Functional Medicine in Santa Fe
Providing our patients with quality holistic healthcare for life is our passion at ElleWell. If you feel like something is “off,” but you don’t feel sick enough to see a doctor, a functional medicine doctor like Dr. Elle Salko is often a good place to start!
What Is It?
Function medicine looks at how all the systems of the body work together. It focuses on using modifiable lifestyle factors, such as diet, exercise, mind/body techniques and meditation, as well as physical medicine like chiropractic, massage and acupuncture to help the body restore and heal itself naturally.
Conditions Helped
Making lifestyle modifications based on a functional medicine assessment is often helpful with issues such as:
- Weight loss
- Metabolic syndrome issues
- Diabetes
- High blood pressure
- Hormone imbalances
- High thyroid
- Estrogen imbalances
- Progesterone imbalances
- Chronic pain
- Chronic fatigue
- Inflammatory processes
- Autoimmune issues
- Headaches
Customized Care
Your care will be tailored to your specific condition and needs. For example, for most patients, we begin by looking at gut health, which helps to reduce inflammation and allow the body to begin to heal itself. If stress is an issue, we will work on ways to modify your stress levels. Our approach is always multifaceted in order to help you find the best solutions for your unique situation.
What to Expect
We begin with a very thorough health history, going all the way back to your birth. We look at all the factors (called antecedents, mediators and triggers) that may have caused the issues in your life. Based on this information, we may recommend bloodwork, gut biome testing or a variety of other assessments to get a clearer picture of your condition and the best routes to address it.
Get Back to Health Today
Dr. Elle received her functional medicine training at the prestigious Institute for Functional Medicine®, and she looks forward to helping you achieve your health goals! Book today.
