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At Linden & Arc Vitality Institute, we bring an unprecedented focus to Functional Medicine, identifying and addressing the root cause of your symptoms or illness. Through detailed quantitative testing and in-depth analysis, we assess how your interconnecting biological functions – the relationships between genetics, lifestyle, and environments – influence your health. We’ll empower you with proactive, individualized, and scientific-based treatments that restore and improve your overall vitality and well-being.
Restorative Medicine.
Transformative Care.
By evaluating your imbalances using predictive and personalized testing, we can uncover the specific reasons for chronic inflammatory disorders. We’ll provide innovative treatments, such as detoxification and IV therapy that revitalize the energy powerhouses of your cells.
Although it is difficult to diagnose MCAS due to common overlapping symptoms, our physicians can administer advanced testing to solidify the diagnosis. Treatment can include eliminating triggers, specific dietary restrictions, and supplements that restore and stabilize mast cells. Symptoms may include:
CIRS is an extremely complex condition to navigate. It requires extensive testing to identify individual triggers, evidence-based treatments with sequential steps in each phase, and continuous tracking to manage, improve, and heal its causes. Root causes of CIRS may include:
Despite surpassing ‘standard’ infected periods, many people suffer from Post-COVID Syndrome (PCS), a set of new, returning, or ongoing symptoms that occur weeks after being infected with COVID-19. Our advanced testing can confirm and rule in or out similar chronic conditions, such as CIRS, offering accurate answers and providing a platform for personalized treatment.
Establishing the root causes of an unhappy gut may include removing allergens, bacteria, parasites, and food intolerances while consuming healthy enzymes and healing nutrients. Evaluating the microbiome of the gut allows the focused use of personalized and precise gut-healing programs that optimize digestion and absorption to improve your gut health while eliminating future issues.
Understanding how key body functions, such as your brain and immune system, affect your injury can help us get to the root of your symptoms. Neurofeedback therapy, hormonal balancing, and overhauling nutrition can provide solutions that restore and improve your brain’s power and capacity.
By testing your adrenals, thyroid hormone, and insulin levels, we can determine the best approach to bring your body back to balance. Treatments can include individualized supplementation, lifestyle changes (increased physical activity and reduced stress), and specific hormonal replacement. Advanced level testing that looks at brain chemicals (neurotransmitters), hormones (endocrine), and immune molecules (cytokines) can help assess how we bring your body back into balance.
We use our evolving skill-sets and knowledge to uncover the core reasons behind your reduced health capacity. Cutting-edge disciplinary approaches, such as optimizing hormones (including testosterone) and altering lifestyle choices, can proactively empower your performance.
Nutrition, exercise, stress, relaxation, relationships, and environmental exposures – each of these factors affects your key biological functions: gut health, brain power, heart vitality, immune system, hormone balance, and energy. Our approach is to observe the overall efficiency of each biological function in-depth, determining the imbalances that cause your illnesses. With a comprehensive timeline of your medical history, including genetics, symptoms, triggers, and mediators, we create a “matrix” map that focuses on the best course of individualized treatments that goes beyond the immediate symptoms to improve your physical and mental health.
As pioneers of science and transformative care, we bypass the one-size-fits-all approach to medical practices; instead, we focus on precision medicine, a new discipline for personalized healthcare. This innovative approach takes into account the individual variables in your genes, environments, and lifestyles. Through advanced testing in next-generation laboratories, we will provide you with a cutting-edge tailored treatment strategy that targets specific genetic characteristics, eliminating the core cause of illnesses while rejuvenating and restoring your health. Scientific, ground-breaking and accurate, you’ll experience the individualized care you deserve with our Functional Medicine in Calgary.
Functional Medicine is an evolution in the practice of medicine that better addresses the healthcare needs of patients. The approach is focused on determining and addressing root causes by focusing on the interconnecting web between genetics, social factors (such as diet, relationships, and lifestyle) and environmental exposures (such as airborne toxins) that influence your health and well-being. This discipline focuses on treating, improving and healing chronic conditions through a multidisciplinary treatment approach, resulting in complete health.
Mainstream medical practice does not focus on finding the root cause of problems; instead, it focuses on treating symptoms. Typical tests do not uncover food sensitivities, food allergies, inflammation, environmental toxins, nutritional deficiencies, and metabolic imbalances. Functional Medicine works differently. It focuses on addressing the whole person, not just the symptoms. Our access to modern genetic testing can help identify underlying genetic risks, modifying them through diet, supplements, medications, and other evidence-based treatments.
At Linden & Arc Vitality Institute, we base our practice on the Core Nodes of Healing Model. The model focuses on the patient as a whole, peeling back the layers of your health to expose the core of your health challenges. We use the seven core nodes, which are particular biological functions that work together to form a plan for health and healing. The seven nodes are: improving gut health; boosting brain power and mood; balancing hormones; enhancing detoxification; restoring heart vitality; optimizing immune balance, and increasing energy.
Yes! If you are suffering from chronic medical conditions, and taking too many prescription drugs, or want to optimize your health, Linden & Arc Vitality Institute can help. Our Calgary Functional Medicine doctors can provide you with an individualized treatment plan that is based on your unique medical scenario, so you’ll receive the care you deserve.
Our in-depth and detailed intake process builds a timeline of your history and health for us to address the origins of your health challenges. We use targeted questions centred on Mind-Body-Soul-Spirit wellness, gathering information related to your individual antecedents (i.e. genetics), triggers (i.e. stressful events) and mediators (i.e. ongoing perpetuating factors) while utilizing innovative diagnostic testing and a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach. We will display which nodes must be addressed and what changes are needed to promote and restore complete health.
Yes, since the pandemic, virtual meetings have been more common with professional business platforms, such as Zoom. Even though we can do initial consultations virtually, we do not diagnose or treat without the patient travelling to Calgary to undergo a thorough assessment by the team. Once you have done the in-person assessments in Calgary, our team may offer advice and consultation via Zoom. You must visit the office once per calendar year in order to remain a patient of the clinic.
Alternatively, we can offer health coaching services that offer health advice but not medical care, diagnosis or treatment. The health coaching services we offer do not take the place of medical diagnosis and treatment.
We support all Canadians seeking better health. Note: At the moment, Dr. Murfin is seeing Alberta patients only. For residents of all provinces, we can offer health coaching services that offer health advice but not medical care, diagnosis or treatment. The health coaching services we offer do not take the place of medical diagnosis and treatment.
Center 70, #280
7015 Macleod Trail SW
Calgary, Alberta
T2H 2K6
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