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Root-cause care for hormones, thyroid, gut health, metabolism, and chronic illness. Serving patients throughout Dallas, DFW, Irving, and Las Colinas with advanced testing and individualized treatment plans.
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What is Functional Medicine?
Functional medicine is a root-cause approach to healthcare. Rather than treating symptoms in isolation, it asks why those symptoms are occurring and works to identify and address the underlying dysfunction driving them.
This is a meaningful departure from conventional medicine, which excels at treating acute illness, injury, and life-threatening conditions but often falls short for patients dealing with chronic, complex, or unresolved health concerns.
For the many patients in Dallas and the Las Colinas area who have been told their labs are “normal” while continuing to feel unwell, functional medicine offers a different path.
Conventional Medicine vs. Functional Medicine
Conventional medicine is essential and life-saving in many situations. But its model—high patient volume, symptom-focused care, and standardized treatment protocols—is not always well suited to identifying the root causes of chronic disease and dysfunction.
Functional medicine takes a different approach:
More Time with Each Patient
Our providers see 4 to 6 patients per day. This allows for a thorough review of your health history, current symptoms, lifestyle, and lab results—an in-depth evaluation that is simply not possible in a conventional clinical setting.
Advanced, Comprehensive Testing
Where a conventional provider might run a single TSH test to evaluate thyroid function, a functional medicine evaluation includes six or more thyroid markers—TSH, Free T3, Free T4, Reverse T3, and thyroid antibodies—to identify dysfunction that standard testing routinely misses. The same depth of evaluation applies to hormones, metabolic health, gut function, and nutrient status.
Root-Cause Diagnosis
Symptoms are not the diagnosis; they are signals pointing to an underlying imbalance. A functional medicine approach maps those signals back to their source, whether that is hormonal imbalance, metabolic dysfunction, gut disruption, inflammation, nutritional deficiency, or a combination of factors.
Individualized Treatment
No two patients are the same. Treatment plans at Forum Health Las Colinas are built around your specific lab results, symptoms, and health goals — not a standardized protocol.
Prevention and Long-Term Health
Functional medicine is both proactive and restorative. Identifying metabolic risk factors, hormonal imbalances, and nutritional deficiencies before they progress to disease is a core part of the approach.
Who Functional Medicine is For
Functional medicine may be the right fit for patients who:
- Have been told their labs are normal, but continue to feel unwell
- Are dealing with fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, or hormonal symptoms without a clear diagnosis
- Have a chronic condition that has not responded adequately to conventional treatment
- Are managing multiple health concerns and want a provider who looks at the full picture
- Want a prevention-focused approach to their long-term health
Our patients include both women and men across all life stages, from those navigating hormonal transitions to those managing autoimmune conditions, metabolic dysfunction, thyroid disease, and complex chronic illnesses.
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Our Core Services
Forum Health Las Colinas offers a comprehensive range of functional medicine services for patients throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Hormone Optimization
Hormone OptimizationWe provide comprehensive hormone testing and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) for both women and men. This includes sex hormones, thyroid function, adrenal function, and metabolic markers, evaluated together as an interconnected system rather than in isolation.
Hormone optimization can address fatigue, low libido, weight gain, mood changes, brain fog, sleep disruption, and a wide range of symptoms linked to hormonal imbalance.
Thyroid Diagnosis and Treatment
Thyroid Diagnosis and TreatmentThyroid dysfunction is one of the most commonly underdiagnosed conditions in conventional medicine. Our comprehensive thyroid panel—including TSH, Free T3, Free T4, Reverse T3, and antibodies—identifies dysfunction that standard testing routinely misses.
We treat hypothyroidism, Hashimoto’s disease, and thyroid-related hair loss with individualized, evidence-based protocols.
Gut Health Optimization
Gut Health OptimizationGut function underlies immune health, hormone regulation, mental health, and metabolic function. We use comprehensive stool analysis, gastrointestinal testing, and food sensitivity testing to evaluate microbiome health and identify the root causes of digestive dysfunction, inflammation, and related systemic symptoms.
Metabolic Health and Weight Management
Metabolic Health and Weight ManagementWe evaluate insulin resistance, blood sugar regulation, inflammation, cardiovascular risk markers, and metabolic function as part of a comprehensive approach to weight and metabolic health, which may include medically supervised weight-loss programs when appropriate.
Nutritional Testing and Supplementation
Nutritional Testing and SupplementationDeficiencies in key vitamins and minerals—including vitamin D, B12, magnesium, and others—are common and frequently overlooked. We test for nutritional deficiencies and use pharmaceutical-grade nutraceuticals as part of targeted treatment protocols.
Performance Health and Longevity
Performance Health and LongevityFor patients who want to go beyond symptom relief and actively optimize their body’s function, our Performance Health program offers advanced evaluations, including VO2Max testing, InBody body composition analysis, and personalized longevity strategies.
What Hormone Optimization Can Address
Hormonal balance is a specialty of Forum Health Las Colinas. Properly balanced hormones—including sex hormones, thyroid, and adrenal hormones—have a broad impact on how patients feel and function.
Hormone optimization may help improve:
- Energy and stamina
- Memory and cognitive function
- Libido and sexual health
- Body composition, including abdominal fat and muscle mass
- Mood, anxiety, and depression
- Sleep quality
- Skin, hair, and bone health
- Cholesterol and cardiovascular risk markers
- Digestive function
- Joint and muscle pain
Our providers prescribe bioidentical hormones produced to precise standards in qualified compounding pharmacies, dosed and adjusted based on your labs and your response to treatment.
Meet Our Providers
Forum Health Las Colinas is led by experienced physicians and clinicians who specialize in functional medicine, hormone optimization, and metabolic health.
Dr. Kyler Elwell
Dr. Kyler Elwell is a board-certified physician who transitioned to functional medicine after years of practicing as an obstetrician-gynecologist. She completed her medical degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and her residency at UT Southwestern. Dr. Elwell is also board-certified in obesity medicine, giving her particular expertise in the relationship between hormones, metabolism, and long-term health.
Dr. Brad Silver
Dr. Brad SilverDr. Brad Silver is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician with over 15 years of experience at one of the country’s busiest Level 1 trauma centers. At Forum Health Las Colinas, he focuses on men’s health, hormone optimization, metabolic health, and performance, applying his diagnostic depth to functional medicine and root-cause care.
Debra Bluestein, NP
Debra Bluestein, NPNurse Practitioner Debra Bluestein has specialized in bioidentical hormone replacement therapy since 2011, working with both women and men. She brings a functional medicine approach to hormone optimization, anti-aging, nutrition, and supplementation, with over two decades of experience as a nurse practitioner supporting patients in achieving long-term hormonal health.
Kam Neal, PA-C
Kam Neal, PA-CPhysician Assistant Kam Neal is a certified PA licensed by the Texas Medical Board, with a background in biology and a master’s degree in health services from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She applies a functional medicine lens to patient care, working across hormones, metabolic health, and chronic wellness concerns.
Jordyn Ghanem, NP
Jordyn Ghanem, NPJordyn Ghanem is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner who earned her MSN, Magna Cum Laude, from Texas Woman’s University. She brings experience across integrative medicine, aesthetics, pediatric cardiology, and surgical specialties. Jordyn expanded Forum Health Las Colinas’s offerings to include aesthetic services and is known for her patient-centered, root-cause approach to care.
Meet The Full Forum Health Las Colinas Team
Insurance & Payment Information
Insurance coverage varies by plan and service. Many standard laboratory tests are often covered. All plans may not fully cover hormone optimization programs and advanced testing.
Our New Patient Coordinator will review your benefits and explain costs clearly before you begin.
Free Phone Consultation with Our New Patient Coordinator
Free Phone Consultation with Our New Patient CoordinatorIf you are in Dallas, DFW, Irving, or Las Colinas and looking for a functional medicine provider who will take the time to find real answers, we invite you to reach out.
Our New Patient Coordinator can explain our approach, answer your questions, and help you take the first step toward better health.
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