To Live is
To Adapt
From fertility to birth, from birth to adulthood, the synergistic concept of predictive, preventive and functional medicine enables us to support you at every stage of your life, to help you age better and, above all, to prevent illnesses linked to our current lifestyle.
Adapting today generates chronic stress, which can be managed more easily with medical and nutritional support.
Life begins by adapting to the inhalation of oxygen (the baby’s 1st cry of life) and the exhalation (rejection) of carbon dioxide. At the same time, this respiration generates energy or adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and water molecules (H2O).
I welcome you to discuss :
- Your past (personal and family history and implications for current health),
- Your present (your current complaints),
- Your future apartment (a personalized prescription).
PREDICTIVE Medicine
Primary objective
Predictive medicine is an approach to medicine that uses genetic, environmental and lifestyle information to predict a person’s risk of developing certain diseases.
By making it possible to establish the equivalent of a family tree of family illnesses (grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, sometimes cousins), we can define a family (transgenerational) inheritance, the illnesses that appear from generation to generation. This makes it possible to prevent possible illnesses at a very early stage (during pregnancy or infancy).
Because understanding your family’s spectrum of illness can help you manage your health and age well.
Affected persons
People at higher risk of developing a disease & who want to age well while maintaining good health.
Approach
Epigenetic testing and other biological data ;
Benefits
Can enable early and more targeted intervention;
Limitations
Can cause anxiety and high costs for people who have decided to take control of their health.
PREVENTIVE Medicine
Primary Objective
Preventive medicine is a branch of medicine that focuses on disease prevention and health promotion. It aims to prevent the onset of disease by identifying risk factors, modifying risky behaviour and providing preventive vaccines and treatments.
Regular screening examinations, such as annual health check-ups, cancer screening tests and vaccinations, are an integral part of preventive medicine.
Preventive medicine aims to prevent the onset of disease by educating people and encouraging healthy lifestyles, as well as providing vaccines and early screening.
Affected persons
Populations in general;
Approach
Education, health promotion and early detection;
Benefits
To reduce the risk of preventable diseases linked to our current lifestyles;
Limitations
May miss certain at-risk groups and not prevent all diseases and can be costly, as an investment to “prevent” disease.
FUNCTIONAL Medicine
Primary Objective
Functional medicine is an approach to medicine that focuses on the whole body and mind, rather than on isolated symptoms. It aims to understand the root cause of symptoms by examining the relationships between different body systems, such as the digestive, hormonal and immune systems, and by identifying environmental and lifestyle factors that may contribute to illness. If symptoms are present, the disease is not yet there, but the tools are available to assess and treat the underlying causes (linked to our modern lifestyle). This medicine uses advanced tests to assess biochemical imbalances and nutritional deficiencies, as well as natural therapies such as dietary supplements, herbs and dietary changes.Affected Persons
People with undiagnosed symptoms that cause them to feel unwell; people who are suffering and need to regain their balance in order to feel better and reduce (or slow down) the risk of developing illness.
Approach
In-depth analysis (whether already begun in preventive medicine or not) to enable us to treat the symptoms of malaise that arise.
Benefits
Can improve overall health and prevent chronic disease.
Limitations
May require costly and complex tests
CURATIVE Medicine
Primary Objective
Curative medicine is the traditional form of medicine that aims to treat illnesses and symptoms after they have occurred. It uses medical treatments such as drugs, surgery and physical therapies to cure illness and relieve symptoms.
Affected Persons
People diagnosed with a disease ;
Approach
Medication, surgery and other medical treatments to reduce the consequences of the disease;
Benefits
Can relieve symptoms and improve living conditions (cure in some cases);
Limitations
May not be effective for certain diseases (taken too late) and less costly, as covered by the medical system in place (specific to each country). In curative medicine, the patient is dependent on the doctor and the medical system. There is no prevention, just the treatment of disease.
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