Frequently Asked Questions

 

What is functional medicine?

Functional medicine is a customized approach to medicine that focuses on identifying and treating the root causes of disease, rather than just symptoms. It takes into account your unique biochemistry, genetics, and lifestyle factors to help you achieve optimal health.

What is complementary medicine?

Complementary medicine is a term that describes medical treatments that are used in addition to – or in place of – traditional treatments. Complementary medicine includes therapies like acupuncture, chiropractic care, and herbal remedies.

What is integrative medicine?

Integrative medicine is a holistic approach to healthcare that combines conventional and complementary therapies. It emphasizes the use of natural remedies and therapies, and it seeks to treat the whole person, not just the symptoms of illness.

What is the difference between functional medicine and integrative medicine?

Functional medicine is a systems-based approach that looks at how all the body’s systems are interconnected and how they work together to maintain health or trigger disease. It addresses the root cause of illness, not just the symptoms. Integrative medicine combines therapies from conventional and complementary medicine. It aims to treat the whole person, not just the symptoms of disease.

What is lifestyle medicine?

What is lifestyle medicine? Lifestyle medicine is a term used to describe a whole-person approach to healthcare that considers all of the factors that influence health, such as diet, exercise, and stress management. It focuses on helping people make healthy lifestyle changes that can improve their overall well-being and reduce the risk of disease.

What is the difference between integrative medicine and lifestyle medicine?

Integrative medicine is a term that describes a healthcare model that combines conventional and complementary therapies. Lifestyle medicine, on the other hand, is a specialty of family medicine that focuses on helping people make healthy lifestyle changes.

What is the difference between functional medicine and lifestyle medicine?

Functional medicine is an individualized approach to medicine that looks at the underlying causes of illness, rather than just treating symptoms. Lifestyle medicine focuses on making lifestyle changes that promote better health, such as quitting smoking, eating a healthier diet, and being more active. While the two approaches share some common goals, they differ in their focus and approach.

What approach does FMP essentials take?

FMP Essentials provides a comprehensive approach to individualized health care that includes integrative, functional, and lifestyle medicine. This approach goes beyond traditional medical treatments, focusing instead on the unique needs of each individual patient and creating an individualized plan using natural therapies and modalities. The goal of this approach is to address the root cause of illness or disease in order to achieve lasting health and wellness.

Integrative medicine looks at the whole person, emphasizing physical, mental, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental influences on overall health care. Functional medicine uses evidence-based research to understand the physiological and biochemical processes underlying complex diseases. It assesses multiple body systems simultaneously in order to identify imbalances that can be causing symptoms or contributing to ill-health. Finally, lifestyle medicine involves looking at lifestyle factors such as nutrition, exercise, sleep habits, stress management techniques and other behaviors that may be contributing to an individual’s state of health.

At FMP Essentials, practitioners will gain access to the latest breakthroughs in functional medicine research while also learning proven approaches from integrative and lifestyle medicine disciplines. Through deeper dives into various health topics practitioners will learn how to create a customized functional medicine protocol for each patient. Practitioners will have access to step-by-step protocols along with detailed explanations on how they work so they can easily implement them into daily practice with optimal results.

What are the goals of FMP Essentials?

The goals of FMP Essentials are to provide integrative and functional medicine practitioners with access to trustworthy information on a variety of health topics, and to help them create a functional medicine plan for their patients. We aim to provide practitioners with the resources they need to help their patients achieve optimal health and well-being.

Who should take courses at FMP Essentials?

FMP Essentials is designed for healthcare practitioners who are looking for an evidence-based functional medicine approach to treating patients. Practitioners that may benefit from FMP essentials include medical doctors, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, chiropractors, acupuncturists, health coaches, and other healthcare professionals that are looking for an evidenced-based functional medicine approach to caring for their patients. With an emphasis on individualized care, FMP Essentials helps practitioners create unique treatment plans that meet each patient’s specific needs.

Who founded FMP Essentials?

Yousef Elyaman is the founder of FMP Essentials. He is a healthcare professional with over 15 years of experience in the field of integrative and functional medicine. He created FMP Essentials to provide practitioners with access to trustworthy information on a variety of health topics, and to help them create individualized functional medicine plan for their patients.

What makes Yousef Elyaman, M.D. Qualified to teach?

Yousef Elyaman, M.D. is a highly experienced healthcare professional with over 15 years of experience in the field of integrative and functional medicine. He has extensive experience in clinical practice and teaching the lay public and functional medicine practitioners.

His knowledge and experience makes him an excellent teacher for FMP Essentials courses. Over the years, he has developed an approach to patient care that focuses on taking into consideration many different aspects of one’s health and using individualized, holistic approaches tailored toward each patient’s specific needs. His approach combines traditional medicine practices with cutting-edge mindsets in nutrition, self-care habits, movement, sleep hygiene, stress management, environmental toxins, etc., so that practitioners can gain a complete understanding of how these factors affect their patients’ health and well-being.

Dr. Elyaman understands the importance of evidence-based treatments as well as the need for ongoing learning opportunities for healthcare professionals seeking to stay up-to-date on new research findings. To this end, he has developed FMP Essentials which offers medical practitioners access to valuable resources and knowledge sharing to help them create personalized plans for their patients based on evidence-backed practices from both conventional and complementary medicine fields. He also provides trainings for clinicians so they can apply these concepts into their everyday practice and help their patients achieve optimal health outcomes.

Does taking a course at FMP Essentials grant one the rights, qualifications and authorization to practice medicine?

The answer is no; taking a course at FMP Essentials does not substitute any professional licensing requirements that may be applicable to the learner, nor authorize them to render care, prescribe regimens, medications or supplements. Learner’s activities in the health and wellness field remain subject to his/her education, qualifications, and professional licensure.