A free training
Your labs
are normal.You’re not fine.
A free training on what a standard work-up never looks for.
Stacy Marie Ronquillo, NP
Remedy Functional Medicine
Double board-certified nurse practitioner · IFMCP · Menopause Society Certified Practitioner
Telehealth across Oregon & Washington · In-clinic, Portland
02 of 27 · 1:30
In the next 55 minutes
Three ideas you get to keep — whether or not we ever speak.
- 01
Why “normal” on a lab report is a lower bar than you think
- 02
The five categories a standard panel usually never opens
- 03
What a root-cause work-up actually does, in order
No pitch until minute 43, and then it takes three minutes. This is education, not medical advice — nothing here replaces personalised care from someone who knows your history.
03 of 27 · 3:30
Who’s talking
Stacy Marie Ronquillo, NP
- Double board-certified nurse practitioner — Family (FNP-BC) and Adult-Gerontology Acute Care (AGACNP-BC)
- Master’s of Nursing, UCLA
- Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (IFMCP)
- Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP)
- 18+ years in healthcare, including more than a decade in Level 1 trauma emergency rooms
Not anti-medicine. I have used conventional medicine to save people’s lives — and watched women come through those doors with a slow, un-investigated decline nobody had time to look at. That is the gap this practice was built to fill.
04 of 27 · 5:00
Where this actually lives
“I’m lying here wide awake and exhausted at the same time, and tomorrow I’ll drag through another day, and everyone keeps telling me I’m fine.”
“What if this is just the rest of my life?”
05 of 27 · 7:00
You’re not imagining it
That isn’t a list of complaints. It’s a pattern.
- Awake at 3 a.m., wired but tired
- The 2 p.m. crash you’d lie down on the floor for
- Weight settling at the midsection despite eating clean
- Losing words mid-sentence
- Sleep, mood, cycle and libido all shifting at once
- Snapping at people you love, then the shame in the car
Patterns come from mechanisms. And mechanisms can be looked for — if somebody actually looks.
06 of 27 · 9:00
You already did the work
You didn’t fail those things. Not one of them had a diagnosis behind it.
- Keto, Whole30, fasting, the macro app
- Cutting alcohol, then sugar, then gluten
- The drawer: magnesium, ashwagandha, collagen, melatonin
- A ring that confirms your sleep is bad but never why
- An at-home hormone kit you couldn’t interpret
- A coach’s protocol with no work-up behind it
That is not the résumé of a lazy woman. Every item on it is a treatment. You were guessing — diligently, expensively — because nobody gave you anything better to work from.
07 of 27 · 11:00
Why the visit couldn’t help you
It wasn’t your doctor. It was the arithmetic.
2,000+
patients per provider at most practices. Against that panel, fifteen minutes isn’t laziness — it’s arithmetic.
Remedy keeps panels intentionally small, on purpose.
A 15-minute appointment
15 min
Rule out an emergency, renew a prescription, address the top of the list.
A first visit at Remedy
90 min
Your full history, your existing labs re-read, and what still needs looking at.
08 of 27 · 13:00
Three sentences you’ve heard
What you were told, and what it actually meant.
- “Your labs all look normal.”
- Nothing crossed a disease threshold today. That is all it means.
- “That’s just perimenopause.”
- This is hormonal — and we are not going to look any further.
- “You’re borderline, let’s recheck in a year.”
- Something is moving. We are going to wait until it finishes arriving.
What you were told
What it actually meant
09 of 27 · 14:00
Where “normal” comes from
A reference range answers one question: does this person have detectable disease?
Prints as “normal”
10 of 27 · 17:00
In range vs. optimal
Two women. Same test. Same word on the report.
Prints as “normal”
- 1
At the bottom edge. Drifted there over three years with nobody tracking the drift. Exhausted, foggy, the weight won’t move.
- 2
Comfortably mid-band. Same age, same test, and she feels well.
11 of 27 · 20:00
What a standard panel usually never opens
Five categories. Not misread — not ordered at all.
Hormones
Across your cycle and your stage of life — not one random-day snapshot.
Metabolism
How your body handles fuel. A better story than the scale.
Thyroid
The full picture, not one screening value against a disease range.
Gut
Where much of the fatigue, the bloating and the mood actually live.
Nutrient status
You can eat beautifully and still be short of what makes energy.
When I say a functional work-up finds things your last panel didn’t, I’m not claiming better eyesight. I’m telling you we looked at more of the map.
12 of 27 · 23:00
The belief that keeps her stuck
You didn’t fail the diet.The diet had no diagnosis behind it.
Discipline is not your missing ingredient. You held down a career, raised a family and ran twelve consecutive health experiments on yourself in your spare time. Fatigue, fog and a stalling metabolism are signals — not a character flaw, and not a life sentence.
14 of 27 · 28:30
“Isn’t this just perimenopause?”
Partly, probably, yes. That’s the argument for looking harder — not for stopping.
We don’t say just pregnancy. We don’t say just puberty. Those are transitions we support people through with attention. Perimenopause is real, and it is exactly when a targeted, root-cause approach helps most. You do not have to white-knuckle it.
15 of 27 · 30:30
The mechanism
Filling in the Gaps
The functional, root-cause work-up conventional care skips — hormones, metabolism, thyroid, gut and nutrient status — delivered through a 90-minute first visit and a personalised six-month programme with the same provider and direct access.
Not a replacement for your doctor. The part there is no room for.
16 of 27 · 31:30
The first visit
Ninety minutes, before any plan exists.
- Your full history — symptoms, timeline, cycle, sleep, gut, stress, and everything you have already tried
- Every lab you already have, re-read against optimal patterns rather than disease thresholds
- Bring the old ones too: a drift over three years tells me more than any single snapshot
- What we still need to look at, and why — before anything is ordered
You are not re-explaining your story to a stranger. It gets written down, and I am the one who reads it next time.
17 of 27 · 34:30
The six-month arc
A six-month root-cause reset, in five moves.
- 1
Listen
A 90-minute first visit. Your whole history.
- 2
Look
The work-up itself, chosen for your picture.
- 3
Explain
Your results in plain language, until they make sense.
- 4
Plan
Built on what we actually found in your physiology.
- 5
Adjust
30 to 90 minutes, same provider, direct messaging.
Why six months? Because that is an honest timeframe for this kind of work. I would rather tell you six months up front than sell you a fortnight and lose you in week three.
18 of 27 · 37:00
How it’s built to work
The same provider. Every visit.
- One provider who knows your whole story, start to finish
- Direct-message access between appointments — the Tuesday question doesn’t wait six weeks
- Telehealth across Oregon and Washington, or in-clinic in Portland
- Visits of 30 to 90 minutes, by design rather than as a favour
None of that is luxury. You cannot do root-cause medicine in fifteen-minute increments with a different provider each time.
19 of 27 · 39:00
Money, plainly
Health-driven, not profit-driven.
- Small panels
- The reason a visit can run ninety minutes in the first place.
- Transparent pricing
- Ask what something costs and get a straight answer before you commit to it.
- No upsells
- No pills or tests you don’t need. If it isn’t earning its place, it goes.
You’ve walked out of a wellness clinic with a bag of supplements and a lab bill you didn’t understand. That’s a real business model, and it isn’t this one.
20 of 27 · 41:00
What patients say
Notice what neither of them said.
“Stacy was kind, caring, compassionate and informative. She made me feel heard, respected, and that my concerns were valid. She was open to going at my pace and comfort level. I feel like I have a great partner in my health now — a feeling that had been lacking with my previous provider.”
“I’m blown away by the personal attention tailored to my specific background and needs. I’m excited to get to the root of health problems rather than just masking symptoms with drugs. The access to shoot off a quick text and actually get a timely, helpful reply is amazing.”
Neither quoted a number. Neither promised you a result. Individual results vary, and anybody who tells you otherwise in this field should worry you.
21 of 27 · 42:30
What colleagues say
Other clinicians send me their patients.
“As the owner of a pediatric functional medicine clinic, I’ve referred countless moms to Stacy Marie, NP — many stuck for years, if not decades, without answers. Time and again her collaborative approach has given them breakthroughs that finally move the needle. What sets her apart is not just her expertise, but the way she teaches.”
“Her approach to care is incredibly thorough — she never rushes, and she takes the time to truly understand her patients, both clinically and personally.”
22 of 27 · 43:30
If you want this done properly, for you
The Remedy Program — a six-month root-cause reset.
- A 90-minute first visit
- A work-up across hormones, metabolism, thyroid, gut and nutrient status
- Your results explained until they make sense to you
- A plan built on your physiology, not a template
- Visits of 30 to 90 minutes with the same provider
- Direct messaging throughout the six months
By application.
Apply for the Remedy ProgramTelehealth across Oregon & Washington, or in-clinic in Portland.
23 of 27 · 46:00
After the six months
An optional membership. Continue only if it’s serving you.
- Ongoing monitoring and support — staying ahead of problems instead of chasing them
- Optional is the operative word: you continue only if it’s serving you
If you’re well and you’d rather come back once a year, that is a completely legitimate outcome and I’ll tell you so.
24 of 27 · 47:30
Your questions, answered
Five questions I get every single time.
- “My labs were normal — what would you even find?”
- Standard labs are read against disease-based ranges. A functional work-up reads them against optimal patterns and orders what standard panels don’t.
- “How is this different from what I’ve already tried?”
- You tried generic protocols with no root-cause diagnosis behind them. A plan built on your actual physiology is a different thing.
- “Isn’t this just perimenopause?”
- Perimenopause is real, and it’s exactly when a targeted approach helps most. You don’t have to white-knuckle it.
- “Is this expensive and a bit out there?”
- Evidence-based, transparently priced, and it won’t sell you pills or tests you don’t need.
- “I don’t have time for another programme that won’t work.”
- That’s why it’s six months with the same provider and direct messaging — built for lasting change, not a quick fix.
What you’re thinking
The straight answer
25 of 27 · 50:00
Is this you?
I’d rather you opt out now than be disappointed later.
This is for you if…
- You’re doing the work and not getting the results
- Your labs are “fine” and you are not
- You want to understand the why before adding another medication
- You want one provider who knows your whole story
This isn’t for you if…
- You want a prescription tonight and no investigation
- You’re looking for a fortnight fix
- You’d rather not be involved in the reasoning
26 of 27 · 52:00
Next step
If you want answers instead of another guess.
Tell me what’s been happening and what you’ve already tried — the list from earlier, the drawer, all of it. If it’s a fit, your first visit is ninety minutes, and it starts with your whole story.
And if you’re not ready — take these three with you
- Normal is a floor, not a target.
- Ask whether it’s optimal, not just in range.
- You didn’t fail those diets. They had no diagnosis behind them.
27 of 27 · 54:00
Over to you
Questions.
One boundary before we start: I can’t diagnose anybody in a webinar chat, so I’ll give you the general principle rather than a personal answer. That isn’t me dodging — you deserve a real work-up, not a guess from a stranger reading three lines about you.
Remedy Functional Medicine · Stacy Marie Ronquillo, NP · Telehealth across Oregon & Washington · In-clinic, Portland
Educational content only. No diagnosis, treatment or cure claims. Individual results vary, and nothing here replaces personalised medical care. Supplements and hormone therapy are tools, not guaranteed fixes.