Understands the root causes of your symptoms and disease
Tailors treatment based on your unique physical, emotional, psychological, and epigenetic profile
Combines the best in evidence-based Eastern and Western medicine
Mission
My mission is to empower every human being. More than 98% of health issues are preventable. No one should be resigned to accepting a chronic illness. By understanding the root causes and creating individualized treatment plans, patients can feel reassured that they are on the path to recovery.
Dr. Bhandari meets you where you are. For more than 10 years, she has been using telehealth and advanced collaboration tools to make patient visits convenient and stress-free. Using an advanced EHR, she shares clinical notes directly with patients to ensure consistency of understanding. By helping to create the world’s most advanced lab results analyzer, Dr. Bhandari leverages a data-driven platform to detect diseases and ensures patients have the most current scientifically-based insights on how to reverse disease.
Dr. Bhandari identifies the unique and underlying causes of illnesses. Conventional medicine often focuses on naming diseases and using a pill for every ill. She take a different approach. Integrative Functional Medicine views the body as one integrated system, not a collection of independent organs that should be divided up by medical specialties. To put it simply, we treat the whole system, not just the symptoms.
We integrate the best of traditional Western medical practices with innovative Functional Medicine testing that includes cellular, organ and microbiome assessments, cancer detection, and toxin and food allergen analysis to understand you as a whole person.
By listening to you and learning your story, Dr. Bhandari brings the patient into the discovery process and tailors treatments that address the individual’s unique needs. One size does NOT fit all. She provides the highest quality personalized care by recognizing that health is not just about the absence of disease; it is about the presence of vitality and feeling good.
We recognize that each patient is different and requires an individualized treatment plan. Whether it be supplements, botanical medicines, prescription medication, therapeutic diets, detox programs, or stress-management techniques, we are committed to using what works for you.
“Dr. Bhandari was able to provide the correct diagnosis where 2 other specialists failed. My experience with her was one of the best.
Highly recommend.”
As the nation’s leading experts in Integrative Functional Medicine, Dr. Bhandari has successfully treated over 10,000 complex diseases. Clinical studies utilizing her proprietary methodology have demonstrated 80+% symptom remission within 3 months and the annual cost burden reduced by 80%.
Dr. Bhandari is a serial entrepreneur, having built San Francisco’s 1st accountable care organization and the city’s largest private integrative functional medical center. She has served as Chief Medical Officer and Physician Advisor for a wide range of healthcare organizations ranging from startups to national corporations. Her goal is to support improving clinical efficiency and driving better outcomes for patients, providers, and financial stakeholders.
“Dr Payal Bhandari is a caring doctor, a passionate scientist, a wise woman and a kind and compassionate human being. She is incredibly observant and perceptive. She wants to help and she can do it, because she has the wisdom, knowledge and an open heart. What is more, she encourages her patients to take responsibility over their health.”
