Integrated Functional Health
Tired, wired, in pain, not sleeping, not yourself. When your body stays on guard, it shows up in your physical health as much as your mood. We help you settle it, so mind and body can work together again.
Regulate · Integrate · Optimize
Care that starts with your nervous system
The connection most people miss
Your nervous system is always answering one question: am I safe right now? When the answer keeps coming back no, it holds you ready for trouble, and being ready has a cost. Deep sleep, digestion, healing and clear thinking are the first things it puts down. That pattern has a name: nervous system dysregulation.
It explains something that confuses a lot of people. You are not doing anything wrong, and your body is not failing you. It is protecting you, and it has not been told the danger passed. Everything it postponed while it waited is what you feel as symptoms.
It also explains why the tiredness, the stomach trouble and the worry so often arrive together, and why treating them one at a time can leave you going in circles. They look like separate problems. They are one system, short of the safety it needs to catch up on its own repairs.
Symptoms always deserve a proper medical look, and we work alongside your doctor rather than in place of them. What we describe here is a pattern we see often, not a diagnosis, and not a claim to treat any condition.
Faced with a threat, your body does the sensible thing and gets ready. Muscles tighten, your heart works harder, and your attention narrows to whatever might be wrong. In a real emergency it saves you.
Digesting a meal, healing an injury, sleeping deeply and thinking calmly are jobs for when the danger has passed. Held ready for too long, your body keeps putting them off, week after week.
That is why the problems rarely come one at a time, and why they can look unrelated to each other. Poor sleep, a difficult stomach, aches, a short fuse. One cause, several addresses.
Here is the hopeful part. A nervous system that learned to stay ready can learn that it is safe to stand down, and that learning is the work. It is what Regulate, Integrate and Optimize are for, and it is where nearly everything we do begins.
Why we do this
For Matt, it was years of shoulder pain that several surgeries could not resolve. Looking for another way, he found relief in how the nervous system connects pain, stress, mind and body.
For Molly, it was a difficult and traumatic time in her life, and the therapy that helped her through it. It changed the direction of her career, from business to becoming a licensed therapist.
Integrated Functional Health grew from what those experiences taught us: mind and body heal together.
Our view of health
Most care treats these as separate problems, handled by separate people. Stress goes to one office, sleep to another, pain to a third. Yet your brain and nervous system connect all three, every moment of every day.
That is why we look at the whole picture together, and why lasting change so often begins in the nervous system.
How we work
Three principles guide almost everything we do, because change comes more easily when your nervous system is on your side.
Help your nervous system move out of constant alarm, so your body feels safe enough to rest, heal and change.
Help the different parts of your brain work together, for better function across mind and body.
Build the habits, strengths and resilience designed to keep you well for the long run.
Find your starting point
Start with what matters most to you right now. Every path shares the same whole person approach, and a first conversation can help you choose.
“I want to keep performing at my best without burning out.”
For leaders, clinicians, first responders and other professionals who carry a lot, built on how the brain handles pressure.
“I want relief from anxiety, low mood or what I have been carrying.”
Licensed therapy for adults that combines proven methods with a whole person view of stress and the nervous system.
“I want to understand why my body is not getting better.”
A root cause approach to ongoing health concerns that looks at stress, sleep, nutrition and the nervous system together.
“I want a plan built around my own biology.”
A simple cheek swab test, then coaching that turns what your genes suggest into practical choices for food, sleep, stress and activity.
“I want support for recovery, sleep and energy as I age.”
Education and coaching alongside independent licensed medical providers, who decide whether peptides are right for you.
“I want to change my relationship with food, starting with my brain.”
A brain based approach that works on the habits and patterns behind eating first, with optional medical support through independent licensed providers.
“I want to move without bracing for pain.”
Focused 30 minute sessions for pain, movement and mind body integration, starting with your nervous system.
“I want to do this work at home, at my own pace.”
Guided programs you can follow from anywhere, at your own pace, opening through 2027.
How it works
Talk with Molly or Matt about what is going on and what you would like to change, and leave knowing your best next step.
Together you choose a starting point that fits your goals, your schedule and your life.
Meet in Bettendorf or from home. Your plan adjusts as you learn what helps.
Consultation with Molly
For stress, mental health, therapy or coaching for professionals.
Consultation with Matt
For ongoing health concerns, weight loss, genomics or peptides.
Who you will work with
Integrated Functional Health is a husband and wife practice in Bettendorf, Iowa. Matt is a registered nurse and Molly is a licensed independent social worker, and both take a holistic approach. They see each client not as a collection of parts, but as a whole person whose mind, body and connections cannot be separated and depend on one another.
Quality longevity
Longevity is about more than adding years. It is the energy to enjoy them, a clear mind, relationships that matter and a sense of purpose. It is an overarching theme in the work here, and every service is built to support the life you want to be living in ten and twenty years.
Not ready to book?
When It Feels Like Too Much is Molly’s free guide for the moments when life feels overwhelming. It is yours to keep, and you can read it whenever you are ready.
Open to everyone
You do not have to be a client. Anyone can create an account, and two free programs are there now, with more on the way.
An account of your own, whether you have been here before or are still deciding.
The 7-Day Sleep Reset and The High Performer Burnout Check: short daily lessons, simple practices and printable handouts, free.
Current clients find their appointments, paperwork and messages there, and book their own sessions.
Questions
Still wondering about something? Send us a message and we will reply by email.
Integrated Functional Health is a health practice in Bettendorf, Iowa, run by Matt DeWild, RN, and Molly Hinke-DeWild, LISW. It brings together mental health therapy, coaching and functional health, with a focus on the brain and nervous system. Care is offered in person at the Bettendorf clinic and online.
Your brain and nervous system connect how you think, how you feel and how your body works. Our care starts there, guided by three principles: Regulate, Integrate and Optimize. The aim is to calm the stress response, help the different parts of the brain work together for better function across mind and body, and build habits that support lasting health.
It is when your nervous system keeps responding as though you are under threat, long after the threat has passed. Your body treats deep sleep, digestion, healing and calm thinking as jobs for safer moments, so it keeps postponing them. That is why it can show up as physical symptoms as much as emotional ones. It is a pattern we see often, not a diagnosis, and symptoms always deserve a proper medical look.
Yes. Many people come to us after tests came back clear, or after treating one symptom at a time without lasting change. Physical symptoms are real and we take them seriously. What we add is the question of what your nervous system is doing underneath them, alongside the medical care you already have.
Yes. Coaching, functional health coaching, functional genomics, peptide education and our online programs are available online. Therapy with Molly is available by telehealth to people located in Iowa, and in person at our Bettendorf clinic.
No. Therapy is licensed mental health care, for concerns such as anxiety, depression and trauma, and is available to people located in Iowa. Coaching focuses on goals, performance and wellbeing. It does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions, and it is available online across North America.
Book a consultation. Choose a 15 minute phone call with Molly for stress, mental health or coaching, or a 30 minute conversation with Matt, in person or online, for physical health, weight loss, genomics or peptides.
Our clinic is at 2209 Falcon Ave, Bettendorf, Iowa 52722. Visits are by appointment only. You can reach us at (563) 484-0550 or info@myifh.com.
Your next step
Book a consultation, and we will help you find the right place to begin.