Longevity
Muscle matters more with age: strength training after 40
Muscle declines with age unless you use it. Learn why strength training after 40 supports healthspan, plus a simple, safe plan to start and progress.
Articles
The Brain Runs The Show
Ideas about the brain and the nervous system, and what they mean for the way you feel day to day, from Matt and Molly at Integrated Functional Health.
Mental Health
Perfectionism: when high standards start costing you
How to tell healthy high standards from costly perfectionism, what research says about its effects, and practical ways to keep excellence without the strain.
Sleep
Why you wake at 3 a.m., and what helps you get back to sleep
Waking at 3 a.m. is common and has clear causes: sleep cycles, stress hormones, alcohol and habit. Learn what helps you get back to sleep, and when to ask.
Mental Health
How trauma lives in the body, and how the body learns safety again
A gentle guide to how stressful or traumatic experiences can live on in the body, why that is a protective response, and small steps that help it feel safe.
Food and Metabolism
Why diets stop working when you are under stress
Stress hormones, short sleep and decision fatigue all push appetite up. Learn why diets stall under stress and four practical ways to work with your body.
Mental Health
Why success does not quiet imposter feelings in high achievers
Why capable, accomplished people still feel like frauds, how the imposter cycle keeps itself going, and practical ways to loosen its grip at work and beyond.
Functional Health
What a genetic test can tell you about your health, and what it cannot
What a genetic test can and cannot tell you about your health: tendencies versus diagnosis, risk scores, privacy, and how to use results well.
Stress and Burnout
How to set boundaries at work without the guilt
Why setting boundaries at work brings up guilt, what the research says about switching off, and simple scripts for saying no or not yet with confidence.
Nervous System
The vagus nerve, explained plainly and without the hype
What the vagus nerve really does, what vagal tone and heart rate variability mean, which popular claims go too far, and simple habits that support it.
Your next step
Reading about it is one thing. Talking it through is another.
A consultation with Molly or Matt is a conversation about your own situation, with no obligation and nothing to prepare.