Functional medicine focuses on causes of your symptoms and not on what medicine can be prescribed to mask those symptoms. Functional medicine approach emphasizes on restoring the body?s natural function, a state of biochemical metabolic harmony indicative of wellness, functional medicine approach focuses on?identifying and addressing the root cause of diseases. Functional medicine is about optimizing your health and quality of life in ways you never knew were possible and not just getting rid of the symptoms. Functional Medicine practitioner identify factors responsible for any complication unique to the patient?s individual health condition through advanced laboratory testing. Functional medicine largely focuses on the fundamental imbalances in the body?s physiological processes such as nutritional deficiencies, toxins, hormone imbalances, inflammation, that cause the disease should be recognized.