Root-Cause Medicine
Root-cause
medicine in
Scottsdale, AZ.
Personalized, root-cause care for complex chronic illness, mold and tick-borne exposure, autoimmune conditions, gut dysfunction, and long-standing symptoms.
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Scottsdale, Arizona
Accepting new patients
Jason spent eight years split between a large teaching hospital and a long-term acute care hospital. It was there he found his strength: diagnosis, critical thinking, and the ability to see how the body's systems and disease processes work together rather than in isolation.
Afterward, conducting annual health assessments for a large insurance company, he kept finding the same picture. Patients carrying ten or fifteen prescriptions, each one treating a side effect of the one before it, and nobody accountable for the whole. Just like Verde Valley Concierge Medicine, which he operated and was the sole provider for over 5 years, he built this practice to be accountable for the whole.
The name is the promise. We want patients to know that a breakthrough in their health is possible — through careful diagnosis, scientifically grounded treatment, and a clinician who will keep asking why after everyone else has stopped.
Breakthrough Functional Medicine offers primary care, complete preventative workups, and treats a wide range of complex, multi-system conditions.
Learn more about the approachA diagnostician first
Before anything is treated, the question is what is actually going on. Fifteen years of being handed the cases nobody else could work out is unusual preparation for complex chronic illness.
Reading across systems
A hospitalist is handed a patient with six problems at once and has to work out which is driving the others. That is the same question a complex chronic case asks.
He never left medicine
He prescribes, orders and interprets advanced diagnostics, and manages and reduces complex medication regimens.
Medication review
Every prescription and supplement is looked at as one list — where each came from, what it is still doing, and what can safely come off.
Testing driven by history
Advanced labs are chosen from what your history actually suggests, rather than a standard panel run on everyone.
Unrushed appointments
Complicated patients do not get sorted out in fifteen minutes, and a case unexplained for years will not resolve in one visit.
Scottsdale, Arizona
Clinical depth.
A clearer path forward.
“Most patients arrive with a stack of test results and no explanation. The work starts with finding out what is actually driving it.”
Environmental & Infectious
Mold illness and CIRS, Lyme and tick-borne illness, environmental exposure.
Autoimmune & Inflammation
Autoimmune conditions, chronic fatigue, unexplained inflammatory symptoms.
Digestive
Gut dysfunction, food sensitivities, microbiome imbalance.
Nutritional
Nutrient deficiency, malabsorption, repletion after long illness.
Medication Burden
Complex regimens, polypharmacy, supervised medication reduction.
Undiagnosed & Complex
Long-standing symptoms that have not been explained, normal workups with continuing illness.
If your situation is not listed here, call and ask.
Step One
Gather
A full history, a review of every prior record and test, and a complete account of every medication and supplement you are currently taking.
Step Two
Test
Diagnostics chosen from what your history actually suggests, rather than a standard panel applied to everyone.
Step Three
Assess
The information from the first two steps is used to work out what is actually driving the symptoms — and which is driving the others.
Step Four
Plan
A plan built around what was found, with the medication list reviewed as part of the treatment rather than separately from it.
Step Five
Adjust
Results are tracked and the plan and medications are adjusted as the picture becomes clearer.
Complicated illness deserves
more than fifteen minutes.
Scottsdale, Arizona. Accepting new patients.
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