Overview
Functional medicine often uses an analogy regarding water overflowing a sink and running onto the floor while someone tries to mop up the water from the floor. The water on the floor represents the symptoms of troublesome health conditions. The person mopping the floor represents traditional medicine addressing only the symptoms of poor health while ignoring the actual cause of the conditions. The point is that traditional medicine does a relatively poor job of addressing chronic health problems, while functional medicine works to turn off the root cause of symptoms (the faucet).
Multiple Faucets
Turning off the faucet is the first step needed to reduce the symptoms, but this analogy simplifies the source of chronic symptoms into one faucet, when the reality is that people with chronic health conditions probably have multiple issues contributing to a clogged sink.
To address the faucet, all of the issues contributing to the symptoms have to be identified, mitigated and managed. ATP Reset prioritizes the faucets running into the sink, focusing on the major issues to reduce symptoms and help the body respond to health challenges.
Opening the Drain
This analogy also only focuses on just turning off the faucet when there are actually two components to the water on the floor: the running faucet and the dysfunctional drain. The dysfunctional drain doesn’t allow the sink to drain properly and forces the water to run onto the floor, (the chronic symptoms).
Effectively mitigating and managing chronic conditions involves addressing the causes of poor health and clearing them from the system in various ways such as supporting the liver and lymphatic system to “open the drain.” ATP Reset is focused on helping patients addressing and clearing chronic health issues.
The Hidden Faucet
Chronic conditions often set up shop where there is an opportunity, which is why dental can frequently be a “hidden faucet.” Few providers are investigating potential dental issues and treating dental issues can be difficult because they are essentially “walled off” from treatment, meaning that unless they are physically corrected, dental issues can be a breeding ground to reseed chronic symptoms.
The hidden faucet of dental issues could explain why some people recover from chronic conditions and then relapse. Treating the rest of the body without treating dental is like putting out a fire in a house but leaving one room smoldering. It is just a matter of time before the rest of the house catches fire again. ATP Rest works with biological dentists to effectively address dental issues.
Summary
ATP Reset doesn’t discount traditional medicine. It is important to mop up the water on the floor. The long-term objective, however, should be to reduce and possibility eliminate the water overflowing from the sink. ATP Reset seeks to accomplish this by identifying and addressing the multiple faucets likely responsible for chronic health issues and helping the patient to open their drain to facilitate clearing their system.