Your labs say you're fine. You know you're not.

Functional medicine by telehealth, led by advanced care clinicians with physician medical direction. We read where each result sits inside its range and which way it is moving, test what a standard panel skips (105+ epigenetic biomarkers, gut, hormones, nutrients, cortisol), and build the plan in the order your biology needs.

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Your labs say you’re fine. You know you’re not.

At HFW Longevity, we use functional medicine to uncover what standard care often misses.

Then we build a clinician-guided plan around your actual biology.

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You’ve seen the doctors.
You’ve run the labs.
So why do you still feel off?

There is a reason your body is sending signals.
Stop being told everything looks normal. Start finding out what your body is actually showing you.

This may be you if

  • Your bloodwork is normal but you are still tired, even when you sleep.
  • Brain fog, low energy, or slow recovery arrived after 40 and never left.
  • Your weight, mood, or digestion changed without a clear reason.
  • Your hormones feel off, or your thyroid symptoms persist with a normal TSH.
  • You have seen more than one doctor and have symptoms across several systems but no clear answer.

You want the dots connected, and a plan that follows the order your biology needs.

Why this is different

Inside the range is not one place.

A reference range describes how results are distributed across a population. It is not a statement about what is ideal for you. Two people can sit inside the same range at opposite ends, moving in opposite directions, and both get reported as normal.

Normal is a population statistic. Optimal is a question about you. HFW pays attention to where a result sits within its range and which way it is moving, which is why we test to a baseline and retest, rather than reading one morning's blood draw as the whole story.

Our method

How testing decides

Understand the full picture, correct what is meaningful, then reassess as things change.

1Test to understand the full picture.Your results, read together, show what is actually driving the symptoms.

TruHealth is where we start: nutrients, cellular function, immune and inflammatory patterns, and hormone-related markers. Conventional bloodwork adds thyroid, metabolic, and safety markers when they change a decision. GI-MAP comes in when the gut is part of the picture, and hormone testing when the timing and pattern matter. Together, that is the picture your clinician builds the plan from.

2Correct before, or alongside, optimization.Sleep, nutrients, blood sugar, gut, inflammation, stress, hormones: the order is deliberate.

A lot of people arrive wanting the advanced thing. Often there is something more basic in the way, and starting at the top of the menu means paying for an intervention that cannot work yet. Restorative sleep, nutrient status, blood sugar patterns, gut function, inflammatory patterns, stress physiology, and hormone balance are usually addressed first or alongside. A focused hormone, metabolic, or selected therapy pathway runs after evaluation, where the evidence and the monitoring plan support it.

3Reassess as things change.New results decide what continues, changes, or stops.

The plan is reviewed and adjusted as your picture changes. Members repeat TruHealth roughly every quarter with a scheduled clinician review, so the plan follows your results rather than habit. See membership →

What we monitor along the way

Ten things we track, not one lab

Progress is read across symptoms and markers together, reviewed with you as the plan progresses.

  • Energy pattern
  • Sleep quality
  • Gut markers
  • Hormone and thyroid patterns
  • Glucose, insulin, HbA1c, lipids
  • Inflammatory markers
  • Nutrient status
  • Mitochondrial markers
  • Immune reactivity
  • Biological age

Cortisol rhythm, detox pathways, and stress resilience are evaluated when they are part of the picture.

Free Guide

The HFW Guide to Longevity & Advanced Compounds

24 pages on advanced testing, clinician-led protocols, and why strategy comes before any single compound.

Free PDF, instant download. No spam.

Inside the range is not one place

Two people. The same reference range. Two different situations.

A reference range describes how results are distributed across a population. It is not a statement about what is ideal for one person. Two people can both sit inside the same range, at opposite ends of it, moving in opposite directions.

Illustrative chart. Both people sit inside the reference range. Over three measurements one has moved a long way within the range while the other has barely moved.Upper limitLower limitWithin rangeBaseline6 months12 monthsOne blood draw
  • Person A
  • Person B

Both results are inside the range, so both are usually reported as normal. A single value cannot tell you where either person started or which direction they are heading.

This is what HFW pays attention to. Where a result sits within its range, and which way it is moving across repeated measurement. That is a different question from whether a result is normal, and both questions are worth asking.

Illustrative only. No units or values are shown because this is not a reference range for any specific test, and it is not a result for any patient. Reference ranges are set by the performing laboratory. HFW does not replace diagnosis, screening, or the evaluation your other clinicians provide.

This may be you if...

You know something is wrong, but no one has connected the dots.

Sequence matters

Correct before, or alongside, optimization.

A lot of people arrive wanting the advanced thing. Sometimes that is reasonable. Often there is something more basic in the way, and starting at the top of the menu means paying for an intervention that cannot work yet.

Often worth addressing first

  • Sleep that is actually restorative
  • Nutrition and nutrient status
  • Metabolic health and blood sugar patterns
  • Gut function and digestion
  • Inflammatory patterns
  • Stress physiology and cortisol rhythm
  • Hormone balance

Reasonable to run alongside, after evaluation

  • A focused hormone pathway
  • A metabolic or weight-related pathway
  • A selected therapy, where the evidence and the monitoring plan support it
  • Continued investigation when a question is still open

Which column applies to you is a clinical judgment, not a rule. The point is that the order is deliberate rather than driven by whatever you happened to read about first.

The Functional Medicine Corrective Program

For symptoms that have not resolved, and answers that have not arrived.

Most people who start here have already been evaluated more than once. This program works through what is still unexplained in a deliberate order: understand the full picture, correct what is meaningful, then reassess as things change.

What the program includes

  • Four scheduled consultations with an advanced care clinician
  • One additional on-demand consultation
  • Eight accountability and habit-coaching sessions
  • Patient Success coordination throughout
  • Your first two months of clinician-selected supplements or advanced compounds, typically more than $500 in retail value
  • A plan that is reviewed and adjusted as your picture changes

How it is structured

Length
Typically ten to twelve months
First month
$700Building your plan, plus your first two months of supplements or advanced compounds
Continuing months
From $350
Testing
Selected and purchased separately, based on your existing records and what would actually change the plan
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A conversation about your history, what has already been tried, and which starting point makes sense. This program is one way to work with HFW. Depending on what you are dealing with, a focused assessment or the Longevity Membership may fit better, and we will say so.

Testing before guessing

The testing behind a functional medicine plan

Every test price includes a 60 to 90 minute clinician review of your results. Longevity Membership members pay less on most testing. See member pricing →

TruHealthDNA methylationNutrients, inflammation, immune, hormones.$450

105+ epigenetic biomarkers across nineteen systems that no standard panel covers, from one at-home blood spot: nutrient status, cellular function, inflammation, immune and hormone patterns, and exposures such as lead and PFAS. It is where most functional medicine plans at HFW start, and the test that is repeated to show whether the plan is working.

BloodworkBloodThyroid, metabolic, and safety markers.Lab-billed

A full thyroid panel (TSH, free T3, free T4, reverse T3, antibodies), fasting insulin and glucose, HbA1c, lipids, liver and kidney markers, and inflammation. Ordered through a local lab and billed separately by the laboratory; recent usable results are reviewed first rather than repeated.

GI-MAPStoolMicrobes, digestion, inflammation, leaky gut.$813

One at-home stool sample: pathogens, parasites, H. pylori, keystone and opportunistic bacteria, fungi, and viruses, plus markers for leaky gut, digestion, and inflammation. Ordered when the gut is part of the picture.

Details:Gut health
When neededUrine, saliva, bloodHormones, cortisol, nutrients, foods.From $250

DUTCH ($650) for hormone production, metabolism, and cortisol rhythm. Adrenocortex ($300) for cortisol across the day. Metabolomix+ ($729) for nutrient deficits and cellular energy. IgG Food Sensitivity ($250) for immune reactivity to foods. Each is chosen by your clinician for a specific question, not ordered by default.

Details:All tests
What functional medicine costs at HFW

The Functional Medicine Corrective Program

For symptoms that have not resolved, and answers that have not arrived. Most people who start here have already been evaluated more than once. This program works through what is still unexplained in a deliberate order.

What the program includes

  • Four scheduled consultations with an advanced care clinician
  • One additional on-demand consultation
  • Eight accountability and habit-coaching sessions
  • Patient Success coordination throughout
  • Your first two months of clinician-selected supplements or advanced compounds, typically more than $500 in retail value
  • A plan that is reviewed and adjusted as your picture changes
Length
Typically 10 to 12 months
First month
$700
Continuing months
From $350
Testing
Selected and purchased separately

Testing is chosen from your existing records and what would actually change the plan. HFW is self-pay and does not bill insurance; HSA and FSA cards are accepted.

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Longevity Membership

Make it part of a full year.

A focused program can stand on its own. Membership is for people ready to make a commitment to healthy aging, or to longer-term corrective care and health optimization: the testing, the clinician, and the coaching around your plan all year, retesting each quarter and adjusting as the results change.

Longevity Membership
$225a month
12-month initial commitment

What a year includes

  • Four TruHealth tests, one each quarter
  • Four scheduled consultations with an advanced care clinician, plus one on-demand provider visit
  • Your first quarter of clinician-selected targeted supplements
  • 15% preferred pricing on eligible peptide and GLP-1 protocol packages, TRT, and HRT
  • Ongoing review and plan adjustment as each new result comes in
  • Eight accountability and habit-coaching sessions
  • Patient Success coordination between visits

Begins after a separate $450 initial TruHealth assessment, which includes a 60 to 90 minute clinician review. Bloodwork, medications, and treatments are purchased separately.

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The HFW Difference

We do not just ask what symptom you have. We ask why your whole system is struggling.
Conventional Care HFW Longevity

What they look at

Symptoms, diagnosis codes, basic labs, and disease ranges
Gut, hormones, metabolism, inflammation, nutrients, mitochondria, immune function, stress patterns, cellular health, and biological aging

What you hear

“Your labs look fine.”
“Fine is not the same as optimal. Let’s look deeper.”

Testing

Standard bloodwork and population averages
Advanced functional, metabolic, hormonal, gut, nutritional, inflammatory, longevity testing when appropriate and comprehensive bloodwork

Treatment

Medication, referral, or watchful waiting
Correcting underlying contributors, diet and lifestyle guidance plus targeted therapies when clinically appropriate

Support

Short visits and limited follow-up
Quarterly labs, regular check-ins, tracking, and protocol adjustments

Goal

Keep you out of disease range
Improve how you feel, function, recover, perform, and age

Access

Office visits, referrals, long waits
100% telehealth with at-home or local testing options
What they look at

What you hear

Testing
Treatment
Support
Goal
Access

Real patient results

Real progress. Real support. No shame.

When clinically relevant, HFW may evaluate these areas

Your symptoms are connected to your whole system.

What We Evaluate Why It Matters
Gut Health
Gut dysfunction can affect inflammation, immune activity, nutrient absorption, hormones, mood, metabolism, and brain function.
Hormonal Health
Estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, thyroid, insulin, and cortisol influence energy, weight, sleep, mood, libido, and recovery.
Cellular Function
Cellular stress can affect how well your body repairs, produces energy, regulates inflammation, and responds to treatment.
Metabolic Health
Blood sugar, insulin, lipids, and metabolic flexibility can influence weight, cravings, fatigue, inflammation, and long-term disease risk.
Inflammation
Chronic inflammation can drive pain, fatigue, brain fog, hormone disruption, immune activation, and accelerated aging.
Mitochondrial Function
Your mitochondria produce cellular energy. When they struggle, you may feel tired, slow, inflamed, and harder to recover.
Immune Function
Immune imbalance may contribute to chronic symptoms, autoimmunity, reactivity, poor recovery, and unresolved inflammation.
Detox Pathways
Liver, kidney, lymphatic, and cellular detox pathways affect hormone clearance, inflammation, energy, and resilience.
Stress Resilience
Cortisol rhythm, nervous system regulation, sleep quality, and recovery capacity can keep the body stuck in survival mode.
Biological Aging
Your chronological age does not always match how your organs, immune system, metabolism, and cells are aging.

Gut Health

Gut dysfunction can affect inflammation, immune activity, nutrient absorption, hormones, mood, metabolism, and brain function.

Hormonal Health

Estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, thyroid, insulin, and cortisol influence energy, weight, sleep, mood, libido, and recovery.

Cellular Function

Cellular stress can affect how well your body repairs, produces energy, regulates inflammation, and responds to treatment.

Metabolic Health

Blood sugar, insulin, lipids, and metabolic flexibility can influence weight, cravings, fatigue, inflammation, and long-term disease risk.

Inflammation

Chronic inflammation can drive pain, fatigue, brain fog, hormone disruption, immune activation, and accelerated aging.

Mitochondrial Function

Your mitochondria produce cellular energy. When they struggle, you may feel tired, slow, inflamed, and harder to recover.

Immune Function

Immune imbalance may contribute to chronic symptoms, autoimmunity, reactivity, poor recovery, and unresolved inflammation.

Detox Pathways

Liver, kidney, lymphatic, and cellular detox pathways affect hormone clearance, inflammation, energy, and resilience.

Stress Resilience

Cortisol rhythm, nervous system regulation, sleep quality, and recovery capacity can keep the body stuck in survival mode.

Biological Aging

Your chronological age does not always match how your organs, immune system, metabolism, and cells are aging.

Advanced diagnostics. Real answers.

We test what most routine visits ignore.

Test What It Can Reveal
Comprehensive Bloodwork
Metabolic health, inflammation, thyroid patterns, nutrient status, hormone markers, liver function, immune markers, safety markers, and cardiovascular risk
GI-MAP Stool Analysis
Gut bacteria balance, dysbiosis, pathogens, inflammation, digestion, immune activity, and gut barrier markers
DUTCH Complete Hormone Test
Sex hormones, hormone metabolites, cortisol rhythm, adrenal patterns, and hormone clearance
Metabolomix+ Nutritional Panel
Nutrient deficiencies, oxidative stress, amino acids, mitochondrial markers, gut metabolites, and cellular energy patterns
TruAge + TruHealth Testing
Biological age, pace of aging, and organ-system health across immune, metabolic, hormonal, cardiovascular, and other systems
Adrenocortex Stress Profile
Cortisol output, adrenal rhythm, stress physiology, sleep disruption, fatigue, and recovery patterns
IgG Food Sensitivity Explorer
Immune reactivity patterns that may contribute to inflammation, digestive symptoms, skin issues, fatigue, and energy crashes
Genetic Testing
Nutrient processing, detox pathways, inflammation tendencies, hormone metabolism, and personalized long-term risk strategy
NAD+ Level Testing
Cellular energy status and aging-related patterns that may guide mitochondrial and longevity support
Custom Blood Panel
A targeted panel built around your symptoms, goals, history, protocol, and provider recommendations

Comprehensive Bloodwork

Metabolic health, inflammation, thyroid patterns, nutrient status, hormone markers, liver function, immune markers, safety markers, and cardiovascular risk

GI-MAP Stool Analysis

Gut bacteria balance, dysbiosis, pathogens, inflammation, digestion, immune activity, and gut barrier markers

DUTCH Complete Hormone Test

Sex hormones, hormone metabolites, cortisol rhythm, adrenal patterns, and hormone clearance

Metabolomix+ Nutritional Panel

Nutrient deficiencies, oxidative stress, amino acids, mitochondrial markers, gut metabolites, and cellular energy patterns

TruAge + TruHealth Testing

Biological age, pace of aging, and organ-system health across immune, metabolic, hormonal, cardiovascular, and other systems

Adrenocortex Stress Profile

Cortisol output, adrenal rhythm, stress physiology, sleep disruption, fatigue, and recovery patterns

IgG Food Sensitivity Explorer

Immune reactivity patterns that may contribute to inflammation, digestive symptoms, skin issues, fatigue, and energy crashes

Genetic Testing

Nutrient processing, detox pathways, inflammation tendencies, hormone metabolism, and personalized long-term risk strategy

NAD+ Level Testing

Cellular energy status and aging-related patterns that may guide mitochondrial and longevity support

Custom Blood Panel

A targeted panel built around your symptoms, goals, history, protocol, and provider recommendations

Your personalized roadmap to functional health

Built around your biology. Depending on your testing, symptoms, and goals, your plan may include.

1

Correcting Underlying Contributors
A strategy to identify and address the underlying dysfunction behind your symptoms instead of chasing one complaint at a time.

2

Gut and Digestive Support
Targeted support for dysbiosis, gut inflammation, digestion, absorption, food sensitivity patterns, bowel regularity, and gut-driven systemic symptoms.

3

Hormone & Thyroid Optimization
Support for estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, thyroid function, cortisol rhythm, adrenal patterns, and hormone metabolism when clinically appropriate.

4

Metabolic Optimization
A plan to improve insulin response, glucose regulation, lipid patterns, inflammation, body composition, cravings, and metabolic flexibility.
5
Mitochondrial Support
Targeted strategies to support cellular energy, oxidative stress, recovery, fatigue, and healthy aging.
6
Nutritional Repair
Professional-grade supplementation based on your deficiencies, absorption patterns, symptoms, and cellular needs.
7
Inflammation & Immune Regulation
Support for chronic inflammation, immune reactivity, autoimmune tendencies, pain patterns, fatigue, and poor recovery.
8
Stress & Nervous System Support
A strategy to improve cortisol rhythm, sleep quality, stress resilience, recovery capacity, mood stability, and energy rhythm.
9
Peptide Therapy Cognitive & Energy Support
When appropriate, peptides may support recovery, tissue repair, metabolic function, mitochondrial health, gut integrity, inflammation regulation, and longevity.
10
Bioregulator Support
Bioregulators may be considered for repair-related pathways, organ-specific resilience, immune support, circadian rhythm, and long-term longevity optimization.
11

Nutrition + Lifestyle Strategy

A realistic plan designed around your metabolism, gut, hormones, inflammation, sleep, stress, movement, food tolerance, and actual life.

Your Functional Medicine Journey

Step 1: Free Consultation

We review your symptoms, health history, and goals, then talk through whether HFW is the right fit.

Step 2: HFW Health Blueprint

Testing establishes your baseline. An advanced care clinician then interprets it alongside your history, symptoms and goals, and builds a prioritized plan you can actually start.

Step 3: Correct & Rebuild

We address the contributors behind your symptoms with targeted protocols, supported by nutrition and lifestyle strategy.

Step 4: Optimization

Your plan may include dietary guidance, supplements, prescriptions, and advanced therapies when clinically appropriate, with ongoing monitoring.

Step 5: Maintain & Thrive

Quarterly labs and regular reviews help you protect your progress and keep your plan aligned as your biology changes.

No waiting rooms. No referrals. No “everything looks fine.”

What we monitor along the way

We Track Why It Matters
Energy Pattern
Shows how your metabolism, mitochondria, hormones, nutrients, sleep, and stress response are changing
Sleep Quality
Helps track cortisol rhythm, nervous system regulation, hormone balance, recovery, and inflammation
Gut Markers
Identifies dysbiosis, inflammation, digestion, immune activity, and absorption patterns
Hormone Patterns
Shows how thyroid, cortisol, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, insulin, and DHEA may affect symptoms
Metabolic Markers
Tracks glucose, insulin, HbA1c, lipids, liver markers, and metabolic risk patterns
Inflammatory Markers
Shows whether inflammation may be affecting pain, fatigue, brain fog, hormones, or recovery
Nutrient Status
Helps identify deficiencies that may affect energy, mood, immunity, hormones, and cellular function
Mitochondrial Markers
Helps evaluate cellular energy, oxidative stress, recovery, and fatigue patterns
Immune Reactivity
Helps guide food, inflammation, autoimmune, and immune-support strategies
Biological Age
Tracks how your body is aging beneath the surface, not just your chronological age
Symptoms
Energy, mood, focus, digestion, cravings, sleep, pain, skin, libido, recovery, and resilience

Energy Pattern

Shows how your metabolism, mitochondria, hormones, nutrients, sleep, and stress response are changing

Sleep Quality

Helps track cortisol rhythm, nervous system regulation, hormone balance, recovery, and inflammation

Gut Markers

Identifies dysbiosis, inflammation, digestion, immune activity, and absorption patterns

Hormone Patterns

Shows how thyroid, cortisol, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, insulin, and DHEA may affect symptoms

Metabolic Markers

Tracks glucose, insulin, HbA1c, lipids, liver markers, and metabolic risk patterns

Inflammatory Markers

Shows whether inflammation may be affecting pain, fatigue, brain fog, hormones, or recovery

Nutrient Status

Helps identify deficiencies that may affect energy, mood, immunity, hormones, and cellular function

Mitochondrial Markers

Helps evaluate cellular energy, oxidative stress, recovery, and fatigue patterns

Immune Reactivity

Helps guide food, inflammation, autoimmune, and immune-support strategies

Biological Age

Tracks how your body is aging beneath the surface, not just your chronological age

Symptoms

Energy, mood, focus, digestion, cravings, sleep, pain, skin, libido, recovery, and resilience

Test
Track
Analyze
Adjust
Improve

You should not have to wonder whether your plan is working.
You should be able to see it.

Who is this for?

We do not do generic wellness. We build clinical strategies around your biology.

Why HFW

Why people work with HFW

  • Test first.We measure before we decide.
  • Clinician-led.Advanced care clinicians, with physician medical direction.
  • Correct, then optimize.The least intervention reasonably necessary, in the right order.
  • Monitored all year.Retest, review, adjust, with a coach to help the plan stick.
Patient reviews

What patients say

  • After getting my test results, Dr. Landi walked me through a number of helpful steps to restore my health. He is very knowledgeable and uses an in-depth functional medicine approach.

    Stella Blanch Apo
  • We appreciated his candor, knowledge and engaging personality. He exuded caring and interest in me and my situation. I feel he had repeatedly gone the extra mile for me so our collaboration is successful.

    Kevin Heckman

Who you'll work with

Clinician-led care with physician medical direction.

  • Christina Warner, APN-CChristina Warner, APN-CBoard-Certified Women's Health Nurse Practitioner · Advanced care clinician
  • Dr. Eric Landi, KICP, DCDr. Eric Landi, KICP, DCCo-Founder · Longevity and Functional Medicine
  • ARAnthony ReyesAccountability and Habit Coach
  • SDScott Davis, CPACo-Founder · Operations and Patient Experience

Medical direction: Dr. Saul Maslavi, MD, Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician

Meet the team →

Meet your clinical team

Advanced care clinicians. Measurement-informed strategy. Long-term optimization.

Christina Warner, APN-C
Board-Certified Nurse Practitioner
Hormone Optimization Women's Health Functional Medicine
25 years of clinical experience with a focus on hormones, gut health, chronic inflammation, womenu2019s health, and care focused on underlying contributors.n

Dr. Eric Landi, KICP, DC

Longevity and Functional Medicine
Certified Peptide Therapy Practitioner

Over a decade of clinical experience with advanced functional testing, peptide therapy, metabolic optimization, and data-driven longevity protocols.

Dr. Saul Maslavi, MD

Medical Director

Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician
20+ years in clinical practice with expertise in metabolic support, testosterone optimization, inflammation-related conditions, biological age tracking, and physician-level oversight.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Short answers to what people ask before booking.

Frequently Asked Questions

Functional medicine is an approach that looks for patterns and possible contributors behind symptoms rather than treating each symptom in isolation. It considers gut function, nutrient status, metabolic health, inflammation, hormone patterns, sleep, stress, and environmental exposures together. At HFW it is practiced alongside conventional medicine, not instead of it, and it does not replace necessary diagnosis, screening, or specialist care.

Being inside a reference range is not the same as being optimal or being fully evaluated. Reference ranges describe populations, not individuals, and a standard panel may not include markers relevant to your specific question. HFW starts by clarifying what has already been ruled out, reviews your existing records, then selects testing that could change a decision. Sometimes the useful next step is a different test. Sometimes it is a conventional referral. Sometimes it is addressing sleep, nutrition, or metabolic health first.

Commonly, persistent fatigue, poor sleep, brain fog, digestive symptoms such as bloating or irregularity, unexplained weight change or weight resistance, low libido, mood or stress-related symptoms, recurrent inflammation, and symptoms that span more than one body system. Investigating a symptom is not the same as treating a disease. If your presentation suggests something that requires conventional diagnosis or urgent care, HFW will tell you and refer.

Because symptoms like persistent fatigue, brain fog, poor sleep, digestive problems, and low libido are real to the person experiencing them, even when they do not map onto a diagnosis and even when standard testing looks unremarkable. A short appointment built around ruling out disease will often, correctly, find no disease, and then have nothing further to offer. HFW starts from the symptom rather than from the diagnosis, looks for patterns and possible contributors across systems, and builds a prioritized plan. That is not a promise to explain everything. Some symptoms need conventional diagnosis or a specialist, and HFW refers when that is the case.

The honest answer is that it varies by the specific test and the specific intervention. Some tools are well established, some are emerging, and some are proposed mechanisms rather than proven patient outcomes. HFW’s position is to be explicit about which is which, to select testing when the result can change a decision, and to keep conventional evaluation and safety in the plan. HFW does not position functional medicine as a replacement for necessary diagnosis, screening, emergency care, or specialist treatment.

Two things. First, prioritization. Functional medicine can become broad and protocol-heavy, producing a long list of tests and supplements without a clear sequence. HFW aims to give you a ranked plan and a defined next step. Second, integration. Conventional medicine stays in the model, including bloodwork, referrals, and guideline-recommended screening. HFW also builds in implementation support and scheduled reassessment rather than ending at the recommendation.

It is a corrective-care program, typically ten to twelve months, for people with unresolved or multi-system concerns who need more than a single optimization protocol. The first month is $700 and covers building your plan along with your first two months of clinician-selected supplements or advanced compounds, which typically carry a retail value of more than $500. Continuing months start at $350. The program includes four scheduled advanced care clinician consultations, one additional on-demand consultation, eight accountability sessions, and Patient Success coordination. Testing is selected and purchased separately based on your existing records and what would actually change the plan.

The Functional Medicine Corrective Program starts with something meaningful to clarify or correct. The Longevity Membership starts with improving health and function in a generally stable person. The two can overlap, and a patient may need to address gut, nutrient, metabolic, inflammatory, or hormone concerns before or alongside optimization. The practical differences are that the Functional Medicine Corrective Program is $700 for month one then $350 per month with testing purchased separately, while membership is $225 per month and includes four quarterly TruHealth tests.

Testing is chosen from your history and the question your clinician is trying to answer, not from a standard panel everyone receives. Commonly used tools include comprehensive bloodwork, TruHealth, GI-MAP stool testing, hormone testing including DUTCH when appropriate, and selected nutrient, metabolomic, or environmental assessments. HFW reviews recent usable results before ordering duplicates.

No, and you should be skeptical of any practice that says otherwise. More data is not automatically better care. HFW selects testing when the result can change a priority, a therapy, a safety decision, or a monitoring plan. Your clinician should be able to tell you what a specific test would change before you pay for it.

It depends on what is driving your symptoms. The Functional Medicine Corrective Program runs 12 months because meaningful correction is usually staged rather than immediate, and because response has to be measured before the next step is chosen. Some foundational changes are felt earlier. HFW will tell you what is being measured and when it will be reassessed rather than promising a timeline.

HFW can prescribe within the licensed scope of an appropriately authorized HFW prescriber, and does select supplements as part of a plan. What HFW does not do is guarantee any of it. A request begins an evaluation. Whether a medication, hormone, peptide, or supplement is appropriate depends on your history, goals, risks, testing, alternatives, and what is permitted in your state.

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