Functional Medicine Brisbane
If you are in Brisbane and have spent years being told there is nothing wrong while you continue to feel unwell, you are the person this practice was built for.
How we work with Brisbane patients
Functional medicine for Brisbane, by telehealth.
If you are in Brisbane and have spent years being told there is nothing wrong while you continue to feel unwell, you are the person this practice was built for. Advanced Functional Medicine works with people across Brisbane and Queensland who are dealing with complex, ongoing health problems that conventional care has not been able to resolve. We consult by telehealth, so you work with us from home, whether you are in the inner city, out across the western suburbs, on the bayside or further afield in regional Queensland, with the same testing and depth of care as any in-person clinic.
The patients we help most have usually already tried the most. Specialist after specialist, repeated rounds of dietary change, shelves of supplements, and still no clear explanation. Our job is to find what is genuinely driving your symptoms and to treat it in the right order.
Functional medicine looks for the root cause rather than managing symptoms one at a time. The body is a connected system, the gut, the hormones, the nervous system and the detox pathways all affect each other, and a symptom in one area is often driven by a problem somewhere else entirely. Our job is to map that picture properly and treat the cause. The clinic was founded by Jarrod Cooper, a naturopathic doctor and published author in the field, and built around this way of working.
Two things set the approach apart. The first is depth of testing. We use advanced functional testing that goes well beyond a standard panel, an extended blood panel of over eighty markers read against optimal rather than just normal ranges, advanced stool testing, and organic acids testing, so we can see what standard tests miss. The second is sequence. We address the body in a deliberate order, stabilising the foundations first, then the gut, then the biochemistry, then the hormones and optimisation, because the right treatment in the wrong order often does not work.
This sequenced, root-cause approach is the method every practitioner in the clinic is trained in and works to.
- Telehealth consultations Australia-wide, with no travel
- Pathology referrals you can use at any local collection centre
- A written, prioritised plan kept in your patient portal
What we help with
Complex chronic conditions, investigated properly.
We work across complex, chronic and hard-to-resolve presentations, including gut health problems such as IBS, SIBO, bloating and reflux; thyroid disorders and Hashimoto's, including cases where tests read normal but symptoms persist; autoimmune conditions; chronic fatigue with no clear cause; MTHFR and methylation issues; hormonal imbalances; mould illness and CIRS; and mental health presentations with a biochemical component.
How it works
From first consult to a plan that's yours.
The same structured process, delivered entirely online. Most Brisbane patients complete it without ever needing to travel.
Book your consultation
A 30 to 45 minute new patient consultation. We work through your timeline, symptoms, prior testing and lifestyle to build a complete picture of where things shifted.
Targeted testing
We send pathology referrals and any specialty test kits. Collect samples locally or at home - results come back to us directly.
Results & your plan
We walk you through what the testing shows and give you a written, prioritised protocol - supplements, nutrition and lifestyle, in order.
Ongoing care
Scheduled reviews keep the plan accountable to your results, with direct messaging between appointments and team review on complex cases.
Testing in Brisbane
Where Brisbane
patients get tested.
We work with the major Australian pathology networks, so standard blood work can be collected close to home. Specialty functional test kits are posted to your door.
Not near a collection centre? We post a pathology kit to your door with everything you need, then you return it by reply-paid post.
Telehealth patients get exactly the same care and access as someone who walks into our Perth clinic. Not a reduced version, the same practitioners, the same testing, the same treatment plans, the same follow-up. In fact many of our Perth patients choose telehealth anyway, simply because it is more convenient than travelling in.
Here is what that looks like in practice. Consultations run through a secure medical video link with nothing to download, joinable from your phone or computer. Pathology is handled through our electronic links with all major Australian testing labs, so you collect your samples locally and the results come straight back to you. And every patient has access to our secure online patient portal, where all your test results are stored, you can message your practitioner and our admin team directly, upload previous results for review, and order your supplements. Everything you need to manage your care is in one place. Being in Brisbane rather than Perth changes nothing about the standard of care you receive.
Reviews
What our patients say.
Why AFM
Led by Jarrod Cooper - ND, author of The Healing Hierarchy.
Jarrod founded Advanced Functional Medicine after more than a decade in clinical practice, frustrated by how often complex patients were told their results were"normal." His approach is sequential: find what's driving the dysfunction, then treat the body in the order it actually heals.
Brisbane patients work with Jarrod and the team entirely online. Behind every case is a multi-practitioner clinic, so complex presentations are reviewed across the team.
Naturopathic Doctor
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Author, The Healing Hierarchy
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Functional Medicine
Functional medicine in Brisbane
Queensland patients sometimes assume that working with a practice based interstate will make testing harder. The opposite is usually true. Queensland is served by one of the most extensive pathology networks in the country, with Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology and QML Pathology operating collection centres right across Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and regional Queensland. Because we hold electronic links with the major labs, your requests go through digitally, you give your samples at a local centre, and your results are waiting in your portal before your next appointment. The specialised functional tests that are not collected locally, such as stool and organic acids panels, are couriered to your door with clear instructions.
There is also a climate dimension that is genuinely relevant to functional medicine in Queensland. The warm, humid subtropical conditions across much of the state, particularly through the wetter months, make water damage and indoor mould a more common environmental factor than in cooler, drier parts of Australia. Mould-related illness and the chronic inflammatory picture that can follow exposure are areas we work in regularly, and for some Queensland patients the home or workplace environment turns out to be a meaningful part of a long-running, hard-to-explain illness. It is one of the first things worth considering when symptoms are multi-system and have resisted every other approach.
For busy Brisbane patients, the telehealth model often ends up being the more practical choice rather than a lesser one. No travel across the river, no city parking, appointments that fit around work, and the same depth of testing and care throughout.
FAQ
Questions
from Brisbane.
The things people ask most before booking. If yours isn't here, our team is happy to help.
Can I really get the same care by telehealth as in person?
How does the testing work for Brisbane patients?
What conditions do you work with?
How is functional medicine different from seeing my GP?
Do I need a referral to book?
Could mould be making me sick in Brisbane?
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