75% of Americans Go to Their Doctor with a Problem but Have a Normal Check Up

Are you one of 75% of patients seen by General Internists with specific complaints but with normal physical exam and lab tests? Yes, 74% of patients who go to their primary care doctors complaining of real symptoms are told that nothing is wrong.

That’s because things progressively go wrong before they manifest as a labeled disease.

You may be abnormal for you, but not abnormal enough to have “disease” as diagnosed by traditional medicine. That’s why you feel less than stellar but your labs are “normal”. You can improve or resolve things before you “catch a disease”.

Certain laboratory values which can be measured by newer lab testing indicate that physiologic values do progress in a downward trend before they show up as abnormal on traditional tests. These tests are reliable and available to you. This is the basis for “functional medicine” in which we investigate symptoms as a manifestation of change in your basic physiologic process.

We need to get to the changes behind the symptoms. Together, we can identify and treat the cause of your symptoms rather than cover up the symptoms with medication.