Functional Nutrition & Integrative Wellness Care

Personalized, root-cause support designed for women, athletes, and high-performing professionals who want more than symptom management. My approach blends functional nutrition, physiology, movement, and stress recovery to help you prevent burnout, balance hormones, and build long-term energy.

We create sustainable, body-specific strategies so you can feel strong, clear, and energized not just now, but for years to come.

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How It Works

1. Schedule a Guide Call

A brief call to understand your goals, clarify what you’re experiencing, and determine the best path forward: prevention, hormone support, metabolic work, or performance.

2. Complete Intake & Labs

You’ll complete a comprehensive intake, and when appropriate, we’ll order targeted functional labs (including metabolic markers, hormones, gut health, and stress response) to gain a deeper understanding of your physiology.

3. Functional Assessment & Consultation

We review your full picture: energy patterns, menstrual health, metabolism, digestion, stress load, movement, sleep, nervous system signals, and current habits.
This assessment becomes your roadmap.

4. Personalized Protocol

Receive a tailored plan across nutrition, metabolism, movement, recovery, and supplementation. This is built around your life phase (pre/peri/postmenopause), performance level, or stress physiology.

5. Coaching & Integration

Follow-ups every 2–4 weeks support habit building, nervous system recalibration, metabolic progress, and personalized adjustments as your body adapts.

6. Long-Term Prevention & Vitality

You’ll gain clarity about what your body needs and a plan you can return to across seasons of life, hormonal shifts, and performance demands.

Functional nutrition is a science-based, preventative approach that looks at why symptoms are happening, not just how to treat them.

Instead of quick fixes or “eat better, exercise more,” we examine:

  • How your hormones, metabolism, stress, and digestion are working

  • What your labs are telling us

  • What is draining your energy or increasing inflammation

  • How your life stage (stress, perimenopause, athletic load) impacts your physiology

Then we build a plan that supports your body at the root so your energy, mood, performance, and resilience actually improve.

What Functional Nutrition really is:

Most people wait until something goes wrong, fatigue, weight changes, inflammation, gut issues, hormonal swings, or burnout before seeking help.

But your health shouldn’t depend on crisis management.

Functional nutrition helps you:
✔ Catch issues early
✔ Manage stress + hormones before symptoms escalate
✔ Build a stronger metabolic foundation
✔ Maintain energy through demanding seasons (career, parenting, training)
✔ Prevent long-term conditions that develop silently

This isn’t alternative medicine, it’s proactive physiology.
It’s the roadmap your doctor rarely has the time to give you.

Why preventative care matters:

My Three Core Areas

  • Metabolic Health & Women’s Optimization

    (Pre-, Peri-, and Post-Menopause)

    Support for energy, mood, metabolism, thyroid/adrenal health, inflammation, and hormonal changes.

    This includes:
    Blood sugar & metabolic balance
    Thyroid + adrenal support
    Perimenopause & postmenopause care
    Weight changes & inflammation
    Sleep + cortisol rhythm
    Longevity habits and nutrition

    Goal: Restore energy, stability, body composition, and hormonal rhythm at any life stage.

  • Stress, Fatigue & Trauma Physiology (Biology of Trauma–Informed Care)

    Support for chronic stress, burnout, fatigue, anxiety patterns, digestive disruption, and nervous-system-driven metabolic changes.

    This includes:
    Cortisol dysregulation
    Survival-mode physiology (“tired but wired”)
    Gut-brain connection
    Nutritional psychiatry (mood, focus, clarity)
    Inflammation + immune stress
    Energy crashes + recovery issues

    Goal: Heal the systems that stress has disrupted so your energy, mood, and clarity return.

  • Performance Nutrition for Active Bodies & Athletes

    (Recreational, collegiate, elite, or “high-performing” adults)

    Fueling and recovery that supports strength, endurance, hormones, and stress load.

    This includes:
    Fuel timing
    Protein & carb strategy
    Overtraining prevention
    Gut & immune support during high stress
    Recovery planning (movement + nervous system)
    Injury prevention & long-term athletic health

    Goal: Help your body perform better without burnout.

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Consultations

I offer both in-person and virtual sessions to support your goals wherever you are.

Initial Integrative Assessment
Duration: 90 minutes

Comprehensive intake, symptom + lifestyle mapping, and lab review (if available). You’ll leave with a clear plan for nutrition, recovery, and next steps.

We dive into:
✔ Full health history
✔ Nutrition patterns
✔ Stress load + life stage
✔ Movement and recovery
✔ Labs (previous or requested)
✔ Symptoms + energy profile

You leave with:
✔ A personalized roadmap
✔ Clear next steps
✔ Lab recommendations (if needed)
✔ Supplement plan
✔ Immediate actions to restore energy

Follow-Up Consultations
Duration: 30-45 minutes

This is where transformation happens: steady, guided, supported. We refine, adjust, and support your plan based on:

  • Progress

  • Labs

  • Life changes

  • Training load

  • Hormonal shifts

  • Stress cycles

I recommend a 3–4 times per year check-in schedule for preventive care.
For athletes or active individuals, monthly or bi-monthly may be appropriate during demanding seasons.

Initial 90-minute assessment: $350
Follow-up 45 minutes: $150
Follow-up 30 minutes: $120

Sliding-Scale Available
Insurance-based sessions available through Berry Street (where applicable).

Let’s look at your body as a system, not a list of symptoms.

Book an appointment

Interested in becoming a new patient? I’d love to hear from you! ​ Please fill out the New Patient Interest Form or email me at info@melikirkwood.com or book a strategy call.

“I am grateful to have connected with Meli and count her as a lifelong person and resource in my life! From the beginning, she took time to understand my journey and has given me the knowledge and tools needed to reach my goals, step by step. I count Meli and her expertise as a priceless gift in my life.”
— C.W.

Real Transformations:

  • Energy Restored

    “My energy is back and I have so much hope. I’m not afraid to be alive.”

  • Cholesterol Improved

    “My LDL and total cholesterol dropped after four months of addressing inflammation.”

  • Inflammation Down

    “In two months, I dropped 9 pounds by removing inflammatory foods.”

  • Feeling Like Myself Again

    “I can finally sleep, my energy is back, and I’ve dropped 3% body fat.”

  • Sharper Mind

    “My focus and mindset completely changed after adding key nutrients.”

  • Less Anxiety

    “My menopausal symptoms have eased and I feel calmer.”

  • Better Sleep

    “My energy is steady all day, and I’m finally sleeping through the night.”

  • Better Habits

    “I learned how to balance meals and time my eating to support real energy.”