IFM Mission: Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice INFORMATION SESSION

David Jones, MD Dan Lukaczer, ND

To serve the highest expression of individual health through widespread adoption of functional medicine as the standard of care

Functional Medicine is personalized medicine for complex chronic disease that focuses on primary prevention and treatments designed to address underlying causes instead of simply symptom suppression

In complex chronic disease there is often significant information buried in the story

Functional Medicine Expands the Accordion

In Functional Medicine, the goal is to expand the patients story sufficiently to clarify the often multiple dysfunctions that must be addressed. For patients with chronic, complex illnesses, the accordion file of the patient history is opened out to evaluate the important antecedents, triggers and mediators, and to clarify the underlying mechanisms of dysfunction

Cardiology

Pulmonary

Functional Medicine focuses on antecedents, triggers and mediators

Urology/Nephrology Hepatology Allergy

And the Core Clinical Imbalances

These core clinical imbalances underlie the expression of disease These clinical imbalances form a pattern of dysfunction and are the result of underlying antecedents, triggers and mediators It is the recognition of these patterns that is the art and science of medicine

Endocrinology

Gastroenterology

Organ System Diagnosis

Neurology

Signs and Symptoms

Fundamental Clinical Imbalances
Hormonal and Neurotransmitter Imbalances Redox Imbalance + Oxidativ e Stress + Mitochondropathy Detox/Biotransf ormation/Excretory Imbalance Immune Imbalance Inf lammatory Imbalance Digestiv e/Absorptive and Microbiological Imbalance Structural Integrity Imbalance

Fundamental Physiological Processes

1. Communication - Outside the cell - Inside the cell 2. Bioenergetics/Energy Transf ormation 3. Replication/Repair/Maintenance/ Structural Integrity 4. Elimination of Waste 5. Protection/Def ense 6. Transport/Circulation

Mind and Spirit

Genetic Predisposition
Experiences, Attitudes, Belief s

Antecedents are factors, genetic or acquired, that predispose to illness Triggers are factors that provoke the symptoms and signs of illness Mediators are factors, biochemical or psychosocial, that contribute to pathological changes and dysfunctional responses

Psyc ho -social ho-

Physic al Exercise Trauma

Diet, Nutrients, Air/Water

Xenobiotics Mic ro roorganisms Radiation

Environmental Inputs

Topics

Clinical Takeaways
Evaluation and Work-up: Treatment approaches:

What is AFMCP all about?

GI dysfunction Hormonal imbalance Inflammation and Immune dysfunction Toxins & biotransformation

Metabolic syndrome Nutritional status Adrenal & thyroid fatigue Therapeutic relationship Food allergies & sensitivities

       

Nutritional status GI Dysbiosis Adrenal Dysfunction Thyroid Dysfunction Hormonal imbalance Metabolic syndrome Food allergies Perimenopause and Menopause

     

Diet Nutritional Supplementation Phytonutritional supplementation Exercise Prescription Mind Body Pharmaceuticals

The Program: Week at a Glance

   
Lectures and didactic material Small group case study sessions Daily panel discussions and Q and A 36.5 CME hours available

Extracurricular Activities
   
Morning yoga and meditation Sponsored lunches Monday evening reception Tuesday and Thursday evening discussion groups:

Course Materials
    
Textbook of Functional Medicine Clinical Nutrition: A Functional Medicine Approach Functional Medicine Clinical Tool Kit (CD and hard copy) CDs of all lecture presentations Audio recordings of all lectures

 Business Models for Functional Medicine

Practice

 Applying Laboratory Testing in Functional

Medicine

AFMCP Faculty
Margaret Christensen, MD* Monique Class MS, APRN, BC* Jeanne Drisko, MD John Cline, MD* Joel Evans, MD Patrick Hanaway, MD Bethany Hays, MD Mark Hyman, MD* David Jones, MD* Joe Lamb, MD* Dan Lukaczer, ND* David Musnick, MD* Diana Noland, RD MPH
CCN*

Some of the AFMCP faculty

Tom OBryan DC* Rich Panico MD Bob Rountree, MD* Alicia Stanton MD* Michael Stone, MD* Tom Sult, MD* Catherine Wilner, MD

Bethany Hays, MD Joe Lamb, MD

Diana Noland, RD, MPH, CCN

John Cline, MD

* Speaking at San Antonio