Functional Medicine Treatment Plan For Obesity

Functional medicine will examine your sleep, diet, and lifestyle to determine what is best for you. This may include adopting principles from a keto diet, intermittent fasting, or an elimination diet to see if some foods are causing you big problems. We also know that not all people are built alike, and that body mass index (BMI) does not tell the whole story, so we look at abdominal fat and body composition by using waist-to-hip ratio and bioimpedance analysis to truly understand how your weight is or isn’t affecting your health. We often evaluate the gut microbiome and the effects that hormones including thyroid and cortisol may be playing in your struggle with weight loss, and we examine whether you are being sabotaged by your current medications or whether you are getting the right nutrients to correctly digest and utilize your food as energy.