Dr. Fred Harvey, MD and the Team at Functional Medicine Florida

FORTY YEARS OF PRACTICE IN INTERNAL, GERIATRIC AND FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE.

Dr. Fred Harvey has practiced medicine for forty years. He describes his role plainly: he is a bulldog in your corner. Every consultation is one-on-one with Dr. Harvey himself, in appointments that run one to two hours, so there is time to find the root cause rather than match symptoms to a code.

Being in your corner means three things in practice:

• He tracks down the actual research. Real percentages, and what a treatment actually means for you, so you can make an informed decision.
• He coaches you to question your specialists. You leave with the specific questions to ask, and the expectation that you get real answers.
• He reframes how to think about disease. Less attachment to a diagnostic label, more understanding of the physiology underneath it, and a plan built around what is actually happening in your body.

That is why his practice has grown beyond the limitations of the “name it, blame it, tame it” game of conventional Western medicine. A diagnosis is where the thinking starts, not where it ends. Dr. Harvey looks for what is driving the problem, and treats that.

His approach is simpler than what the biohackers are trying to sell you. Sometimes the right call is restraint: watching a borderline result over time rather than medicating someone who feels well.

Dr. Harvey provides extensive, specialized care starting with the microbiome. He teaches his patients and seminar students what their individual bodies need and how the physiological functions operate, then designs individual lifestyle plans that are not hindered by lack of proper nutrition, intake of non-foods or absorption of harmful chemicals.

Harvey’s philosophy is to prevent disease rather than treat random symptoms by template matching a set of medical insurance codes. For this reason, Dr. Harvey stepped away from the insurance companies and Medicare’s binding red tape and built a self-pay practice promoting individual care plans. The way all medical care should be: comprehensive, unhurried and individualized.

As a founding member of Xymogen’s Board of Advisors, Dr. Harvey has developed specific nutritional formulas and creates workshop opportunities to educate medical professionals and patients.

Care is now fully virtual for patients across Florida, with in-person visits at the Sarasota office by appointment. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call Functional Medicine Florida at 941-929-9355. The office is at 1990 Main Street, Office 750, Sarasota, FL 34236.