Our practice style can best be described as functional and integrative medicine. While these terms mean different things to different people, functional medicine as listed on this website pertains to identifying and treating abnormalities that lead to impaired functioning of cells, such as problems with mitochondria (the parts of cells that create energy), oxidative stress (damage to cells caused by a lack of antioxidants and/or exposure to environmental toxicants), metabolism (the biochemical pathways that occur inside cells) and inflammation (swelling and abnormal immune responses that adversely affect cellular functioning and the communication between cells).