What is functional medicine?
Functional medicine is a root-cause approach to care that focuses on understanding why symptoms are happening — not just masking them. It looks at the body as one interconnected system, using clinical diagnostics and personalized strategies to support function, improve resilience, and optimize long-term health.
How is Functional Medicine Different from Conventional Medicine?
Conventional medicine often focuses on diagnosing and managing symptoms, typically through medication or procedures. Functional medicine takes a systems-based approach — looking deeper to identify root causes, including lifestyle, environment, and underlying biological imbalances. It emphasizes individualized care, long-term strategy, and clinical insight beyond symptom control.
For example, instead of simply prescribing medication for high blood pressure, a functional medicine approach may explore genetics, epigenetics, metabolomics, stress response, sleep patterns, gut health, and nutrition — recognizing how these systems interact and contribute to the condition.
What Conditions Do You Treat?
We work with a wide range of complex, chronic, and unresolved conditions. This includes hormone imbalances, gut dysfunction, autoimmune activity, fatigue, brain fog, metabolic issues, mold and toxin-related illness, and fertility challenges. Many of our patients come to us after not finding answers elsewhere.
What’s Included in My First Appointment?
The initial 60-minute consultation is a deep-dive with one of our board-certified MDs. We review your symptoms, health history, and goals, and begin evaluating potential root causes. You’ll also learn how our programs work, ask questions, and decide if our care model is the right fit.
No treatment or supplement plan begins at this stage — it is an assessment and decision-making visit only.
Do You Accept Insurance?
We do not accept insurance or bill it directly. Our clinic operates outside the insurance system to allow for longer appointments, deeper evaluations, and a level of care that isn’t possible in traditional models. Many patients use HSA or FSA cards for eligible services, but coverage depends on your plan.
How Long Does It Take to See Results with Functional Medicine?
Every case is different, depending on the complexity and how long symptoms have been present. Some patients begin noticing improvements within the first few weeks, while others may take several months. Our goal is lasting results — not quick fixes — and that takes time, consistency, and the right strategy.
How Is Your Clinic Different from Other Functional Medicine Practices?
The Functional MDs is not a wellness spa or “functional medicine lite” clinic. We don’t rely on trendy therapies, generic protocols, or expensive gimmicks that drive up cost without improving outcomes.
Our care is structured, rigorous, and built for people who need real answers. Patients start with a comprehensive diagnostic discovery process. From there, treatment is delivered through a phase-based model that includes medical oversight, health coaching, and nutrition — all integrated under one plan.
We intentionally keep our caseload small to provide individualized support, detailed follow-through, and the clinical depth needed to manage complex cases.
What Makes Your Approach Effective for Complex Cases?
Complex cases demand more than protocols — they require clinical expertise. Our care is led by board-certified physicians with advanced training and years of hands-on experience managing multi-system conditions.
What sets us apart is our ability to think critically, synthesize patterns, and make precise decisions that generic approaches simply can’t match. This is doctor-led medicine, grounded in depth, strategy, and results.
Do I Need to Live Locally to Become a Patient?
We currently see patients in the state of Indiana, both in-person and through secure virtual visits. If you're located in Indiana, you can access all aspects of our care — including consultations, coaching, and personalized treatment — from anywhere in the state.