When you come to a wellness clinic, you want to meet with a provider that cares about your health journey.
Nowadays, too many people visit a doctor’s office and feel like no one really listened to their concerns. Some providers just want to write a prescription and send you out the door as soon as possible. But at Mid-Florida Age Management, we focus on functional medicine.
Functional medicine in Ocala prioritizes science-based treatments and comprehensive results. We don’t just treat your symptoms. Instead, we look at the underlying cause of your condition, so you can feel your best on every level.
Functional medicine recognizes the body as an interconnected system, where one thing always affects another. To learn more about our functional medicine treatment options, read our new blog below. You deserve to live a healthy life, and functional medicine can help.
Functional Medicine at Mid-Florida Age Management
At Mid-Florida Age Management, we made functional medicine a cornerstone of our treatment process. No health condition exists in a vacuum. Many different internal and external factors may affect your health, and they all relate to each other.
Often, multiple health concerns stem from the same condition, so we work to identify and treat that condition so you can feel your best again.
Let’s take a look at some functional medicine resources, so you can get a better idea of how our team can improve your life from top to bottom.
Age Management
When discussing functional medicine, you can’t leave out age management. After all, it’s in our name!
Everyone gets older—nobody can escape that. But at Mid-Florida Age Management, we know your quality of life doesn’t have to decrease in your later years.
We want to help and support you to feel your best at every stage of your life. At the root of age management, we focus on the health of the patient, not their concerns.
Too many people believe that health is just the absence of illness or injury, but we disagree. Health is a positive state of vitality—you aren’t truly healthy unless you feel your best.
More Than a Treatment
So what exactly falls under that umbrella of age management? It’s not just a single treatment. Age management comprises preemptive treatments that can keep you feeling healthy and full of energy for longer.
We want to keep your body in prime shape. As many people grow older, they neglect their bodies. That neglect causes problems to stack up slowly over time. We adapt your age management treatment to your lifestyle.
We know how your body functions, so we can provide you with science-based solutions that actually work to prevent the more detrimental side effects that come with aging.
Now let’s explore some of our treatments and resources for age management and functional medicine in Ocala.
Medical Weight Loss
Many of our patients want to build healthier lives, and medical weight loss is an important step on that journey. Almost half of Americans have a BMI classified as obese, and obesity can lead to a variety of different health concerns, like sleep apnea and increased risk of a heart attack.
At Mid-Florida Age Management, we don’t just help you burn fat and lose weight, we also teach you how to keep it off. We offer GLP-1 injections and custom fitness plans, and you come in for regular check-in appointments.
That way, we can measure your progress and make any adjustments as necessary. We want to help you continue to see improvements until you reach your ultimate weight loss goal.
Nutrition Counseling
As another branch of functional medicine in Ocala, we offer nutritional counseling. They say “you can’t outrun a bad diet,” meaning that even if you exercise every day and take GLP-1 injections as prescribed, you still need to eat healthy to see meaningful results.
But if you’ve never tried to follow a nutrition plan before, you may not know where to start. How can you build sustainable eating habits and maintain a healthy relationship with food?
When you come into our clinic for nutritional counseling, we’ll discuss your habits and develop a plan that works for you. Everyone’s plan looks a little different, because that’s what functional medicine is all about: individual plans for individuals.
Hormone Therapy
Nutrition counseling and weight management can create noticeable, physical results. But how do you treat problems you can’t see? Hormones affect a number of the body’s everyday functions, from mood to sleep to libido.
As we get older, our bodies’ hormone levels fluctuate naturally, resulting in serious changes we’re often not prepared for. Bioidentical hormone therapy can rebalance your hormone levels, so you can feel like yourself again.
We customize our hormone treatments to fit your exact needs. Each person has unique hormone levels, so it only makes sense that they have unique hormone treatments as well. If you have any hormone deficiencies, we’ll identify them and get to work on your plan.
Menopause/Andropause Care
One major shift that bioidentical hormone therapy at Mid-Florida Age Management can treat is severe menopause symptoms.
Menopause comes naturally as part of the aging process, but you don’t have to let the side effects keep you down. If you struggle with hot flashes, mood swings, or trouble sleeping, we can help. Those symptoms stem from hormone imbalances—and functional medicine means recognizing how one condition can result in a myriad of symptoms.
We work with menopausal patients to provide personalized support based on their needs. Menopause doesn’t have to prevent you from living your life your way.
And did you know menopause symptoms are limited to women? Some men also experience andropause, a condition wherein their testosterone levels automatically drop over time. This may result in sexual dysfunction or a decrease in day-to-day wellness.
If you’re experiencing a natural hormone deficiency, bioidentical hormone therapy can help with that as well.
Lab Screening and Testing
We can’t perform a treatment without understanding your condition, which is why we prioritize lab screening and testing.
When you meet with our team about age management or functional medicine in Ocala, we complete a blood draw or urinalysis, which can tell us a number of things about your body. We can also screen for cancer and autoimmune disorders/diseases.
If you want to lose weight with our team, consider a body composition analysis. This short and simple test analyzes your whole body and returns information about your fat, muscle, and water percentage, so we can get a better idea of how you can meet your weight loss goals.
Finding Your Perfect Treatment
With so many options for age management and functional medicine in Ocala, you may wonder how you can find the right choice for you. It all begins with the consultation.
At Mid-Florida Age Management, we build personal relationships with each of our patients. When we know you, we know what you need. When you start your functional medicine journey, we sit down with you and ask you about your medical history, your goals and expectations for treatment, and even your personal preferences for care.
Once we understand your concerns and goals, we can develop a custom treatment plan that gives you exactly what you need. At our clinic, the patient always comes first.
Get Started Online
If you want to learn more about functional medicine treatment at Mid-Florida, but you don’t feel ready to come in for a consultation just yet, you still have options.
To get started at home, try our virtual treatment finder! Once you fill out this simple online questionnaire with information about your symptoms, we can create a personalized treatment recommendation for you, absolutely free. It’s never been easier to get started on your functional medicine journey.
Our Team
Functional medicine in Ocala wouldn’t be possible without the help of our team. We understand that to foster better treatment outcomes, we need to build personal relationships with our patients.
Our team of experts have a variety of specialties and skill sets, so we can help you with countless conditions and concerns.
Our providers got into this business because they love helping patients experience the best version of themselves. Thanks to age management and functional medicine in Ocala, patients don’t need to reminisce about the good old days, because the good days never leave.
All the Information You Need
Do you want to learn more about our age management and functional medicine treatments? Take a look at our educational blog, which has all the information you need about our clinic.
We update the blog with new posts every month, because we know the importance of educating patients is to the treatment process. When you come into our clinic with a base of knowledge about our treatment strategies, the process becomes much more convenient for everyone involved. These blogs have in-depth information about our treatments, so you know what to expect from your time with Mid-Florida Age Management.
Talk With Our Team About Functional Medicine
You want to enjoy life to its fullest, and with functional medicine in Ocala, you can. To get started, reach out to our team and request an appointment for your initial consultation. We can’t wait to meet you.
It’s never too early to prepare for the rest of your life. Contact our providers to develop your personal plan.
