Revolutionizing Your Well-being: Discover Optimal Health Through Personalized Care at FOUNDATION Functional Medicine

When you finally realize you can find optimal health through lifestyle modifications, supplementation, and a team approach with practitioners who actually listen to you. Welcome to FOUNDATION Functional Medicine.

My name is Lyndsy Kinghorn. I am a Functional Medicine and Anti-Aging Board Certified Nurse Practitioner. My mission is to help men and women alike find optimal health through a functional and holistic team approach. I help people of all walks of life finally be heard, validated, and healed.  

Lyndsy’s Journey From Emergency Medicine to Functional Medicine

My background prior to Functional Medicine was Emergency Medicine. I saw a big gap in the system with preventative and root cause care. I would see the same patients over and over for the same symptoms without answers. They were not given information on nutrition, movement, sleep, relationships. Instead, they were given a prescription to manage their symptoms which only lasted for a while and caused other unwanted side effects. I quickly realized prevention is not top of mind in conventional medicine. This is not to blame the providers as they are required to see a new patient every 15 minutes. Building relationships and hour-long visits are not reimbursed. In addition, I was wrecking my own health working shift work, overtraining as a CrossFit competitor, and under recovering. Through my experience and my own health journey, I found Functional Medicine and the rest is history, as they say. 

Relationship Building is the Heart of FOUNDATIONAL Functional Medicine

I found by simply building relationships with patients, listening to their concerns, their story, and understanding root cause medicine I could really shift the paradigm of the way people receive care. I could heal symptoms patients have been dealing with for years without answers. I could finally help patients understand and live in a state of optimal health. 

Root Cause Medicine vs. Symptom Management

Functional Medicine at FOUNDATION Functional Medicine is root cause medicine and not just symptoms management. It requires building a relationship, gathering information throughout the lifespan, implementing lifestyle modifications, supplementation, and a team approach to health. We realize the body wants to be healthy. Given the right environment, it knows how to heal. We are in the business of optimal health. 

The FOUNDATIONAL Functional Medicine Experience

Each patient that comes to FOUNDATION Functional Medicine meets with a Provider and spends 75-90 minutes building a relationship, gathering information, and finally being heard. We take a team approach which includes the addition of a health coach in each New Patient visit and throughout a patient’s care in our office. We also utilize other modalities like somatic breathwork, talk therapy, and more to ensure the patient is receiving the most holistic approach to their health; now and into the future. 

The Healing Power of Functional Medicine

The healing power of functional medicine at FOUNDATION Functional Medicine includes a holistic, intimate, and team approach. The team includes the provider, health coach, patient, with additional modalities, such as breath work to really treat the whole body as an individual, not a number. We are in the business of root cause medicine and not just symptom management. When you can find and fix the root cause, a whole new life opens up.. We have seen amazing outcomes with this unique approach.

Who Can Benefit From a Functional Medicine Approach?

Anyone and everyone looking to optimize their health, increase longevity, or get to the root cause of symptoms can benefit from functional medicine. Anyone just wanting to find or maintain optimal health, improve longevity, or even patients who have been dealing with unwanted symptoms and despite all efforts have not found any answers.  At FOUNDATION we treat men, women, and children. 

Connect with Lyndsy at FOUNDATION Functional Medicine

FOUNDATION Functional Medicine is located in the north end of Boise. We offer in person and telehealth Functional Medicine service to people of Idaho, South Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, and Washington. We offer health coaching to all 52 states. We will soon have a concierge model where you can receive Functional Medicine wherever you are; at work, at home, while traveling, while on the trails, before or after a race, and much more. For more information you can find us at Foundationfunctionalmedicine.com or on IG @Foundationfunctionalmed

Encouraging Thoughts from Lyndsy

If you or someone you know is struggling, this is your sign to take an alternative approach. If you’ve been dealing with unwanted symptoms without any help despite seeking out the expertise of providers and specialist; continue to advocate for yourself or your loved ones. There ARE people out there who care and can help you. 

Functional Medicine changed my life, my health, and the way I get to deliver care to patients. I want everyone to be able to experience the magic of a functional, holistic, team approach. Everyone deserves to be heard. Everyone deserves to be validated. Everyone deserves health. 

-Lyndsy Kinghorn

A Note From Jeanna: Thank you Lyndsy for taking the time to share your story! I loved learning about how you discovered a gap in health care and responded to that need by opening up FOUNDATION Functional Medicine so you can focus on building authentic relationships with your clients and go beyond symptom management and address health issues at the root case. So grateful for your incredible work!