How does Functional Medicine address autoimmune health differently than a traditional doctor (or other health practitioners)?

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When your autoimmune health is impaired, your body starts to attack itself in various ways.  Functional medicine takes a whole body approach in testing....

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By identifying the underlying causes of the dysfunction

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Typically, autoimmune disorders are addressed by prescriptions and surgeries.  Because your entire body is an autoimmune system, functional medicine takes a whole body approach to finding the underlying causes first through additional diagnostic testing not often done by other health practitioners.  These tests uncover underlying causes of autoimmune dysfunction.

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