Find the Root. Not Just the Symptom.
- FM-BC Board Certified
- DUTCH · OAT · Genomics
- In-Person + Telehealth (MI)
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Ongoing Care · Not Just a Consultation
Anti-Aging
Functional Medicine Board Certified
11
Clinical Focus Areas
4
Advanced Diagnostic Panels
Telehealth
Available · Michigan Residents
Medicine That Asks Why, Not Just What.
Conventional medicine is built for acute care and disease management, and it does that well. But it wasn't built for chronic, complex, multi-system problems: the fatigue no test explains, the gut that never fully heals, the hormones that stay "normal" while you feel anything but.
Functional medicine operates on a different question. Not "what disease do you have?" but "what is driving your biology toward dysfunction?" It looks at the upstream causes: gut integrity, hormone signaling, mitochondrial efficiency, nutrient status, genomic vulnerabilities, toxin burden, and how they all interact.
At Arbour Longevity, functional medicine is practiced board-certified in Family Medicine, Psychiatric Mental Health, and Functional Medicine. That's a depth of conventional and integrative training most functional medicine practices don't have. The result: a diagnostic and treatment process that is both rigorously clinical and genuinely comprehensive.
How It Works
Comprehensive health history · Advanced diagnostic testing · Root cause identification · Personalized protocol · Ongoing follow-up care
Administration
Subcutaneous injection · Oral/sublingual · Nasal spray · Topical, protocol-dependent
Sourcing Standard
Pharmaceutical-grade · Regulated compounding pharmacies · Subject to current FDA regulations
Pricing & Availability
All pricing and current compound availability discussed at consultation, subject to regulatory status at time of prescribing.
The Arbour Longevity Difference
Functional Medicine Practiced With Full Clinical Depth.
Gut Health
Integrated with the Full Arbour Longevity System
Ongoing Care, Not a Single Report
Eleven Clinical Areas. One Interconnected System.
Every focus area below is investigated as part of the whole. Gut dysfunction drives hormone imbalance. Hormone imbalance drives brain fog. Toxin burden drives mitochondrial failure. Arbour Longevity's functional medicine approach treats the whole system, not just one symptom.
Digestive Health · Microbiome
Gut Health & Microbiome
The gut is the origin of most chronic disease. We look there first.
Intestinal permeability, dysbiosis, SIBO, inflammatory bowel disease, and microbiome imbalance affect far more than the gut. They're linked to autoimmunity, brain fog, hormone imbalances, skin conditions, and mood disorders. Arbour Longevity's gut assessment finds the specific disruptions driving your symptoms.
- IBS / IBD
- Bloating
- Leaky gut
- Dysbiosis
- Food reactivity
Hormones · Adrenal · Thyroid
Hormones & Adrenal Health
Optimization beyond what a TSH and basic panel will ever show.
Thyroid dysfunction, adrenal dysregulation, cortisol imbalance, and sex hormone disruption are among the most common, and most overlooked, drivers of chronic illness. Arbour Longevity uses the DUTCH test and comprehensive thyroid panels to find what standard testing misses, then treats what it finds.
- Hypothyroid
- Adrenal fatigue
- Cortisol
- HPA dysregulation
- Estrogen dominance
Brain · Energy · Fatigue
Brain Fog, Energy & Chronic Fatigue
The biology behind why you can't think, can't focus, can't recover.
Brain fog, cognitive decline, persistent fatigue, and burnout aren't personality traits or lifestyle failures. They are biological states with identifiable causes. Mitochondrial dysfunction, neuroinflammation, HPA axis dysregulation, and nutrient insufficiency are among the most common, and most treatable, drivers.
- Brain fog
- Chronic fatigue
- Burnout
- Poor concentration
- Memory
Toxins · Heavy Metals · Environment
Environmental Toxins & Heavy Metals
What your environment is doing to your biology, measured, not assumed.
Environmental toxin accumulation and heavy metal burden directly drive mitochondrial dysfunction, thyroid disruption, neurological symptoms, and immune dysregulation. Arbour Longevity's toxin and heavy metal assessment finds your specific exposures and builds a targeted detox and repletion protocol.
- Heavy metals
- Mold illness
- Chemical exposure
- Detox support
- Immune dysregulation
Longevity · Biological Age · Optimization
Longevity & Biological Age
Measuring and addressing your biological age, not your chronological one.
Functional medicine for longevity goes beyond fixing symptoms. It identifies the biological aging processes that determine your healthspan. Mitochondrial efficiency, oxidative stress, genomic vulnerabilities, and nutrient levels are the biggest factors in how well, and how long, you function.
- Biological aging
- Mitochondrial health
- Oxidative stress
- Genomic risk
- Healthspan
Immune · Autoimmune · Food Sensitivity
Autoimmune & Inflammatory Health
Quieting an immune system that has lost its context.
Autoimmune and inflammatory conditions rarely develop without identifiable biological triggers. Leaky gut, molecular mimicry, infection history, toxin burden, and nutrient deficiency are among the most consistent root causes. Arbour Longevity's functional approach finds and treats these triggers alongside conventional care, not instead of it.
- Hashimoto's
- Rheumatoid
- Inflammatory
- Food reactivity
- Skin conditions
The Arbour Longevity Functional Medicine Process
Comprehensive. Evidence-Based. Never a Template.
New Patient Intake
Diagnostic Testing
Root Cause Analysis
Personalized Protocol
Ongoing Follow-Up
Explore by Focus Area
Frequently Asked Questions
What Patients Ask About Functional Medicine.
Functional medicine is a root-cause approach to health. It finds the underlying biological mechanisms driving your symptoms, instead of just managing those symptoms with medication. It uses advanced diagnostic testing, a detailed health history, and personalized protocols to address gut health, hormone imbalances, metabolic dysfunction, nutrient deficiencies, toxin burden, and how these systems interact.
Conventional medicine is excellent at diagnosing and treating acute conditions and disease. Functional medicine looks at what comes before disease: the hormone imbalances, gut dysfunction, nutrient deficiencies, inflammation, and mitochondrial inefficiency that drive chronic symptoms for years before they become diagnosable conditions. At Arbour Longevity, these two approaches work together. Our clinician's Family Medicine board certification brings conventional rigor alongside functional depth.
Arbour Longevity in Ann Arbor offers full functional medicine evaluation and ongoing care from a triple board-certified nurse practitioner: Gandhi Bhattarai, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, Anti-Aging/Functional Medicine BC. We serve Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Saline, Plymouth, Canton, and Southeast Michigan. Telehealth is available for Michigan residents for follow-up care.
Arbour Longevity's functional medicine evaluation starts with a 75–90 minute intake covering your full health history and symptom timeline. Next come standard labs and advanced testing as needed, including the DUTCH test for hormone metabolites, organic acids testing (OAT) for mitochondrial and metabolic function, and genomic panels for MTHFR and other key SNPs. The result is a complete biological picture and a personalized protocol that addresses every root cause we find.
Hormone therapy replaces or adds hormones directly, like testosterone, estrogen, or progesterone. Peptide therapy signals your body to produce hormones and other compounds more efficiently, working upstream of the hormone itself. Many patients benefit from both as part of one longevity protocol: hormones restore what's deficient, while peptides can improve the signaling that makes hormone therapy work better.
Three things set Arbour Longevity's functional medicine program apart. First, our clinician holds Anti-Aging certification alongside Family Medicine and Psychiatric Mental Health, covering the full range of chronic illness, including its neurological and psychiatric sides. Second, integration: functional medicine patients can access Arbour Longevity's hormone optimization, peptide therapy, IV therapy, and weight loss programs as one connected system. Third, ongoing care: Arbour Longevity provides continuous follow-up, not just a report and a goodbye.
Finally Finding What Was There All Along.
★★★★★
"After five years of normal labs and no answers, Arbour Longevity found three root causes in my first evaluation. The OAT panel and DUTCH test showed things no one had ever tested. I finally understood what was happening in my own body."
★★★★★
"The brain fog I'd had for two years was gone within six weeks of the protocol. It turned out to be mitochondrial dysfunction and B12 depletion showing up on the organic acids test. No one had looked there before."
★★★★★
"The thing that sets Arbour Longevity apart is that the functional medicine is connected to everything else. My hormone protocol and my gut protocol were designed together, not handed off to different providers who don't talk to each other."
Functional Medicine in Ann Arbor
Functional Medicine · Ann Arbor
Your Symptoms Have a Cause. Let's Find It.
Schedule a functional medicine consultation at Arbour Longevity. Our clinician takes one of the most thorough clinical histories you'll experience, then uses advanced diagnostics to build the complete biological picture your health has been missing.
- Pricing at Consultation
- DUTCH · OAT · Genomics
- Telehealth Available (MI)
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
Clinician-led longevity practice · Anti-Aging · FNP-BC · PMHNP-BC · Ann Arbor, Michigan · Accepting new patients
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