What is functional medicine?

Free yourself from insurance deductibles and co-pays. There is a better way to manage your healthcare costs and achieve high quality, personalized care.

CH&W does not bill any third-party medical insurance, instead we focus on patient care and pass the savings on to our clients. We do accept HSA, FSA, and VEBA on a very limited basis.

New Patient Visits

Our new patient prices vary based on each individual’s needs and wellness goals. For more information on pricing please call the office at 509-350-8928 or fill out the form below. The more information you can give us the better so feel free to leave a long message.

Ask us about special discounts for affiliated gyms, fire fighters, law enforcement, emergency services, and military.

What do we specialize in?

Why did we choose Functional Medicine?

Functional medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. Functional medicine practitioners spend more time with their patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions between environmental, lifestyle, and genetic factors that influence health.

The functional medicine practitioner will consider multiple factors, including:

• Environmental inputs: The air you breathe and the water you drink, the diet you eat, the quality of the food available to you, your level of physical activity, and toxic exposures or traumas you have experienced affect your health and well-being.

• Mind-body connections: Psychological, spiritual, and social factors can all have a profound influence on your health. Considering these areas helps the functional medicine practitioner see your health in the context of you as a whole person, not just your physical symptoms.

• Genetic makeup: Although individual genes may make you more susceptible to some diseases, your DNA is not an unchanging blueprint for your life. Emerging research shows that your genes may be influenced by your environment, as well as your experiences, attitudes, and beliefs. That means it is possible to change the way genes are activated and expressed. By understanding the genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors unique to each person, a functional medicine practitioner can identify which bodily processes are affected. Some occur at the cellular level and involve how cells function, repair, and maintain themselves. Others are related to how your body processes and uses nutrients.

These processes include:

• How your body rids itself of toxins

• Regulation of hormones and neurotransmitters (nerve messengers)

• Immune system function

Functional medicine practitioners promote wellness by focusing on the

fundamental underlying factors that influence every patient’s experience

of health and disease.