Functional Medicine That Sees You
If you've walked out of a ten-minute appointment with a prescription and no real answers, this is a different place to start.
The FMU Difference
We take the time to understand the full picture.
You know the ten-minute appointment: you list what's wrong, your bloodwork comes back "normal," and you leave with a prescription or with nothing, still without answers. Meanwhile you're the one waking at 3am and running empty by mid-afternoon.
Your symptoms are data, but so is your story.
We look at your biology, history, environment, and the way you live, because what's driving how you feel usually crosses more than one system. From there we build a plan that fits your physiology and your real life, not a generic protocol.
Our Team
Dr. Kristijana Rakic ND, IFMCP
Certified Functional Medicine PractitionerDr. K works with women in perimenopause and menopause, when the hormones, weight, and energy that used to cooperate stop responding. The nights wired at 3am, the afternoons flattened by two o'clock, the weight that won't shift. After 40 your body changes the strategy, not what's possible. She looks at what's actually shifting underneath and builds care around it, so you feel like yourself again, steady and in control on your own terms. Read Bio
Certified Functional Medicine PractitionerDr. Benjamin Snider ND, IFMCP
Dr. Ben works with people worn down by digestive issues, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, allergies, and complex conditions. He looks further upstream than most, at how light, circadian rhythm, and cellular energy shape how you feel, using functional testing to identify what's actually driving the problem and address it directly, rather than managing the symptoms alone. Read Bio
What to Expect
Your first visit isn't rushed. We go through your health history, the symptoms you deal with day to day, and what you actually want back, whether that's sleeping through the night or getting through dinner and bath time without running on fumes. Your story is data, and we treat it that way.
1 · Comprehensive Discovery We choose labs with intention and test selectively, guided by what your story points to, gut, hormones, fatty acids, heavy metals. Together we decide which functional labs are worth running. That way we see what's actually driving how you feel instead of guessing.
2 · Functional TestingWe connect your symptoms to your test results and build a plan that's yours, shaped around both your physiology and your life. A plan you can realistically sustain, designed to work within a normal week rather than demand a perfect one.
3. Personalized planHealing isn't linear, so we don't hand you a plan and step back. As your body responds, we track what's changing and refine the approach, so every step is informed by your results, not guesswork, and you always know what comes next.
4 · Ongoing Support
Start with a free discovery call
Not ready for a full consult? Start here. It's a free, 15-minute conversation to talk through what's going on, answer your questions, and figure out whether we're the right fit. No pressure, nothing to prepare.
Your Questions, Answered
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Conventional care is built to diagnose and manage disease, often within a short appointment, and it does that well, especially for acute problems. Chronic, multi-system issues that build over years are harder to address in that format. Functional medicine asks a different question: not only what the diagnosis is, but why your body got there. We take a longer first visit to map your full history, then use testing to look upstream at what's actually driving the symptoms, and build the plan from there.
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They overlap, but they're not the same thing. Naturopathic medicine is the regulated profession we're licensed and accountable under. Functional medicine is the lens we work through: treating the body as a set of connected systems rather than a list of separate complaints, and using testing to find where those systems have drifted off course. In practice you get both, a licensed ND applying a systems-based approach.
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No referral is needed, you can book directly. If you'd like to talk things through first, start with the free discovery call.
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A longer, unhurried appointment. We go through your full history in detail, the timeline of your symptoms, what's helped and what hasn't, and the habits and environment around them, because chronic problems usually have more than one input. That fuller picture is what tells us which tests, if any, are worth running, and we decide that together.
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Naturopathic visits are covered under many extended health plans in Ontario, so it's worth checking whether yours includes naturopathic care. For current fees, give us a call or send an email and we'll walk you through the costs.
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