To help understand what a functional nutrition approach looks like, I like to explain it by having you visualize a tree. The leaves and branches of the tree are the signs and symptoms, and even diagnosed health conditions that a person experiences. For example, asthma, autoimmune conditions, aches, pains, mood concerns, fatigue, irritable bowel type complaints and hormonal imbalances. All of these, and many more are signs, symptoms and diagnoses that are the outward expressions of imbalances within the body.
From experience, despite there being potentially many branches, with thousands of leaves, typically there are only three roots that have allowed these branches and leaves to grow. These are: