More than 70% of patients in any general practice suffer from functional disturbances. Simply speaking, a functional disturbance occurs when no specific tissue or organ damage can be identified by conventional lab work or other pathological diagnostics, yet the patient still experiences a myriad of symptoms. Functional medicine helps detect and identify these energetic and regulatory disturbances. Functional disturbances can be detected early - even from the very beginning of a preclinical phase (when you display symptoms, but nobody can identify their cause). Disease does not begin with pathology, but with a preclinical phase. Functional disturbances occur when a living organism can no longer compensate adequately for changes in the environment. Environmental changes include both internal conditions of the body and external circumstances. This is why ideally, it makes good sense to do an assessment using functional evaluation methods, such as the ASYRA, and treatment protocols. These methods have shown effective in not only helping to identify and correct preclinical disorders and symptomology, but also in reducing or even reversing morphological and pathological deterioration. Functional medicine is intended to bridge the existing diagnostic and therapeutic gaps. Backed by over 40 years of research, this technology clearly continues to deliver life-changing results. Economically, considerable time and substantial amounts of money could be saved simply by taking advantage of the benefits of this powerful technology in the emerging field of functional medicine. Reestablishing balance to the energetic pathways (that run through all organs, glands, and tissues) may hold the key to restoring and maintaing optimum health.