Functional Medicine
Is Functional Medicine for me?
Functional medicine is for adults who are ready to move beyond symptom management and uncover what’s driving persistent weight gain, inflammation, and abnormal labs.
This approach is especially helpful if you’ve been told your labs are “normal,” yet your body tells a different story like stubborn weight, fatigue, digestive issues, rising blood pressure or blood sugar, joint pain, or chronic inflammation that hasn’t improved with standard recommendations.
At Pure Hope, we focus on identifying root contributors such as gut imbalance, metabolic dysfunction, inflammation, nutrient deficiencies, and stress-related hormonal patterns. We combine comprehensive history-taking with targeted laboratory testing to understand why your body is responding the way it is and not just how to manage the symptoms.
From there, care is personalized and medically guided, using nutrition, lifestyle support, evidence-based supplementation and medication when appropriate, with the goal of improving labs, reducing inflammation, and restoring metabolic health.
This service is designed for patients who want clarity, structure, and a deeper understanding of what’s happening inside their body. Functional medicine is for those who are ready to address their symptoms at the root.
If you’re unsure whether functional medicine is the right fit, we typically begin with a Body Reset Call to determine the most appropriate next step.
Why Gut Health Matters in Functional Medicine
For many adults the issue causing them to struggle with stubborn weight, rising inflammation, fatigue, or worsening labs, isn’t effort, it’s what’s happening inside the gut.
Your gut plays a central role in metabolism, blood sugar regulation, immune signaling, inflammation, and hormone balance. When the gut is disrupted, symptoms like bloating, reflux, brain fog, fatigue, joint pain, and unexplained weight gain often follow even when labs appear “borderline” or “normal”.
In functional medicine, we don’t guess. We use advanced testing to understand how digestion, absorption, inflammation, and microbial balance may be affecting your body’s ability to heal and respond.
By identifying gut-related imbalances and addressing them at the root, we can often explain:
Why weight loss has stalled
Why inflammation or cholesterol won’t come down
Why energy, digestion, or blood sugar feels unpredictable
This is not about trends or quick fixes, it’s about uncovering why your body has been stuck and creating a plan that finally makes sense.
For some patients, this deeper evaluation is part of a structured functional medicine program; for others, it begins with a simple conversation to determine the right next step.
What a Functional Medicine Program Focuses On
- Identifying root causes behind stubborn symptoms and labs
- Advanced functional testing to guide treatment decisions
- Structured support for nutrition, metabolism, and inflammation
- Ongoing guidance and accountability over several months
- Adjustments based on how your body responds. Not guesswork
Who This Type of Program Is For
This program is designed for adults who feel frustrated, unheard, or stuck, especially when weight, inflammation, digestion, or labs haven’t improved despite their best efforts.
If you’re ready for a deeper, root-cause approach and want a clear plan guided by functional medicine, not quick fixes, then this program will provide the time, structure, and support you need to create lasting change.
How We Work Together
At Pure Hope, functional medicine care is built as a collaborative, step by step process, not a rushed or one size fits all approach.
For patients who are ready to move beyond short term fixes, care is delivered through structured programs designed to uncover root causes, stabilize the body, and support lasting change.
Rather than chasing symptoms, we follow a clear clinical framework, moving forward based on how your body responds, your lab findings, and your individual goals.
Care is personalized, medically guided, and intentionally paced. This is not a quick fix. It’s a thoughtful partnership focused on long-term improvement, not temporary relief.
Most patients work with us over 3 to 5 months, depending on symptom complexity and testing needs. The specific path and level of support are determined after we understand your history and priorities, so recommendations are based on clarity, not assumptions.
The Pure Hope 5-Step Clinical Pillars
Most people don’t need “more willpower”. They need a structured, clinical path that addresses symptoms in the right order. This is the framework we use to guide care at Pure Hope.
These are the stages you will move through on your journey to health with us:
Step 1: Supporting Health
This is where you commit to creating change and develop a partnership with the Pure Hope team. We begin to address key lifestyle changes such as food, sleep, movement, and mindfulness that will support you throughout your healing journey and develop skills that will last a lifetime. This stage helps calm the body and create stability often improving energy, digestion, and inflammation so deeper work is possible. Typically a 2–4 week process.
Step 2: Finding Relief
Addresses the initial barriers to health and wellness and brings about some palliative care. Poor digestion, inflammation, ongoing stress, and essential nutrition needs will be identified with recommendations for lifestyle changes and supplementation remedies. Many patients notice early improvements here, especially in bloating, reflux, energy, pain or lab trends. Typically a 3–6 week process.
Step 3: Root Cause
This is where the practitioner digs deeper to uncover issues contributing to your symptoms. There are four key root cause issues that may be addressed together or one at a time, but rarely is significant change made until the following issues are resolved: Gut Infections, Leaky Gut, Liver Congestion, and Mitochondrial Dysfunction. This is often where patients finally understand why their weight, labs, or symptoms haven’t responded in the past. Typically a 3–6 month process.
Step 4: Fine Tuning
A dividing point on the way to wellness. If you are doing much better, you may only need minor adjustments. If you are still facing challenges, you may need additional testing. Categories include hormonal balancing, focused nutrition, and immune health. This phase focuses on making targeted adjustments to optimize results and support continued healing. Typically a 1–3 month process.
Step 5: Maintaining Health
The ultimate goal on the way to wellness and joy, typically taking 6–12 months to reach (depending on starting issues, compliance, and setbacks). In this pillar, few interventions are needed, because you have learned to incorporate good self-care into your life. A key component is being connected to your body, and knowing how to identify and respond quickly to issues before they become bigger problems. At this stage, we encourage you to expand this newfound sense of health beyond yourself and share the gift of healthy living with your family, work, and community. Experience for life!
How to Get Started
You don’t need to have everything figured out before taking the next step.
Many patients begin with a Discovery Phase, which allows us to take a closer look at your health history, symptoms, and patterns before committing to longer-term care.
This initial step is designed to provide clarity — not pressure.
Your journey can begin starting at $549, giving you the opportunity to better understand what may be keeping your body stuck and what level of support makes sense moving forward.
What to Expect
From there, we’ll talk through appropriate next steps together. Whether that’s continuing into a structured functional medicine program or focusing on a more targeted plan.
There is no obligation to continue beyond this phase.
The goal is understanding first then decisions second.
When you’re ready, the next step is a Body Reset Call, a complimentary conversation to review your concerns and determine whether this approach is right for you.
Let’s start your journey together.
Find the why. Heal the root cause. Feel like YOU again.
