Pittsburgh Center for Functional Medicine

About Pittsburgh Center for Functional Medicine

This is the central question that drives us at Pittsburgh Center for Functional Medicine. WHY does a specific person have a specific set of chronic health concerns? Our American healthcare system, while vitally important and second to none in addressing acute and urgent medical needs, is not inherently designed to answer the question of WHY. Complex chronic diseases do not just suddenly appear – they subversively arise from a dynamic imbalance of genetic, dietary, iatrogenic (medically induced), microbial, environmental, social, emotional and lifestyle factors that vary between individual people. We need a complimentary medical paradigm that specializes in identifying and re-balancing the myriad of underlying root cause factors from which illness arises. Functional Medicine is an evolution in the practice of medicine that better addresses the healthcare needs of the 21st century. By shifting from the traditional “disease-centered” focus of modern medical practice to a more patient-cent

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Providers at this practice

• Dr. DAvid Lobur, MD · MD · Family Medicine
• Dr. Notre Dame, MD · MD