EP 2: The Progressive Medical Model

On this episode, you will hear from Dr. Gez Agolli, the founder of Progressive Medical Center and Dr. Cheryl Burdette , an Integrative Medical Doctor at Progressive Medical Center and the educational Director of Dunwoody Laboratory.

In today’s episode you will learn:

1. What is the Progressive Paradigm?
2. How environmental toxins impact our bodies.
3. The importance of detoxes & functional foods.
4. How to shut down chronic inflammation.
5. The size of your gut.
6. What your gut has in common with Roger Federer’s sport of choice.
7. Why or why not you should strive for perfect nutrition?
8. The effect your gut has on your mental health.
9. Why the variety of medical tests offered at Progressive Medical Center separates them from other Medical practices.

Thank you so much for listening to The Progressive Medical Edge!

Functional medicine is a systems biology-based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease. Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of many contributing to an individual’s illness. The precise manifestation of each cause depends on the individual’s genes, environment, and lifestyle, and only treatments that address the right cause will have lasting benefit beyond symptom suppression ¹.

Integrative medicine focuses on you as a whole person and not just your illness or disease. While it seeks to understand the underlying cause of your symptoms or condition, it does so by looking at your complete mind, body and spirit. Integrative medicine uses an evidence-based approach to improve your health and wellness. Integrative medicine believes your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs affect your health. It believes those needs rely on each other and affect your entire well-being ².

While functional medicine focuses on creating individualized therapies tailored to treat underlying causes of illness, integrative medicine seeks to understand the individual as a whole and applies many forms of therapy to improve wellness ³. Integrative medicine aims for well-coordinated care among different providers and specialists. It brings together conventional healthcare approaches (like medication and psychotherapy) and complementary therapies (like acupuncture and yoga). In this way, integrative medicine “integrates” all aspects of your well-being to achieve optimal health and healing ².

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