“Functional medicine is about causes, not symptoms.  It is about getting to the root of the problem."

- Mark Hyman, MD

Firefly Health is a medical practice that embraces the whole patient through the functional medicine lens.  Functional medicine differs from conventional medicine in the way it views health and disease.  Functional medicine sees the healthy state as interconnected physiologic systems that work in balance with each other, as opposed to separate systems that function independently.  These systems can be pushed into imbalance by a variety of underlying factors, resulting in dysfunction or disease. The functional medicine approach seeks to find and remove what causes imbalance, as well as provide that which creates balance. 

The goal of our practice is to optimize health and improve or reverse disease using a personalized approach.   We assess and treat the root cause of a disease or imbalance through individually tailored therapies.  Much of this work is based in nutrition and lifestyle.

Firefly Health is considered a consult service and works in conjunction with, not in lieu of, one’s primary care doctor.  We see patients who range from wanting to prevent disease and feel the best they can, to patients who are not having the results they would like to have with their current care, to others who want to add or try a more holistic approach.