What is usually meant in integrative care is integrating pharmacists, nurses, physicians, social workers, and so on, but what it comes down to is integrating a standard model of care, whereas functional medicine is actually giving, I think, a better operating system for critically thinking the complex cases, such as the one I presented, so that you can actually use history taking and a physical exam with fewer tests to solve these complex problems. Then start with food and nutritional supplements, exercise, and so on, to help move the biochemistry towards a healthier function, but keeping in mind that we have specialists who are there if surgery is required, endocrinology, or gynecology, and so on. We have access to that system.
