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...
(00:01): I had a question come up from a patient. She reached out to me. She doesn't live in the state of Texas anymore. And of course we feel sorry for her for that, but she was a patient of mine back when I first started, so it was nice to connect with her again. She has a son who's in his mid-teens and wants to put on some muscle mass. That's not an uncommon question in my office, so I figured I'd handle it in this format. They could benefit from it. And so could anybody else who's got a son early to mid-teens who feels the need to add some muscle mass. So I'm gonna kind of rapid fire, go through some important points, or a question was specifically about like an eating approach or a dietary pattern that would be beneficial for this.
(00:45): Um, but I'm gonna kind of broaden it out a little bit and that way it works better in this forum. So first of all, why would, why would someone that age want to add muscle? Obviously, aesthetics is, is a common goal, right? You wanna look a pa...
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