Functional medicine, one of the most important opportunities of our hospital's internal medicine clinic, is personalized and different from other treatment methods.

Despite early diagnosis and developing treatment methods, chronic diseases are increasing.

What is Functional Medicine?

Functional medicine is personalized and takes a holistic approach to each patient, and this approach makes it different from other treatment methods. It finds the factors that cause diseases and eliminates them. Every body and organism is unique, so functional medicine supports that the treatment applied to each individual should be unique and personalized.

To Whom Can Functional Medicine Be Applied?

The cause of chronic diseases can be caused by sleep disorders, unbalanced nutrition, toxins in our body, stress, digestion, circulatory disorders, pituitary, thyroid glands, muscular system and skeletal system. These disorders subsequently cause hypothyroidism, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel diseases, anemia, cancer, fibromyalgia, migraine, psoriasis, asthma, allergies, diabetes and autoimmune diseases. Functional medicine can be applied to individuals with these diseases.

How is Functional Medicine Applied?

The main purpose of functional medicine is to protect the physiological structure and restructure the damaged physiological structure. While planning the treatment of patients, immunity, energy, digestion, detox mechanisms, hormone and cardiometabolic systems are examined. It is evaluated with clinical findings and laboratory tests. It can be said that the difference between functional medicine and classical medicine is that while classical medicine treats the organ, functional medicine treats the organism. The aim of functional medicine is not to diagnose the patient in the first place, but rather to find out what problem occurs in the patient's systems and accordingly organize and apply the most appropriate treatment for the patient. For this reason, functional medicine, which improves day by day, is a treatment method that we strongly recommend to be preferred.

1.What are the Frequently Asked Questions About Functional Medicine?

Is it necessary to be a patient to get a functional medicine appointment? No, the goal is to protect our body functions, live healthy and continue doing so. 

2. Are functional medicine and alternative medicine the same?

No, functional medicine examines the subjects of biochemistry, physiology and pathophysiology, which examine the mechanisms in the emergence of various diseases, which are taught in the first years of medical school.

3. Which diseases fall within the field of functional medicine?

Thyroid is involved in many diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel diseases, persistent diarrhea, persistent constipation, gas problems, food sensitivities, cancer, rheumatic diseases, asthma, allergies, cystitis, depression, migraine, Alzheimer's.

4. Is it possible to prevent, delay diseases, and return to the health we had before getting sick?

If we can re-heal the physiological structure, find and treat the underlying disorder, reduce the person's exposure to toxins, increase the detoxification capacity, ensure a physiological sleep pattern and manage stress well. By improving intestinal health and supporting biological systems, it is possible to reverse our health, which has slowly deteriorated over the years, and achieve a real improvement.