The functional medicine timeline is a comprehensive overview of a patient's health history, including key events, exposures, and experiences that may have influenced their current health status.
Components:
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Birth and early childhood: Birth weight, gestational age, mode of delivery, prenatal exposures, breastfeeding history, early milestones, and early illnesses.
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Medical history: Significant illnesses, injuries, surgeries, hospitalizations, and other medical events. May include diagnoses of chronic conditions, acute illnesses, and interventions.
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Family history: Genetic predispositions, hereditary conditions, and patterns of illness or disease within the family. May include details about the health status of close relatives.
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Lifestyle factors: Physical activity levels, sleep habits, stressors, coping strategies. May include tobacco use, alcohol consumption, recreational drug use.
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Environmental exposures: Occupational exposures, residential exposures (e.g., toxins, pollutants), travel history, and other environmental factors.
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Psychosocial history: Significant life events, relationships, social support, educational and occupational history, and emotional well-being. May include adversities, trauma, abuse.
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Dietary history: Nutrition, food preferences, patterns of intake, deficiencies, triggers, allergies, sensitivities, intolerances, restrictions.
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Supplement and medication history: Vitamins, minerals, herbs, medications, treatments. May include dosages, durations of use, and perceived benefits or side effects.