Functional Health and Wellness Singapore

We believe that health and vitality are essential to the human spirit. Our vision is aligned with that of the Institute for Functional Medicine’s, to help individuals achieving highest expression of health.

A science-based, systems-biology based approach of care that appreciate the complexity of human’s health. It helps determine how and why dis-ease occurs and help restores and improves health by addressing the identified underlying causes of disease. Functional Medicine also targets to improve the outcomes for future illnesses and/or reduce the likelihood of them occurring.

In short, it is an operating system that permit the application of vast network of biological concepts to be applied to patient care, shifting from a disease-centric model to a systems biology-centric model of care. ¹

Many times, when an individual is given a medical diagnosis, the underlying altered state of physiologies that contribute to one’s clinical signs and symptoms are ignored and/or not attended.

It is important to realize that a diagnosis can be the result of more than one cause. For example, in the case of depression, it can be caused by many different factors, including inflammation. However, a cause such as inflammation may give rise to a number of different diagnoses, including depression.

Functional Medicine model of care aims to identify the manifestation of each potential cause(s) which is dependent on one’s genes, environment, and lifestyle, and then provides a patient-centered care that addresses the right cause(s) for that individual in creating long-lasting benefit beyond symptoms suppression. ²