The Changing Tide in Health Care

If you haven’t noticed yet, you soon will. There is a new perspective on health care in America, and it’s

called Integrated Healthcare, or Functional Medicine, and it’s a definitive paradigm shift from the long

established, compartmentalized, standard practice seen at most providers today. The shift, in my

opinion, is actually a burgeoning earthquake which will transform the healthcare industry as it stands

now.

Current standard practices offer a primary care physician responsible for your general care and routine

services. More complex matters typically require referral to a specialist, usually dependent on the organ

in question. Thus, the most common medical practices of today are compartmentalized.

There is a fundamental problem with that methodology - the body is not simply the sum of its parts.

Separate bodily systems rely on one another to function properly. For example, the digestive tract

affects the function of virtually every other organ in the body. Let’s say for instance that you have been

experiencing liver problems. In the compartmentalized medical system, you’d have to see a liver

specialist who would likely write you a prescription for a drug that alleviates the symptom you’re

complaining about. Problem solved, right?... Well, not really.

The liver issue could be caused by inflammation in your intestines due to your body’s reaction to

particular foods. So, now you’re still causing the gut inflammation (since you haven’t changed your

diet), but the drug is literally suppressing expression of the symptom you originally experienced. You’re

actually still causing a severe problem, but you’re now blissfully unaware of it!

Luckily, hope is on the horizon. Perspectives are changing towards integrative or functional medicine.

With this change, providers are realizing how the function of each bodily system is integrated with the

other bodily systems. With respect to the liver example above, let’s say you went to an integrative or

functional medicine practitioner. In all likelihood, the very first question would be regarding your diet.

Any obviously offensive foods (such as grains) would be recommended for elimination, and further

testing conducted (probably in the first visit). Assuming the problem was solved in the gut, further

verification testing would be required during follow-up visits, but you would not have to suffer with

continued (and unnoticed) inflammation or potential side effects of prescription medications.

The bottom line is that integrative/functional medicine is coming. As with anything else, the trend has

already started in the west, with such practices becoming more and more common. The trend should

continue to work its way eastward in the coming years. Within 20 years or so, when the curricula can be

changed at modern medical schools, expect integrative/functional medicine to be the norm.

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