Meet Your Practitioner
Meet Nathan Christenson
Founder, Restoration Functional Wellness
I didn't find functional medicine because I was looking for a new career path. I found it because I was living the same exhaustion, aches, and unanswered questions I now help busy parents and professionals work through every day.
My Story
I Didn't Find Functional Medicine. It Found Me.
For years, I practiced medicine the traditional way — the way I was trained. But somewhere in my 30s and 40s, while I was raising three kids and working full time, I started feeling like a stranger in my own body. As a former athlete, I noticed my mobility slipping first. Then came the exhaustion that never lifted, no matter how much I slept. Then the gut issues. I ran the standard tests and heard the same thing over and over: “Your labs look fine.” Eventually I was diagnosed with neuropathy, low testosterone, and generalized fatigue — but no one could tell me why. My other hormones were normal. I didn't fit the usual explanations, so I was told it was probably just stress, and aging.
I knew that wasn't the full answer. Around that same time, I started a keto diet — something offered, of all places, through my own medical insurance plan. Slowly, I started feeling better than I had in a very long time. And when I slacked off, I felt it immediately. That was the moment it clicked: the way we live has real power over how we feel. It wasn't about willpower or aging. It was about the root cause. That discovery sent me looking outside the standard playbook, into acupuncture, trigger point injections, and therapies conventional medicine had never offered me.
Around that same time, I was working with patients dealing with chronic muscle and back pain, and I started to see something remarkable. Many of them came to me as the tenth clinician they'd seen. They'd been through multiple medications, multiple rounds of physical therapy, multiple rounds of chiropractic care — and they were defeated. But when we started combining treatments differently, and brought in practitioners who did more than the standard protocol, they began to improve in ways they hadn't thought possible. And I was barely scratching the surface of what functional medicine could do.
How I Practice
Root Cause Over Quick Fix
Standard medicine is fantastic at stepping in during an emergency or managing symptoms to give you immediate relief. Functional wellness goes a step further by asking why those symptoms are happening in the first place — looking at factors like your gut health, sleep, stress, and nutrition. Instead of just handing you a temporary fix, we work together as a team to tackle the causes so you can actually feel your best long-term.
Why I Do This Work
This Is My Journey, Too
Low testosterone. Fatigue. Joint and mobility pain. These aren't just the issues I help my patients with — they're the ones I've lived myself. I know what it's like to be told your labs are normal while your body tells you something else entirely. I know what it's like to want more energy to be fully present for your kids, your work, and your own life. That's exactly why Restoration Functional Wellness exists.
Ready To Get Your Life Back?
I know the exhaustion. I know the frustration of being told everything looks fine. Let's find out what's really going on — and build a plan to get you back to feeling like yourself.
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