FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE SPECIALIST
DR ROBIN KOHLER
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For me, family is everything. It's what gets me up with a smile in the morning, and what motivates me through the day. Not just my own beautiful family, but the incredible families I meet every day as I have the privilege of trying to help them navigate their health challenges. It humbles me to see the strength and resilience of families placed under extreme pressure by health concerns. There is no greater healing force than the love, support and strength of family.
Helping these incredible people is what makes my job the best job in the world. |
What I Do
I qualified formally as a registered homeopath, but I found my true passion when I discovered Functional Medicine. I was drawn to its foundational concept of treating the cause of disease, not just the symptoms. Functional medicine looks at the body in terms of its major functional systems. When disease strikes, its because some process has broken down in one or more of these systems. The job of the Functional Practitioner is to track down where the breakdowns have happened, and figure out how function can be restored using targeted nutritional, herbal, homeopathic or lifestyle interventions.
This way of treating patients means that not only are symptoms improved, but the patient becomes healthier and more resilient to future disease. Through the functional medicine lens, there is hope of improvement for even the most debilitating chronic diseases, because we are not diagnoses. We are not the sum of our symptoms. We are complex unfolding stories, and every action we take can change how our story continues to unfold.
One of my core beliefs is that patients should be empowered to become champions of their own health. I want every patient that leaves my office to be armed with tools the tools and knowledge to heal themselves.
This way of treating patients means that not only are symptoms improved, but the patient becomes healthier and more resilient to future disease. Through the functional medicine lens, there is hope of improvement for even the most debilitating chronic diseases, because we are not diagnoses. We are not the sum of our symptoms. We are complex unfolding stories, and every action we take can change how our story continues to unfold.
One of my core beliefs is that patients should be empowered to become champions of their own health. I want every patient that leaves my office to be armed with tools the tools and knowledge to heal themselves.
My Tools
Iridology: Understanding the clues hidden in the iris and sclera provides a powerful tool to help guide my investigations. The iris can point to the role of past traumas, hereditary weaknesses, and current stresses in a disease state.
Live Blood analysis: A single drop of living blood, drawn from a tiny pinprick and viewed under a phase contrast microscope, can reveal a world of information about the state of your nutrition, metabolism and immune activity.
Onsite Laboratory: Perfect Health has invested in a suite of high end laboratory-standard diagnostic tools that allow me to test a range of biomarkers safely and accurately during your consultation. Using the clues gleaned from iridological assessment, live blood analysis, a detailed history and physical examination, I can narrow down the diagnostic possibilities and use carefully targeted laboratory tests to arrive at a clear picture of your health. We collaborate with a range of local laboratories for tests that we cannot perform in house.
Nutrigenomic Screening: Recent science has shown us that while we can't change our genes, we can change how they are expressed. Knowing your genetic predispositions, and what you can do to downplay your weaknesses and ramp up your strengths, can be a powerful tool in mastering your health.
Organic Acid Analysis: This powerful and non-invasive test analyses metabolites in the urine to provide deep insight into an individuals current metabolic health and the factors that are affecting it.
Live Blood analysis: A single drop of living blood, drawn from a tiny pinprick and viewed under a phase contrast microscope, can reveal a world of information about the state of your nutrition, metabolism and immune activity.
Onsite Laboratory: Perfect Health has invested in a suite of high end laboratory-standard diagnostic tools that allow me to test a range of biomarkers safely and accurately during your consultation. Using the clues gleaned from iridological assessment, live blood analysis, a detailed history and physical examination, I can narrow down the diagnostic possibilities and use carefully targeted laboratory tests to arrive at a clear picture of your health. We collaborate with a range of local laboratories for tests that we cannot perform in house.
Nutrigenomic Screening: Recent science has shown us that while we can't change our genes, we can change how they are expressed. Knowing your genetic predispositions, and what you can do to downplay your weaknesses and ramp up your strengths, can be a powerful tool in mastering your health.
Organic Acid Analysis: This powerful and non-invasive test analyses metabolites in the urine to provide deep insight into an individuals current metabolic health and the factors that are affecting it.
