The Answer to Your Illness Is Found in Wellness

Dr. Michelle Neil-Sherwood and Dr. Mark Sherwood focus on lifestyle management, including hormone balance, anti-inflammatory food protocols, and body composition normalization.

You are not destined to become a victim of chronic disease! This is one of the guiding principles of the Functional Medical Institute (FMI), where your answer to health and wellness begins. Under the leadership of Dr. Michele Neil-Sherwood (known as Dr. Michele), Internal Medicine/Sports Medicine Physician, and Naturopathic Dr. Mark Sherwood (known as Dr. Mark), one can expect a unique experience of listening, care, and compassion with an unwavering commitment to provide the finest opportunity for total healing. The foundation of FMI rests in a four-pronged approach (known as the ‘4E’ philosophy). The ‘4’ stands for the four elements of a person – physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual. The ‘E’ stands for “EVER.” Dr. Michele asserts, “We want each person to be well in each of these interdependent areas. When a person experiences wellness as a whole, they experience PEACE, rather than experiencing DIS-EASE.”

“We can and do help people. We see miracles daily in peoples’ physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual lives. We care about each patient and truly want to help them get well in each part of their life,” Dr. Mark adds.

This dynamic duo is seen twice weekly on 4E TV, which airs in the Tulsa metro area on Cox 7/ATT 47 at 10 p.m. Tuesdays and 12:30 p.m. Thursdays.
The treatment at FMI generally focuses on lifestyle management. Hormone balance, anti-inflammatory food protocols, and body composition normalization are areas of specialty. DNA testing is also utilized. This unique test tells each patient what to do, eat, and take. If you are tired of not knowing exactly how much to eat, what type of exercise to do, and what supplements to take, this test is for you. No more guessing!

Additionally, the couple has just published their first book, which outlines FMI’s philosophy in an easy to read, instructional, and motivational format. The book can be easily obtained by visiting www.marksherwood.org.

Dr. Michele asserts, “It is our strong belief that people need accountability and a strong support system to obtain true healing. We have been gifted to provide both.” The couple readily shares success story after success story. “It is not uncommon for patients to lose 2 to 4% body fat per month on our protocols. We practice what we preach and desire to lead by example. We cannot and must not tell our patients to do that which we are not willing,” Dr. Mark says.  
 Do you want to be an individual who is riddled with chronic disease, aches, pains and debilitating illness, or would you rather have the vim and vigor of a 30-year-old while currently in your 50s, 60s and beyond? If you answered “yes” to the second half of the question, perhaps you should make your way to the Functional Medical Institute. Drs. Michele and Mark have created a pathway to wellness by changing lifestyle from the ground up.

Don’t take your health for granted by being uneducated and a victim of the Standard American Diet (SAD). The typical SAD, loaded with sugar, processed, packaged junk, trans and fake fats is taking a huge toll on our health. Metabolic disease is occurring at earlier ages than ever before. Once a disease thought to onset in the older years, Type 2 diabetes is showing up in our young people. “When we learn to tame our lifestyle, we can control not only diabetes, but other metabolic diseases and syndromes of chronic inflammation.”

True to their commitment to healing patients from the root cause of their ailment and empowering them with the resources to maintain the best possible health, Drs. Michele and Mark generate a personalized, multi-week plan, complete with short and longer term goals, for each patient. The pair also holds monthly educational classes that cover topics such as detoxification, inflammation, family wellness, fatigue, and stress management.