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— FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE · FOR INDIVIDUALS

Care built around one person. You.

Extended visits, real testing, and a care team that stays with you from the first appointment to the re-test. In person to start, by video when it makes sense.

Book a functional consult How functional medicine works
90 min
first visit
1:1
provider + coach
Video
follow-ups available
2
offices — Jacksonville + Orange Park
— WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

We've been the patient. We built this for the patient.

Every member of our team, from the health coaches to the providers, has sat on the other side of a rushed appointment and left without answers. That is the experience this program is designed to replace: you are heard, the testing is thorough, and the plan is written for your life — your schedule, your food, your budget.

It starts in person at our Jacksonville or Orange Park office, where the examination, history, and testing decisions happen. From there, follow-ups, lab reviews, and coaching check-ins can be done by secure video, so an ongoing plan does not depend on driving in every few weeks.

Step 01 · First visit
Step 02 · Testing + protocol
Step 03 · Follow-ups
An hour and a half, in person.

A full timeline of your symptoms, what has been tried, and what changed. The provider decides which tests actually fit the picture — organic acid testing for the gut, DUTCH for hormones, bloodwork alongside — and orders them from this visit.

— GOOD FIT IF
→Symptoms that have been managed for years without being explained
→Willing to do the testing and act on the results
→Want one team following the whole plan, not a new provider each visit
→Prefer fewer office trips once the plan is running
— NOT A FIT IF
×Looking for a single supplement recommendation
×Need an emergency or urgent-care visit today
×Not able to come in for the first visit and re-tests
— A PATIENT STORY
“For the first time someone asked what my week actually looks like before handing me a plan. The video follow-ups are the reason I stuck with it.”
Anonymous · Orange Park · functional medicine patient
— GOOD TO KNOW

Extended appointments, comprehensive testing, a dedicated team

The three things a conventional visit cannot give you — time, depth of testing, and continuity — are the three things this program is built on. The first visit runs about ninety minutes. Testing goes beyond the standard panel to the markers that explain function rather than just rule out disease. And the same provider and coach follow you through, so nothing has to be re-explained.

Our health coaches come from different backgrounds — nutrition, movement, behavior change — and are matched to what your plan actually needs. Their job is the gap between a protocol on paper and a Tuesday night when it is hard to follow.

Why the first visit is always in person

Functional medicine starts with an examination and a history that cannot be done well through a screen. It is also where testing decisions are made, and those decisions shape everything that follows. So the program begins at our Jacksonville (Southside) or Orange Park office, and re-tests and hands-on visits come back there too.

Everything in between — reviewing labs, adjusting the protocol, coaching — works well by video, and for many patients that is the difference between finishing a plan and abandoning it halfway.

Gut first, then everything else

Our protocols follow a sequence: gut and digestion are optimized first, adrenal function second, and hormones after that. Every one of our hormone protocols opens with the same instruction — make sure the gut is working before you start — because a plan built on an inflamed, poorly absorbing gut does not hold.

That sequence is why the most common starting point is organic acid testing, and why patients who arrive for a thyroid or hormone problem often begin with digestion. It is slower to explain and faster to work.

— COMMON QUESTIONS

Questions, answered.

What does functional medicine for individuals include?
An extended first visit where a provider takes your full history, comprehensive testing chosen for your symptom pattern (organic acid testing, DUTCH hormone testing, and bloodwork), a written protocol built from the results, health coaching to make it workable in daily life, and re-testing to confirm the change. It is one continuous program, not a series of unrelated appointments.
Do I have to come into the office?
For the first visit, yes — the examination, history, and testing decisions happen in person at our Jacksonville or Orange Park office. After that, follow-up visits, lab reviews, and coaching check-ins can be done by secure video.
Is there a membership or monthly fee?
No. Care is billed per visit and per test. Our team will walk you through the costs before anything is ordered, including which labs may be covered by your insurance and which are out of pocket.
How is this different from seeing my regular doctor?
A standard visit is built to match a symptom to a prescription in fifteen minutes. A functional medicine visit is built to find out why the symptom is there — which takes a longer conversation, deeper testing, and a plan that changes as your labs change. The two are not in competition; many of our patients keep their primary care physician and use us for the part that has gone unanswered.
What conditions do you see most often?
Gut problems that have been labeled IBS for years — bloating, reflux, SIBO, leaky gut — and the fatigue, hormone, thyroid, weight, and autoimmune issues that so often sit downstream of them. Our approach is gut-first: digestion is optimized before hormones are worked on, because the hormone work does not hold otherwise.
How long until I feel a difference?
Digestion and energy often shift within two to three weeks of starting a protocol. Hormone changes take 60 to 90 days to show fully. Conditions that have been building for years take longer, which is why we re-test at defined points instead of guessing from symptoms alone.
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