FAQs

You don’t have to figure that out on your own.

Some people are looking for ongoing ideas, experiences, and community to help them stay connected to their health. Others have already made meaningful changes and want personalized help figuring out where to focus their effort. And some are ready to bring medical care, functional testing, and lifestyle support together from the beginning.

Our Start Here page will help you narrow down the options that make the most sense for where you are now.

Only if you’re receiving medical care through Balanced Living.

Health Begins Here and The Balanced Living Experience are available to people throughout the United States.

The Fast Track Membership, First Class Membership, and other services that include medical care are currently available only to Ohio residents.

No. Balanced Living Functional Medicine does not replace your primary care physician.

If you’re receiving medical care through Balanced Living, we ask that you maintain a primary care physician for routine and preventive care, urgent needs, and anything that falls outside the scope of our practice.

Our work is designed to complement your primary care by giving us more time to understand your health, look for patterns, and focus on the factors that may be contributing to how you feel.

No. Balanced Living is a private-pay practice and does not bill insurance.

Insurance often places limits on how much time physicians can spend with patients and which services or approaches can be used. We want your care to be guided by what makes the most sense for you, not by what an insurance company will cover.

That gives us more time to listen, understand your goals, look at the bigger picture, and work with you over time.

We do accept HSA and FSA cards.

Yes. Balanced Living is a fully virtual practice.

Your visits and coaching happen from the comfort of your home, which can make it easier to fit your care into an already full life.

Medical care is currently limited to Ohio residents. Health Begins Here and The Balanced Living Experience are available to people throughout the United States.

They support different parts of your health, and they work especially well together.

Medical care looks at things like your history, symptoms, testing, medications, and treatment decisions.

Your functional medicine health coach helps you look closely at what is happening in your actual life. Your routines, sleep, food, movement, stress, and the patterns that can be hard to notice when you’re living inside them every day.

A coach isn’t there to grade how well you’re doing or simply hold you accountable.

They help you slow things down, notice what matters, and make the changes that are most worth your effort fit into your real life.

Not necessarily.

Testing can be very useful when it helps us answer a specific question or gives us information we can’t get another way.

But more testing does not automatically lead to better health.

Sometimes what we need becomes clearer by looking at your symptoms, history, daily patterns, and the way your body responds when we make a change. Other times, testing or medical care gives us an important piece of the picture.

Which tools we use depends on where you’re starting and what we’re trying to understand.

Because meaningful change usually takes more than one conversation.

We need enough time to understand what’s happening, make thoughtful changes, see how your body responds, and adjust as we learn more.

The three-month minimum gives us that time without asking you to commit indefinitely.

For many people, the first few months are the more supported phase. As things improve and you understand your body better, a lower level of support may make more sense.

The Balanced Living Experience is different. It is a month-to-month membership and can be canceled at any time.

That’s completely okay.

You’re not expected to know whether you need coaching, medical care, testing, or simply a place to stay connected to your health before you begin.

Start with our Start Here page. It will help you narrow down the options that are most worth exploring based on the kind of support you’re looking for right now.

And if you still have questions after that, we can help you decide what makes sense from there.