Functional & Regenerative Medicine in Gray, Maine
Most patients don't have one problem. They have six — and the six are talking to each other.
We don't stack treatments. We sequence them.
Paige Farris, FNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
Paige has been a nurse practitioner since 2012, caring for patients in urgent care, emergency medicine, and primary care. Every new patient begins with the same Initial Comprehensive Health Evaluation.
Meet the teamA different starting point
Primary care in Maine is stretched thin. Appointments are months out, visits are short, and each symptom tends to get handed to a different specialist — or a different prescription.
That system is good at managing problems. It is not built to find out why you have them.
This is the other option: unhurried time, real testing, and a plan that treats your body as one connected system.
Is this you?
- Your bloodwork came back "normal" and you still don't feel like yourself.
- The things that used to work — sleep, food, training — have stopped working.
- You've collected a specialist for each symptom, and no one is looking at how they connect.
- You've been waiting months for an appointment that keeps getting pushed.
If any of those sound familiar, the first visit is built to figure out which one to work on first.
Tools, not starting points
These aren't starting points. Everyone begins with the same evaluation; where it goes from there depends on what your labs and your history actually show.
The order of operations
Lab results are less self-explanatory than most people expect. Some markers point clearly to a condition with an established treatment — but most patients have several markers out of range at once, and those are rarely independent of each other. The work is discerning which problem matters most, which is most time-sensitive, and which will resolve on their own once the first one is addressed.
The order matters — for lasting results, and for your time and your money. Knowing what to address first, where to spend first, and when to move on is the work. That's our bread and butter.
A plan might include supplementation, further testing, hormone therapy, or peptides. It might also mean getting you out of pain with chiropractic or acupuncture — often the fastest way to restore sleep, movement, and nervous system regulation. Most clinics have one lever. We have several, so we can use the right one instead of the only one.
Most plans begin with bloodwork, and what we order is based on the individual in front of us.
How we work
- 1
A 60-minute first visit.
A physical exam and a real conversation about what's going on. You leave with a plan — usually starting with labs.
- 2
A fasted blood draw.
Scheduled before you leave your first visit.
- 3
A 30-minute review of your results.
We decide together what matters first.
- 4
Foundations first.
Eat, sleep, move well. Then we dial in the rest.
What it costs
$400 covers all three parts: the 60-minute first visit, the blood draw fee, and the 30-minute visit where we go through your results and build your plan.
Lab work is billed separately — generally $150 to $250 for an establishing patient.
We are a cash-pay practice. We do not bill insurance, but we accept HSA and FSA and provide a superbill you can submit yourself.
Frequently Asked Questions
Ready to sequence your care?
Book a 60-minute first visit in Gray, Maine. We'll map what's happening and build a plan that starts with the right thing first.
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