Cultivating the Optimal Conditions for Health and Well-Being. |
Integrative-Functional Medicine of Reno
Cultivating the Optimal Conditions for Health and Well-Being. |
For almost three decades as a healthcare professional, Sherri Aikin, MSN, FNP-BC, IFMCP, a Fellow of Integrative Medicine (University of Arizona, Tucson), Certified with the Institute of Functional Medicine (ifm.org), Certified Fellow of Integrative Psychiatry (pyschiatryinstitute.com(IPI)), enrolled candidate of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training (IPI) and Board Certified Nurse Practitioner has developed and acquired a broad range of differentiated skills and experience in treating patients with expertise and compassion.
Sherri has extensive traditional sciences background and training in family practice, gynecology and gastroenterology. Combined with her additional comprehensive resume of educational training and experience in the fields of Integrative and Functional Medicine, Sexology, and Mindfulness, it gives her a breadth and depth of patient-care capabilities unique in the Reno-Tahoe area. Sherri has helped thousands of patients find the power to create and sustain their own health and sees health as a multidimensional and interconnected system. She relies on a whole-systems approach and brings her knowledge and passion for Functional Medicine to patients ready to embrace an integrated balance of mind-body-spirit. |
Genetic Makeup Although individual genes may make you more susceptible to some diseases, your DNA is not an unchanging blueprint of your life. Emerging research shows that your genes may be influenced by everything in your environment, as well as your experiences, attitudes, and beliefs. This means it is possible to change the way genes are activated and expressed. |
Through assessment of these underlying causes and triggers of dysfunction, the Functional Medicine practitioner is able to understand how key processes are affected. These are the body’s processes that keep you alive. Some occur at the cellular level and involve how cells function, repair, and maintain themselves.
These processes are related to larger functions, such as:
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A Comprehensive Approach to Treatment
Most imbalances in functionality can be addressed; some can be completely restored to optimum function, and others can be substantially improved.
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Prevention is Paramount
Virtually every complex, chronic disease is preceded by long-term disturbances in functionality that can be identified and effectively managed.
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Changing How the Systems Function Can Have a Major Impact on the Patient’s Health
Sherri examines a wide array of available interventions and customizes a treatment plan including those with the most impact on underlying functionality.
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Functional Medicine Expands the Clinician’s Toolkit
Treatments may include combinations of drugs, botanical medicines, nutritional supplements, therapeutic diets, or detoxification programs. They may also include counseling on lifestyle, exercise, or stress-management techniques.
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The Patient Becomes a Partner
As a patient, you become an active partner with Sherri. Such a partnership allows you to be in charge of improving your own health and changing the outcome of disease.
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Effective February, 2024, I will have some limited availability for in-person visits on Wednesdays only. Office location: 6630 South McCarran Blvd., B-18, Reno, Nevada 89509. In-person visits are scheduled through ChARM. Testimonials"Throughout my 40s, I sought help from different professionals for perimenopausal and relationship issues. In Sherri, I found a trusted guide to help me navigate the turbulent waters...." |