Transform illness to wellness

Dr. Payal Bhandari, M.D. founded Advanced Health to expand the scope of the kinds of medicine offered to patients. She specializes in cell function, the microbiome, and environmental toxicology and how it relates to Integrative Functional Medicine and Eastern medicines, such as Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and precision and lifestyle medicine.

Dr. Bhandari recognizes and anticipates the unique challenges patients face and the importance of caring for the whole person — the physical, emotional and energetic. During the initial ninety minute consultation, she explores your medical history, reviews all prior diagnostic tests results and current health concerns. She then focuses on optimizing the digestive tract — the storehouse of the microbiome and our “real brain” — followed by cutting down on environmental toxins and pathogenic microbial overgrowth that trigger inflammation. When cells have been insulted for long periods of time, the endocrine and immune systems often become dysregulated. This can cause the brain and nervous system to send the wrong signals to organs and hold them back from functioning properly.

A full range of diagnostic screening tests can be provided to understand each organ system, nutrition status, hormone balance, cell metabolism, toxicology, mitochondria and microbiome analyses. By utilizing the most cutting-edge technology Dr. Bhandari has built a robust and comprehensive data base looking at the root causes of diseases. She has helped thousands of patients experience improvements in health outcomes at any stage of disease. This just isn’t possible in conventional medicine which views the body as discrete organ systems not connected to one another, and where pharmaceutical drugs and invasive procedures are not effective at treating the root cause.  In practical terms, this doesn’t make logical sense and the reason why treating it as such is counterproductive.

Dr. Bhandari’s primary goal is to optimize the body's innate ability to heal. She strongly believes the sooner we can detect disease and lay down the foundational groundwork, the severity of pathology will be dramatically reduced and preserve lasting quality of life well into old age. Dr. Bhandari works in partnership with her patients to provide the most comprehensive kind of healing. For instance, a patient with headaches might be treated a number of ways by incorporating better nutrition, more regular sleep habits, meditation, yoga (both for mental clarity and for the physical exercise and blood flow), and other lifestyle changes to reduce stress and promote wellness. A headache isn’t just a headache, but rather a single part of a much broader causal interplay linked to mitochondrial dysfunction.

Ongoing monitoring of many different elements of health, and tracking of personal habits and various other metrics, helps patients consistently experience improvement in the quality of health. In the long run, this comprehensive restorative approach saves patients time and money, and offers lasting long-term benefits.

Comprehensive Process