 Hi, I'm Jackie, the nurse from Professional Supplement Center, and today I'd like to talk to you about living a happier, healthier, longer life with functional medicine. Think of functional medicine as the ultimate personalized, one-to-one, science-based, health-focused, not disease-focused relationship with a patient-centric partnership with your doctor. Functional medicine digs deeply to explore and recognize the underlying causes of illness or disease. A functional medicine practitioner works to optimize or enhance health and puts you on a path to wellness, generally avoiding the use of prescription drugs. Mainstream medical practitioners generally rely on the use of medications to eliminate symptoms of illness or disease. Once the medications are stopped, symptoms return. Functional medicine takes a different approach. Instead of masking the problem by simply treating the symptoms, functional medicine aims to restore the body's natural functioning. Although functional medicine practitioners may initially rely on a pharmaceutical, the goal is to gently nudge a patient's physiology into a positive direction so that the pharmaceuticals are no longer needed. They may also delve further into the underlying causes by looking for hormonal imbalances, inflammatory imbalances, digestive or nutritional absorption imbalances, toxic chemical exposures, toxic emotions such as anger, fear and resentment. To battle chronic health issues, functional medicine practitioners will look at what the body is lacking in order to nudge its physiology back to a state of optimal functioning. They'll also work to remove anything that impedes the body from moving towards the optimal state of physiological balance. With the rising cost of healthcare related to treating chronic illness, what mode of medicine will you choose? Will you choose the conventional disease mode that results in 4 billion pharmaceutical prescriptions written annually, many of which have multiple side effects, or will you choose functional medicine that allows us a map for good health that we navigate? Should you have any questions, please visit, call or email Professional Supplement Center. Our knowledgeable staff are always ready and happy to assist you.