Palm Beach Functional Medicine
A Professional Approach to Care
Palm Beach Functional Medicine is specifically designed for driven individuals who are deeply committed to their health and well-being, proactively seeking to understand and pursue whole body health and functionality. These patients are willing to invest the necessary time, energy, and resources into a comprehensive, personalized approach in a holistic and functional model that goes beyond managing symptoms to achieve true, sustainable wellness. They are motivated by a desire not only to feel better, but also to thrive at their optimal level of health. Successful management of such cases requires appropriate testing, diagnosis, financial commitment, and realistic clinical expectations, including lifestyle modifications.
Commitment to Long-Term Health: Achieving and maintaining optimal health is a journey that requires consistent effort, and they are dedicated to working closely with their healthcare team over the long term. They view healthcare as a proactive, ongoing process rather than a one-time fix.
Willingness to Make Lifestyle Changes: Ideal patients are open to making necessary lifestyle adjustments, such as adopting new dietary habits, engaging in regular exercise, improving sleep quality, and managing stress. They recognize the importance of these changes in supporting their overall health and are willing to implement them consistently.
Engagement and Active Participation: Ideal patients are highly engaged in their care process. They actively participate in their treatment plans, prepared to ask questions, seeking to understand their health conditions, and follow through with recommended protocols, including tests, treatments, and therapies.
Open to a Holistic Approach: Ideal patients are receptive to a holistic approach integrating conventional medical practices with evidence-based and clinically proven complementary therapies, willing to explore and utilize various modalities such as nutrition, supplements, biometrics and labs, health coaching to achieve comprehensive health outcomes.
Eager for Education and Self-Empowerment: Ideal patients are curious, eager to learn, and take an active role in their health journey. They value education and empowerment and seek to understand the "why" behind their symptoms and the recommended interventions. They are informed decision-makers who value collaboration with their healthcare providers.
Resilience and Patience: Ideal patients possess a high level of resilience and patience, understanding that functional medicine often involves a deeper investigation into their health, which may take time to yield results. They are willing to trust the process, even when immediate improvements are not always visible.
Personal Responsibility and Accountability: Ideal patients take personal accountability and responsibility for their health outcomes. They understand that their actions, choices, and behaviors play a significant role in their overall well-being and are willing to be accountable for following their care plan diligently.
Trust in the Functional Medicine Model: Ideal patients have confidence in the functional medicine and professional health coaching model and trust the research and their healthcare providers. They believe in the value of personalized care and the need for individualized solutions that address the unique complexities of their health.
Chronic conditions we see in patients visiting our clinic:
We believe there is a specific, natural hierarchy to high quality healthcare, one that fundamentally begins by measuring and managing the powerful relationship between a patient, their unique environment and their lifestyle. Regardless of where we meet our patients on the spectrum of the human experience, we first examine them in context: their lifestyle habits including nutrition, exercise, stress, and sleep.
Once we understand their fundamentals, we design a professionally tailored and encompassing care plan fully integrating all the important lifestyle-based elements in mind and though our health coaching sessions offer an ongoing bridge of support and accountability throughout the entire journey.
As Sir William Osler taught, “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” Every patient has their own story. Each unique story has the potential to be rich in achievement and robust in fulfilment, transcending any limitation from a preventable illness and infirmity. Live limitless, pursue your own Arête, and leave no stories left untold.
✓ Acne
✓ Allergies
✓ Alzheimer’s Disease & Dementia
✓ Arthritis
✓ Asthma
✓ ADD/ADHD
✓ Autism Spectrum Disorder
✓ Autoimmune Disease
✓ Cancer
✓ Cardiovascular disorders
✓ Chronic Disease
✓ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
✓ Chronic Pain
✓ Chronic Sinusitis
✓ Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
✓ Depression, Anxiety or Bipolar Disorder
✓ Detoxification Support
✓ Diabetes
✓ Digestive disorders (IBD/IBS, GERD/Reflux)
✓ Eating Disorders
✓ Eczema/Psoriasis
✓ Elevated Cholesterol
✓ Environmental and Food Allergies
✓ Fatigue
✓ Female Disorders (PMS, Menopause, Infertility, PCOS)
✓ Fibromyalgia
✓ Gluten Sensitivity
✓ Healthy Aging
✓ Heart (Cardiovascular) Health
✓ Hypertension
✓ Hormone Balance
✓ Infections (acute and chronic low-grade such as Lyme, Candidiasis etc.)
✓ Insomnia and Sleep Disorders
✓ Interstitial Cystitis
✓ Male disorders/Low Testosterone
✓ Mercury and Heavy Metal Toxicity
✓ Metabolic Syndrome (pre-diabetes, insulin resistance)
✓ Migraines and Headaches
✓ Multiple Sclerosis
✓ Neurodegenerative disorders
✓ Obesity
✓ Osteoporosis
✓ Parkinson’s Disease
✓ Restless Leg Syndrome
✓ Sleep/Insomnia
✓ Skin Disorders
✓ Stress-related Conditions
✓ Thyroid, adrenal and other hormonal disorders
✓ Weight Management or Metabolism concerns
Dr. McCloskey works as a functional medicine provider in conjunction with your current health care team and is not considered a replacement for your primary care physician. He requires all new patients to have a primary care physician to cover emergencies, routine care and screening.