
Functional Medicine
Caring for your health properly is so much more than just taking care of individual areas of your body. At South Bay Wellness, we follow a “functional medicine” approach that treats the unified system of your body, holistically.
Caring for your health properly is so much more than just the basics of eating right and exercise. With current medical research, we have discovered that the body is a complex collection of organs and systems and even bacterial colonies (the microbiome) that greatly impact each other.
While the standard of care hasn’t quite “caught up” yet with most of the current science, conventional doctors and “specialists” are still treating parts of the body separately without taking into account the fact that all these areas greatly impact each other.
When you are healthy, they work together like a symphony in perfect harmony – and you have vibrant health.
But when one of these systems is off balance, the whole symphony is out of tune! When you need a “tune-up” so to speak, not only do you need to look at areas that aren’t working right… but also that the rest of your body is in balance.
Sadly, most clients receive instead medications to treat symptoms associated with a body part that “isn’t working” when in reality, it’s oftentimes a systemic issue that needs to be treated in a completely different way.
In addition, the conventional medical approach also doesn’t consider that each person is born with unique health needs: Based on their genetic factors, the environment they were born into, what kinds of bacteria populate their gut, as well as what they are exposed to as they grow – each person’s body has a very unique health profile which means they need an equally unique healing protocol.
It’s no wonder people go from doctor to doctor and never find the answers to their illness! Conventional medicine is missing the mark when it comes to effectively treating many chronic illnesses caused by aging, environment and diet, hormonal imbalances, and food sensitivities because they try to treat symptoms with medication. In fact, we find with our clients that while they may share the same symptoms, they frequently suffer from very different imbalances.
That’s why at South Bay Wellness, we follow a more modern “functional medicine” approach that incorporates current nutritional science to help you rebalance and finally heal.
This in-depth approach is the only successful way of working with chronic disorders because most chronic illness have many causes.
Instead of simply addressing different symptoms across separate areas, functional medicine seeks to treat the underlying root cause – while looking at lifestyle factors such as diet, environment, emotional health, and mindset that usually brings on the illness clients are seeking to heal.
Our Functional Medicine Wellness programs are a more comprehensive form of care (along with health coaching) to help clients learn how to upgrade their lifestyle – so they don’t remain stuck in the “chronic illness hamster wheel.” Here are just some of the things we focus on in our program:
- We prioritize quality over quantity with our clients. We will listen carefully to what a client is dealing with and what their history is. We will look at lifestyle factors that are materially contributing to illnesses, then make personalized recommendations based on each client’s unique situation.
- Assessment, natural healing, and prevention are prioritized over wait-and-see treatment approaches.
- Natural forms of healing like upgrading your diet and healing herbs or supplementation with fewer or no side effects are used.
- Clients are taught how to take a more active role in their own health and will learn up-to-date nutritional science & lifestyle modifications that can boost their health and overall wellness for a lifetime.
- Instead of relying on being prescribed medications again and again for temporary relief, Danielle Zanzarov and her team at South Bay Wellness work with health issues holistically and arm clients with the modern tools for healthy living.
Since the founding of her practice, Danielle Zanzarov, PhD and her team have helped clients heal from life-altering conditions such as:
- Digestive Disorders (GERD, heartburn, IBS, SIBO, Crohn’s, Colitis
- Autoimmune Conditions (IBD, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriasis, Multiple Sclerosis, Hashimoto’s Disease, Celiac’s, Crohn’s, Type-1 Diabetes)
- Hormonal Imbalances (Feeling “tired & wired”, Hypothyroidism, Hyperthyroidism, PCOS, PMS, Hot Flashes, Painful Periods, Mood Swings)
- Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity & Dyslipidemia
- Energy Issues, Stress & Chronic Pain (Chronic Fatigue, Adrenal Issues, Fibromyalgia etc.)
- Cognitive Issues (SCI/MCI, “Brain Fog”, Memory Issues, Alzheimer’s Disease etc.)
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