World-Renowned Complex Disease Expert

Dr. Payal Bhandari, M.D.

Integrative Functional Medicine Physician

  • Root cause, whole-person medicine and advanced diagnostics identify precise diagnoses and root causes early

  • Customized care plans that support symptom remission and prevent disease progression

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Mission

“My mission is to empower every human being. More than 98% of health issues are preventable. No one should feel resigned to accepting illness. By understanding root causes and creating individualized care, healing becomes possible.

“We are each born with a unique genetic blueprint. Our daily choices shape 90% of how those genes are expressed. While we cannot control everything around us, we can choose how we respond.

We are enough from the moment we are born. The body is constantly renewing itself. Meaningful change begins by changing ourselves.

When opportunity and luck appear, take it. Though the path may not be easy, but it is what defines the difference between truly living and merely surviving.”

—- Payal Bhandari M.D.


Dr. Payal BhandaRi M.D.

Dr. Bhandari is the nation’s leading expert in Integrative Functional Medicine with over 2 decades of clinical expertise. She launched San Francisco’s 1st accountable care organization and built the city’s largest private integrative functional medical center. Her proprietary methodology, tested over 10,000 patients over 10 years, demonstrated 80+% symptom remission within 3 months and 20% key biomarker improvement.

Thymos Health

Payal Bhandari is the founder and CEO of Thymos Heath — physician-led, virtual medical service for over 150 autoimmune diseases. Our physicians provide patients monthly consults to identify diagnoses and disease burden early, customize treatments to root causes, and coordinate care with their broader medical team. Via an app, patients receive 24/7 personalized support, health coaching, symptom and activity tracking that flags flares in real-time.

Advanced Health Academy (AHA)

AHA is a revolutionary laboratory diagnostic interpretation platform that leverages the global scientific research and patients’ demographics (sex, ethnicity, age, and race) to provide the optimal range of individual biomarkers and organs’ health. By surfacing diagnoses early, patients and providers can prevent disease progression.

My experience with Dr. Bhandari was the best.

My experience with Dr. Bhandari was the best.

“Dr Payal Bhandari is a caring doctor, a passionate scientist, and a wise woman. She wants to help and she can do it. She encourages her patients to take back control of their health.”
— Sveta K.