Improve Your Health With Functional Medicine In Sydney
Dr Jaimini, a functional medical practitioner, has been helping people transform their lives for the better through her expertise and special interest in functional medicine in Sydney.
What do functional medicine doctors do?
While many GPs focus on symptoms when diagnosing illnesses and recommending treatment strategies, functional medicine practitioners look beyond surface-level symptoms to their root causes.
This whole-person approach involves investigating a wide range of lifestyle, genetic, environmental, and associated factors that together allow for a far more comprehensive understanding of each individual.
With this whole-person understanding comes the ability to recommend treatment strategies that address underlying causes for long-term, meaningful, and sustainable change—and not just short-term ‘Band-Aid’ solutions like reducing pain with over-the-counter drugs. A functional approach would be to find out what’s causing the pain in the first place in order to prevent it from arising at all (or at the very least better manage it!).
A functional medicine doctor is therefore more of a holistic medicine practitioner, taking a deeper and wider view of each patient to provide patient-centred and personalised care.
When combined with integrative medicine—which unites traditional medicine with evidence-based alternative medicine—functional medicine can be especially effective when it comes to improving the health of people with conditions such as:
Dr Jaimini Raniga has 30+ years of experience in functional and integrative medicine and is well-equipped to help you on your health journey.