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Environmental medicine
Paragon Health’s approach to integrative and environmental medicine focuses on the individualisation of healthcare by bridging nutritional biochemistry with clinical strategies.
Our approach emphasises the need to assess your unique biochemical detail and lifestyle factors, such as diet, genetics, and environment, rather than applying generic recommendations. The philosophy incorporates functional testing, which helps uncover upstream imbalances or deficiencies that might not be apparent through standard medical evaluations.
In the context of integrative medicine, our approach underscores the importance of empowering you with knowledge and tools to support your health proactively. This involves not only addressing illness but also optimising health through dietary adjustments, targeted supplementation, and lifestyle changes. By focusing on cause rather than just symptoms; by healing and empowering rather than managing, the approach aligns integrative medicine with the goal of promoting resilience and long-term well-being.
The approach should leave you feeling they you being cared for with a multi-faceted undertaking reflecting a deep respect for the complexity of human health.
The Integrative and Environmental Medicine concepts at Paragon Health interpret assessment results through a functional and preventive lens rather than a purely diagnostic one. This approach focuses on identifying patterns of imbalance and dysfunction that precede overt disease, thereby enabling early intervention and optimising health outcomes.
Some core principles of functional analysis include:
Paragon Health’s perspective on energy systems as foundational to integrative health care aligns with emerging discussions in functional and metabolic medicine, where energy production is central to overall health. Energy production is a basic, fundamental framework through which the function and health of your whole being down to the most basic cell can be viewed. The concept emphasises disruptions in cellular energy systems, such as those affecting mitochondrial efficiency, underlie many chronic conditions and dysfunctions, including many aspect of physical health, mental health issues, metabolic diseases, and immune disorders.
Energy systems are viewed as the root cause framework within Paragon Health’s integrative practice because they influence how cells respond to stress, manage inflammation, and sustain repair mechanisms. From this most basic framework, diversities such as fatigue, weight management, athletic performance or disease processes can be made manifest. For example, mitochondrial dysfunction—whether due to poor nutrition, environmental toxins, or chronic stress—can lead to a cascade of systemic issues, affecting energy levels, cognitive function, and even the body's ability to fight disease. This view ties into integrative care’s focus on identifying and addressing these foundational issues rather than merely treating symptoms.
Tools that aim to optimise energy production at a cellular level, can be seen as essential for both preventative and therapeutic purpose.
This approach could also highlights the interconnectedness of systems and that no one element operates in isolation.
This energy-centred paradigm is a hallmark of modern integrative care, representing a shift from symptomatic treatment to a deeper focus on restoring the body's natural resilience and capacity for healing through bioenergetic optimisation.
Beyond its clinical rigour, Paragon Health integrative medicine also embraces the art of care. It acknowledges the patient’s personal narrative — your beliefs, fears, and aspirations — as central to healing. This personalised attention transforms healthcare into an empowering experience while fostering engagement in your care.
Ultimately, integrative and environmental medicine is more than a practice — it is a movement towards a holistic understanding of health, one that nurtures the body, mind and soul in harmony. It promises a healthcare model that is not only effective but deeply meaningful.
Our approach emphasises the need to assess your unique biochemical detail and lifestyle factors, such as diet, genetics, and environment, rather than applying generic recommendations. The philosophy incorporates functional testing, which helps uncover upstream imbalances or deficiencies that might not be apparent through standard medical evaluations.
In the context of integrative medicine, our approach underscores the importance of empowering you with knowledge and tools to support your health proactively. This involves not only addressing illness but also optimising health through dietary adjustments, targeted supplementation, and lifestyle changes. By focusing on cause rather than just symptoms; by healing and empowering rather than managing, the approach aligns integrative medicine with the goal of promoting resilience and long-term well-being.
The approach should leave you feeling they you being cared for with a multi-faceted undertaking reflecting a deep respect for the complexity of human health.
The Integrative and Environmental Medicine concepts at Paragon Health interpret assessment results through a functional and preventive lens rather than a purely diagnostic one. This approach focuses on identifying patterns of imbalance and dysfunction that precede overt disease, thereby enabling early intervention and optimising health outcomes.
Some core principles of functional analysis include:
- Using narrower ranges of reference that are particular to you, the individual, rather than statistically derived from the general population, including unhealthy individuals. This allow detection of subtle shifts towards dysfunction before they become full-blown diseases.
- One of the most important factors is pattern recognition that does not rely on isolated biomarkers but looks at relationships between multiple identifiers: patterns that might indicate inflammation, adrenal dysfunction, oxidative stress, or micronutrient deficiencies. In our opinion, this is one of the most poorly performed and unrecognised actions in medicine.
- Identification of upstream causes of illness at the heart of single or multi-illness manifestation. This is another of clinical medicine’s blindspots.
- A patient-centred method that emphasises individual variation and correctly interpreted context in a patient’s history, lifestyle and symptoms.
Paragon Health’s perspective on energy systems as foundational to integrative health care aligns with emerging discussions in functional and metabolic medicine, where energy production is central to overall health. Energy production is a basic, fundamental framework through which the function and health of your whole being down to the most basic cell can be viewed. The concept emphasises disruptions in cellular energy systems, such as those affecting mitochondrial efficiency, underlie many chronic conditions and dysfunctions, including many aspect of physical health, mental health issues, metabolic diseases, and immune disorders.
Energy systems are viewed as the root cause framework within Paragon Health’s integrative practice because they influence how cells respond to stress, manage inflammation, and sustain repair mechanisms. From this most basic framework, diversities such as fatigue, weight management, athletic performance or disease processes can be made manifest. For example, mitochondrial dysfunction—whether due to poor nutrition, environmental toxins, or chronic stress—can lead to a cascade of systemic issues, affecting energy levels, cognitive function, and even the body's ability to fight disease. This view ties into integrative care’s focus on identifying and addressing these foundational issues rather than merely treating symptoms.
Tools that aim to optimise energy production at a cellular level, can be seen as essential for both preventative and therapeutic purpose.
This approach could also highlights the interconnectedness of systems and that no one element operates in isolation.
This energy-centred paradigm is a hallmark of modern integrative care, representing a shift from symptomatic treatment to a deeper focus on restoring the body's natural resilience and capacity for healing through bioenergetic optimisation.
Beyond its clinical rigour, Paragon Health integrative medicine also embraces the art of care. It acknowledges the patient’s personal narrative — your beliefs, fears, and aspirations — as central to healing. This personalised attention transforms healthcare into an empowering experience while fostering engagement in your care.
Ultimately, integrative and environmental medicine is more than a practice — it is a movement towards a holistic understanding of health, one that nurtures the body, mind and soul in harmony. It promises a healthcare model that is not only effective but deeply meaningful.
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