Julie Taylor, MD, MPH
Finally Get To The Root Cause Of Your Health Issues With The Functional Medicine Approach
Our patient-centered approach is focused on empowering you to take control of your health. Dr. Taylor sees you as a whole person, not just a diagnosis.
At its core, functional medicine is about restoring balance—addressing the foundational aspects of health, like sleep, nutrition, stress, relationships, and movement. When these are out of sync, your health can suffer. Dr. Taylor helps identify these imbalances and works with you to rebuild that foundation, so you can feel like yourself again.
Functional medicine views good health as more than the absence of disease, but as the enhancement of vitality. Our practice aims to extend the quality, not just the length of your life. As a functional medicine practitioner, Dr. Taylor recognizes that each patient is a unique human being whose biochemistry is influenced by genetics and their particular environment. She’s committed to patient-centered treatment and seeks to balance your mind, body, and spirit as a way to ultimate health. After all, we understand that all of your body systems are connected and a symptom in one may be caused by a disturbance in another.
Your first appointment with Dr. Taylor will start a connection where true healing begins. She’ll spend a full hour with you, diving deep into your daily habits, past health history, genetics, and even your environment. From there, she’ll design a customized treatment plan that may include bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, tailored nutritional guidance from an on-staff functional nutritionist, exercise and stress management techniques, botanical medicines, or conventional therapies when appropriate.
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Gut Health
Whole-body health begins with your gut.
As a functional medicine practitioner, Dr. Taylor recognizes that treating the gut first can often resolve a lot of underlying health problems, even if you don’t have overt digestive symptoms. Issues such as leaky gut, food intolerances, and nutrient malabsorption are often the source of your health concerns.
Sometimes, gut health issues show up in ways you wouldn’t expect. Rashes, mood issues, autoimmune disorders, and food intolerances are possible symptoms of poor gut health. Imbalances in hormones, including thyroid, estrogen, and progesterone, can negatively affect your gut health. Bioidentical hormone therapy helps correct irregularities in these hormones and can often lead to the resolution of your gut problems.
Addressing the Gut For Better Full-Body Health
Your gut health has a direct effect on your well-being. The gut is the center of the body, and many symptoms, including fatigue and inflammation, are directly related to gut imbalance. Dietary, hormonal, and lifestyle interventions can help heal digestion and lead to a better quality of life. You'll benefit from addressing your gut health if you experience the following conditions:
- Food intolerances
- IBS
- Various digestive issues like bloating, diahrrea, and constipation
- Belching and gas
- Reflux
- Leaky gut
- SIBO
- Unexplained symptoms
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There is so much more to gut health than meets the eye. Leaky Gut is one of the most detrimental conditions to your gut. While not treated or acknowledged in conventional medicine, Leaky gut has been linked to a number of chronic diseases and uncomfortable conditions. Many of these are seemingly unrelated to your digestive tract.
With leaky gut syndrome, the junctions in your intestines that prevent toxins, microbes, and undigested food from slipping into your bloodstream are weak. As a result, these foreign bodies get directly into your system and cause inflammation in your body that can manifest as a number of different symptoms, including aches and pains, allergies, asthma, sleep disorders, and headaches.
How We Improve Your Gut Health
Your first appointment with Dr. Taylor is all about you. She’ll spend a full hour listening to your health concerns, learning about your lifestyle, diet, and health goals, and digging deeper into what might be causing your gut-related symptoms. This isn’t just a quick conversation—Dr. Taylor takes the time to truly understand what’s going on with your health so she can get to the root of the problem.
During your consultation, she may recommend specific testing to uncover the underlying causes of your gastrointestinal issues. With those insights, she’ll create a personalized gut health plan tailored just for you. This often includes a series of herbal antibiotics to address any imbalances, followed by prebiotics, probiotics, and targeted supplements to restore healthy gut flora.
Dr. Taylor may also connect you with our Registered Dietitian, who specializes in helping people eat in ways that support a healthy gut. Together, they’ll guide you step by step toward feeling better and building a foundation for long-term wellness.
This is your opportunity to take control of your gut health with a plan designed just for you—because you deserve to feel your best. Let’s get started!
Weight Loss & Functional Nutrition
Functional medicine, as practiced by Dr. Taylor, considers the whole person when helping achieve optimal wellness. She doesn’t just look at symptoms but also at the underlying environment, social conditions, genetics, and physical aspects that promote or detract from wellness.
Nutrition is a key part of this whole-person approach. The food you eat becomes you. It immediately enters your system and can affect your mood and digestive health. If you have intolerances to certain foods, it can manifest as physical symptoms, such as rashes, headaches, and fatigue. Optimizing your nutrition plan helps optimize your health. Our functional nutritionist can help you determine the optimal foods that promote good health, optimal energy, and overall vitality.
Anyone can benefit from learning more about food and nutrition, but you’ll get particular value if you’re having issues with weight management, migraines, GI issues, food intolerances, depression, heart conditions, fatigue, diabetes, or menopause. Nutrition counseling is part of an entire treatment plan to support your health.
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Anxiety & Depression
Anxiety and depression don’t just affect how you feel emotionally—they take a serious toll on your physical health, too. Stress from these conditions can contribute to issues like hypertension, adrenal fatigue, and even heart disease, impacting your overall well-being. Dr. Taylor understands how deeply stress affects every part of your life, and she’s here to help you find relief.
Dr. Taylor works with patients to identify what’s driving their stress and helps create a plan to regain control. Whether it’s through personalized nutrition guidance, exercise recommendations, hormone therapy, or mindfulness techniques like meditation, she’ll guide you toward a healthier, more balanced life.
You don’t have to live in constant overdrive. Let Dr. Taylor and her team help you find ways to reduce stress, restore balance, and feel more like yourself again. It’s time to prioritize your well-being and take that first step toward a calmer, healthier life.
Anxiety & depression have chronic implications.
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Adrenal Fatigue
Anxiety and Depression can contribute to adrenal fatigue, a condition in which your adrenal glands work at suboptimal levels. These glands, located just above your kidneys, produce a number of hormones, including the stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline. When you’re subject to too much stress, the adrenals are forced to work overtime and this can lead to adrenal fatigue. The symptoms of adrenal fatigue include feelings of burnout, overwhelming fatigue, insomnia, and headaches. Both men and women are subject to this condition.
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Higher Cortisol and Adrenaline
Anxiety and Depression puts your body into overdrive. Your heart works harder, you might feel your breath come slightly faster, and your hormones — particularly cortisol and adrenaline — pump out at higher-than-normal rates.
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Interrupted Sleep
In addition, stress makes it so your body can’t shut down and repair. Sleep may be interrupted and your psychological state is in constant alert — you never get to relax.
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Poor Lifestyle Choices
Anxiety and depression can also drive you to make poor lifestyle choices, like eating too much, drinking, and smoking. When you feel anxious or depressed you may skip exercise and sleep poorly. This only perpetuates the cycle of anxiety and depression.
Take control of your mental and physical health with Dr. Taylor’s compassionate, functional medicine approach to anxiety and depression. Dr. Taylor creates a personalized plan to help you feel calmer, stronger, and more in control. If you’re ready to move beyond masking symptoms and find lasting relief, let’s start your journey to better health today. Your path to balance and wellness is just one appointment away!