Testing
Comprehensive hormone and laboratory testing in Lafayette, Indiana — with the results actually explained to you.
Most patients have had blood drawn many times. Very few have had the results explained. The result arrives in a portal, flagged or unflagged, and that is the end of it.
The reference range is not a target. It is the middle 95% of the people who happened to be tested at that laboratory, sick and well alike. Sitting at the very bottom of "normal" for vitamin D, ferritin, B12 or free testosterone is a common reason someone feels terrible while being told nothing is wrong.
We test widely, and then we sit down and go through what came back.
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Learn moreWhy it is done this way
It is the middle 95% of whoever happened to be tested at that laboratory, sick and well alike.
Sitting at the very bottom of normal for vitamin D, ferritin, B12 or free testosterone is a common reason someone feels terrible while being told nothing is wrong.
We test widely, and then we sit down and go through what came back. The interpretation is the part with value.
TSH, free T4, free T3, reverse T3 and antibodies.
Learn moreEstradiol, progesterone, total and free testosterone, SHBG, DHEA-S, LH, FSH.
Fasting insulin, HbA1c and detailed lipids — the markers that see insulin resistance years early.
Vitamin D, B12, folate, ferritin, magnesium, zinc, iodine.
The numbers that explain pain and fatigue no scan can account for.
Where the history warrants it — and always before any chelation.
Learn moreHow it works
Functional medicine is not a different set of drugs. It is a different order of operations: measure first, then treat what the measurements actually show.
Step 1
We take a full history — symptoms, timeline, diet, sleep, stress, medications, family history. Most patients have never been asked these questions in one sitting. This is where the pattern usually shows up.
Step 2
A normal thyroid panel is often just TSH. A normal hormone panel is often nothing at all. We test the full picture — thyroid antibodies, free hormones, nutrient status, inflammatory and metabolic markers — so the treatment plan has something real underneath it.
Step 3
You get your results explained, not filed. What is out of range, what it means, what we are going to do about it, and what should change and by when.
Step 4
We re-measure. If the numbers moved and you feel better, we hold. If they did not, we change the plan. Treating on symptoms alone is how people end up on therapy they do not need.
If none of that sounds like you, call anyway — we will tell you honestly whether this is the right service.
The office is open Monday to Thursday. Send this and someone will call you back — a sentence about what is going on is enough.
Bring whatever you already have. Much of the answer is often already in it.
