The Renewal Method

Supplement fatigue is real.
Supplements should be chosen from your symptoms and your lab results, not stacked one on top of another.
Adding more without results costs money and, worse, it costs you emotionally while you keep suffering.
Dr. Rebala’s first job with a bag of supplements on the desk: sort them.

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With Dr. Lakshmi Rebala

Normal is not the same as optimal.
Functional medicine reads conventional labs for the optimal range, not just the normal one.
Depending on symptoms, that can mean gut testing, hormone testing, organic acid testing or genetic testing.
It depends on what the patient needs.

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With Dr. Lakshmi Rebala

Functional medicine is not anti-doctor.
Dr. Rebala still practices nephrology, in the hospital and the clinic, alongside functional medicine.
A ruptured appendix, an overwhelming infection, a car accident - you need conventional medicine, and it is very good at that.
Where it falls short is managing chronic conditions. There is a time and place for both.

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With Dr. Lakshmi Rebala

Two decades of nephrology, then functional medicine.
Three extra years of training and twenty years of managing chronic conditions, inpatient and outpatient.
Patients arrive with several chronic conditions at once, and the skill is seeing through the clutter to what matters most.
That is where her training does the work.

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With Dr. Lakshmi Rebala

Functional medicine is not one magic pill.
Influencers sell one test or one supplement as the miracle fix.
Patients who are already seeing multiple doctors and still have symptoms keep buying the next one, and the next.
It is a comprehensive approach, and the supplements should be the ones your body actually needs.

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With Dr. Lakshmi Rebala

One thing Dr. Rebala believes in is to wear her medical detective hat to find the root cause of the problem. For example, in her own words, the root cause of depression could be something else, so before we start using prescriptions, we need to look at the root cause of it.

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Functional medicine is more than a term. Here is a little to help you understand by Dr. Rebala.

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Root cause medicine or functional medicine is just an extension of the traditional medicine so we can really fill the gaps in people’s healthcare journeys.

I really felt I wanted to help patients start their care journey decades before they come with severe conditions, that’s a big reason why I do, what I do - Dr. Lakshmi Rebala