Functional medicine is a root-cause-based approach that utilizes tools like elimination diets, food allergy testing, and assessment of gut flora, inflammatory organisms, and toxic metals.

“I was going back to medical school it was about at that point that I discovered functional medicine which is root cause based medicine and began to explore the thinking and functional medicine and the tools that functional medicine had to address what might be root causes functional medicine talks about elimination diets it talks about food allergy it talks about gut flora inflammatory organisms in the gut toxic metals”