“Functional medicine looks at the body as an interconnected complex of biochemical processes; like dominoes, if you knock one down, everything else has a knock-on effect,” says Katia Demekhina, who practises nutritional therapy, a form of functional medicine, at Integrated Medicine Institute Hong Kong.
Demekhina, 42, treats symptoms experienced by many Hongkongers—from the physical, like bloating and lack of energy, to the psychological, like burnout. She also specialises in women’s health issues. “Our job is to find where the problem begins, and nutrition is a way to optimise the body’s function.”
While our bodies have an innate ability to heal, in order to do so, we need to give them the tools, says Demekhina. Besides nutrition, minimising excess demands on the body—like living in a polluted environment or going through…
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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2023