Conventional medicine and functional medicine aren't competing philosophies — they're built to answer different questions.

Conventional medicine asks: what condition matches these symptoms, and how do we treat it? It's the model most of us grew up with, and it's genuinely unmatched for acute care—emergencies, infections, injuries, anything that needs a fast, decisive intervention.

Functional medicine asks a different question: why is this happening in your body in the first place? Instead of starting from a diagnosis, it starts by looking at how your body's systems—hormones, digestion, metabolism, stress response—interact and influence each other. That makes it especially well suited for the kind of persistent, hard-to-pin-down symptoms that don't resolve with a standard treatment plan.

Neither approach replaces the other. Dr. Vyas' functional medicine model is designed to work alongside conventional care—using it where it's needed, and going further where it's not enough.