My Own Approach
After two decades in functional medicine, I've watched countless patients cycle through practitioners, protocols, and promises. They collect lab results like trading cards. They chase symptoms with supplements. They follow cookie-cutter detox programs that leave them feeling worse.
The problem isn't their commitment or compliance. The problem is we're approaching chronic illness backwards.
The ENCORE Method: A Different Framework
I developed the ENCORE Method™ for clients where conventional functional medicine has reached its limits. This isn't another step-by-step protocol as recovery doesn't follow a calendar. Instead, we address all layers simultaneously, guided by your body's capacity and response.
Here is how ENCORE works:
E – Environment
Healing starts with your surroundings. Mold at home, toxins in the air and water, and chemicals in daily products quietly harm your health. But stress isn’t only physical — it can also be emotional.
Modern factors, such as non-native electromagnetic fields (nnEMF) and toxic blue light, disrupt sleep cycles(circadian rhythm), hormones, and cellular function. Toxic or unsafe relationships keep the nervous system stuck in survival mode, making recovery harder.
When you clear both physical and emotional toxins from your life, your body finally feels safe. And safety is the first step to healing.
N – Nervous System Regulation
Your autonomic nervous system controls whether your body allocates resources to survival or repair. Past trauma, chronic stress, and limbic system dysfunction create physiological patterns that block recovery at every level.
Through tools like breathwork, vagus nerve activation, circadian alignment, and trauma-informed approaches, we help the nervous system shift out of survival mode into rest-and-repair. Once the body feels safe, every other step becomes more effective.
When your body feels genuinely safe, healing accelerates in ways that surprise even experienced practitioners.
C – Cellular Healing
Chronic illness damages cell membranes, disrupts mitochondrial function, and impairs cellular communication. You can't think your way out of cellular dysfunction, and you can't force healing with willpower.
We focus on fatty acid balance, membrane integrity, and mitochondrial support using targeted nutrition—phosphatidylcholine, omega-6/omega-3, GLA, and antioxidants—combined with therapeutic modalities like red light therapy and PEMF when appropriate.
This isn't about megadosing supplements. It's about providing what damaged cells actually need to rebuild.
O – Optimizing Detox Pathways
Detoxification in sensitive patients requires surgical precision. The liver, bile flow, lymphatic system, and kidneys must be functioning before we mobilize stored toxins. Otherwise, you're just redistributing the problem.
We open drainage pathways gradually for bile flow, targeted binders, lymphatic support—always matching the pace to your system's capacity. The goal isn't to detox faster; it's to detox smarter.
R – Restoring Microbiome
Gut dysfunction drives systemic inflammation, but the solution isn't generic probiotics. We address the underlying factors—histamine intolerance, oxalate sensitivity, immune reactivity—that keep the microbiome destabilized.
Healing the gut lining, reducing inflammatory load, and supporting microbial balance requires individualized strategies. Some clients need antimicrobial protocols. Others need pure restoration. The difference matters.
E – Enhancing Resilience
Recovery isn't just about removing what's wrong. It's about building your system's ability to adapt, respond, and maintain balance under stress.
We develop sustainable practices that support long-term vitality—not temporary fixes that require constant management. The goal is a body that can handle life's inevitable challenges with grace and coherence.
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The Reality of Complex Cases
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The ENCORE Method™ succeeds where others fail because it addresses the fundamental question: Does your body feel safe enough to recover?
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When we restore this foundation—environmental safety, nervous system regulation, cellular integrity—your body remembers how to repair itself. Symptoms that seemed intractable begin shifting. Energy returns. Mental clarity improves.
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The ENCORE Method is not about covering symptoms—it’s about restoring balance at every level of the body, in the exact order healing requires.
The Reality of Complex Cases
I work with clients who've been dismissed by conventional medicine and frustrated by functional approaches. Many are highly sensitive, reactive to supplements, or dealing with multiple complex conditions simultaneously.
These cases require more than protocols. They require partnership, clinical expertise, and the patience to work at your body's pace rather than against it.
The ENCORE Method provides the framework. Your commitment provides the foundation. Together, we create the conditions where genuine healing becomes possible.
