
How Functional Medicine Helps With Weight Gain, Hormone Imbalance, and Chronic Fatigue
If you’ve tried diet plans, supplements, or exercise routines without long-term results, functional medicine may offer a better path forward. Unlike one-size-fits-all approaches, functional medicine is designed around your body’s unique needs using a personalized, root-cause approach.
This method can help uncover and treat the underlying reasons behind symptoms like fatigue, weight gain, hormone imbalance, and poor digestion—often missed in traditional care.
What Makes Functional Medicine Different?
Functional medicine focuses on the chemical, physiological, and metabolic processes in your body. By reviewing blood work and clinical history, it helps practitioners understand what your body is lacking, where imbalances exist, and how to support your health with nutrition and lifestyle changes.
Rather than treating symptoms with medications, functional medicine works to resolve the root cause by restoring balance in:
Hormones
Gut health
Immune response
Nutritional absorption
Metabolism
Why Functional Medicine Is Personalized
Two patients may present with similar symptoms on paper—fatigue, stubborn weight gain, or poor sleep—but the causes could be completely different. Functional medicine recognizes this and builds a care plan based on what your lab results, health history, and current habits are telling us.
This tailored strategy can lead to better outcomes and long-lasting improvements, especially when conventional approaches have failed.
Conditions That Respond Well to Functional Medicine
Dr. Davis and our team have used functional medicine to help patients with:
Unexplained weight gain
Weight fluctuation or difficulty losing weight
Hormonal imbalances
Thyroid dysfunction, including hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism
Chronic fatigue
Poor results from previous diet or fitness programs
Many patients see improvements in energy, mood, digestion, and metabolism by following a personalized nutrition and supplement plan.
Start With a Free Functional Medicine Consultation
If you’ve been feeling off, stuck, or like your body is working against you, functional medicine might be the missing piece. We are currently accepting new patients and offering a free consultation to see if this approach is right for you.
To schedule your consultation, call (801) 798-2515 or visit us at Advanced Wellness Center, 205 N. Main Street, Spanish Fork, UT. We’re here to help you feel like yourself again—with a plan built just for you.