Look around and you will note that we are currently experiencing a sharp increase in the number of people who suffer from complex, chronic diseases and disorders such as Diabetes, Autoimmune issues, Thyroid issues, Gastro Intestinal issues etc. This is a crisis.
Throughout the 20th century, there were amazing advancements in the understanding of human health and disease such as eradication of many infectious illnesses and elimination of severe vitamin deficiencies. However, this has led to an industrialized model of medicine where most doctors have not been trained to maintain or regain the health of their patients but rather to manage disease with an emphasis on pharmaceutical drugs.
The system treats patients like items on a production line and usually ends up with patients feeling just as bad or worse than they felt before. Rarely does this model include a long-term vision for patient health. If symptoms worsen, just increase the dose. The current system is letting people down.
The more we learn about human health and vitality, the more we understand that a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t create health. Especially in the case of chronic disease, it doesn’t even treat the illness very well. There is another way: Functional Medicine.
Functional Medicine is all about finding the Root Cause of ill-health. A root cause is a factor or combination of factors that kicks off the disease process.
To find the root cause of your illness, Dr. Lazarus and the rest of the staff at Lazarus Health Center will spend time with you learning about your current level of health, then use cutting-edge science and technology to help investigate:
- Symptoms
- Personal Medical History
- Family Medical History
- Disease Triggers (Environmental, genetic, dietary or other factors that cause inflammation and illness.)
Deeper investigation into these categories may involve extensive lab work including:
- Expansive blood chemistry analysis
- Urine analysis
- Adrenal stress index
- Salivary hormone profiles
- Food sensitivity diagnostics
- Comprehensive digestive stool analysis
- Parasitology analysis
From their own personal experiences, Dr. Lazarus’s patients will tell you that it is indeed possible to be well again. These patients wasted so much time by going from doctor to doctor, only to hear the same diagnoses and receive the same treatments – which were ineffective and simply didn’t work! Rather than give up, they discovered Dr. Lazarus and Functional Medicine. Such discoveries were life-changing for these patients. They had finally found someone who possessed both the experience and the knowledge to help them. And with this discovery, these misled patients were finally on a path to better health, and a better life.
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