Dear clients,
Please note that our office is now in suite 174 (main entrance: door 4000).
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WHAT IS FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE?
Have you ever consulted a healthcare professional and been told that there was nothing wrong, yet continue to feel ill?
Functional Medicine approaches healthcare by integrating knowledge from a wide range of academic and clinical disciplines. It treats illness and promotes vitality by focusing its assessment and intervention at the root-level metabolic imbalance. Functional Medicine improves and optimizes health by restoring, repairing, and rebuilding the balance between the body’s psychological, biochemical and structural systems.
Biography
Lucie Blouin acquired a Bachelor degree in Clinical Nutrition and is presently acquiring her Ph.D. In 2003, she graduated from AFMCP at the Functional Medicine Institute in Seattle. In 2005, Lucie Blouin was certified as a Doctor of Naturopathy. She was certified as a professional massotherapist in 1996 and has worked olympics athletes for 5 years. Lucie Blouin is also certified as a Lifestyle Coach in Firstline Therapy and in advance course in FSM (Frequency Specific Microcurrent).
She founded the first Functional Medicine Centre in Montreal in 2005 and her clinic is continuously expanding with up-date services and tests. In 2007, her clinic was recognized as “Excellence Centre” by the TLC Centres of Excellences organization in Seattle.
Since January 2009, Lucie Blouin has been among the first cohurt of practitioners moving toward a certification in Functional Medicine (CFMP*). In addition, she’s recently been officially certified in the NAET (Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Techniques) method.
The Consortium of Academic Health Centres for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM) defines integrative medicine as such:
<<...the practice of medicine that reaffirms the importance of the relationship between practitioner and patient, focuses on the whole person, is informed by evidence, and makes use of all appropriate therapeutic approaches, healthcare professionals and disciplines to achieve optimal health and healing.>>
Lucie Blouin: << My responsability is to offer personalized integrative functional medicine that consists of many other complexe issues such as biochemistry, physiology, genetic, and environmental individuality. I will assist you in your journey to well-being. My pleasure!>>
In the last years, Lucie Blouin was president of the Association des Naturopathes Agréés du Quebec (ANAQ) and had primary involvement in the creation of the Inspection Committee.
We are very proud to announce that she has been selected as the Functional Medicine professional to work with the Canadian Olympic athletes in the 2010, 2012, and future games. Congratulations!!!
*CFMP - Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner
Lucie Blouin, B.Sc, ND.A., CN, MTh
