{"id":18256,"date":"2019-11-18T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T09:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/functionalnutritionlab.com\/blog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:52:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:52:57","slug":"functional-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/blog\/functional-question","title":{"rendered":"Functional Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Listen to this post instead!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/716774413&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Functional question is a question about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/articles\/terrain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">terrain<\/a>\u2014it\u2019s a question about the person. It&#8217;s not a question about the diagnosis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Functional question uses the principles of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/articles\/how-to-make-empathy-an-asset-instead-of-a-liability-in-your-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Functional empathy<\/a> as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/articles\/functional-nutrition-matrix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Functional Nutrition Matrix<\/a> to make inquiries that lead to information about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/articles\/bioindividuality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bioindividuality<\/a> of the client. Asking the Functional questions more readily leads to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/articles\/root-cause\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">root cause<\/a> resolutions and addresses what Dr. Dale Bredesen has termed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/articles\/36-holes-in-the-roof\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">36 holes<\/a> in the roof. (Which of those holes might we need to plug?)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms don\u2019t arise in a vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>Signs and symptoms only arise in an environment that has the perfect conditions for them to occur. Dr. Jeffrey Bland often says that \u201cdisease starts with dysfunction.\u201d There are triggers and precipitating events that result in the appearance of a diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>Dysfunction often only results from <em>myriad<\/em> insults.<\/p>\n<p>Those insults can be physical, physiological, psychological, spiritual, cognitive and more. These provocations may materialize in one individual over time or simultaneously, yet together they cloud the waters of care\u2014until we learn to think Functionally.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the coexisting conditions, manifesting together (and yet unique to the individual), that not only lead to a singular diagnosis, but also to the challenges that many of us practitioners experience in healthcare, particularly for those with chronic health challenges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Functional questions acknowledge that one-size-does-not-fit-all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[bctt tweet=&#8221;A Functional question is about the person, not the diagnosis.&#8221; username=&#8221;AndreaNakayama&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>A Functional practitioner knows how to dig deeper, look upstream, and ask, \u201cWhy is the environment in this individual perfect for this particular symptom or condition?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once the terrain is understood, it <em>can<\/em> be shifted.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA gardener sees the world as a system of interdependent parts\u2014where healthy, sustaining relationships are essential to the vitality of the whole\u2026A real gardener is not a person who cultivates flowers, but a person who cultivates the soil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Karel Capek<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thinking Functionally is like being a &#8220;real gardener&#8221;\u2014a gardener who cultivates the \u201csoil\u201d in an individual\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>I also like to think of the Functional question like a yogi thinks about mindfulness. Instead of an equation where a problem leads to a reaction, we insert a pause.<\/p>\n<p>It looks something like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/HNL-blog-functional-questions-graphic-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-425 size-full\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/HNL-blog-functional-questions-graphic-2.jpg\" alt=\"Functional question flowchart \" width=\"1300\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A question such as \u201cwhat do I do for a client who has lupus?\u201d is not a Functional question. A question like \u201cwhere should I start with a client who is exhausted, is a new mom, is reacting to myriad foods and who was recently diagnosed with lupus?\u201d starts to be more Functionally oriented.<\/p>\n<p>Now see if you can turn your question into a Functional question.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking functionally starts with true empathy. not just their diagnosis, \u2014and it starts with knowing the right questions to ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to this post instead! A Functional question is a question about the terrain\u2014it\u2019s a question about the person. It&#8217;s not a question about the diagnosis. A Functional question uses the principles of Functional empathy as well as the Functional Nutrition Matrix to make inquiries that lead to information about the bioindividuality of the client. 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