What Is Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy

MEDICAL NUTRITION THERAPY is the nutrition care process with the goal to improve a patient's health or prevent disease progression. It has traditionally been the selected term to describe the recommendations that registered dietitians/nutritionists provide to patients and to doctors for a patient's chart/care plan. This term is also recognized by health insurance companies.

In more recent years the term FUNCTIONAL Medical Nutrition Therapy  fell into favor by those of us who have spent many hours studying and mastering this body of knowledge. Integrative and Functional Medical Nutritional Therapy centers on a holistic "food as medicine" approach to wellness and is based in the integrative medicine model, utilizing whole food therapies, targeted supplements and mind-body medicine that allows us to target the nutritional roots of chronic health issues. 

Part of this expertise is the ability to select and interpret functional medicine tests (such as comprehensive dietary stool analysis, organic acids test, heavy metals urine test, and many others) and translate this data into a clear, concise and effective nutritional care plan for patients that gets results.