r/FunctionalMedicine

I was recently diagnosed with IgG Subclass 2 deficiency after 5 years of declining health (following my first COVID diagnosis). My immunologist has prescribed IVIG (pending insurance approval); however, I recognize that’s a bandaid fix for the underlying problem.

Curious to understand what functional medicine approaches or providers I could seek to address the root cause in parallel with IVIG. I’ve been dealing with debilitating fatigue, breathlessness leading to exercise intolerance, cognitive decline, insomnia, EBV, HHV-6, CMV reactivations and mycoplasma pneumoniae that took a year and a half to resolve. Branch in tree abnormalities came up in a chest CT that now requires annual monitoring.

Prior to this, I was a competitive athlete and a top-performer in my corporate career. Now I find myself barely able to function, manage day-to-day tasks, etc. An unbearable new reality for me as a husband and parent of a two-year-old.

I'm a graduate in Business studies but I graduated from my senior school with Physics, chemistry and math. Didn't have biology.

Life took a different path recently and I want to become a functional medicine practitioner.

However, it seems like every education program I come across requires you to be a Nutrition specialist at the very least.

Can someone guide me, how can I go about getting myself educated in the field of Functional medicine?

Is a diploma in Nutrition accepted by these institutes?