Shine Functional Health was founded for people at all different points of health to help them optimize their health and longevity. We help people feel better and learn how to prevent disease.  We also help those who have a long list of symptoms that are not being addressed with conventional medicine. 

Patients come to us when they want to dive deeper into their health. They want more from their doctor visits than being told  “everything is normal – keep doing what you are doing”,  or worse,  “your labs are all normal” despite having numerous symptoms, sometimes for years. 

This is where Functional Medicine comes in. Functional medicine asks the question “WHY” over and over again to determine what really is at the root of your symptoms. It is not about addressing each symptom individually, each with its own pill. Rather, functional medicine looks at things much differently. Instead of “siloing” your list of symptoms, functional medicine doctors focus in on how all the symptoms connect. At the root of the problem, is a state where multiple systems are not functioning (pun intended!) well, and we work to restore function and balance of ALL the systems.

Disease is not a black and white issue – it is not an on/off switch that suddenly happens one day. Disease states are the culmination of multiple insults that affect the way the body can function.  Eventually, these changes create such dysfunction that result in outward symptoms and eventually chronic disease. 

Think of a train on a track. When we are first born, we are on the healthy track. Every day we are subjected to things that can keep us on the healthy track, or nudge us ever so slightly in the wrong direction.  If the body cannot redirect quickly to the healthy track  – because of things like nutritional deficiencies, or on-going insults like food sensitivities – the train gets further and further off the healthy track, until it eventually is going in the direct opposite direction.