More and more people have come to realize that taking pills in ever-increasing amounts just to manage their symptoms is not a realistic path to health.
That’s why at SmartLife Wellness, we take a more comprehensive approach that aims to address the root causes of your health issues.
Here’s why addressing the root causes of health issues rather than just alleviating symptoms is essential for sustainable health.
Symptom-Relief Trap: How Traditional Medicine Ignores Root Causes
When you have a headache, your first thought may be, “Oh, let me go take an aspirin.” If you’re having trouble sleeping, you may visit the grocery store for melatonin capsules.
All of these drugs are designed to treat symptoms. They don’t address the cause of the headaches or the insomnia, just the effects.
When you take synthroid for hypothyroidism, it doesn’t help your thyroid regulate itself, it replaces missing thyroid hormone.
Over time this doesn’t improve your thyroid, it makes it weaker, as the thyroid recognizes that the synthroid is doing its job.
Functional Wellness Approach: Addressing the Root Causes
Functional medicine is different. At SmartLife Wellness, we approach every problem in the body like an individual roadblock to your full body health and we don’t stop until every roadblock is lifted, and you’re in the best shape humanly possible.
For example, we treat autoimmune diseases that are caused by the body failing to recognize its own cells and attacking them. This leads to a host of ill effects on the thyroid, the gut microbiome, and even the joints.
But rather than treat the symptoms of whichever autoimmune disease a patient suffers from, or worse, deafen the immune system, we instead investigate everything from environmental stress to diet to gut health to find what is causing the system to fail in the first place.
Read Also: What Really Causes Autoimmune Diseases? Here’s the Surprising Truth
Personalized Health Plans: Every Body is Different
It isn’t always easy to treat the root causes of a patient’s health problems, however. Everybody and every body is different, which means our treatment strategies have to be highly specialized in order to be truly effective.
That’s why our patients run through a fully comprehensive battery of tests that, once completed, provide a full picture of their starting point so that our expert team can construct the right plan to get their health back on track.
By focusing on treatments that reverse the effects of toxins, stealth infections, and stress, the body can be restored to full working order.
A total wellness approach is key in ensuring that your symptoms go away because the problem is solved, not because medications are numbing the pain.
Long-Term Health: Maintain Wellness
The functional wellness approach to health doesn’t just focus on solving already existing problems in the body. It also helps to prevent future health issues.
Our tests allow us to identify and rectify markers for severe health concerns that you may not even be aware you have.
As an example, part of our testing battery includes allergy testing. You’d be surprised to know how many people have more food allergies than they’d ever know about. By being tested for this and other key factors and following through on our treatment plans, patients can experience life-long health.
Conclusion
It’s clear that by focusing on the underlying causes, we can not only alleviate symptoms but also prevent future health problems, ensuring a healthier and more vibrant life for our patients.
So if you’re suffering from a disease and you’re tired of medications that only provide a temporary relief from your symptoms, then we want to hear from you.
SmartLife Wellness is proud to offer online functional medicine consultation in Arkansas to patients that are ready to walk the path of wellness with innovative technologies delivered to their doorstep and customized treatment plans designed specifically to resolve your unique health problems.