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Conventional medicine typically addresses pain by managing symptoms: prescribing anti-inflammatories, muscle relaxants, or pain medications. While these approaches offer temporary relief, they rarely investigate why the pain is occurring in the first place. The result is a cycle of recurring flare-ups, dose increases, and mounting frustration. Functional medicine takes a fundamentally different stance. Instead of asking only what is hurting, it asks why the body is producing that pain signal at all. Pain is almost always a downstream message from upstream dysfunction, whether that is gut permeability, chronic low-grade inflammation, mitochondrial inefficiency, or hormonal disruption. By tracing the signal back to its source, treatment becomes genuinely corrective rather than merely palliative. This is why so many patients who have tried everything finally find answers through a root cause analysis approach.
Pain that persists for weeks, months, or years is rarely a single-cause problem. At the cellular level, chronic pain commonly involves neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and dysregulated immune responses. Nutritional deficiencies, particularly in magnesium, vitamin D, B vitamins, and omega-3 fatty acids, can significantly amplify pain sensitivity. Hormonal imbalances, including low cortisol, thyroid dysfunction, or estrogen fluctuations, alter the body’s pain threshold. Gut dysbiosis and intestinal permeability allow inflammatory molecules to circulate systemically, sensitizing pain pathways throughout the body. Epigenetic factors and family health history further shape how a person’s body responds to these stressors. Dr. Bakarmos integrates advanced nutritional research, genomics, and epigenetics to map out exactly which of these mechanisms is driving your specific pain pattern, because no two patients are biochemically identical.
The treatment process begins with a free 15-minute introductory consultation to assess fit and understand your health history. A comprehensive diagnostic phase follows, covering nutrition, hormones, vitamins, lifestyle patterns, emotional history, and family background. From this full picture, a truly personalized treatment plan is built. Depending on your profile, the plan may incorporate nutritional therapy, acupuncture, shiatsu, kinesiology, iridology, NLP, EFT, and other evidence-informed modalities. All of this is available under one roof, at two conveniently located centers in Ramat Beit Shemesh and Givat Zeev (Jerusalem). There is no fragmented care, no referral maze. Everything is coordinated by one experienced practitioner who sees the whole person, not just the symptom.
This approach is especially well-suited for people who have been told their test results are normal yet still feel significant pain, fatigue, or dysfunction. It is also highly relevant for those managing fibromyalgia, autoimmune conditions, post-viral syndromes, or musculoskeletal pain that has not responded adequately to standard care. Patients dealing with overlapping issues, such as pain alongside digestive complaints, hormonal changes, or cognitive fog, tend to see particularly strong results because the interconnected nature of their symptoms is addressed simultaneously. Even individuals who are not currently in significant pain but want to understand their body better and prevent future disease can benefit from a thorough functional medicine assessment.
Factor | Conventional Medicine | Functional Medicine |
Primary Goal | Symptom suppression | Root cause resolution |
Diagnostic Depth | Standard lab panels | Comprehensive metabolic, hormonal, and nutritional profiling |
Treatment Methods | Medications, injections, surgery | Nutrition, acupuncture, kinesiology, NLP, lifestyle protocols |
Patient Individuality | Standardized protocols | Biochemical individuality at the core |
View of Pain | Signal to be silenced | Message pointing to underlying dysfunction |
Long-Term Outcome | Ongoing symptom management | Reduced dependency on medication, improved quality of life |
Results vary depending on how long the underlying imbalances have been present and how complex the root causes are. Some patients notice meaningful improvements within the first four to eight weeks after starting their personalized protocol. Others with more deeply rooted conditions may require three to six months of consistent treatment. The goal is always durable improvement, not just short-term relief, so the timeline reflects the depth of healing being pursued.
No referral is required. You can come with or without a prior diagnosis. Many patients arrive having already seen multiple specialists with inconclusive results. The initial 15-minute consultation is free and is designed to understand your situation and determine whether this approach is a good fit for you. You are welcome to bring any previous test results or medical records.
Coverage depends on your specific health plan and supplementary insurance. Many of the services provided fall outside the standard basket of health services in Israel, so it is advisable to check directly with your insurer. That said, many patients find that addressing root causes reduces their long-term expenditure on medications, specialist visits, and repeated diagnostics over time.
The functional medicine approach used here is grounded in over 50 years of nutritional and medical research and draws on peer-reviewed science in areas such as genomics, epigenetics, mitochondrial biology, and endocrinology. Dr. Bakarmos brings more than 40 years of clinical experience as a holistic chiropractor and functional medicine specialist. The therapies offered are selected based on evidence and tailored to each patient’s unique biochemistry, which distinguishes this practice from generalized or trend-based alternative approaches.