What is functional health?
Functional health looks at how your body is functioning in wellness. Western medicine looks at how your body is functioning in sickness. You may not be sick according to Western standards, but that doesn’t mean you are functioning at the optimal levels for wellness. How are Western standards different from functional standards? You may think the ranges presented on your lab report and labeled “normal” for each test are decided upon by a panel of international practitioners, telling us what is healthy and what is sickness. In reality, these mean ranges on your report are determined by samples taken in THAT lab only. A standard that everybody uses does not exist. And as if that weren’t enough to make you scratch your head, think about who is most likely going to have blood tests run. Sick people. There’s no reason for “healthy” people to get blood tests, especially if insurance companies aren’t willing to pay for it. Since only sick people’s scores are being used for the averages, all of
