Services
Are you frustrated by lack of answers about your poor health?
Are you suffering with:
- Fatigue
- Brain Fog
- Weight problems
- Thinning hair of hair loss (alopecia)
- Poor memory
- Skin problems like eczema/psoriasis
- Joint pain/swelling and muscle aches
- Headaches (tension, migraine, ect)
- Stomach bloating, pain, or nausea
- Heartburn
- Chronic constipation or diarrhea
- Food intolerances
If any of these symptoms are a part of your everyday life then it's time to find out WHY. Signs and symptoms are where your problems are felt, few doctors ask why your symptoms have been present or where they may have come from. Dr. Alden doesn't "chase" after or just try to treat your symptoms, he investigates what the mechanism may be dysfunctioning or where the pathway is that is causing your problems.
Lab Testing
Comprehensive lab testing ordered through Rupa Labs usually includes a CBC, CMP, Lipid Panel, a Complete Thyroid Panel, A1c, CRP hs, Hormone Panel and Homocysteine is considered the routine blood test at East Coast Functional Medicine.
Cyrex Laboratories stands behind their Four Pillars of Excellence to provide quality behind every test. Cyrex Labs' ELISA testing is considered the Gold Standard for antigen/antibody detection.
- Antigen Purification System
- Optimized Antigen Concentration
- Antigen-Specific Validation
- Parallel Testing Technology
Genova offers numerous choices for intestinal problems identified through stool and blood along with saliva and urine samples that are specific to hormones and neurotransmitters.
Nutrients
Apex Energetics offers unparalleled quality and research that goes into the development of the nutrients offered by Dr. Alden to help assist the restoration of function to the many physiological pathways involved with metabolic disorders.
Computerized brain health assessments
SportGait offers comprehensive brain health assessments that accurately measure core elements of cognitive function, including memory, attention, reasoning and verbal abilities. Dr. Alden will use these measures to assess, monitor and manage core areas of cognition that are key to mental health and wellness. Along with functional measures related to gait, balance and VOMS to coordinate evaluation and management of brain injuries and post-concussion syndrome.
Traumatic Brain Injury Testing and Treatment
Atlas Concussion Testing was co-founded by Dr. Alden in 2016 to offer state of the art biomarkers that can objectively measure blood brain barrier permeability, which occurs during concussive events. They have also designed testing and treatment protocols that have been successfully implemented for retired athletes suffering with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). Dr. Alden speaks/teaches his Predict, Prevent, and Prevail over CTE to health care professionals all over the country on his mission to "Save as many brains as possible, by changing the paradigm of concussion management, globally".
Frequently asked questions
The most common question that people ask is: "What is functional medicine?"
Functional Medicine is quite simply looking for the cause or trigger of a metabolic condition; once the dysfunctional pathway or organ tissue is identified, then we seek to find the cause/trigger and finally modulate the system. By bringing balance to the human system, usually through the combination of the neuro-endocrine-immune complex, functional health is restored.