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Make It Easy for Patients to Find You (and Commit to Care)
If patients struggle to understand your services, book an appointment, or navigate their care plan, they’re likely to move on. The most successful practices remove every barrier—making it simple for patients to find them, trust them, and commit to long-term care. Here’s how to streamline the patient experience from start to finish.

The Referral-Driven Practice: How to Build a Steady Stream of Ideal Patients
Referrals are the lifeblood of a thriving practice. When patients and like-minded clinicians actively send new patients your way, growth happens naturally. Here’s how to create a referral system that fuels long-term success.

Beyond the Visit: Smart Revenue Streams for Functional Medicine Practices
Relying solely on 1:1 consults limits your growth and leads to burnout. The most successful practices build sustainable revenue through memberships, group programs, and genomics-based health plans. Learn how to expand your offerings and create scalable income without adding more hours to your schedule.

How to Stand Out: Differentiating Your Functional & Integrative Medicine Practice
With more functional and integrative medicine providers emerging, standing out is crucial. The best practices don’t just offer care—they create an experience that patients can’t find anywhere else. From leveraging genomics-driven insights to crafting a seamless patient journey, here’s how to make your practice the obvious choice.

Building a Successful Functional & Integrative Medicine Practice: What Works & What Doesn’t
Running a thriving functional or integrative medicine practice isn’t just about being a great clinician—it’s about strategic positioning, patient education, and leveraging the right tools to deliver results that keep patients coming back. The reality? Traditional healthcare models don’t serve your patients, and they don’t serve you. Here’s how to build a sustainable, high-impact practice that sets you apart.

IntellxxDNA Releases the First-of-its-Kind Genomic Report Addressing Anxiety and Depression
With advances in genomics, personalized medicine can increasingly improve on trial and error treatments. IntellxxDNA aims to do just that with the launch of its Spotlight on Anxiety and Depression Report. This cutting-edge genomics report equips healthcare providers with a comprehensive genomic analysis that can shed light on root genetic causes of mental health disorders and provide actionable interventions.

Spotlight on Anxiety & Depression: A DNA-Targeted Approach to Achieving Peace and Resilience
IntellxxDNA digs deep into the root causes of depression and anxiety looking at how you respond to sugar, bind adrenaline, regulate serotonin, cortisol and glutamate production and respond to your wakefulness hormones orexin and histamine. From nutrient absorption to stress response, inflammation, homocysteine and methylation, your report provides a comprehensive understanding of your mental health.

Finding a Functional or Integrative Medicine Doctor Near You: What to Look For & What to Avoid
Finding a Functional or Integrative Medicine Doctor Near You: What to Look For & What to Avoid Choosing a functional or integrative medicine doctor is about more than just location—it’s about finding the right clinician who can offer a personalized, root-cause...

Improving Mental Health with Genomics: A Smarter, Personalized Approach
Genetic testing is a powerful tool that can help individuals and healthcare professionals identify potential opportunities for improving mental health. By analyzing an individual’s genetic code, genetic testing can provide insight into a person’s risk for certain mental health conditions and help guide treatment decisions.

What is Functional Genomics?
Discover the benefits and applications of functional genomics, a field of molecular biology that aims to understand the relationship between genes and their functions in an organism. Learn how functional genomics can improve disease understanding, facilitate personalized medicine, and support drug discovery, agriculture, and environmental applications. Find out who does functional genomics and how you can benefit from this field through IntellxxDNA’s advanced DNA testing and analysis services. Discover how IntellxxDNA’s functional genomics approach can help you optimize your health and wellbeing based on your unique genetic makeup.

Use Genetic Testing to “Quench a Brain on Fire”
A guest post from our clients at Potomac Psychiatry: I start with the premise that all human disease is genetic. — Paul Berg, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate At Potomac Psychiatry we always try to be on the forefront of personalized...

Texas CEO Magazine interviews our CEO, Carol Bilich
We are so proud of our CEO, Carol Bilich, for being interviewed for Texas CEO Magazine! She spoke about IntellxxDNA™ and our mission to empower patients into getting the most personalized care from their clinicians and provide a blueprint for long-term health. Click...

How Integrative and Functional Medicine Clinicians use Genomics for Improved Patient Care
The more we learn about the innate power of the mind-body connection, and about the effects of medication, environment, lifestyle and diet on health, the more it makes sense to integrate all of these factors into a plan for your health care.
Integrative and Functional medicine are prevention-focused, healing-oriented disciplines that consider the whole person and root causes of chronic health conditions.

What is “clinical genomic testing?” Is it different than some of the genetic tests that I can order by myself?

Mental Health Genetic Testing: What You Need to Know
Mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia are complex and often misunderstood disorders that can have a significant impact on an individual’s quality of life. While there is no singular cause for mental health conditions, research has shown