Functional Medicine Hobart

Advanced Functional Medicine in Hobart uses a holistic approach to helping you feel well again, aiming to uncover the root causes of poor health.

Functional Medicine offers individuals a way to good health when traditional medicine may not be providing all the answers.

In our society, more and more people are suffering from complex, chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, mental illness and autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.

Lifestyle factors including poor diet, smoking, chronic stress, overuse of alcohol and lack of physical activity are significant contributors to the development and progression of these chronic diseases.

At Advanced Functional Medicine in Hobart, we work with our patients to help them understand the importance and impact of diet and lifestyle on both the prevention and management of chronic disease.  With the right lifestyle management, we can support the main systems involved in managing chronic disease and creating good health.

After an initial intensive consultation, the Functional Medicine experts at the clinic in Hobart will find out about your family history, your lifestyle and diet to uncover the links to your symptoms.

We will want to find out about the following aspects of your life:

• Home and work environments
• Pain, discomfort, and less obvious symptoms
• Genetic background
• Family history
• Activity level
• Relationships
• Eating habits
• Stressors and past trauma
• Exposure to toxins
• Anything else impacting your well-being

Functional Medicine Hobart Medical Testing

You may undergo advanced testing, which will offer more insight into the health issues you are facing today.  Functional Medicine brings together traditional Western medicine with alternative treatments and utilises modern laboratory testing, Advanced Stool tests, organic acids tests, hormone testing, genetic screening and food sensitivity testing to enable an understanding of the surface symptoms of the chronic illness.

A combination of lifestyle and diet changes and supplementation may be prescribed, as well as ongoing consultations to monitor your symptoms.

Functional medicine promotes healing by:

• Restoring a healthy digestive system
• Strengthening the immune system
• Enhancing cellular energy production
• Eliminating toxins and stressors
• Supporting the cardiovascular and lymphatic systems
• Streamlining communication between systems
• Maintaining musculoskeletal integrity^[1]

Functional Medicine Hobart Team

At Advanced Functional Medicine, our practitioners are fully qualified and experienced in a wide range of health conditions.  Our team of practitioners includes Functional Medicine Doctors, Integrative Doctors, Functional Medicine practitioners, Naturopaths and Nurse Practitioners.

You can Meet the Team by clicking here and book appointments here.

Our Functional Medicine Hobart practitioners are able to consult via telehealth and arrange any relevant medical testing that may be required.

• We treat patients all over Australia and worldwide
• We have an advanced patient portal system
• We are linked electronically with all major testing laboratories in Australia
• We supply relevant supplements to patients Australia wide

There are many health issues, so common today, that the team has experience in helping their patients with.  Today’s modern life is busy; a constant juggling act that means our health is put on the back burner.  Traditional medicine may ignore your symptoms or prescribe pharmaceuticals to fix the problems, but with Functional Medicine, we find out the source or your health issues and work to find solutions, together with you, to ensure you can start to feel well again.

Functional Medicine is about treating those causes, rather than just covering up symptoms with prescriptions, to help patients truly heal - to make a lasting positive difference in their lives. ^[2]

Functional Medicine Hobart Bookings

To find out more about our Functional Medicine clinic in Hobart and how the team at Advanced Functional Medicine will uncover what is driving your symptoms or disease state, please click here to make a telehealth appointment.