THE STORY BEHIND THE LENS

I didn't find this work by accident. I found it because nothing else was working.

Almost fifteen years ago, I was 50 pounds over my ideal weight, battling relentless acid reflux and insomnia, and watching my voice, my academics, and my quality of life deteriorate. I did what most people do: I went to the doctors I was told to trust. They ran the standard labs. Everything looked “normal.”

But nothing felt normal. And the gap between what my body was telling me and what my providers were hearing is what eventually led me here.
Dr. Kenny Mittelstadt, Root Cause Health Detective

Before medicine, there was music. A “first life” in performance that taught me something no clinical training could: how to listen for what isn’t being said.

THE PATH

Two doctorates. One lens.

The search for real answers led me out of the conventional model and into something I hadn’t expected. First, a doctorate in Chiropractic, where I learned to think structurally about the body. Then a doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, where I learned to think systemically. Two traditions that most practitioners treat as separate worlds.

I trained them together on purpose. Because the patients who weren’t getting better weren’t failing one system. They were falling between two systems that never learned to talk to each other.

Advanced certification through the Institute for Functional Medicine and mentorship through the Kalish Institute gave me the clinical framework to connect what I was seeing. Western lab interpretation, Eastern pattern recognition, and the case reasoning to know which thread to pull first.

That combination is not a credential list. It’s the reason patterns emerge here that weren’t visible elsewhere.
Different answers require different questions. That’s what this training has been about: learning to ask what others weren’t trained to ask.
HOW I WORK

What this lens sees that others don't.

Every patient who walks through this process has usually seen multiple providers. The information exists. The interpretation is what’s been missing.

The connection between systems

Hormones don’t exist in isolation from gut health. Gut health doesn’t exist in isolation from stress chemistry. When you read them together, the pattern that’s been invisible starts to emerge.

The sequence that matters

Knowing what to address is only half the work. Knowing when to address it, and in what order, is what determines whether an intervention holds or collapses.

The difference between data and understanding

Labs tell you what’s measurable. Clinical reasoning tells you what it means. That distinction is where most care stops too early and where this work begins.

The person behind the case

A case file doesn’t capture capacity, stress load, life context, or readiness. Those factors shape every recommendation. They’re part of the investigation, not separate from it.

I built this practice for people whose cases require a different kind of attention. Not more appointments. Not more supplements. A better investigation.
TRAINING & CREDENTIALS

The training behind the lens.

DACM
DC
FMCP (IFM)
KALISH MENTORSHIP
FMACP
diplomate in oriental medicine
3X4 Genetics

Over 8 years in clinical practice

Licensed provider in Texas, California, & Florida

IFM Certified, Kalish Institute, FMA Certified

Trained in Taiwan and China in integrative hospitals

Southern California University of Health Sciences Faculty

Celebrity acupuncturist in West Hollywood, California

WHAT DRIVES THIS

Why this work exists.

I watched my own health deteriorate while providers told me everything was fine. I know what it feels like to be dismissed by a system that wasn’t asking the right questions. That experience didn’t just change my career. It changed what I believe patients deserve.

This practice exists to help people stop outsourcing their health to incomplete systems and start understanding what their body has actually been trying to say. Not through more information. Through better interpretation.

Every case I take on gets my full attention, my full thinking, and a plan built from real physiology rather than guesswork. That’s the standard. It’s the only one worth holding.

If your case needs this level of thinking,
let's find out.

The Health Mystery Map Call is a focused conversation to determine whether the Sleuth & Solve System is the right next step for your case.

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