The six principles of functional medicine include:

1. • An understanding of the biochemical individuality of each human being, based on the concepts of genetic and environmental uniqueness.
   • Awareness of the evidence that supports a patient-centered rather than a disease-centered approach to treatment.
   • Search for a dynamic balance among the internal and external body, mind, and spirit.
   • Familiarity with the web-like interconnections of internal physiological factors.
   • Identification of health as a positive vitality, (not merely the absence of disease), emphasizing those factors that encourage the enhancement of a vigorous physiology.
   • Promotion of organ reserve as the means to enhance the health span, not just the life span, of each patient.