FunctionalMatch helps people with chronic, autoimmune, and complex conditions find doctors who focus on root causes — not just symptom management. Below are some of the conditions we commonly help with.
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Chronic or unresolved Lyme and co-infections can drive widespread inflammation, fatigue, and autoimmune symptoms. Functional medicine focuses on identifying infections, immune dysfunction, and detox pathways.
Hormonal imbalances can affect energy, metabolism, mood, and longevity. Functional and longevity medicine focuses on restoring balance through root-cause evaluation and personalized protocols.
Autoimmune thyroid conditions often involve gut health, nutrient deficiencies, inflammation, and immune triggers beyond thyroid medication alone.
An inflammatory autoimmune condition affecting the spine and joints, often linked to immune dysregulation, gut health, infections, and nervous system stress.
A chronic autoimmune condition causing joint inflammation, pain, and stiffness. Functional medicine explores immune triggers, gut health, and inflammation drivers.
A chronic pain condition involving widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and nervous system sensitization. Functional medicine explores root causes including infections, gut health, and stress.
A chronic autoimmune condition affecting the central nervous system. Functional medicine explores immune triggers, gut health, infections, and nervous system support.
A complex hormonal condition often involving insulin resistance, gut dysbiosis, inflammation, and adrenal dysfunction. Functional medicine investigates root causes beyond standard hormonal management.
Chronic digestive issues like IBS, SIBO, bloating, and gut dysfunction are often rooted in microbiome imbalances, infections, and gut-brain axis disruption. Functional medicine investigates root causes beyond symptom management.
A complex autoimmune condition affecting multiple organ systems. Functional medicine investigates immune triggers, gut health, environmental factors, and systemic inflammation to support autoimmune regulation.
Persistent symptoms following COVID-19 infection that can include fatigue, brain fog, heart palpitations, and nervous system dysregulation. Functional medicine investigates viral persistence, immune dysregulation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and gut microbiome disruption.
Mental health symptoms often have physical root causes including gut dysbiosis, hormonal imbalances, nutrient deficiencies, chronic infections, and nervous system dysregulation. Functional medicine investigates the physical drivers of anxiety and depression.
Persistent pain often has underlying drivers including systemic inflammation, gut dysbiosis, hormonal imbalance, hidden infection, environmental toxicity, or nervous system dysregulation. Functional medicine investigates the root causes of chronic pain rather than managing symptoms.
Cognitive dysfunction including mental cloudiness, memory issues, and difficulty concentrating often has physical root causes. Functional medicine investigates gut health, hormonal imbalances, toxic burden, infections, and nervous system dysregulation as drivers of brain fog.
A complex hormonal and immune condition causing chronic pelvic pain, painful periods, and fertility challenges. Functional medicine investigates estrogen metabolism, gut health, immune dysfunction, and environmental toxin exposure as root causes.
Metabolic dysfunction driven by gut dysbiosis, chronic inflammation, hormonal imbalances, sleep dysfunction, and environmental toxin exposure. Functional medicine investigates root causes of insulin resistance and metabolic disease.
Chronic skin conditions driven by immune dysregulation, gut dysfunction, food sensitivities, and inflammatory burden. Functional medicine investigates the gut-skin axis and systemic drivers of skin inflammation.
Chronic mold exposure and mycotoxin burden can drive immune dysfunction, inflammation, and detox pathway overload. Functional medicine focuses on identifying exposure, supporting safe detox, and rebuilding immune resilience.
Persistent fatigue, brain fog, and burnout often have deeper root causes including hormonal imbalances, gut dysfunction, hidden infections, and nervous system dysregulation. Functional medicine investigates what's driving your exhaustion.
Any other health conditions. If you're dealing with a complex health challenge that hasn't been fully addressed by conventional medicine, functional medicine may offer a different approach.
FunctionalMatch provides informational support and helps connect individuals with healthcare providers. We do not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and we do not recommend specific providers. Different providers take different approaches, so it's important to explore options and find what aligns best with your needs.