Functional Medicine integrates the best of natural alternative medicine and Western Medicine. It views and treats the body as a network of complex systems continually interacting, affecting, and cooperating to prevent disease, recover from illness, and achieve and maintain optimal vitality and health.
Like Traditional Chinese Medicine, Functional Medicine is patient-centered and treats the whole person. I work with patients in a therapeutic partnership to alleviate and heal their conditions and restore them to optimal vitality and health. I listen to their history and explore a wide range of factors affecting their lives that may be contributing to their ailments. Understanding health as a dynamic balance of internal and external factors, I take their emotional/ psychological dispositions, lifestyle habits, unique life circumstances, genetic factors, and relevant personal and environmental particulars into account.
Functional Medicine integrates the best of natural alternative medicine and Western Medicine. It views and treats the body as a network of complex systems continually interacting, affecting, and cooperating to prevent disease, recover from illness, and achieve and maintain optimal vitality and health.
Like Traditional Chinese Medicine, Functional Medicine is patient-centered and treats the whole person. I work with patients in a therapeutic partnership to alleviate and heal their conditions and restore them to optimal vitality and health. I listen to their history and explore a wide range of factors affecting their lives that may be contributing to their ailments. Understanding health as a dynamic balance of internal and external factors, I take their emotional/ psychological dispositions, lifestyle habits, unique life circumstances, genetic factors, and relevant personal and environmental particulars into account.
Like traditional Chinese medicine, functional medicine is patient-centered, not disease oriented. As a functional medicine practitioner, I treat the whole person. I work with them in therapeutic partnership to alleviate and heal their conditions and restore them to optimal vitality and health. I listen to their histories and explore a wide range of factors affecting their lives that may be contributing to their ailments. Understanding health as a dynamic balance of internal and external factors, I take their emotional/ psychological dispositions, lifestyle habits, unique life circumstances, genetic factors, and relevant personal and environmental particulars into account.
Because I specialize in food sensitivities and allergies, autoimmunity, hormone imbalances and digestive ailments, I work with state-of-the-art laboratories like Lab Corp, Cyrex Labs, Diagnos-Techs, Diagnostic Solutions and Genova Labs. To confirm or clarify my diagnoses. I may order blood, saliva, stool, and urine lab tests.
Functional medicine integrates the best that alternative approaches and conventional Western medicine offer. It views and treats the body as a network of complex systems continually interacting, affecting, and cooperating to prevent disease, recover from illness, and achieve and maintain optimal vitality and health.
Functional Medicine integrates the best of natural alternative medicine and Western Medicine. It views and treats the body as a network of complex systems continually interacting, affecting, and cooperating to prevent disease, recover from illness, and achieve and maintain optimal vitality and health.
Like Traditional Chinese Medicine, Functional Medicine is patient-centered and treats the whole person. I work with patients in a therapeutic partnership to alleviate and heal their conditions and restore them to optimal vitality and health. I listen to their history and explore a wide range of factors affecting their lives that may be contributing to their ailments. Understanding health as a dynamic balance of internal and external factors, I take their emotional/ psychological dispositions, lifestyle habits, unique life circumstances, genetic factors, and relevant personal and environmental particulars into account.
Functional Medicine integrates the best of natural alternative medicine and Western Medicine. It views and treats the body as a network of complex systems continually interacting, affecting, and cooperating to prevent disease, recover from illness, and achieve and maintain optimal vitality and health.
Like Traditional Chinese Medicine, Functional Medicine is patient-centered and treats the whole person. I work with patients in a therapeutic partnership to alleviate and heal their conditions and restore them to optimal vitality and health. I listen to their history and explore a wide range of factors affecting their lives that may be contributing to their ailments. Understanding health as a dynamic balance of internal and external factors, I take their emotional/ psychological dispositions, lifestyle habits, unique life circumstances, genetic factors, and relevant personal and environmental particulars into account.
The foundation of Dr. Gordon’s practice is a profound recognition of, and respect for, the body’s innate intelligence and healing powers. Her primary purpose in all she does as a Functional Medicine practitioner is designed to support and enhance the body’s natural healing functions and powers, and to help each patient learn to do the same.
The foundation of Dr. Gordon’s practice is a profound recognition of, and respect for, the body’s innate intelligence and healing powers. Her primary purpose in all she does as a functional medicine practitioner is designed to support and enhance the body’s natural healing functions and powers, and to help each patient learn to do the same.
Because I specialize in food sensitivities, allergies, auto-immunity, hormone imbalances, and digestive ailments, I may provide lab test requisitions for blood, saliva and stool kits from various U.S. laboratories such as Labcorp, Cyrex Labs, Mosaic Diagnostics, DiagnosTechs, Diagnostics Solutions, Quicksilver Scientific, and more.
We have a professional herbal and nutritional pharmacy, representing Apex Energetics, Evergreen Herbs, Designs for Health, Health Concerns, Energetix, and Golden Flower Chinese Herbs.
Functional Medicine is known for patient education. As such, I take time to educate on where physiological mechanisms have broken down and created metabolic shifts leading to inflammation. I ask questions regarding lifestyle and history and discuss the four causes of inflammation, which include exposure to environmental toxins and infectious diseases. Since stress is the number one cause of inflammation, patients receive handouts on stress management tools. It is recommended that patients stay away from inflammatory foods and diet will be discussed. Please visit my Nutritional Therapy page to learn more about this.
Identifying the cause of your symptoms is step one. Step two is restoring your body to its optimum balance. This is done with natural remedies. All medicine will have side effects and potentially minimize one problem but cause another, either short or long-term. Your body has natural defenses to fight off infection, viruses, diseases, toxins, and more. Your symptoms are your body’s way of telling you your body is having trouble combating an attack.
We must go back to the philosophy of functional medicine and holistic care to understand how we identify what our bodies consider attacks to be. For example, attacks on the body’s immune system could be brought on by:
- Specific foods you eat
- Viruses and illnesses transferred from one human to another
- Poisons or diseases from insects or parasites
- Environmental conditions like poor air quality
- Excessive stress and long work hours.
- In some cases, attacks can be brought on by natural changes in the body, and we can determine that.
Identifying the cause of your symptoms is step one. Step two is restoring your body to its optimum balance. This is done with natural remedies. All medicine will have side effects and potentially minimize one problem but cause another, either short or long-term. Your body has natural defenses to fight off infection, viruses, diseases, toxins, and more. Your symptoms are your body’s way of telling you your body is having trouble combating an attack.
We must go back to the philosophy of functional medicine and holistic care to understand how we identify what our bodies consider attacks to be. For example, attacks on the body’s immune system could be brought on by:
- Specific foods you eat
- Viruses and illnesses transferred from one human to another
- Poisons or diseases from insects or parasites
- Environmental conditions like poor air quality
- Excessive stress and long work hours.
- In some cases, attacks can be brought on by natural changes in the body, and we can determine that.
Because I specialize in food sensitivities, allergies, auto-immunity, hormone imbalances, and digestive ailments, I may provide lab test requisitions for blood, saliva and stool kits from various U.S. laboratories such as Labcorp, Cyrex Labs, Mosaic Diagnostics, DiagnosTechs, Diagnostics Solutions, Quicksilver Scientific, and more.
We have a professional herbal and nutritional pharmacy, representing Apex Energetics, Evergreen Herbs, Designs for Health, Health Concerns, Energetix, and Golden Flower Chinese Herbs.
Functional Medicine is known for patient education. As such, I take time to educate on where physiological mechanisms have broken down and created metabolic shifts leading to inflammation. I ask questions regarding lifestyle and history and discuss the four causes of inflammation, which include exposure to environmental toxins and infectious diseases. Since stress is the number one cause of inflammation, patients receive handouts on stress management tools. It is recommended that patients stay away from inflammatory foods and diet will be discussed. Please visit my Nutritional Therapy page to learn more about this.
unctional Medicine is known for patient education. As such, I take time to educate on where physiological mechanisms have broken down and created metabolic shifts leading to inflammation. I ask questions regarding lifestyle and history and discuss the four causes of inflammation, which include exposure to environmental toxins and infectious diseases. Since stress is the number one cause of inflammation, patients receive handouts on stress management tools. It is recommended that patients stay away from inflammatory foods and diet will be discussed. Please visit my Nutritional Therapy page to learn more about this.
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Marin Optimal Health
55 Professional Center Pkwy, Suite F
San Rafael, CA 94903
Marin Optimal Health
55 Professional Center Pkwy
Suite F, San Rafael, CA 94903
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