Personalized nutrition consultation · Franklin, TN
We study your history, your bloodwork, an ancient tongue diagnosis, an InBody scan and advanced testing, then write a plan with every meal: the most healing foods for your body, your conditions and your goals, plus custom-formulated herbs, nutrients and supplements.
It's a nutrition plan written for one person at Dr. Josh Axe's clinic in Franklin, Tennessee. The team reviews your history in detail, your advanced bloodwork, a Traditional Chinese Medicine tongue diagnosis, an InBody body composition scan and any advanced testing you need, then builds a plan that includes every meal: the foods your body does well with, the most healing foods for your conditions and goals, and custom-formulated herbs, nutrients and supplements. You can book it on its own or add it to your care.
Each one moves your labs toward, or away from, where you want them.
History, labs, tongue, InBody, advanced testing and your goals.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, with the reason for each food.
What we look at
Most nutrition advice starts with a food list. Ours starts with you, measured six different ways, so every food on your plan has a reason to be there.
Inside your consultation
Your history, in great detail
Before we talk about a single food, we go through your story: what changed, when, and what you've already tried. The pattern is usually hiding in the details.
Your advanced bloodwork
Up to 115 markers, read against optimal ranges. When your omega-3 index is 3.3% or your ferritin is 24, your plan says exactly what to eat about it, and how often.
See the markers we runAncient tongue diagnosis
Tongue diagnosis has been at the center of Traditional Chinese Medicine for more than two thousand years. We read it next to your Western labs, two languages describing the same body, and it shapes both your food choices and your herbal formula.
A pale, swollen tongue with scalloped edges often points to weak digestion, which in Chinese medicine calls for warm, cooked, easy-to-digest foods. A red tip with a thin coating points somewhere else entirely.
What it changes in her plan: protein at every meal and strength work to build muscle, and fewer refined carbs to bring visceral fat down. We rescan at 90 days.
InBody body composition
In about a minute, the InBody measures skeletal muscle, body fat, visceral fat, water balance and phase angle, a marker of cellular health. It tells us how much protein you need, whether you're losing muscle, and what's really changing when the scale doesn't move.
Advanced testing
Some answers aren't in blood. When your symptoms point there, we add the testing that finds them, and your plan changes with what we learn.
Your plan
The first page of every plan: the handful of food changes that will move your numbers most, in the order we'd make them, with the reason spelled out.
Your omega-3 index is in the highest-risk band, with an AA:EPA ratio of 35 against a target under 8. Salmon also carries the vitamin D and selenium you're low on.
Your kidney filtration is excellent and your BUN sits at the floor of the range. You're under-eating protein, and it's costing you muscle and steady blood sugar.
Choline, B2 and B12 on one plate: the three things a homocysteine of 14.8 is waiting on.
Zinc runs thyroid conversion, immunity and ovulation. Beef and pumpkin seeds are your two richest everyday sources.
The lignans support estrogen balance, and the same soluble fiber helps bring your ApoB down.
Sunlight is still the most efficient vitamin D you can make, alongside the D3 in your protocol.
Sample plan for illustration. Yours is built from your own history, labs and testing.
Herbal prescriptions & supplements
Every plan includes a custom herbal formula for your pattern and the supplements your labs call for: the right forms, the right doses, at the right time of day.
Your cell membranes are running on too little EPA and DHA. This is the fastest way to bring the index up, alongside salmon three times a week.
D3 raises your level; K2 helps direct calcium into bone. Retested at 90 days so the dose can come down once you're in range.
Low iron is what's throttling your thyroid conversion. Every-other-day dosing absorbs better and is easier on the stomach.
Supports sleep, blood sugar and more than 300 enzymes. Glycinate is the calm, well-absorbed form.
The methylated forms your body can use right away, chosen because your homocysteine and MTHFR result call for them.
Sample from one patient's plan. Your supplements, forms and doses are set from your own labs and screened against your medications.
Every meal, planned
Your plan covers every meal of your week, with the time, the food and the reason it's there. Pick a goal to see a sample day.
Today's targets
Herbs & supplements today: Custom adaptogen tincture each morning, plus selenium and vitamin D3 with breakfast
Three pastured eggs scrambled with spinach and crimini mushrooms, half an avocado and a cup of blueberries
Why it's on your planProtein, selenium and B vitamins your thyroid uses to convert T4 into active T3.
Grass-fed beef and roasted vegetable bowl over arugula with olive oil, lemon and two Brazil nuts
Why it's on your planHeme iron for a ferritin of 24; two Brazil nuts cover your selenium for the day.
Pumpkin seeds and a ripe pear
Why it's on your planZinc and fiber between meals, so energy doesn't dip at 3pm.
Wild salmon with roasted sweet potato and asparagus
Why it's on your planOmega-3s for inflammation, and slow carbs at night to support sleep.
This week's dinners
Today's targets
Herbs & supplements today: Custom tincture for your stage (hot flashes, sleep or cycle support), with magnesium glycinate at night
Protein smoothie with 30 grams of protein, two tablespoons of ground flax, frozen berries, spinach and almond butter
Why it's on your planProtein first steadies blood sugar; flax lignans support estrogen balance.
Wild salmon salad with mixed greens, broccoli sprouts, cucumber and extra virgin olive oil
Why it's on your planCruciferous sprouts support the liver's estrogen detox pathways.
Hummus with carrots and cucumber
Why it's on your planFiber that helps your body clear used estrogen.
Roasted organic chicken thighs, Brussels sprouts and half a cup of quinoa
Why it's on your planMagnesium and a modest carb at night, the pairing that helps most with 3am waking.
This week's dinners
Today's targets
Herbs & supplements today: Custom blood-sugar herbal formula with meals, plus magnesium if your RBC magnesium is low
Two eggs and turkey sausage with sautéed greens, and coffee with cinnamon
Why it's on your planProtein first at breakfast steadies blood sugar through the morning.
Grass-fed burger in a lettuce wrap with a big salad and an olive oil and apple cider vinegar dressing
Why it's on your planVinegar and fiber with a meal blunt the glucose rise that follows.
A handful of walnuts and half an apple
Why it's on your planFat and fiber together, so there's no spike and no crash.
Lemon-herb cod with roasted cauliflower and green beans, then a 10-minute walk
Why it's on your planA short walk after dinner is one of the simplest ways to lower post-meal glucose.
This week's dinners
Sample days for illustration. Your meals are written from your own results, preferences and schedule.
Not a food list. Your food list.
Most plans stop at what to avoid. Yours names the foods your body does well with, and then the most healing foods for your specific body, conditions and goals.
Sample from one patient's plan. Your lists are built from your testing, including food sensitivity results when we run them.
The difference
| Generic diet or meal app | Personalized nutrition here | |
|---|---|---|
| Built from | Population averages | Your history, 115 markers, tongue, InBody and testing |
| Foods | The same list for everyone | Your most healing foods, and what to pause |
| Meals | You figure it out | Every meal of your week, planned |
| Herbs | Rarely part of it | Custom formulated for your pattern |
| Supplements | Guesswork from a store shelf | Matched to measured deficiencies, forms, doses and timing |
| Follow-up | None | Retest at 90 days and refine |
Your nutrition team
This is how Dr. Axe and his team have seen exceptional results in practice for more than two decades.
Builds your plan from your results and walks you through every meal, food swap and supplement at your review.
Designed the approach from more than 20 years in clinical practice and sets the standard every plan is held to.
Reads your labs with you and makes sure your nutrition plan and your medical care work together.
"Food is the first medicine we prescribe, and it's the one you take three times a day. When the plan is built for your body, everything else we do here works better."
Dr. Josh Axe, DNM, DC, CNSFounder
How it works
Tell us what's going on. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help and what it costs.
Your full history, a tongue diagnosis and your InBody scan, with bloodwork drawn or reviewed.
GI-MAP, food sensitivities, genetics or cortisol, only when your case calls for it.
Every meal, your healing foods, your herbal formula and your supplement protocol.
We walk through it together, on screen, and make sure it fits your real life.
We rerun what was off and refine the plan around what moved.
Book it your way
Quoted in writing before anything is booked. Most services are HSA and FSA eligible.
For people who want the plan. The full intake, tongue diagnosis, InBody scan, the bloodwork your case needs, every meal planned, and your herb and supplement protocol.
Already doing bloodwork, a program or therapies? Nutrition is what makes every one of them work better, and it's built from the labs you've already done.
Who it helps
Personalized nutrition is part of every condition we treat. These are where it moves the numbers most.
Questions
The questions we're asked most. For anything else, call and ask a person.
It's a nutrition plan built for one person. We look at your history in detail, your advanced bloodwork, a Traditional Chinese Medicine tongue diagnosis, an InBody body composition scan and any advanced testing your case needs, then write a plan that includes every meal: the foods your body does well with, the most healing foods for your specific body, conditions and goals, and custom-formulated herbs, nutrients and supplements.
Yes. You can book personalized nutrition on its own, or add it to your bloodwork, a program or your therapies. Most patients find it makes everything else they do here work better.
Your plan is built from your labs, so bloodwork is part of the process. If you're already a patient, we use the panel you've done. If you're new, we'll recommend the panel that fits your case on your free discovery call.
Neither, in the usual sense. It isn't a one-size diet, and it isn't a generic meal plan. It's a written plan for every meal of your week, built around your results, with the reasons attached so you know why each food is there.
Tongue diagnosis is a core assessment in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The color, coating, shape, moisture and cracks of the tongue reflect patterns in digestion, circulation, heat and fluid balance. We read it alongside your Western labs, two languages describing the same body, and it shapes both your foods and your herbal formula.
InBody measures skeletal muscle, body fat, visceral fat, water balance and phase angle in about a minute, standing on a scale-like device while holding the handles. It uses a very low, painless electrical signal. It isn't used for people with a pacemaker or other implanted electronic device, so tell us if that applies to you.
Every herb and supplement in your protocol is screened against your medications and history before it's recommended, and you'll get the form, dose and timing written down. Nothing is guesswork.
Yes. Your plan is built around the way you eat, your culture, your schedule and your cooking style. We'll find the most healing foods within your preferences.
We don't bill insurance. Most services are HSA and FSA eligible, and we'll quote your consultation in writing before anything is booked.
Your discovery call is free. We'll tell you whether personalized nutrition on its own or as part of your care is the better fit, and exactly what it costs.
329 S. Royal Oaks Blvd, Suite 103, Franklin, TN 37064 · Mon–Fri 8am–5pm · Directions
Your discovery call is free and carries no obligation. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit, and exactly what it costs before anything is ordered.
329 S. Royal Oaks Blvd, Suite 103, Franklin, TN · Mon–Fri 8am–5pm · HSA & FSA eligible
I've watched what happens when nobody looks closely enough, with my mom and with my own body. I built this clinic so the people who walk through our doors get the workup I wish my family had been given the first time.Dr. Josh Axe, DNM, DC, CNS · Founder