Functional Medicine at Dao Integrated Health
Integrative Medicine Center in San Francisco East Bay Area (Alameda & Livermore, CA)
Our specialists take a holistic approach to health care, considering all components of the human body and how they interact with the environment over time. Instead of just addressing symptoms, we focus on understanding the deeper connections between lifestyle, genetics, and overall well-being, ensuring a more personalized and effective path to health.
Functional Medicine allows us to dig deeper and identify the root cause of dysfunction at the most fundamental chemical and elemental levels. By targeting these imbalances, we create tailored strategies to restore balance and optimize health, helping you feel your best from the inside out.
Restoring health through functional medicine
Chronic disease usually starts with the declining function in one or more of the body’s systems (or functions). Our Functional Medicine services aim to restore health by reversing (and/or substantially improving) the specific aspect of the body that is not functioning properly and contributing to the disease. Each patient has a unique, complex, and interwoven set of environmental and lifestyle factors that affect the functioning of their systems differently and can either help or hinder good health.
Our approach
The practitioner of Functional Medicine obtains and evaluates clinical information that leads to individualized, patient-centered, and science-based therapies. For more than 30 years, the tools, practices, and concepts of Functional Medicine have evolved considerably. This is due to a large amount of evidence that these factors are the common pathways to diseases and that the role of diet, stress, physical activity, and the effects of environmental toxins (in the air, water, soil, etc.) impact health.