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Discover Functional Medicine

A Whole-Person, Root-Cause Approach to Health

As a catalyst in the transformation of healthcare, functional medicine takes a comprehensive approach to prevention, health, and well-being; treats root causes of disease; and restores healthy function through a personalized patient experience — all while being a vital partner to conventional medicine.

Harness the Therapeutic Potential of Modifiable Lifestyle Factors

Lifestyle: The Foundations of Functional Medicine explores how key factors such as sleep, exercise, nutrition, stress, and relationships can be leveraged to improve health and mitigate chronic disease. Discover how making small changes can have a big impact on an individual’s health and learn how to sustainably apply these concepts in your practice. Lifestyle is an online, on-demand course that is eligible for up to 4 CME credits.

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Lifestyle: The Foundations of Functional Medicine

 

Sleep

Regular restorative sleep is crucial for optimal physiological and cognitive function, but a lack of it can be a contributing factor to several chronic diseases.

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Exercise

Increasingly sedentary lifestyles may explain why rates of chronic diseases continue to rise. Daily movement and exercise have a range of demonstrated health benefits.

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Nutrition

Perhaps no single factor has more impact on health and disease than what we eat. As a frontline treatment, targeted nutrition can drastically improve health outcomes.

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Stress

Chronic stress impacts health in myriad ways and may exacerbate existing disease states. Stress management is a powerful way to improve physical and mental health.

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Relationships

While social isolation may increase the risk of several diseases, having a robust network of healthy, dependable relationships improves health outcomes for all ages.

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Behavior Change

Sustaining behavioral change is notoriously hard, but empowering patients and focusing on the factors that truly motivate them can improve the resulting outcomes.

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Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice (AFMCP)TM


AFMCPTM is the premier course in functional medicine that teaches you how to effectively apply this whole-person model of care. The online cohort course provides a new framework for treating all types of clinical disorders. Through this course, you will learn how to design effective, personalized treatments that focus on each individual’s history, genetics, and lifestyle factors—all crucial elements that influence disease risk, progression, and potential for recovery.

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IFM membership provides access to the latest research and resources that will help you deliver high-quality functional medicine care to your patients. Membership includes exclusive program discounts and access to hundreds of clinical tools in IFM's Toolkit. Join our diverse network of health care professionals!

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Introduction to Functional Medicine Online Course

Sustainable lifestyle intervention is the cornerstone of long-term health, yet clinicians and patients often find lifestyle change difficult to implement. This interactive course with two patient cases provides functional medicine tools to effectively connect with patients and change their health outcomes.

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