Functional Medicine is a personalized medicine with a focus on prevention and underline causes. It is a science-based field of healthcare that is ground in patient-centered medicine emphasizing, “Patient care” rather than “disease care”. Functional medicine is anchor by an examination of the core of clinical imbalances that underline various disease conditions.

Those imbalances arise as environmental inputs such as diet, nutrients, (including air and water), stress, exercise, and trauma. These imbalances are process by one’s body, mind and spirit through a unique set of genetic predisposition, attitudes, and beliefs.

Functional Medicine emphasized a definable and teachable process of integrating multiple knowledge bases within a pragmatic intellectual matrix that focuses on functionality at many levels, rather than a single treatment for a single diagnosis.

Dr. Llanos’ extensive training in 45 years of private practice has incorporated Functional Medicine in all offered medical services. Dr. Llanos takes the time to visit with patients to discover the meaning and significance of the signs and symptoms in a patient’s life to tailor his approach in the prevention and treatment of patients. Dr. Llanos can assist patients with the following assessments:

• gastrointestinal
• immunology
• nutritional
• endocrinology
• metabolic
• others including: comprehensive inflammation, cardio-genomic, detox-genomic, immune-genomic, neuro-genomic, and osteo-genomic

For more information of functional medicine, please visit www.functionalmedicine.org www.a4m.com

There are many laboratories around the country that offer functional integrative panels including Genova Diagnostics www.gdx.net.