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Functional and Integrated Medicine<\/h1>\n

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What is Functional Medicine? What is Integrated Medicine?
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In a bid to help to demystify Functional and Integrated Medicine for you, and to welcome you to what we do here at The Maas Clinic, we\u2019re sharing a deep dive into these practices and how they can help you to live an optimally healthy life.<\/p>\n

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What is Functional Medicine?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“Functional Medicine is 100% personalised to you. It is the ability to appreciate that everyone is an individual on a biochemical level. Functional Medicine is a deep scientific dive into the person\u2019s individual biochemistry and biophysics, to improve their biology.\"<\/em><\/p>\n

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Laurens Maas, The Maas Clinic founder and Lead Clinician<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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The Maas Clinic are proud winners
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Integrated Medicine in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n

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Unlike conventional medicine, a functional approach is a deep dive into you as an individual. There is no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to Functional Medicine. We appreciate that you are unique, and as such your biochemistry is too.<\/p>\n

Through a wide variety of tests and a close look at your lifestyle (more on that below) we develop an overview of your life as it stands now, including any issues you are having. This helps us to develop a personalised approach to your healing programme.<\/p>\n

We use nutrition, supplements and lifestyle shifts to help you to achieve optimal vitality. Our approach is holistic, natural and unwaveringly thorough.<\/p>\n

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What is Integrated Medicine?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working hand in hand with the functional aspect of our practice, is Integrated Medicine.<\/p>\n

The integrated element is all about your lifestyle: nutrition, fitness, sleep and behaviour.<\/p>\n

We are borderline forensic when it comes to unpicking the various aspects of your lifestyle and how it impacts your health. In fact, Laurens enjoys the investigative side of medicine so much that he often tells us he\u2019d be a detective in another life!<\/p>\n

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Do Functional and Integrated Medicine go hand in hand?<\/h2>\n

Here at The Maas Clinic we believe it\u2019s essential to work on both a Functional and Integrated level.<\/p>\n

Whilst we can test for toxins, enzyme defects, hormone deficiencies and more on a functional level, we need to understand the lifestyle you are leading too.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about using every single natural tool possible, diagnostically and therapeutically, to try and usher and push your bio-chemistry to the optimal zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

A combination approach, we believe, works most effectively.<\/p>\n

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\nSome of the most common ailments treated by Functional and Integrated Medicine are:<\/strong><\/p>\n