Private practice for preventive medicine, functional medicine and endocrinology in Potsdam
Dr. Sorina Kunert
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
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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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. 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:
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:
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.
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: