Our Approach
Health is a positive vitality.
Health is not simply the absence of disease.
Wholeness comes from the Greek word holoteles meaning "completeness." As human beings, our whole being is divided into three parts: body, mind, and spirit. Human health involves the dynamic balance and optimum functioning of these three components.
Our approach to health is based on the genetic uniqueness and environmental conditions of each person. Our care is patient centered as opposed to disease centered, meaning that we focus on the person, not the diagnosis. Because the human body functions through web-like connections among physiologic processes, each organ affects other organs; therefore, the entire body must be addressed.
At the Rochester Center for Healthy Living, we promote the concept of organ reserve, believing that every organ in one's body can achieve greater stamina, better recovery from illness, and a longer health span, not just a longer life span. We use emerging research to constantly improve our science-based approach to health care.
In order to treat each patient functionally and "holistically", we address eight different imbalances:
- Detoxification, biotransformation, and excretory imbalances
- Digestive, absorptive, and microbiological imbalances
- Hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalances
- Nutritional and dietary imbalances
- Oxidative stress, mitochondropathy, and redox imbalance
- Immune/Inflammatory imbalances
- Structural imbalances at cellular and whole body levels
- Spiritual/mind/body imbalances including stress
Conventional medicine concentrates its efforts on the treatment of disease. Our approach concentrates on treating the person with a disease. All the information involved in making the diagnosis is important but the most important is information concerning what is unusual about the person who has the disease. What imbalances does the person have that are causing the disease and continue to extend and worsen it?
Every chronic disease is caused by destructive imbalances:
- Addictions (drugs, caffeine, alcohol, sugar, nicotine)
- Allergies (inhalant, seasonal, food)
- Autoimmune disease (rheumatoid arthritis, lupus)
- Gastrointestinal disease (Crohn's, ulcerative colitis, gall bladder disease)
- Hormonal imbalances (perimenopause, menopause, andropause, PMS, adrenal fatigue, thyroid disease, diabetes)
- Infectious disease (resistant sinusitis, recurrent infections, chronic infections)
- Musculoskeletal disease (arthropathies, mypopathies, ankylosing spondylosis)
- Neoplastic disease (cancer)
- Neurodegenerative disease (Alzheimer's, autism, MS, ALS, migraine, neuropathies)
- Pulmonary disease (asthma, COPD)
- Vascular disease (cerebrovascular disease, coronary disease, peripheral vascular disease)
Many people with health problems have no diagnosis but virtually every patient has had one or more of the eight destructive imbalances that lead to dysfunction. Our approach seeks to create balance. Balance leads to the greatest potential for health for the person with the dysfunction.
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