ASFCA Functional Medicine – Unlock Your Body’s Full Potential Functional Medicine for a Functional Lifestyle
At Advanced Sports & Family Chiropractic & Acupuncture, we believe the body has an incredible ability to heal when supported correctly. We believe this so much that we created a division our of company dedicated to it: Kansas City Functional Medicine.
Our Functional Medicine Wellness Programs are designed to Test to find the root cause and help patients unlock their full health potential naturally without relying on guesswork, masking symptoms, or endless prescriptions that never get to the root of the issue.
Natural Relief • Root-Cause Solutions • Personalized Wellness Programs
Instead of treating symptoms, we treat SYSTEMS, focusing on how the body’s hormones, digestion, metabolism, inflammatory response, immune function, and neurological balance work together. When these systems are restored, the body can finally do what it was designed to do: heal, balance, repair, and perform optimally.
What is Functional Medicine at ASFCA?
Functional Medicine at ASFCA is a science-based, patient-centered approach to health and wellness that evaluates the underlying root causes of chronic symptoms and ongoing health issues. Through comprehensive evaluations, comprehensive outside the basics testing, lifestyle assessment, nutrition guidance, and targeted treatment plans, we help patients build a healthier body from the inside out.
We don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all solution. We will build a roadmap for you.
Let the functional medicine experts of Kansas and Missouri evaluate your health and design a personalized roadmap to optimal wellness. With personalized functional medicine wellness programs, you can find natural relief from many conditions without invasive procedures or addictive medications.
Health and Wellness Issues: Functional Medicine Can Improve Naturally
Our Functional Medicine Programs help improve and support:
- Gut Health & Digestive Disorders
- Metabolic Disorders & Weight Loss Resistance
- Autoimmune Disorders
- Thyroid Dysfunction & Hormonal Imbalances
- Chronic Fatigue & Energy Deficiency
- Fibromyalgia & Systemic Pain
- Diabetes & Blood Sugar Instability
- Heart Health & Cardiovascular Function
- Rheumatoid Arthritis & Inflammatory Pain
- Graves Disease
- Hashimoto’s Disease
- Multiple Sclerosis Support
- Psoriasis & Immune Response
- Mental Acuity, Brain Fog, & Focus
If you feel like you’ve tried everything and nothing works, you are not out of options. ASFCA functional medicine is here to help.
Root-Cause Testing & Personalized Treatment
ASFCA Functional Medicine programs may include:
- Food Sensitivity Testing
- Inflammation & Autoimmune Protocols
- Metabolic & Hormonal Testing
- Thyroid & Adrenal Evaluation
- Custom Nut Programs
- Lifestyle, Sleep, and Stress Assessment
- Coaching, Education, & Goal Accountability
Your functional medicine wellness plan from ASFCA is not random, it is strategic, clinical, and measurable.
Whole-Body Care Under One Roof
Achieve optimal health and wellness by combining Functional Medicine with the proven benefits of board-certified chiropractic care, acupuncture, and physiotherapy.
- Chiropractic Care – Improve structure, stability, nerve function, mobility, & pain relief
- Acupuncture – Reduce inflammation, balance energy Qi and calm the nervous system
- Physiotherapy – Restore movement, strengthen muscles, and support longevity
Together, these services create the perfect care plan that supports the entire person, not just isolated symptoms.
ASFCA is Your Trusted Providers of Natural Health and Wellness Treatments to the Greater Kansas City Metro Area and proudly serves locations across the Kansas City metro. Overland Park, Kansas; Olathe, Kansas; Prairie Village, Kansas; Belton/Raymore, Missouri; Lee’s Summit, Missouri; Blue Springs, Missouri; and Liberty, Missouri.
Take the First Step Toward a Healthier You
If you are ready to improve how you feel, how you function, and how you live, the journey starts here. Live healthier. Move better. Feel stronger. Think More Clearly. Be YOU again, then Call ASFCA Today or Schedule Your Functional Medicine Consultation Online. If it’s your first visit, be sure to Ask Us About Our New Patient Consultation Special!
We Can’t Wait to Welcome You and Your Family to the best care around!
Overland Park, KS Clinic
6701 W. 121st Street | Suite 200
Overland Park, KS 66209
913-643-1771
913-643-1775
Olathe, KS Clinic
10454 S. Ridgeview Rd.
Olathe, KS 66061
913-689-2333
913-689-2334
Prairie Village, KS Clinic
4121 W. 83rd St. | Suite 147
Prairie Village, KS 66208
913-490-4444
913-490-4445
Raytown, MO Clinic
10803 E State Rte 350 | Suite B
Raytown MO 64138
816-356-9313
816-831-3601
Lee's Summit, MO Clinic
338 Southwest Main St.
Lee's Summit, MO 64063
816-600-5483
816-524-5328
Belton/Raymore, MO Clinic
17027 Bel-Ray Blvd.
Belton, MO 64012
816-425-7015
816-425-2117
Blue Springs, MO Clinic
622 SW US 40 Hwy
Blue Springs, MO 64014
816-815-7007
816-815-7008
Liberty, MO Clinic
1520 N. Church Rd | Suite C
Liberty, MO 64068
816-831-3600
816-831-3601
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Such excellent knowledge here:She thought she was studying milk.
What she found was a conversation.
In 2008, Katie Hinde was standing in a primate research lab in California, staring at data that refused to behave.
She was analyzing breast milk from rhesus macaque mothers—hundreds of samples, thousands of measurements. And a pattern kept appearing that made no sense under the old rules of science.
Mothers with sons produced milk richer in fat and protein.
Mothers with daughters produced more volume, with different nutrient ratios.
This wasn’t random.
It was customized.
Her male colleagues waved it off.
Measurement error.
Noise.
Coincidence.
But Katie trusted the numbers.
And the numbers were saying something radical:
Milk isn’t just food.
It’s information.
For decades, science treated breast milk like gasoline—calories in, growth out. Simple fuel. But if that were true, why would it change based on a baby’s sex?
Katie kept digging.
She analyzed milk from 250+ mothers across 700+ sampling events. And the story deepened.
First-time, younger mothers produced milk with fewer calories—but much higher cortisol, the stress hormone. Babies who drank it grew faster… and became more vigilant, more anxious, less confident.
The milk wasn’t just building bodies.
It was shaping temperament.
Then came the discovery that stunned even skeptics.
When a baby nurses, tiny amounts of saliva travel backward through the nipple into the mother’s breast tissue. That saliva carries signals about the baby’s immune status.
If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it.
Within hours, her milk changes.
White blood cells surge.
Macrophages multiply.
Targeted antibodies appear.
And when the baby recovers?
The milk returns to baseline.
It wasn’t coincidence.
It was call and response.
The baby’s spit tells the mother what’s wrong.
The mother’s body makes exactly the medicine needed.
A biological dialogue—ancient, precise, invisible to science for centuries.
In 2011, Katie joined Harvard and looked at the wider research landscape.
What she found was unsettling.
There were twice as many studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition.
The first food every human ever consumed—the substance that shaped our species—had been largely ignored.
So Katie did something bold.
She started a blog with a deliberately provocative name:
“Mammals Suck… Milk!”
Within a year, it had over a million readers. Parents. Doctors. Scientists. People asking questions research had skipped.
And the discoveries kept coming:
• Milk changes by time of day (fat peaks mid-morning)
• Foremilk differs from hindmilk (nursing longer delivers richer milk)
• Human milk contains 200+ oligosaccharides babies can’t digest—because they exist to feed beneficial gut bacteria
• Every mother’s milk is as unique as a fingerprint
In 2017, Katie brought the story to a TED stage, watched by millions.
In 2020, she explained it to the world in Netflix’s Babies.
Today, at Arizona State University’s Comparative Lactation Lab, Dr. Katie Hinde continues uncovering how milk shapes human development from the very first hours of life—informing NICU care, improving formula design, and reshaping public health policy worldwide.
The implications are staggering.
Milk has been evolving for 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs walked the Earth.
What science dismissed as “simple nutrition” is actually one of the most sophisticated communication systems biology has ever produced.
Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk.
She revealed that the most ancient form of nourishment is also the most intelligent—
a living, responsive conversation between two bodies, shaping who we become before we ever speak.
All because one scientist refused to accept that half the story was “measurement error.”
Sometimes the biggest revolutions begin by listening to what everyone else ignores.
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