Patricia Hurley, DC
Functional Medicine
Functional Medicine is
Investigative: It addresses symptoms by focusing on the underlying cause of the problem.
Holistic: The body is approached as an interconnected whole that is in dynamic relationship to its environment and recognizes the connection in health and disease.
Patient Centered: It treats the patient, not the disease. Treatments, testing and therapies are individualized based on the patients needs.
​Collaborative: Working with other practitioners, nutritionists and health coaches to provide direction and advocacy for patients seeking guidance for chronic health conditions.​ ​
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​Certified ADAPT Practitioners in Functional Medicine and Ancestral Health
​are trained in a model of medicine that is neither "conventional" nor "alternative". It combines the best of both. Comprehensive assessment and diagnostic testing guide a personalized treatment that incorporates food, lifestyle, nutritional supplements and stress management to aid the immune response and recovery.
Over 80% of our immune system is found in the digestive tract and there is a strong connection between gut dysfunction and many illnesses.
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Comprehensive stool analysis is utilized to look for common issues such as yeast overgrowth, dysbiosis, SIBO, chronic infection, parasites and inflammation.
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Blood serum labs are available for food sensitivities, as well as additional immune markers.
Food as Medicine
​​The healing power of real food and a healthy gut often is a starting point when someone presents with a chronic disease or inflammation. Nutritional Evaluation and Testing provide both food and supplemental needs.
Inflammation
Pain, illness and chronic health issues are often, if not always, driven by inflammation. Numerous factors contribute to inflammation.
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We can modulate this process through interventions such as gut healing protocols, identifying and addressing chronic infections, nutritional deficiencies and functional imbalances.
Gut Health
Functional Blood Chemistry
A comprehensive screening tool where the goal is to be thorough and cost efficient. We begin with markers most likely to reveal underlying patterns that need to be addressed or followed up on with additional testing.
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We include metabolic markers, iron, nutrients, lipid and thyroid panels, in addition to conventional CBC and chemistry panels.
CHRONIC STRESS
HPA-AXIS DYSFUNCTION
Hypothalamus Pituitary Adrenal-Axis dysfunction is also known as CHRONIC STRESS.
Stress is so ubiquitous that we believe it is normal, however many factors we are not aware of drive our stress response
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Glycemic (blood sugar) dysregulation
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Inflammatory Signaling
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Circadian Disruption (light/dark cycles)
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Perceived stress (how event is perceived rather than it's capacity to harm)​ ​
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Creating strategies to modify the stress signals coming from one or more of these categories will result in the greatest improvement in the stress response and, ultimately, help to rebuild metabolic reserves and slow chronic disease progression.