​Dr. Tinsley is able to diagnose current conditions and help prevent the onset of not-yet-manifested diseases through an alternative, proactive approach called
Functional Medicine.

Instead of waiting for a disease to manifest and then treating it, practitioners like Dr. Tinsley use functional medicine to catch disease before it manifests in patients.

Treatment is prescribed in the form of whole food supplements and meal plans, 100% personalized to the patients’ needs. Dr. Tinsley follows her functional medicine patients for anywhere from 2 months to 2 years, depending on the severity and type of the condition they are suffering from, and uses follow-up lab work to monitor improvement.

Due to the analytical nature of Dr. Tinsley’s functional medicine work, she is able to treat patients remotely, which means that even if you don’t live in Folsom, you can still enjoy the benefits of the functional medicine we offer at Well Balanced Body.

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Functional medicine focuses on how the body’s different systems influence one another, especially the immune, hormone, and the nervous systems.

Doing a 360-degree analysis of these systems through the lens of functional medicine and ordered lab work allows Dr. Tinsley to discover the causes of chronic symptoms and seemingly mysterious ailments.
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If you’ve visited numerous doctors and clinics trying to find out why you don’t feel quite right, only to be told your lab tests are fine and nothing more can be done, functional medicine may be able to provide the answers you’ve been looking for.

Patient Case Study:

• Patient complaint: weight gain, cold hands & feet, brain fog, migrating pain. Patient was being treated with conventional medicine for hypothyroidism with no improvement. She was experiencing extreme fatigue and significant hair loss.
• After visiting numerous doctors and other practitioners who treated patient for a thyroid condition Dr. Tinsley was able to specifically diagnose an autoimmune condition manifesting to the thyroid, or Hashimotos, which requires a totally different protocol than hypothyroidism.
• Outcome: After diligently following protocol, patient had more energy, experienced weight loss, no pain, increased energy and slept better than she had in 20 years.

Dr. Tinsley’s approach to functional medicine differs from other practitioners because she prescribes nutritional intervention and whole food supplements, not pills or synthetic supplements.
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To read more about functional medicine, click here.

Getting started

Functional Medicine Initial Treatment (book here) 

• Specific lab tests for your case*
• 60-90minute appointment
• Detailed Examination: Organ Palpation, muscle testing etc
• Initial Recommendations: supplementation, meal plan, additional in-house treatments will be applied
• Labs will be ordered to gather further data will be gathered for your follow up appointment ie. labs, health timelines, food journals
• Specific lab tests for your case*

* Patients can either go through our contracted lab or through their primary care physician for the lab work, panels, or analysis requested by Dr. Tinsley. Well Balanced Body is contracted with LabCorp and is able to offer very low cost lab work, which most of our patients prefer as this saves them the cost an appointment with their primary. Patients who decide to order requested lab work, panels, or analysis through their primary care physician will be given instruction on what should be ordered as recommended by Dr. Tinsley

Follow Up Visit (Day 2)

• 30-60minutes:
  • detailed lab report written for your review
  • Review of findings: follow up exam, diagnosis and treatment plan* discussed 

* Treatment length depends on diagnosis and patient goals

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Patient Case Study

• Patient complaint: long, heavy periods
• Dr. Tinsley ordered an in-depth saliva hormone panel, which allowed her to discover the exact hormonal imbalance
• Patient outcome: hormonal imbalance corrected and periods returned to normal