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Get to the Root Cause
At Foundations In Wellness, our main goal is to get to the root cause of your issues. Many conventional and functional medicine practitioners make this claim too, but they use ineffective methods of testing and treatment – leaving you right where you were before.
We’ve fine-tuned our techniques for diagnosing and treating patients so that you leave on the path to total-body healing. With our advanced evidence-based scientific approaches, we’re able to not only get to the root cause of sickness but successfully treat it as well.
Functional Medicine
Functional medicine at its core is about true health, healing, and wellness. It’s not just a quick fix for pain or sickness. It’s about creating lasting results and enabling long-term healing by getting to the root cause of the disease.
Many of us have turned to conventional doctors and hospitals to treat our sickness and pain. And yet, so many people are still searching for answers. They’re given medication, surgery, or maybe told their issues are nothing to worry about. When health issues persist after these efforts, patients are left feeling discouraged and hopeless. They often think that they’ve tried everything they can, and their symptoms are just something they have to live with. But it’s not.
At Foundations in Wellness, we fully embrace the practice of functional medicine and its core philosophy: getting to the root cause. We’re here to let you know after all you’ve tried, it’s not your fault that you’re not getting better. It’s not your fault that you were given ways to symptom manage, rather than identifying and treating the issue directly – and that’s where we come in to help.
The interesting thing about functional medicine, as opposed to conventional medicine, is that it connects seemingly unrelated symptoms to the same root cause. The Institute of Functional Medicine demonstrates this in its own words: “One condition may begin with several causes, and conversely, one cause may lead to several different conditions.”1
If you’re finally ready to get answers and the true healing you’ve been looking for, it’s time to give the functional medicine approach a try.
One Condition, Many Causes
One Cause, Many Conditions
Sources:
- “What Is Functional Medicine?: IFM.” The Institute for Functional Medicine, 3 Oct. 2022, www.ifm.org/functional-medicine/what-is-functional-medicine/.
- Photo: https://www.ifm.org/functional-medicine/what-is-functional-medicine/
Bioenergetic Testing
Bioenergetic testing is also called bioresonance or biofeedback testing. These terms are used interchangeably, but all mean the same thing.
Everything that physically exists has an energetic pattern, including your body. A pattern is a collection of frequencies that identify something specifically. These energetic patterns all interact differently with their surroundings.
Much like a fingerprint identifies you apart from every other human in the world, energetic patterns identify different, specific things.
Each collection of cells in your organs has a unique energetic pattern used to communicate with bodily systems. The common belief is held that cells communicate with only chemical transmitters. However, science shows that cells also utilize electromagnetic frequencies for communication.
This is why some patients don’t get answers with standard lab panels or pathological diagnostic testing. Because those only test for chemical factors, the results don’t identify any problems, and yet symptoms persist for the patient. That’s why Foundations in Wellness offers this unique approach to testing, so we ensure we can get to the root cause of your symptoms.
Cellular communication is interrupted when a pathogen, toxin, or deficiency is present. Because of this, cells are not able to function properly, which can lead to a multitude of health issues.
Luckily, through the power of Bioenergetic testing, we’re able to effectively identify any pathogens that may be interfering with cellular communication.
How It Works
Bioenergetic testing is a completely painless form of testing that sends electrical patterns throughout the body. The patient will place their hands on two conducive rods connected to the bioenergetic testing device. This device will then send thousands of energetic patterns throughout the body, and it will look for a “match”. If a match is identified, the software will then record it.
Just like our organs have a unique energetic pattern, so do pathogens, deficiencies, and toxins. This testing will effectively identify those by their pattern, if they are present.
After your testing is complete, Teresa will review your results with you and get you on a path to treatment.
Neuro Emotional Technique
Any sort of trauma or distress that has happened to us affects us on a mental, physical, and spiritual level. Sometimes, we’re able to naturally release these negative emotions after the event that caused them. But other times, our body lives in a constant state of distress, as if it’s reliving the event over and over again.
Stress responses such as fear, anger, and grief can sometimes negatively affect us long after the original event that caused them. Even if your mind does not perceive an active threat, the body is able to still “hold” on to the stress responses of past events.
When we live in a never-ending stress response, it affects our mental state immensely. It can cause you to self-sabotage, develop phobias, believe negative things about yourself and others, and more. But, the mind isn’t the only thing this stress response affects – it’s connected to the body as well.
This causes a domino effect of issues. Healing, both mental and physical, can be intercepted by underlying stress in the body. In turn, this can prevent you from healing from injuries, harmful thought patterns, sicknesses, inflammation, pain, and so much more.
That’s where Neuro Emotional Technique, or NET, is able to help. NET is a mind-body stress relief technique based upon a proven combination of the latest scientific research and centuries-old techniques used in Eastern healing. This is much more than therapy - it’s actually a physical practice as well. NET targets certain muscle groups and acupressure points to release stress, allowing you to enter a peaceful state that encourages healing.
To learn more about the mind-body connection of stress, check out Stressed: a documentary, which is linked below and is free to watch.
Stressed: A Documentary Film
What is NET?
How Stress Affects Our Health?
Scientific Research on NET
NET Scientific Study
Learn more about NET with these resources:
- The First Aid Stress Tool, or FAST, is an easy-to-use but powerful technique that can be used to help provide relief from symptoms associated with mind-body stress.
- Stressed: A Documentary Film
- A Study of Neuro Emotional Techniques with Cancer Patients:
Monti, D.A., Tobia, A., Stoner, M. et al. Neuro emotional technique effects on brain physiology in cancer patients with traumatic stress symptoms: preliminary findings. J Cancer Surviv 11, 438–446 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-017-0601-8
Genetic Blueprint Testing
Have you ever thought “I was just born to live this way”? Or maybe, you’ve seen your family struggle with weight loss resistance and assume it will be your struggle too. Perhaps, you were diagnosed with a disease that runs in your family, and accept it as fate. The list could go on and on. But what if it doesn’t have to be that way?
The journey to taking control of your health begins with understanding your body. Our genes are the basic instructions for our bodies, and understanding them is like having a blueprint. They can be used as a guide to help us make choices that enable us to live happier, longer, and better lives.
For years, the understanding was that our genes are “set in stone”. If we have a gene for something, it can’t be changed. When it comes to genetic disease, this thinking makes us believe we are “destined” to have that particular disease. However, science has now proven that this thinking is not true at all.
Modern science concludes that our genetic code can be expressed, or it may not. We are not simply who our genes say that we are; rather, we are a product of how our genes are expressed as a result of the choices we make and the environment with which we interact. There is an expression in functional medicine that says, “Our genes load the gun. Our environment and our choices pull the trigger.”
If our DNA is the blueprint, then our decisions and environmental interactions build the house. Therefore, every choice that we make can be individualized and personalized based on who we are and our unique bodies.
We provide testing through 3x4 Genetics. Genetic testing with 3X4 requires only a simple cheek swab that can be done at home. Once in the lab, over 134 genes are tested that can affect your metabolism, inflammation, detoxification, fitness, weight, hormones, cognition, and response to your diet and supplements.
Upon completion of the test, you will receive a personalized 30-page booklet that outlines your summary plan, gene results, and story. The summary plan outlines 3 dietary recommendations, 3 lifestyle or behavioral interventions, and 3 possible supplemental recommendations. Your gene results summarize the 36 most important metabolic pathways that influence the expression of health. You will “follow the purple” to see which pathways are most influenced by your genes. Your story is a colorful, pictorial description of your cellular, system, cardiovascular, energy, activity, and nutrient overviews.