Told this is a lifetime condition you'll just have to manage?
Or that your labs are "normal" when you clearly aren't?
Functional Medicine looks for the upstream drivers behind thyroid, blood sugar, blood pressure, gut, hormonal, and autoimmune patterns — and asks what's actually causing them. Built on a documented, evidence-tier-rated clinical framework. Designed to work alongside your doctor, not replace them.
Conditions we work with
Functional Medicine looks at the patterns behind symptoms, not just the labels. These are the areas I see most often in my practice.
Thyroid & Hormonal
Thyroid & Hashimoto's
Metabolic & Cardiovascular
Gut & Immune
Energy & Resilience
Subclinical, overt, autoimmune. Beyond TSH alone.
Blood Sugar Dysregulation
Pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, reactive hypoglycaemia, the 3pm crash.
Gut Issues
Bloating, IBS-like symptoms, SIBO, dysbiosis, leaky gut, food sensitivities.
Adrenal & Chronic Fatigue
HPA-axis dysregulation, cortisol dysrhythmia, the can't-recover-from-stress pattern.
PCOS & Insulin Resistance
The hormonal-metabolic loop most doctors only address with the pill or metformin.
Cardiovascular Risk
High cholesterol, blood pressure, ApoB — read with functional ranges, not just population averages.
Autoimmune Conditions
Hashimoto's, RA, lupus, psoriasis, eczema — the genetics-permeability-trigger triad.
Mitochondrial Support
Perimenopause & Menopause
Persistent low energy, brain fog, post-exercise crashes.
Cycle changes, sleep disruption, weight redistribution, mood shifts — without "you’re just getting older."
Weight & Metabolic Health
When the diet-and-exercise advice isn't enough because the underlying biology is the problem.
Chronic Inflammation
When hsCRP, joint pain, or skin flares won't settle.
Liver & Detoxification
Sluggish methylation, estrogen recirculation, the "feel toxic" presentation.
Cycle-related Symptoms
PMS, painful periods, irregular cycles, premenstrual mood crashes.
If your concern isn't listed, that doesn't mean I don't work with it — book a discovery call and we'll talk.
How a Functional Medicine workup actually unfolds — from intake through recheck.
The Ochre Tree method
Investigate
Mapping the whole system, not just the loudest symptom.
Functional Medicine starts with a detailed history that spans all body systems — gut, hormones, energy, stress, sleep, immunity, structure. I use the IFM Matrix to lay out where the patterns are and which upstream node is likely driving the symptom you came in for.
Interpret
'Normal' is not the same as 'optimal.'
Conventional labs use ranges built around catching disease, not catching dysfunction. I read your labs against Functional Medicine optimal ranges — TSH 1–2, Ferritin 70–150, Vitamin D 60–80. This is where the gap between 'your labs are normal' and 'you don't feel normal' gets closed.
Plan
A personalised protocol — supplements, food, lifestyle, education.
Every recommendation links to a specific mechanism we're trying to address and a specific lab marker we're tracking. Supplements come with dose, timing, duration, and an evidence-tier rating. Meal plans are designed around your culture, location, season, and dietary preference.
Iterate
Plans aren't static. We track, recheck, and adjust.
Every 2 weeks we review what's working, what's not, and what needs to change. Lab work gets re-run at the 8–12 week mark to objectively confirm what your body is telling us subjectively.
See what this looks like in practice
Sample supplement profile — every supplement in your plan links to a full evidence-tier-rated catalogue entry with mechanism, dose, claims, and source citations
Sample meal plan, week 1 of 12 — 7-day grid with breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner. Indian vegetarian build shown; adapts to your preferences.
This is the same engine I use to generate plans for every client. Reproducible. Honest. Adjustable as your body changes.
What a real Functional Medicine lab panel looks like
These are two real lab panels we order in the practice — one for someone presenting with thyroid symptoms (suspected Hashimoto's), one for PCOS or insulin resistance. Each test is chosen to answer a specific question, not run because it's on a standard list.
Hashimoto's workup — antibodies plus a full thyroid panel plus the key nutrients thyroid function depends on. I order this when someone has thyroid symptoms but a "normal" TSH, or a Hashimoto's diagnosis with no plan beyond medication.
PCOS / Insulin Resistance workup — fasting insulin and HOMA-IR alongside androgens and lipid sub-fractions. I order this when periods are irregular, weight is sticky despite effort, or fasting glucose is starting to creep up.
Why FM lab ordering is different. Anti-TPO antibodies often rise 5–10 years before TSH crosses the conventional cutoff — by the time TSH is officially "abnormal," damage has been accumulating for years. Fasting insulin rises 5–10 years before fasting glucose does, which means the standard A1C and fasting-glucose screening misses the entire prediabetes window. Functional Medicine panels are designed to see what's coming, not only what's already broken.
Evidence-backed, not improvised
Behind every recommendation we make sits a structured clinical database we've built over years of practice and study. It's not a Google search. It's not "supplements we read about on Instagram." It's a working knowledge base linking conditions to root causes, to evidence-tier-rated interventions, to the original sources each claim comes from.
287 supplements · 318 topics · 1,494 evidence-tier-rated claims · 409 mechanisms · 386 symptoms · 7 lab panels · 11 protocols · 84 sources cited
and counting.......
Each supplement entry is linked to evidence-tier-rated claims, source citations, contraindications, and the conditions it helps. This is what sits behind every recommendation in your plan — so when we suggest something, we can show you exactly why, what the evidence looks like, and what it interacts with.
Every claim is tiered. We label each piece of evidence as strong (well-supported by research), plausible (emerging or mechanistically sound but not yet conclusive), Functional Medicine-specific (clinically used in FM but thin on RCTs), or confirm-with-clinician (requires medical oversight). You see the tier. You see the source. Nothing is hidden behind "trust us."
Frequently asked questions
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