Dr. Elizabeth Boham

that 20 to 30% of patients who come into their primary care doctor's office come in with the chief complaint of fatigue.

I'm tired.

And so it's a lot of us.

It's a lot of people that we see, a lot of people we see here at the Ultra Wellness Center.

One of their main reasons they want to come in is, I'm tired and I want to feel better.

So I think functional medicine is really well, I think it's great for whatever we're working on, but I think it works really well with fatigue.

In conventional medicine, all of our training, we were really focused a lot on acute care medicine and not enough on chronic conditions.

And definitely, we're not often given, physicians aren't often given enough time to really delve into a topic like fatigue, which can be so complex.

So one of the great things in functional medicine is we really focus on getting that timeline of the patient's history, which is so important because it really helps us determine what's going on with that patient.

Why do they have that fatigue?

And I think that's really critical.

And one of the great things about functional medicine is we talk about their timeline because

which just means, you know, their whole life story.

You know, what was their life like as a child, even when they were a fetus?

You know, what kind of illnesses did they have when they were younger?

How did they feel when they were in their 20s?

All of that really influences what's going on now and how we work with them when they come in saying, I have fatigue, I'm tired.

Yeah, right.

They get a battery of tests.

Maybe they'll do a quick physical exam, do some of the basic tests.