Integrative &in Scottsdale, AZ
Functional medicine goes beyond the standard lab panel and the 10-minute appointment. It asks why — and doesn’t stop looking until it finds the answer.
What Is Functional Medicine?
Medicine That Treats You, Not Just Your Diagnosis
Conventional medicine is built to manage disease. Functional medicine is built to restore health.
Dr. Sosnowski’s approach begins with a comprehensive evaluation of your full health picture — your genetics, environment, lifestyle, gut health, hormones, toxin exposure, and more. Rather than matching your symptoms to a drug, she looks for the underlying imbalances that are driving them.
This is medicine that takes time. Time to listen. Time to investigate. Time to build a plan that’s built entirely around you — not a protocol designed for the average client.
With over two decades of experience as a board-certified family physician and certified functional medicine practitioner, Dr. Sosnowski has helped hundreds of clients finally get answers after years of being told everything looked “normal.”
Conditions We Treat
Who Benefits From Functional Medicine?
Functional medicine is especially powerful for complex, chronic, and “unexplained” conditions that haven’t responded to conventional treatment.
AUTOIMMUNE CONDITIONS
Conditions like Hashimoto’s, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis often have identifiable triggers — dietary, environmental, or microbial — that functional medicine is uniquely equipped to address.
HORMONAL IMBALANCE
Thyroid dysfunction, adrenal fatigue, sex hormone imbalances, and insulin resistance are root causes of a wide range of symptoms that standard care often misses.
CHRONIC FATIGUE & BURNOUT
When exhaustion doesn’t improve with rest, there’s almost always an underlying cause. We investigate mitochondrial function, nutrient depletion, sleep quality, and more.
DIGESTIVE DISORDERS
IBS, SIBO, leaky gut, food sensitivities, and inflammatory bowel conditions are areas where functional medicine consistently achieves results that conventional GI care cannot.
MOLD & TOXIN ILLNESS
Dr. Sosnowski has deep expertise in mycotoxin illness and environmental toxin exposure — conditions that are frequently misdiagnosed or dismissed entirely.
BRAIN FOG & COGNITIVE DECLINE
Cognitive symptoms are rarely just “getting older.” We evaluate inflammation, vascular health, nutrient status, and neurotransmitter function to find and address the cause.
WEIGHT & METABOLIC ISSUES
When diet and exercise aren’t enough, the answer is usually hormonal, inflammatory, or gut-related. Functional medicine finds what’s blocking your metabolism.
ANTI-AGING & LONGEVITY
For clients who want to age well — not just avoid disease — functional medicine optimizes the biological systems that govern energy, cognition, and longevity.
What to expect
An Investigation, Not Just an Appointment
Functional medicine at MVP starts with something most clients haven’t experienced in a doctor’s office — time. Your initial consultation with Dr. Sosnowski is comprehensive and unhurried, covering your full health history, symptoms, lifestyle, environment, and prior treatments in real depth. From there, we order advanced diagnostics that go well beyond a standard panel — hormone levels, gut health markers, inflammatory biomarkers, nutrient status, toxin screening, and more — giving us a complete biological picture of what’s happening and why.
Once your results are in, Dr. Sosnowski builds a personalized treatment plan and walks you through it in detail — every recommendation explained, every decision grounded in your data. From that point, care is progressive and adaptive. Check-ins are scheduled regularly to assess your response, adjust your protocol, and track objective improvement over time. Most clients begin noticing meaningful changes within the first 4 to 6 weeks. For deeper chronic conditions, the full picture emerges over 3 to 6 months — but you’ll never be left wondering where you stand or what comes next.
ROOT CAUSE
We don’t stop at diagnosis. We investigate the biological, environmental, and lifestyle factors that created the condition in the first place.
WHOLE PERSON
Your gut, hormones, immune system, brain, and emotional health are interconnected. We evaluate and treat all of it — not just the symptom that brought you in.
PARTNERSHIP
You are an active participant in your own healing. Dr. Sosnowski invests time in educating, guiding, and supporting you at every step of your health journey.
Frequently Asked Questions
We’ve got the answers to the functional medicine questions you’re asking.
HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM MY REGULAR DOCTOR?
A conventional appointment is typically 10 to 15 minutes and focused on diagnosing and prescribing. A functional medicine evaluation is comprehensive — Dr. Sosnowski spends significant time reviewing your full history, ordering advanced diagnostics, and building a treatment plan specific to your biology. The goal is not disease management, but genuine restoration of health.
WHAT DOES THE TESTING INVOLVE?
We go far beyond a standard panel. Depending on your situation, testing may include advanced hormone panels, gut microbiome analysis, heavy metal and toxin screening, nutrient deficiency testing, genetic markers, and inflammatory biomarkers. These give us a complete picture of what’s happening — and why.
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO SEE RESULTS?
This depends on the complexity of your case. Some clients notice significant changes within the first 4 to 6 weeks. Others with deeply rooted chronic conditions may require 3 to 6 months of progressive treatment. Dr. Sosnowski sets clear expectations during your initial consultation and tracks your progress with objective data throughout.
DO I HAVE TO STOP SEEING MY OTHER DOCTORS?
Not at all. Functional medicine works best as a complement to your existing care. Dr. Sosnowski is happy to coordinate with your other providers and will never ask you to abandon treatments that are working.
IS FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE COVERED BY INSURANCE?
Some elements of functional medicine — such as lab work and office visits — may be covered depending on your plan. Advanced testing and certain therapies are typically out-of-pocket. Our team will walk you through costs transparently during your consultation.
You Deserve a Doctor Who Doesn’t Give Up on You
If you’ve been bouncing from specialist to specialist without answers, functional medicine may be the framework that finally makes sense of everything. Dr. Sosnowski is ready to listen — and to investigate.