St. George, Utah · Root Cause Medicine
Functional medicine goes deeper than conventional care — identifying the underlying drivers of chronic illness, hormonal imbalance, autoimmune disease, and more, then building a personalized plan to actually resolve them.
Functional Medicine is an individualized, integrative, patient-centered approach that combines both holistic and traditional medicine to address the underlying causes of disease — not just the symptoms. It requires a detailed understanding of each patient's genetic, biochemical, and lifestyle factors, and uses that data to build personalized treatment plans.
A key insight of functional medicine is that one condition can have many different causes — and one cause can produce many different conditions. Rather than applying the same protocol to every patient with the same diagnosis, we find out what is specifically driving your situation and address that.
Treatment tools include personalized nutritional therapy, herbal medicine, targeted supplements, stress management, detoxification support, and lifestyle modification. Prescription medications are used when genuinely necessary — but always as part of a broader strategy to restore actual function, not as the primary intervention.
Functional medicine takes a whole-system view. Your personalized health plan is built around understanding how each of these systems is functioning — and what needs to be restored.
Both approaches have value — but they ask fundamentally different questions. Conventional medicine asks "what is the disease?" Functional medicine asks "why does this person have this disease, and what can we do to change it?"
One of the most powerful steps in addressing "I don't feel good" is understanding exactly why. Standard lab panels ordered by primary care providers are designed to rule out disease — they often miss the subtle dysfunctions that are making you feel unwell long before a diagnosable condition develops.
We use cutting-edge evaluation tools and comprehensive laboratory testing to identify imbalances at a level most conventional workups miss. We believe there is always a reason behind why someone's body doesn't feel good — and we find it.
A full panel that goes well beyond what a standard annual physical orders — including hormone levels, inflammatory markers, nutrient status, metabolic function, and more.
The microbiome plays a central role in immune function, hormone metabolism, inflammation, and mood. We evaluate it in depth.
Hormone fluctuations throughout the day, immune system markers, and food sensitivities that standard blood tests don't capture.
We've had excellent outcomes working with patients across a wide range of chronic and complex conditions. If you've been told your labs are "normal" but you still don't feel well — functional medicine is built for exactly that situation.
Autoimmune diseases can have a profound impact on quality of life — often affecting multiple organ systems simultaneously. They occur when the immune system either becomes overactive, attacking and damaging the body's own tissues, or underactive, leaving the body vulnerable to infection and disease.
There is a persistent misconception that autoimmune conditions are purely genetic — that if it's in your DNA, your fate is sealed. Functional medicine takes a different view: your genes are not your destiny. The majority of autoimmune conditions can be meaningfully managed through targeted diet, lifestyle, and therapeutic interventions. Pharmaceutical intervention is sometimes appropriate, but must be paired with root-cause strategies to achieve lasting results.
Your adrenal glands and thyroid are two of the most critical hormonal systems in the body — and two of the most commonly overlooked by conventional medicine when their function is compromised but not yet in outright disease territory.
The adrenal glands secrete cortisol and other hormones that regulate energy, stress response, and overall health. When adrenal function is impaired — either producing too much or too little cortisol — the result is Adrenal Fatigue: a state in which your system simply cannot keep up with the demands placed on it.
The thyroid regulates metabolic rate, heart and muscle function, digestive efficiency, cognitive performance, and bone strength. When it underperforms, the symptoms closely mirror adrenal fatigue — and the two conditions frequently compound each other.
The old calorie in, calorie out model of weight loss is insufficient. To achieve lasting, healthy weight management, what matters most is the type and quality of food you eat, the health of your hormonal systems, and the underlying metabolic factors driving your body's response to food.
Exposure to pesticides and environmental chemicals alone can disrupt the hormonal systems that regulate metabolism and fat storage — something no calorie-counting app will ever address. At Elemental Natural Medicine, our weight-loss plans are fully customized to your specific health profile and goals.
Thyroid, adrenal, insulin, and sex hormone imbalances are among the most common hidden drivers of weight that won't move. We find and address them.
Not a diet — a personalized nutritional framework based on your biochemistry, food sensitivities, and health goals. Quality over calorie counting.
Environmental toxins accumulate in fat tissue and disrupt metabolism. Targeted detoxification support helps the body release stored toxins as you lose weight.
Real, sustainable change that fits your actual life. We build plans around your schedule, preferences, and long-term goals — not a generic template.
Walk into any health food store and you'll find hundreds of supplements making bold promises. Most people spend significant money on products that weren't chosen for their specific condition, deficiencies, or biochemistry — and wonder why they don't feel any different.
At Elemental Natural Medicine, every herbal formula and supplement recommendation is prescribed based on your unique lab results, health history, and treatment goals. Dr. Lane uses pharmaceutical-grade, third-party tested products with clinically validated dosing — not the off-the-shelf products that line supplement store shelves.
Time-tested formulas — available as granules, capsules, or tinctures — prescribed based on your Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnosis and functional lab picture.
Condition-specific nutrients for hormone support, gut repair, adrenal recovery, immune modulation, and more — selected based on what your labs actually show, not general wellness assumptions.
Structured therapeutic protocols for complex conditions — including Hashimoto's, PCOS, leaky gut, adrenal fatigue, and autoimmune disease — built around your individual presentation.
Strain-specific, clinically dosed probiotic and prebiotic support for gut microbiome restoration — a foundational element of immune function, hormone metabolism, and inflammation control.
Over the last decade, our health coaches have helped hundreds of people lose weight, reduce pain, raise energy levels, balance hormones, improve digestion, reduce brain fog, and overcome autoimmune disease triggers — and most of all, feel better about themselves.— Elemental Natural Medicine Team
Over 12 years of clinical experience combining functional medicine, acupuncture, and Chinese herbal medicine to address the complex and chronic conditions that conventional care struggles to resolve.
Dr. Justin Lane
DACM · L.Ac. · Dipl. OM · NCCAOM Certified
Dr. Lane holds a Doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and is licensed in Utah, California, and Rhode Island. His approach brings together advanced functional medicine testing, personalized nutrition, herbal medicine, and acupuncture to address not just what is wrong — but why it went wrong, and how to change it.
He works with patients who have often been told their labs are normal, or that nothing more can be done — and shows them there is almost always more to the story.
Schedule a free consultation with Dr. Lane and take the first step toward understanding — and resolving — the root cause of how you feel.
Book Your Free Consultation Or call us: (435) 246-7642285 W Tabernacle St Suite 202 · St. George, UT 84770