Chances are, if you’re suffering from complex health problems like fibromyalgia or IBS, you’ve already been to the GP and haven’t had much luck in terms of long-term, lasting results.
Perhaps you’ve taken some medication and it’s been slightly effective, but it’s come at the cost of side effects and you’re still not feeling your healthiest.
This is where functional medicine health coaching enters the picture and presents a long-term, sustainable approach to treating several health problems.
Let’s go through functional medicine health coaching, thanks to Melbourne’s leading practitioner, Luke Clarke:
What is functional medicine?
Functional medicine is a comprehensive, evidence-based approach to healthcare which treats the body holistically. Personalised to your individual situation, it combines the holistic approach to health seen in traditional and alternative healthcare philosophies with a modern and scientific understanding of biology, health conditions, testing, and medications. Using both science and traditional wisdom, functional medicine is dynamic and offers a range of advantages over other, more generalised approaches.
Functional medicine health coaching explained
A functional medicine health coach is a practitioner of functional medicine who helps you improve your health and overcome common health challenges. Our line of work involves seeing to your needs as an individual, using functional medicine to treat your health concerns.
Treating conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), fibromyalgia and others, functional medicine health coaches look at your personal health and guide you through these conditions by implementing tailor-made diet and lifestyle plans.
What does it involve?
Functional medicine health coaches are with you every step of the way, conducting tests and assessments of your health and implementing holistic strategies to improve it. The work of a functional medicine health coach involves:
- Tests and assessments
Cutting out certain foods, reintroducing them and pinpointing which foods are causing your health problems such as IBS or SIBO.
- Implementing diet plans
Identifying foods that restore healthy action in your gut and creating a diet based around them.
- Management and recovery
After finding what works for you and successfully getting your health back up to scratch, your health coach monitors and manages your progress to ensure you stay on track.
Luke Clarke is Melbourne’s leading functional nutritionist
Your regular GP usually doesn’t go into as much depth as a functional nutritionist. That’s where a practitioner of functional medicine and naturopathy like Luke Clarke can help.
Get in touch with Melbourne’s leading functional medicine practitioner, Luke Clarke, today. Luke Clarke is a practitioner of functional medicine and naturopath in Melbourne who helps patients overcome individual health challenges through natural methods. Combining science and naturopathic philosophies, Luke Clarke cares about your health and works alongside you to improve it. Contact Luke Clarke for a 10-minute free consultation today.