Who is a Functional Medicine Physician?

A functional medicine practitioner is a physician who can support you in the treatment of your chronic inflammatory diseases by offering solutions that include lifestyle and dietary changes, eliminating toxins, taking micronutrient supplements necessary for optimal bodily functions, and conducting detailed tests to determine the impact of social and psychological factors on your condition.

While receiving functional medicine support, you should also continue to see your specialist in the relevant field for the treatment of your condition. Throughout this process, your functional medicine practitioner will always be in close contact with the physician in question, regardless of the field your condition falls under, and will strive to support you. Functional medicine is a preventative and supportive practice that any physician trained in functional medicine can perform. However, it utilizes tests and personalized analyses far beyond those of standard medicine. Therefore, functional medicine can be considered the personalized medicine of the future.

Chronic inflammatory diseases encompass a broad spectrum of conditions, from cardiovascular disease and cancer to Hashimoto's thyroiditis and rheumatological disorders, from Multiple Sclerosis to allergies and asthma. The underlying cause of all these diseases is largely chronic inflammation. Therefore, functional medicine support contributes significantly to standard medical treatment in all these conditions. However, functional medicine applications targeting these conditions must be implemented through communication with relevant specialists.

Because many physicians are not yet aware of the functional medicine perspective, collaborating with relevant specialists can be somewhat challenging. It's even possible to encounter physicians who mistake functional medicine for a traditional medical practice, equating it with homeopathy or phytotherapy. Because we have physicians specializing in these areas at our private university, we can seamlessly share with our patients the necessary treatments outlined in scientific guidelines, as well as our recommendations from a functional medicine perspective. We can monitor our patients' progress together. Those wishing to schedule an appointment at our functional medicine clinic can contact us at 0543 380 60 70.

We founded KOHEF, the "ASSOCIATION OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE," to ensure that physicians understand functional medicine correctly and to provide training to colleagues who wish to receive training in functional medicine. In collaboration with KOHEF and the Functional Medicine Platform, we provide training to physicians, dietitians, pharmacists, and life coaches. For detailed information and to register for the training, please visit the Functional Medicine Platform website.