Functional Medicine Sydney
If you are in Sydney and have spent years cycling through specialists, diets and supplements without ever getting a clear answer, you are exactly who this practice exists for.
How we work with Sydney patients
Functional medicine for Sydney, by telehealth.
If you are in Sydney and have spent years cycling through specialists, diets and supplements without ever getting a clear answer, you are exactly who this practice exists for. Advanced Functional Medicine works with people across Sydney and New South Wales who are living with complex, persistent health problems that standard care has not resolved. We consult by telehealth, so you work with us from home anywhere from the Northern Beaches to the Inner West to Greater Western Sydney, with the same testing and depth of care as any in-person clinic.
The people we help most are usually the ones who have already tried hardest. Multiple practitioners, endless dietary changes, long supplement lists, and still no real explanation for why they feel the way they do. Our work is to find what is actually driving your symptoms, and to address 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 Sydney 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 Sydney
Where Sydney
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 Sydney rather than Perth changes nothing about the standard of care you receive.
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What our patients say.
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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.
Sydney 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 Sydney
One of the most common worries new telehealth patients in Sydney raise is the testing. They assume that working with a Perth-based practice means losing easy access to pathology. It does not. New South Wales has one of the densest pathology networks in the country, with Laverty Pathology, Douglass Hanly Moir and NSW Health Pathology operating hundreds of collection centres between them across Sydney and regional NSW. We are electronically linked with the major Australian labs, so your practitioner sends your requests through, you attend a collection centre close to home, whether that is in the CBD, on the North Shore, out through Parramatta or further west, and your results flow straight back into your portal. For the specialised functional tests that are not collected locally, such as stool and organic acids testing, kits are sent to your door with simple instructions.
Sydney is also a city where the pace of life and the cost of seeing multiple practitioners adds up quickly. A lot of the people who come to us have already spent significant time and money moving between GPs, specialists and allied health without a joined-up picture of what is going on. The value of a functional medicine approach here is that it pulls the whole picture together in one place, rather than treating each symptom in isolation across a scattered set of appointments.
For Sydney patients juggling work and long commutes, the telehealth model often turns out to be the easier option rather than the compromise. There is no travel, no parking, and appointments fit around a working day, while the depth of testing and care stays exactly the same.
FAQ
Questions
from Sydney.
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 Sydney patients?
What conditions do you work with?
How is functional medicine different from seeing my GP?
Do I need a referral to book?
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