Functional Medicine at Dao Integrated Health, an Integrative Medicine clinic in San Francisco East Bay Area (Alameda & Livermore, CA)

Functional Medicine at Dao Integrated Health in the San Francisco East Bay approaches health care by taking into account all components of the human body and how it is affected by its environment over time. Functional Medicine helps the clinician to identify the root cause of the dysfunction at the most basic chemical/elemental level of the human body and targets that imbalance to improve the patient’s health.

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.

Functional Medicine at DAO Integrated Health

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.