the last 20 years there has been an explosion of long term chronic health problems that has gradually gotten worse and grinding people down. The conventional method of dealing with this is to cover up symptoms with drugs, often relieving pain and discomfort short term but never getting to the root cause of the issue.

Many of my clients have an "AHA!" moment when I explain test results or give reasons why they have their symptoms. Suddenly they have been listened to, and actually had tests explained to them fully with the implications of what they show. So many people tell me, even when they've felt ill for months or years, that the Dr kept saying their tests were "Normal" when they felt anything but!

I very often see a weight lifted when clients realise they were right, it wasn't all in their head! Their health was not "NORMAL" even though that's what some have been told time and time again by healthcare providers.

HOPE can bring BELIEF, and BELIEF can be very powerful as it leads to CONFIDENCE, DETERMINATION, PERSERVERANCE and eventually HEALTH.