Longevity Treatment Guides

Verify licensure, evidence, emergency boundaries, test validity, supplement conflicts, privacy, follow-up, and total pricing. Specialty labs are not automatically useful.

Functional medicine is a care framework; integrative medicine combines conventional and complementary care; naturopathic medicine is a licensed profession only in some U.S. jurisdictions.

Primary care is continuous preventive, acute, and chronic care. Functional medicine adds longer systems-oriented assessment. They can complement each other; do not drop your PCP.

Functional and longevity medicine are marketing umbrellas over licensed—or unlicensed—practice. Compare indication, evidence, and primary-care coordination.

Fatigue and brain fog are nonspecific. Start with medical, sleep, medication, mental-health, and lifestyle causes before specialty testing. Screen anemia, thyroid disease, depression, and sleep apnea.

Bloating, pain, diarrhea, and constipation need a symptom-based workup. Specialty stool or food panels should not replace tests for celiac disease, inflammation, infection, or structural disease.

Center A1C, fasting glucose, lipids, blood pressure, and waist size, plus heart risk, nutrition, activity, sleep, and indicated medicine—not proprietary insulin-resistance labels.

Supplement plans can cause interactions, contamination, liver injury, bleeding, or duplicate doses. FDA does not approve supplements to treat disease.

Organic-acid, stool, hormone-metabolite, food-IgG, and microbiome panels vary in validity. CLIA status does not prove a specialty lab is clinically useful.

Root-cause talk can help or oversimplify. Intestinal permeability is real in selected disease; leaky gut syndrome and adrenal fatigue are not universal diagnoses.

Personalized, systems-based approach to root causes of disease.