New England Wellness Center functional and integrative approach to medicine and untimely, your health, looks to define, understand, and treat root cause dysfunction. Metabolic syndrome is a multi-system dysfunction driven by inflammation, insulin resistance, and environmental/lifestyle imbalances. Treatment focuses on root causes—nutrition, gut health, stress, toxins, hormones, and mitochondrial health—rather than only symptom control. 

Unlike conventional medicine, we do not see it as a single disease but as a cluster of interconnected dysfunctions driven by underlying imbalances in key physiological systems. Though looking at and testing each of your physiological systems, we restore balance to the entirety of you.

How is that done, you may be wondering. Through our functional medicine lens, we understand metabolic syndrome is a manifestation of deep-root causes such as chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, gut microbiome imbalance (dysbiosis), poor detoxification capacity, nutrient deficiencies, hormonal dysregulation (especially insulin, cortisol, thyroid, and sex hormones), as well as lifestyle and environmental factors. 

So, the functional medicine perspective defines metabolic syndrome as a systemic metabolic dysfunction resulting from cumulative imbalances in energy metabolism, inflammation, and signaling pathways.

The goal is root-cause resolution—not just controlling blood sugar, lipids, or blood pressure with medications, but restoring the underlying balance in metabolism and inflammation. We aid in the creation of your personalized nutrition plan to reduce insulin resistance, inflammation, and oxidative stress. Along with optimizing your nutrition, we optimize your gut health, testing for gut microbiome imbalances and intestinal permeability. 

Environmental toxins can impair mitochondrial and hormonal function. Through lab testing, we can assess your exposure to heavy metals, plastics, and pesticides, as well as mold and other environmental toxins. Advanced testing enables us to assess your body’s mitochondrial function and optimize it through supplementation, hormones, and peptides.  Along with supporting optimal mitochondrial function, we balance your hormones, addressing insulin, cortisol (stress), thyroid, and sex hormones.

Functional medicine uses continuous feedback—tracking biomarkers, symptoms, and lifestyle factors—to refine treatment dynamically.

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