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What is functional medicine? It's a question I get fairly frequently worth doing. A video on functional medicine to me is best described starting out by comparing it to conventional medicine or prescriptive medicine because that's what most people are familiar with. Anytime you do Teladoc or you get a sinus infection, you go to the doctor, whatever you're doing, conventional or prescriptive medicine in most cases. So it's all diagnosis based. It's about gathering up information on you. What are your symptoms? What are your signs like? Physical signs, symptoms would be like, I have a headache. A sign would be, look at this rash, right? They're a little bit different, but you get the subjective ones, which are the symptoms, the objective ones, which are the signs. You put that together, you add some lab work to it, and hopefully at some point you qualify to be labeled with a particular diagnosis.

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So you have your complaints, you gather the information, you...

Why would you choose a functional medicine approach to autoimmunity? So I think it's a good question. I had a couple of new autoimmune patients in last week. One of them was very aware of functional medicine, but didn't know that I was around so close. And so once someone clued her in, came to the office, we had a great visit. The other patient really didn't know much about functional medicine at all, but a family member had said, please go talk to Dr. Krupka. So we did. So interesting between the two. One, very aware, one unaware. So what is a functional medicine approach to autoimmunity? Well, functional medicine is all about root causes and a lot of other doctors, nurses, people out there, they just say that anything outside of the standard medical approach is just bs. And it's all hype and snake oil and don't listen to it.

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But hear me out, you didn't get your autoimmune disorder randomly. I know sometimes it feels like you did or your doctor told you...