If you've tried everything and the weight won't shift, the problem isn't willpower — it's an unidentified physiological pattern that dieting doesn't address. There are five of them. This is how we find yours.
Every standard weight loss programme assumes the same problem: you're eating too much and moving too little. But if that were true, the same approach would work for everyone. It doesn't.
Functional medicine has identified five distinct physiological patterns that block fat loss regardless of how carefully you eat. When these patterns are active, your body is biochemically instructed to store fat — and dieting makes several of them worse.
The solution isn't trying harder. It's identifying which pattern you're dealing with — and targeting it specifically.
18 questions · 3 minutes · Identifies your dominant pattern
The Detective Health platform uses a structured clinical analysis system built on 37 years of functional medicine practice. It doesn't guess — it analyses your data across 900+ clinical data points and identifies specific patterns from a library of 200+ validated metabolic signatures.
This is clinically-directed AI analysis — artificial intelligence trained on the clinical logic of functional diagnostic nutrition, not a generic wellness algorithm. The protocols it generates are built on the same framework used in clinical practice for nearly four decades.
Built with AI. Not built on AI. The clinical logic is mine. The platform operationalises it at a scale that wasn't previously possible.
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"Weight is almost never a simple energy equation problem. In 37 years of clinical practice, I have yet to see a case of genuine treatment-resistant weight gain that didn't have a clear, identifiable physiological cause."
I started my clinical career before functional medicine had a name for what I was observing — that the same diet would produce dramatically different results in different people, and that the difference was almost always something measurable in the biochemistry.
Over nearly four decades, I've trained with some of the leading figures in the field — Bill Wolcott's Metabolic Typing, Reed Davis's Functional Diagnostic Nutrition framework, Bryan Walsh's biochemistry model. I've seen how Mounjaro and Ozempic work and why — they mimic GLP-1, the gut hormone that regulates insulin and appetite. But they don't address why GLP-1 was dysregulated in the first place.
The Detective Health platform represents 37 years of clinical pattern recognition, translated into a systematic process that identifies the cause — not just the symptom. Test, don't guess. That's the only approach that produces lasting results.
Take the free 3-minute Pattern Finder. Then book your consultation and get a clinical answer to why weight loss has been so difficult for you specifically.