About the Founders of Integrative You — Dr. Nicole Rivera & Dr. Nick Carruthers

Integrative medicine, practiced properly, is not conventional care with a supplement bolted on. It is a root-cause investigation: we map the biochemistry, the genetics, the toxic burden, and the nervous-system and emotional patterns that keep a body stuck — then build one protocol that addresses all of them in a deliberate order.

In practice that means 200+ biomarkers rather than a six-marker screen, DNA and epigenetic analysis rather than population averages, environmental assessment for mold and heavy metals, and a 90-day implementation plan with named products, doses, and a way to measure whether it worked. Dr. Nicole Rivera and Dr. Nick Carruthers have run this model for 15+ years across thousands of complex cases.

Our patients are usually the people conventional medicine ran out of answers for: normal bloodwork with abnormal life, chronic fatigue and brain fog, autoimmune disease that keeps escalating, hormone problems that do not respond to hormones, mold and biotoxin illness, chronic Lyme and co-infections, heavy metal burden, gut dysfunction, and unexplained infertility.

We also work with whole families. Environmental exposure, genetics, and household patterns do not respect individual charts, so parents, spouses, and children are assessed as a system when it is relevant — one of the reasons our family plans exist.

We do not invent frameworks. Dr. Nick trained in Autonomic Response Testing and the Klinghardt model, which governs how we sequence drainage before detox and why we assess the nervous system before adding load. Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker's CIRS biomarker work provides the objective scoreboard we use in biotoxin cases — C4a, TGF-β1, MMP-9, MSH, VEGF, VIP — because it is the only reproducible way to tell whether a mold protocol is working.

Layered on top is functional endocrinology, epigenetic and nutrigenomic interpretation, and the psychosomatic work that decides whether a person can actually implement a protocol. Naming the lineages matters: it tells you exactly what we are accountable to, and where our clinical opinions diverge from the source.

Most functional medicine visits end with a lab order and a supplement list. Ours end with a written, personalized report: the root-cause story from childhood to now, the mechanisms in plain language, a 90-day protocol with exact brands and doses, at-home therapies, and the tracking that shows movement. Members get the implementation support, not just the diagnosis.

We are remote-first by design — families in the US, Italy, and beyond work with the same two doctors — with optional in-person work for Private Concierge members. There is no insurance billing, no ten-minute appointment, and no protocol you have to reverse-engineer alone.