About Us
A Broader View of Medicine
Functional Health, Wellness & Performance MD was built around a simple idea: feeling well involves more than managing a diagnosis.
Our approach looks at the whole picture—your health history, symptoms, lifestyle, goals, current treatments, prior testing, and the factors that may be influencing how you feel and function today.
We bring together the principles of conventional medicine with a broader range of evidence-conscious approaches to nutrition, hormonal health, metabolic health, gut health, performance, recovery, and longevity.
The goal isn't to pursue every new treatment or find a single answer to every problem. It's to understand the individual in front of us and determine what makes sense for that person.
More Than 20 Years of Looking at Health Differently
Dr. Frederick Brown is a physician trained in Family Medicine and Sports Medicine and the founder of the Healthspan Method.
Beginning in 2005, Dr. Brown began exploring the role of targeted nutrition, nutraceuticals, lifestyle, and careful measurement alongside conventional medical care.
Over the years, that perspective expanded to include hormonal health, metabolic and weight management, gut health, peptides, sports and regenerative medicine, recovery, performance, and persistent symptoms following illness.
Our Mission & Philosophy
Helping People Understand Their Health More
Our mission is to provide thoughtful, personalized medical care that helps patients better understand their health and make informed decisions about what comes next.
We believe good healthcare should begin with listening—a patient's history, symptoms, goals, lifestyle, and experience matter. Laboratory results and diagnostic testing can provide important information, but they are only part of the picture.
We also believe that medicine does not have to be either conventional or integrative. The right approach may include traditional medical evaluation, appropriate testing, medications, nutrition, lifestyle strategies, hormonal evaluation, metabolic support, or other therapies when clinically appropriate.
The question is not simply, "What can we do?" It's:
"What makes sense for this patient, at this time, for this particular reason?"
Your Health Deserves a Bigger Picture
Whether you want to understand persistent concerns, improve energy and metabolic health, perform at a higher level, recover more effectively, or take a more proactive approach to how you age, your next step doesn’t need to be another generic program.
It can begin with a conversation about you.
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