Private practice for preventive medicine, functional medicine and endocrinology in Potsdam

Dr. Sorina Kunert

Unsere Medizin ist ganzheitlich,

weil Menschen komplex sind.

Unsere Medizin ist ganzheitlich, weil

Menschen komplex sind.

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Charlottenstr. 58, 14467 Potsdam

Phone: +49 (0)175 – 582 41 59

info@praeventive-medizin-potsdam.de

Charlottenstr. 58

14467 Potsdam

info@praeventive-medizin-potsdam.de

Phone: +49 (0)175 – 582 41 59

What is preventive medicine? What is functional medicine?

Preventive medicine and functional medicine means holistic medicine. The way it should be.

Preventive Medicine - The Medicine of the timeline

Preventive medicine is a holistic medicine that looks at your past, present and future. The path to chronic disease is almost never abrupt. A disease announces itself, often years (in the case of dementia 15-20 years) beforehand. However, during this time, a clear diagnosis can usually not be made until the disease has finally manifested itself, making effective therapy more difficult.

Maybe you are more and more forgetful in everyday life? Or you are plagued more and more often by headaches that you didn't have two years ago? You have noticed that you are exhausted more often even without a heavier workload? All of these at first glance insignificant and harmless disorders are already alarm signals for preventive medicine and are taken very seriously, because they can be signs of an incipient chronic disease or widespread disease such as Alzheimer's, diabetes, auto-immune diseases or other diseases. This is where preventive medicine comes in.

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Preventive medicine means epigenetics and disease biography

We put your ailments and health disorders into a temporal context. By the way, also those of your relatives: If your father suffers from dementia or your siblings from arthritis, these are important clues for preventive medicine as to which areas in the patient are at risk of disease and need to be focused on. The course of your mother's pregnancy is also crucial in determining how quickly a disease can develop in you. This creates your disease biography, which correlates particular life events, illnesses and concomitant diseases, and the occurrence of health disorders. Everything is connected.

We go into depth here and find out your very personal risks for you, so that we can act and treat preventively, also in the sense of epigenetics, (the switching on and off of genes). Where "conventional medicine" only becomes active when the disease is present and a clear diagnosis can be made, the work in preventive medicine already starts in the gray tones of your disorders. The task of this medicine is to delay or prevent the onset of diseases for which you are particularly at risk.

Functional medicine - The medicine of the "why"

Functional medicine is a medicine of biological complexity and the bigger picture. It does not divide the body into individual organs (and medical disciplines), which are then treated in isolation. Rather, they are part of a larger system.

Using diabetes as an example, this means that although it is primarily the pancreas that is most severely damaged in diabetes (type 1 diabetes), diabetes is not an organ disease but a systemic disease that has far-reaching causes and consequences throughout the body. It therefore makes no sense to treat only the diseased organ. The causes are so complex and multi-layered, that no effective treatment can be given without thoroughly answering the "why" question. Functional medicine (like pathogenesis ) seeks these answers, not just in isolation in the affected organ, but in the whole related system. Everything is connected.

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Functional medicine means multi-causality.

Inflammation can be responsible for obesity , as can poor diet, lack of exercise, hormones, genetics and epigenetics, stress or gut health. Most often, it is a combination of these. At the same time, inflammation doesn't always just lead to obesity, but can trigger a wide variety of conditions such as heart problems, depression, arthritis, cancer and diabetes . So just as complex are the symptoms and medical conditions that can arise from a single cause.

In conventional medicine, a patient can often only be treated if a clear diagnosis can be made. However, everything is interrelated, so that is not always possible. A system thrown out of balance causes the body to try to balance itself out elsewhere (discipline of pathophysiology). This is how concomitant symptoms arise, which may be perceived as the actual disorders and thus misinterpreted.

In functional medicine, however, we explore and treat the causes of diseases and ailments in all their complexity, diversity and multi-causality. At the same time, many of your conditions can be solved at once, if we start at the right place in the system and treat them... even symptoms that you have already become accustomed to or resigned yourself to for a long time.

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Dr. Sorina Kunert im Portrait

Die Ärztin stellt sich, ihre Medizin und ihre Vision vor.

Shaping health instead of managing disease.

Your doctor in Potsdam

Endocrinologist and specialist in preventive and functional medicine

Dr. Sorina Kunert am Schreibtisch lächelnd

Dr. med Sorina Kunert M.Sc.

Fields of expertise

Master of Science in Preventive Medicine
Endocrinology
Preventive medicine
Functional medicine
Gynecology and reproductive medicine
Stress medicine
Clinical environmental medicine
Dementia prevention

How do we help you?

This is how your highly individualized, holistic therapy works:

1. Detailed anamnesis

When you come to our practice, we first take a comprehensive picture of your symptom and disease history in various subject areas, such as sleep complaints, psyche, sensory organs, cardiovascular system, nutrition, etc.. But the family medical history also plays a central role for this. Here we clarify whether, for example, the mother suffers or suffered from rheumatism, obesity , etc. Only in such a thorough way can we specifically identify the causes of your current ailments and at the same time possible future diseases or problem areas. In addition, we examine your environmental impacts (e.g. mold, dental metal) from the point of view of Environmental medicine.

This anamnesis appointment usually lasts 60 minutes (as a 2nd consultation) and costs € 236.07 according to GOÄ (Gebührenordnung für Ärzte). For some patients, this appointment may take longer depending on the complexity.
2. Your health goal

Then you describe to us what you want to achieve with your health.If you want to stay physically and mentally fit for professional achievements in busy everyday life, your path is different than if you are threatened by dementia or cannot have children. Or you have certain ailments that are currently affecting you and with which you have already gone from doctor to doctor without having received the help you needed. In our medicine, we conduct deeper and more interconnected research into the causes. Together we formulate your Health goal.
3. Laboratory examinations and tests with holistic interpretation

In the third step, further targeted diagnostic methods help us. Depending on the Medical history , laboratory tests (in blood, saliva, urine or stool) are performed for hormones, gene analyses, neurotransmitter analyses, glucose tolerance tests, analyses of food intolerances and of the stool microbiome. In addition, there are heart rate variability measurments (HRV), a dementia test (MoCA test), ultrasound examinations. These methods - together with Dr. Kunert's many years of experience in their holistic interpretation - enable us to complete and substantiate your overall picture.

4. Clarification of diseases in cooperation with specialist colleagues

Based on the available findings, we thoroughly clarify whether there may be an undetected more serious disease after all, for which other disciplines must be consulted.For example, if you have a piercing headache, we must first rule out the possibility that it is caused by a brain tumor, if this has not already been done. In this case, we coordinate and refer you to specialists and keep an eye on your further findings.
5. Therapy: Reaching your goal with the support of your doctor

Only when an acute orthodox medical disease has been ruled out do we begin your actual therapy. This partly includes the targeted substitution (as preparations or even preferably into the blood by infusion) with vitamins, amino acids, minerals, intestinal bacteria (prebiotics and probiotics), bioidentical hormones. Equally important is the adjustment of lifestyle and diet. With Dr. Kunert you form a team, because you work actively on your health, just like the doctor. It is important to us that you always know where you stand, what you are doing and why. Dr. Kunert does her best to convey the complex interrelationships and the structure of your therapy in a vivid way, using many metaphors and comparisons. Because only through your empowerment you get a sense of ownership but also the motivation to work for your health. Dr. Kunert shows you the way, but you have to follow it yourself. We accompany you at eye level and always adapt the therapy to your needs. We review these together at regular intervals so that you can reach your Health goal .

We can offer our consultation to privately insured patients as well as to patients with statutory health insurance as self-pay patients. You can easily book appointments in our preventive medicine yourself via our online calendar here:

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Good to know

Will my health insurance cover the cost of functional or preventive medicine?

Preventive medicine means personal responsibility.

As a rule, the statutory health insurance funds only cover the costs of early detection of cancer. However, our medicine starts even earlier, goes into depth and involves many different factors to give you a thorough picture. These are individual health services ("individuelle Gesundheitsleistungen", IGeL services). These are not part of the usual scope of services provided by the statutory health insurance funds and must therefore be paid for by you. We will bill you directly.

From experience, private health insurance companies already partially cover some costs (depending on the tariff). For example, common laboratory tests or consultations are partially covered. This is a positive development and reflects the general shift towards more prevention in medicine. What is important for you here: Please find out about your individual tariff. Again, we will bill you directly and cannot guarantee which costs your health insurance will actually cover in your individual case. Likewise, we cannot conduct any correspondence with health insurance companies. In any case, please expect to have to bear the costs yourself. Your own health also means personal responsibility. A certain service should be worth it to you even without a coverage through the health insurance.

An overview of consulting fees according to GOÄ (Gebührenordnung für Ärzte):

- 1 consultation (60 min) costs 236,07 €. Some patients request a 30 min consultation first, this costs 118,03 €.

- 1 study of the findings (only in the case of extensive reports) with a written physician's report on the interpretation of the findings (for therapy and measures), depending on the time required (between 30 and 60 min, longer in the case of dementia patients) costs €67.03 (30-40 min each) or €102.00 (60 min each). The time required depends on the complexity of the findings and can also be longer than 60 min.

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Our consulting rooms

A few impressions of our small practice.

Wartezimmer der funktionellen Medizin Potsdam

Sprechzimmer der Präventivmedizin Potsdam

Sauerstofftherapie der Endokrinologie Potsdam

Testimonials

What our patients say about us...

I am back on a very good track. Thank you for that.

Absolutely recommend... Dr. Kunert has helped me tremendously. After years of listlessness and constant weight gain, and then on top of that a heart problem, I went to her on the advice of my family doctor, because she also looks differently at hormones, for example, due to different examinations. Now after four weeks I am significantly better, which is also noticeable to my friends and family, my weight is decreasing and I am on a very good path again. Thank you for that. Advice and transparency (especially with the costs) was given from the beginning. The final decision is up to each person.

Andrea Rohleder

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Profound and at the cutting edge of science

The treatment with Mrs. Kunert is exclusively about the most important thing: health! And profoundly and on the cutting edge of science - I could not always find this with other doctors. Absolutely recommended.

Benjamin Köhn

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The best doctor I had the pleasure to meet!

Dr. Kunert is the best doctor I have ever had the pleasure to meet (and unfortunately I know many). She has incredible expertise, takes her time, is empathetic and meticulously searches for the causes of the diseases. Where other doctors would simply make a psychological diagnosis after 5 minutes, she gets to the bottom of the true causes - and is right! Without Dr. Kunert, I would not be where I am today in terms of health.

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