Western clinical nutritional therapy is used in conjunction with Functional medicine. This form of western medicine is a science-based field of health care that is quite similar to the philosophy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Based on the biochemical individuality of patients, it emphasizes "patient care" rather than "disease care." It is concerned with a dynamic balance of internal and external factors, and, supported by an abundance of research, views the human body as an orchestrated network of interconnected systems, rather than individual systems that function autonomously and without effect on each other.

Like Chinese medicine, Functional medicine believes that health manifests as a positive vitality, not merely the absence of a diseased state, and promotes organ reserve of this vitality as the means to enhance optimal health.

Through clinical nutritional testing, Functional medicine examines core clinical imbalances that underlie disease conditions. Imbalances arise from diet, nutrients (including air and water), exercise, and trauma, and are processed by one's body, mind, and spirit through a unique set of genetic predispositions, attitudes and beliefs. These imbalances can affect: hormones, neurotransmitters, digestion, absorption, microbiology, detoxification, structural, and immune system and contribute inflammation as well as nutritional deficiencies, and food sensitivities and intolerances.

Nutritional therapy uses diet, nutritional supplements, exercise, and lifestyle to change in the fundamental physiological processes of your body. Nutritional supplementation with highly specialized formulations of vitamins, herbs, antioxidants and minerals can optimize communication both outside and inside the cell; enhance the transformation of food into energy; encourage replication, repair, and maintenance of structural integrity, from the cellular to the whole-body level; optimize elimination of waste; strengthen protection and defense mechanisms; as well as facilitate the transportation of nutrients and general circulation. It is dedicated to improving the management of complex, chronic disease by intervening at multiple levels to restore each patient's functionality and health.

Functional medicine emphasizes patient education in the web-like interconnections of systems within the body. Focusing on the functionality of these systems, it directly addresses the need to transform the practice of primary care and its method of a single diagnosis and treatment for a single symptom.