Oregon Optimal Health | About Oregon Optimal Health
Oregon Optimal Health | About Oregon Optimal Health
 



About Us

About Us

Philosophy


Health care is a very personal experience that can have an enormous affect on our life and being. We are truly honored by those who trust their very lives and beings to our care and recommendations. Our role is to be a tour guide in your journey to reach better health and well being…no matter what level of health or the lack of it you currently find yourself in. For that reason, we want you to feel comfortable embarking on your journey to reach optimal health with us. It’s important to understand how the care we provide may be different. Rather than scratching the surface of your symptoms with a reflex reach for the prescription pen, we dig deeper into your story and biochemistry. This approach helps us to address the underlying root causes and imbalances that lead to some of the illnesses and discomfort you may face. We work with you to maximize your health by addressing both mental and physical functions, at any stage or age of your life.

Knowing your story is as critically important to us, as knowing and understanding your condition and illness. You possess a unique biochemistry and genetic disposition that impacts your health and your response to your environment. But genetics does not dictate the outcome. So it is, at the core, important that we listen carefully and understand as much of you and your environment as possible. Ultimately, healing will require choices from both of us. We, your providers, must choose the workup tools and recommend the treatment options. You must choose the path. The path chosen is more important than the genetic stones it is paved with. Again, genetics is not the most important dictum of the outcome. The most therapeutic and healing path is frequently not the path of least resistance. Though healing is a choice, it is not all about willpower and grit. Your body has the ability to heal from within if it has the right building blocks, nutrients, exercise, information signaling, ability to remove toxins, and balance. You are affected by what you think, choose, and believe. The water, food, and air you breathe interact with you and your biochemical environment dynamically. “Aging” and illness are caused by issues of stress, nutrition, inflammation, and toxicity.

Working with you, we develop a portrait that puts into perspective the origins, the triggers, and the mediators responsible for your illness or symptoms. Clarification of your life story helps to create a picture from which a plan can emerge. We broaden that picture using both traditional and functional medicine testing and techniques. This results of the testing will help pinpoint and define the areas of imbalance you experience, rendering an excellent place for us to begin the healing process. The interventions recommended for you may be a blend of traditional, holistic, functional, cutting edge, anti-aging and regenerative medicine. Reliable, scientific research provides an ongoing basis for this “whole-system” approach. Focusing on your core body systems and their imbalances provides a starting point to bring balance back.

Get started on your journey to optimal health. Believe and know…healing is possible!



  

Treating the cause,

not just

the symptoms !!