Doctors are trained to diagnose and treat specific diseases and conditions. Often these treatments are pharmaceuticals and surgery. As a Sovrn Health coach, I cannot diagnose and treat diseases specifically. My healing strategy is to address every cell, tissue, organ, and system in the body simultaneously and non-specifically. I teach clients general health building principals that address all aspects of the body.

The typical general practitioner probably doesn’t know about functional lab tests or how to interpret them. Doctors are trained to follow certain standards like matching a set of symptoms to particular lab tests and specific pharmaceuticals. Further, if you don’t fit the conventional model of a patient warranting a particular test or set of tests, your doctor may tell you that the tests are not justified.

This conventional medical model is often a cycle of trial and error where treatment modalities are not addressing the underlying cause of the unwanted condition.

The sequence of trial and error looks something like this: a patient comes in with hypothyroidism symptoms (cold, thinning hair, tired, constipated, depresses, muscle achiness) → doctor runs a thyroid lab panel → doctor treats the test results with drugs → hypothyroidism symptoms may or may not resolve for a short period of time or drug dose may continually need adjusted → symptoms that were once treated often come back and new symptoms appear resulting in a new diagnosis or stronger treatment → cycle repeats. You see how the root cause of the hypothyroidism symptoms were never resolved. Additionally this is why I run multiple different tests that give us different information about the body. Because the hypothyroidism symptoms could be due to chronic stress, malnutrition, dysbiosis, leaky gut, etc. There can be multiple causes for your symptoms.