Functional Medicine

Functional Medicine is a systems biology–based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease. Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of many contributing to an individual’s illness. We recommend that many of our stem cell patients with inflammatory disorders obtain functional medicine consultation with our functional medicine consultant Eduardo Maristany, M.D. if they have not yet seen another functional medicine consultant. Treatment by Dr. Maristany can work hand in hand with stem cells to maximize outcomes. Consultation can generally be obtained by telemedicine without having to travel to his clinic in Naples, Florida.

In an initial consult with Dr. Maristany (internal medicine board certified), one of only 1,200 IFM (Institute for Functional Medicine) certified practitioners in the world, you will receive a thorough evaluation and personalized insight into disease management and complementary therapies and approaches to traditional medicine by itself. Using a state-of-the-art personalized genomics tool called IntellxxDNA created by a Harvard Trained Physician Colleague, Dr Sharon Hausmen Cohen, Dr. Maristany is now able to determine genomic probability and odds ratios for disease years and/or decades before they may become an issue. With this understanding of disease risk, we can potentially help significantly curtail your risk for these diseases and reduce the severity of them if present.

Using this software and Genomic data, Dr. Maristany is able to peer underneath the causes of disease and help personalize for you a diet, lifestyle, nutritional supplement, and, if needed, medication strategy to assist in preventing or managing disease from its root cause. This is the root cause, or N of 1, medicine. Completely individualized care for each individual patient. Like stem cell treatment this represents the future of medicine, here now. We welcome consultation with other functional medicine doctors caring for our patients as well.