Our goal as FDN Practitioners is to achieve and maintain 100% function in the body by:

1. Improving cell protection:  the body recognizes abnormal cells and destroys them (cell autophagy) and maintains cells integrity
2. Improving immune function:  an individual doesn’t get sick very often (or at all) and recovers quickly if they do get sick.
3. Improving energy output:  an individual has an abundant amount of energy and regenerates their inner self well after a quality night sleep.
4. No symptoms don’t equal good health but a good starting point to optimizing health and wellness for each individual.

The medical model often treat’s the symptoms of the client to bring them back to a state of ideal health but the absence of symptoms doesn’t mean they are healthy.  If the Wellness Scale goes away from healing and optimizing the WHOLE individual at a cellular level, then the wellness level only decreases.  Example of what happens if we only treat the symptoms- “Sickness Care” or “Medical Model” can lead to worsening of the health complaints by treating the symptoms as- 

1. Decreased energy and fatigue:  self-medicate with caffeine and sugar
2. Increased pain, sickness and feeling run down: always getting sick then treating with medication with the traditional medical model of treatment
3. Increased diagnosis of a condition(s) based on definition from the traditional medical model – a title for the condition or disease.
4. Increased risk of disease or condition with further serious deterioration that could lead to surgery or even be terminal to result in death.    Poor prognosis can sadly not have the ideal end result!

The brain communicates to the body to create function (critical)- we are designed very well and we don’t need to teach the cells how to function (what is normal function) to be in a state of health and a state of ease with the appropriate vital reserve BUT we may start to experience unexplained symptoms when we have lack or deviate away from homeostasis.  Symptoms are common but never “normal”.  People tend to blame the aging process and accept their symptoms as a part of life and their new “normal” even thought they could learn how to self-treat and reboot their body from the inside out at a cellular level to optimize their WHOLE health.

Any deviation from homeostasis – we get into a dis-ease process.  If we lack homeostasis- in a dis-ease process is when our vital reserve may not be gone but may be diminished which is resulting in mal-function.  Symptoms are the last thing to occur in a disease process.   We end up with mal-function in our cells, tissues and organs- body systems.  This isn’t normal.   This is what Functional Diagnostic Nutrition is about – bringing individuals back into functioning at optimal levels.  Ideally, we are living in a constant state of health, functioning at east with vital reserve, while maintaining homeostasis to be feeling our “normal”.

Clients come to FDN-Practitioners with symptoms and would like to have immediate relief.  Pills may help temporarily (Band-Aid treatment) and feel better.  Our focus is how to resolve metabolic chaos for clients.  We, FDN-P’s, need to educate clients that symptoms are not normal, and they are signs that the body is not functioning at optimal levels – or malfunctioning and leading to contributing to “METABOLIC CHAOS”.   Symptoms may go away or decrease with relief care, but they will probably return soon. 

FDN—Practitioners focus on resolving METABOLIC CHAOS while proving some intelligent relief care.  We help identifying HIDDEN internal stressors and contributors to METABOLIC CHAOS then help find healing opportunities to help a body regain normal function and corrective care instead of relief care.  Once we identify healing opportunities to help the body regain “normal” function, the body returns to a state of EASE instead of DIS-EASE and their health is restored.  The symptoms and complaints the client once had, are often resolved with the appropriate steps to heal, rebuild and reset the body back to functioning “normal” or homeostasis then work towards maintenance.

“Distress or stress that influence any influence, internal or external, that causes or leads to malfunction”- Reed Davis

Three types of care practiced in the FDN program include relief phase, corrective phase and the maintenance phase in our self-care model based on knowledge, empowerment and behavior.  We refer out for additional needs based on guiding course correction.

Three types of care practiced that are HIDDEN stressors and contributors to METABOLIC CHAOS:

1. Mental and Emotional
2. Biochemical and Trauma
3. Chemical and Biochemical

If HIDDEN stressors and imbalances are not soon resolved, they will quickly cascade into other areas and METABOLIC CHAOS causing serious DYS-Function which then leads to dis-EASE and symptoms.  The symptoms will show up anywhere and could be far removed from the problem(s).  Serious dysfunction occurs from CHRONIC stress disorders -the symptoms are the last part to occur.  We look upstream to help straighten up the METABOLIC CHAOS by identifying then eliminating the contributors while coaching up the body’s natural reserves then clients feel better from the inside out!

“Symptoms are not the problem but the RESULTS of the problem” – Reed Davis

The Chronic Stress Cascade: 

What is under the surface, as under the hood of your car, are chronic stress related dysfunctions which accumulate and contribute to METABOLIC CHAOS.  The results and contributors to the body systems chaos.  “Distress of any kind contributes to loss of homeostasis, dysfunction, disease and eventual METABOLIC CHAOS.  A weakened state of health and left unchecked leads to symptoms downstream.  Treating the symptoms only leads to worsening of the underlying dis-ease state. “

What is “METABOLIC CHAOS”?

“Metabolic Chaos” is a state that exists because of HIDDEN complexities in one’s metabolism and underappreciated influences from the environment, so correlation between symptoms and the cause is UNPREDICATBLE.

A clue to METABOLIC CHAOS is the intervention based on traditionally reliable cluster of symptoms or abnormal objective markers produces only a marginal therapeutic response.  Contributors to METABOLIC CHAOS are the CAUSE and METABOLIC CHAOS is the EFFECT – until METABOLIC CHAOS itself becomes the single most significant health condition.