HEALTH CONSULTING
At Well Ahead Chicago, we are dedicated to supporting your wellness journey through a range of tailored programs designed to address your unique needs. Our comprehensive programs include:
Laboratory-Based Assessments: Get detailed insights into your health with advanced testing to identify underlying issues and tailor personalized solutions.
Nutritional Supplement Programs: Optimize your health with expertly recommended supplements that support skin health, autoimmunity, hormone balance, and overall wellness.
Diet and Lifestyle Counseling: Receive guidance on diet and lifestyle adjustments to enhance skin health, manage autoimmune conditions, balance hormones, and promote longevity and healthy aging.
Health Coaching: Benefit from personalized coaching to help you implement and maintain positive changes for a healthier, more vibrant you.
If our approach resonates with you, click below to get started with health consulting.
Our Commitment to Testing Not Guessing
We believe in a comprehensive approach to understanding and addressing your health concerns. Our experience has shown clients achieve the best results and have the best understanding with this approach. Here’s how we ensure effective and personalized recommendations:
Comprehensive Functional Laboratory Assessments
Our process begins with thorough functional laboratory testing to uncover the root causes of your health issues. By analyzing key body systems, we gain a complete picture of your unique health needs and can make tailored recommendations for optimal results.
Balancing Your Body Systems
We focus on balancing three critical body systems:
Hormonal System: Regulates sex and stress hormones, influencing your overall well-being.
Digestive System: Breaks down food and absorbs nutrients, essential for maintaining health.
Detoxification System: Protects your body from environmental toxins and free radicals.
Our approach addresses imbalances in these systems to resolve underlying health issues and improve your overall health.
Personalized Solutions for Lasting Health
Dr. Shayna Peter designs individualized programs based on your specific lab results. These programs often include:
Custom Diet Plans: Tailored to your unique needs for optimal health.
Scientifically-Based Supplements: To support and enhance your body’s natural functions.
Stress Reduction Strategies: Techniques to manage stress and improve emotional well-being.
Exercise Recommendations: To boost physical health and energy levels.
Our commitment to a personalized and holistic approach helps prevent future health problems and promotes lasting well-being.
Experience the Difference
Discover how our comprehensive testing and personalized plans can transform your health.
How do tele-health consultations work?
Well Ahead Chicago works with clients via videoconference because the health programs we design are based on the results of lab tests that can easily be done in your home and offsite blood draw sites. The types of tests that are used are blood, stool, saliva, or urine samples. Dr. Peter bases her health programs on lab tests that assess the function of the three body systems: hormones, digestion and detoxification.
During your initial strategy session (60min) Dr. Peter will review your personal and family health history and make personalized recommendations for lifestyle, any lab tests that are appropriate for your unique situation in additional to our baseline wellness assessment.
Once your lab work has been completed, Dr. Peter will explain the meaning of your test results to you in a review of findings consultation. She will also create an individualized health program for you which will include one or more of the following: diet changes, nutritional supplements, and exercise, lifestyle and stress management recommendations. Ongoing consulting is offered to support you through the process, monitor your progress and make adjustments as needed.
How do lab tests work if I live outside of the Chicago area?
No matter where you are, we can help:
Local Labs: Connect you with local labs for blood draws.
Mobile Phlebotomists: Provide access to mobile phlebotomists across all 50 states.
Home Collection Kits: Many tests can be done at home using kits for blood (finger prick), urine, saliva, or stool samples.
Virtual Introductory Consultations & Packages
Well Balanced Advanced - Uncover interferences that are blocking you from optimal wellness through cutting edge specialized testing. Accelerate your progress, upgrade your skin health and well being, get lasting results with a targeted program addressing nutrition and environmental factors based on your individual biochemical profile.
Our signature well balanced profile includes cutting edge functional health assessment that assesses over 250 biomarkers based on the most advanced functional medicine technology currently available.
Also includes a 45-min initial consultation + 60 min review of findings consultation.
What Forms Of Payment Are Accepted?
Consulting fees vary based on laboratory assessments needed and the level of support you’re looking for. Exact pricing can be provided once we have that information.
Payment for introductory consultations and packages is due at time of booking.
Methods of payment are: Major Credit Cards, HSA/FSA, Paypal, Paypal Credit, Affirm, Klarna
Do We Take Insurance?
Unfortunately health insurance is not designed for health & wellness care. It is designed for disease management. As a consequence, functional medicine often does not fit the insurance model. Insurance plans are inconsistent with covering wellness services.
Insurance reimbursement is usually limited; often it’s not enough to cover a doctor’s expenses for running a clinic. Insurance billing is also a very time consuming process. We prefer to focus our time on helping our clients reach their health goals.
We provide transparent upfront pricing. This allows you to be informed about costs and prevents you from receiving surprise bills if your insurance does not cover a service. We offer payment plans, so we can offer comprehensive care in a way that’s affordable.
Many wellness services may not be considered medically necessary by your insurance company. When any practice or clinic accepts insurance, insurance then becomes your doctor by dictating your care based on what they decide to cover.
We want to be thorough in our assessment and have the ability to run whatever tests are necessary to properly evaluate your condition.
Being out-of-network with insurance plans also makes it possible to offer extended visits, tele-health, advanced testing services and provide individualized recommendations because we are able to take the time to understand your unique situation.
We can provide an itemized receipt upon request that can be submitted to insurance if you are in the state of Illinois or District of Columbia. In some cases, this can defray cost. However we cannot guarantee any amount of reimbursement. Our team cannot assist with insurance claims. Please contact your insurance plan with any questions regarding reimbursement prior to your initial visit.
Is Health Consulting Right for You?
Functional medicine health consulting is the right fit for you if:
You are willing to make lifestyle changes and are looking for guidance.
You are serious about getting well and want to understand the root causes behind your health concerns.
You want a comprehensive, personalized approach to your wellness care.
You want to get on a wellness plan that you can stick with long-term and adjust as needed.
You are willing to take responsibility for your own health.
You understand the value of functional medicine and see it as an investment in your future.
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