Dr. Bek (Reuven Bekermus)
is a New York licensed chiropractor and naturopath, practicing holistic integrative family medicine for over 40 years.
Seeing patients in his clinics in the Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh area or home visits all over Israel.
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Knowledge is power – especially when it comes to your health. Our blog is designed to educate, inspire, and empower you to take control of your wellbeing.
Thousands of people have walked through our doors frustrated, exhausted, and hopeless-only to discover that healing was possible. They were told their conditions were permanent, incurable, or “all in their head.” They’d tried conventional treatments that masked symptoms without solving problems. But when they addressed the root cause of their illness through functional medicine, everything changed.
These aren’t miraculous stories. They’re what happens when you finally ask the right question: “Why is this happening?” rather than accepting “This is just how it is.” Whether you’re struggling with a chronic condition, unexplained symptoms, or simply wanting to optimize your health, the journeys below represent what’s possible when you commit to real, root-cause healing.
Your story could be next.
Conventional medicine excels at acute care and emergency situations—infections, broken bones, severe trauma. It’s designed to diagnose disease and treat it with medications or surgery. Functional medicine works alongside conventional medicine but asks a deeper question: “Why did the disease develop in the first place?”
Rather than stopping at a diagnosis, functional medicine investigates the root causes—nutritional deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, inflammation, gut dysfunction, environmental exposures, or lifestyle patterns—that created the condition. Both approaches are valuable. Functional medicine simply goes further upstream to address the foundations of health.
There is no single timeline, because every person starts from a different place. Some people notice early changes in energy, sleep or digestion once they begin their plan, while long-standing chronic conditions usually take longer, since the body needs time to rebuild the systems that were out of balance.
Progress is reviewed at every follow up, by WhatsApp, phone or in the clinic, so the plan can be adjusted as your body responds. Consistency with the plan is usually the biggest factor in how quickly things change.
No. Functional medicine works alongside your existing medical care, not instead of it, and you should never stop or change a prescribed medication on your own. Any change to a medication is a decision for the doctor who prescribed it.
During the assessment, everything you currently take is reviewed, including medications and supplements, so that nutritional and lifestyle recommendations fit safely with your existing treatment. Keeping your family doctor informed is always encouraged.
It depends on your symptoms and health history, so there is no fixed package of tests. The process starts with a comprehensive assessment and an Applied Kinesiology (AK) energy analysis, together with a review of any recent blood tests you already have.
When more information is needed, functional lab testing may be recommended, such as nutritional deficiency testing or gut microbiome testing. The aim is to test only what is relevant to your case, so that every result helps guide your personalized treatment plan.
Many people reach the clinic after being told their condition is permanent or that nothing more can be done. Functional medicine cannot promise a cure, but it does look at the factors that are often left unexamined, such as nutritional deficiencies, hormonal imbalance, inflammation, gut health and chronic stress, and works on the ones that are contributing to your symptoms.
Even when a condition cannot be fully reversed, improving these foundations can help people feel and function better day to day. The free 15 minute consultation is a good place to talk through your situation and find out whether this approach is right for you.
Questions About Functional Medicine? We Have Answers.
