How nutritional-based therapies can help you
The importance of a balanced patient-specific diet is common to both Eastern and Western medicine. Evaluating a patient’s nutritional status shifts the traditional disease-centered focus of medical care to one that is more patient-centered, addressing the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. Dr. Etges works together with his patients, exploring the interactions of genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors that can influence long-term health and influence complex chronic disease processes.
Patient Centered Care: Promoting health as a positive source of vitality, above and beyond the definition of the absence of disease.
Science-Based Healthcare: Focusing more on “upstream” causes of illness, and exploring the patient’s history, physiology and lifestyle.
Integrating Medical Disciplines: Integrating traditional Western medical practices with “alternative” or “complementary” medicine, creating a focus on prevention through nutrition, exercise and diet. This approach may use laboratory testing and diagnostic techniques, leading to a combination of Western medications with herbal medications, supplements and therapeutic diet plans to meet the patient’s goals.
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