If you’ve had chronic issues, such as chronic pain, chronic fatigue, gut issues, anxiety, and irregular menstrual cycles, you’ve likely been prescribed things like steroids, SSRIs, oral contraceptives, and acid blockers without any lab work ever being done to figure out WHY you are sick.

When we do deeper testing in Functional Medicine, we do so with the intention of finding the root cause. Often, this can be a perfect storm of long-term stress depleting your resources, malnutrition, decreased hormone production, genetics and environmentally-acquired illness from pathogens and toxins.