About Alabama Functional Medicine

Medicine that starts with your story.

Alabama Functional Medicine is a functional medicine practice with offices in Montgomery and Auburn. For more than 30 years, Ryan McWhorter, MD, IFMCP has worked with patients whose problems did not fit neatly into a fifteen-minute visit.

We take the time to understand the whole picture, test for what is actually going on, and build a plan with you rather than for you.

You are not alone. If you are here, you have probably spent a long time looking for someone to take your symptoms seriously. Many of our patients arrive after years of being told their labs look fine.

Many of our own team members arrived the same way, as patients first. It is part of why the practice listens the way it does.

How we practice

Four things you can expect from us

We look for the why.

Symptoms are information. We use advanced testing and a careful history to understand what is driving them before we decide what to do.

We listen first.

First appointments are long on purpose. You will not be rushed, and you will not have to prove that what you feel is real.

We treat the whole person.

Hormones, gut, immune system, nervous system and stress affect each other. We look at them together, because your body does not separate them.

We combine the best of both.

Conventional diagnostics and medicine where they serve you; nutrition, detoxification, regenerative and energy-based therapies where they fit. Nothing is chosen because it is trendy.

Who we help

The reasons people most often come to us

Most patients arrive with a problem that has gone on too long. These are the six we see most.

Chronic illness and pain

When symptoms have outlasted the usual treatments.

Hormone balance

Perimenopause, menopause, thyroid and testosterone concerns. Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy

Low energy

Fatigue that rest does not fix.

Low sex drive

Often connected to hormones, stress and pelvic health, and rarely discussed.

Pelvic pain and pain during sex

A clinical focus of the practice for many years. Pelvic, urinary and sexual health

Non-invasive anti-aging

Skin, energy and function without surgery.

Not sure your situation fits? Functional Foundations is the easiest way to find out.

How we work

One method behind every plan

Every patient’s plan is built on the Saluxis Method, the four-part framework Dr. McWhorter developed over 30 years of practice. It gives structure to care that would otherwise feel like guesswork.

The four parts are not steps you graduate from. They layer and support each other for as long as you are in our care.

1

Release

Clear what is in the way.

2

Replenish

Restore what is missing.

3

Reset

Calm immune and nervous systems.

4

Rewire

Retrain brain and body patterns.

The people

Led by a doctor who has spent 30 years looking for the why

Ryan McWhorter, MD, IFMCP

Founder
IFM Certified Practitioner and the creator of the Saluxis Method. A graduate of Auburn University at Montgomery and the UAB School of Medicine.
He moved into functional medicine after losing a father figure to heart disease that he believed could have been caught earlier.

A team that has been where you are

Nurses, technicians and coordinators in both offices, several of whom found functional medicine as patients before they joined us.

What patients say

In their words

His goal is for everyone to live their best, healthiest life. He is kind, compassionate, and so very smart.

Pam L.
Patient

I really appreciate the time Doc and his team spend listening and discussing how to improve your health. The staff are very friendly and helpful.

Joseph V.
Patient

We have been going to Dr McWhorter for about 8 years. The staff is always friendly and genuinely care for our wellbeing and needs.

Susanne R.
Patient for eight years

You belong here.

Prefer to call? (334) 819-8190