Functional medicine · Denver
Chronic Fatigue Treatment in Denver
You sleep eight hours and wake up exhausted. Your labs came back normal. You were told it's stress, or age, or just how life is now. We don't think that's an answer.
What this looks like day to day
- Waking up tired no matter how long you slept
- An afternoon crash that runs your whole schedule
- Brain fog that makes work take twice as long
- Relying on caffeine to function, then struggling to sleep
- Workouts that used to energize you now wipe you out
- Being told everything looks fine while you feel anything but
Why 'normal' labs miss it
Standard panels are built to catch disease, not to explain dysfunction. You can sit inside the reference range and still be far from your own baseline.
Fatigue is rarely one thing. Thyroid function, iron and B12 status, blood sugar regulation, cortisol rhythm, sleep quality, and gut inflammation all feed into it, and they interact.
A ten-minute appointment cannot untangle six interacting systems. That is a time problem, not a doctor problem, and it is the reason this practice exists.
What we actually test
- ✓Full thyroid panel, not just TSH
- ✓Iron studies, ferritin, B12, and vitamin D
- ✓Fasting insulin and metabolic markers
- ✓Inflammation markers
- ✓Cortisol rhythm across the day
- ✓Gut microbiome analysis when symptoms point there
Testing is chosen from your history, not run as a fixed bundle. What gets ordered is decided together in your intake appointment, and the results are explained to you in plain language.
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A consultation is a real conversation about your history and whether this practice is the right fit. No pressure, no obligation.