I was trained to treat symptoms. I chose to start looking for causes.
I’m Dr. Maggie Yu, a board-certified functional physician helping people uncover the root causes of chronic symptoms and reclaim their health with clarity, science, and compassion.
I didn’t set out to disrupt the health care system. I believed in it 100%.
I was trained as a medical doctor at UCLA and graduated at the top of my class. By all accounts, I was living the dream of a successful health care provider. Leading doctors, teaching staff, and caring for thousands of patients as the director of a large clinic.
But after the birth of my second child, my own health collapsed. Chronic fatigue, pain, weight gain, hormone chaos, connective tissue problems, and brain fog, all with “normal” labs.
The system I had devoted my life to dismissed me, told me it was all in my head and that I was simply getting older.
This gaslighting from peers and colleagues whom I had so much respect for left me feeling alone and hopeless.
But that dark time became my turning point.
Because I wasn’t believed, I made a promise: when my patients tell me something is wrong, I will believe them. And I will help them find answers.
I built a health care system I wish had existed for me. One rooted in data, order, and education—not dismissals and bandaids.
Since then, I’ve helped tens of thousands of people with autoimmune disease, Hashimotos, Lupus, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, POTS, long haul, and “mystery” symptoms discover their root causes and get their lives back.
This isn’t just my mission. It’s my calling.
I start every morning with hope—because I know what’s possible—and I end every day with data and results.
My approach is personalized, because no two people have the same health story. It’s root cause focused, because surface fixes don’t work. And it’s about creating certainty, giving people answers and a roadmap that makes sense.
I believe transformation happens when you combine science with compassion, data with education, and expertise with relentless curiosity.
That’s the system I built.
It’s worked for thousands of people and
Real People. Real Results.
Lives Transformed
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Meet the founder, Maggie Yu
Board-Certified Physician and Root-Cause Functional Medicine Expert
Dr. Maggie Yu, MD, IFMCP is a board-certified family physician with nearly 30 years of clinical experience. Her work focuses on uncovering and correcting the root drivers of complex chronic illness, including autoimmune disease, thyroid dysfunction, hormone imbalance, POTS, dysautonomia, MCAS, chronic fatigue, digestive disorders, and post-viral syndromes.
Dr. Maggie is known for her precision-based, root-cause approach. She does not manage symptoms. She identifies the underlying dysfunction driving immune dysregulation, inflammation, fatigue, brain fog, tachycardia, and hormonal imbalances and corrects those drivers in the right order.
After facing her own severe autoimmune and systemic health collapse in her 30s, including Hashimoto’s, early menopause, fibromyalgia, connective tissue dysfunction, chronic pain, and depression, she expanded beyond conventional medicine to uncover why so many patients were being told their labs were “normal” while their lives were not. Rebuilding her own health led to the development of the Transform System, a structured methodology that restores stability to the immune, hormonal, digestive, and nervous systems through data-driven strategy and clinical sequencing.
Over the course of her career, she has helped thousands of patients worldwide who had exhausted traditional medical pathways without answers. Her expertise includes advanced hormone pattern interpretation, immune regulation, thyroid dysfunction missed on standard testing, digestive repair, and autonomic nervous system recalibration.
Dr. Maggie received her medical degree from UCLA and currently resides in Washington. She continues to educate globally through clinical programs and advanced trainings, helping individuals move from chronic symptoms to clarity, confidence, and control.
Meet The Team
Registered Holistic Nutritionist
Natalie Rivier
Registered Holistic Nutritionist
Kathy Ryan
Registered Holistic Nutritionist
Kathy is a Registered Holistic and Functional Nutritionist with 18 years of experience working with clients. She specializes in hormone balancing, weight management and optimizing digestion, using food, supplementation and mindset as her tools for transformation. She has authored two books, The Context Eating Method: How to Lose Weight Without Sucking all the Gluten, Chocolate and Wine-filled Joy From Your Life and SOS for Your Hormonal Hot Mess. She enjoys speaking at women’s conferences and retreats and attending continued learning seminars. She is a nature lover and lives “in the middle of nowhere”, where she spends her down-time in her vegetable garden, foraging for medicinal herbs and spending time with her daughter and grandson. One of her favorite quotes is, “Complexity is the enemy of execution” from Tony Robbins and she takes that to heart as she helps people transform their health.
Jonathan Beatty
ND Naturopath
Dr Jonathan Beatty ND has been a practicing Naturopath in Ontario since 2007. Dr Beatty completed a degree in Nutrition and Nutraceutical Sciences from the University of Guelph prior to entering Naturopathic College. Dr Beatty has a practice focused on autoimmune diseases and developmental neurology. In addition to his professional practice, Dr Beatty has worked as a formulator and educator in the natural health product industry. As a passionate teacher, he also creates and teaches continuing education courses for medical professionals on autoimmunity, the gut biome and functional medicine. When not in the office or teaching, Dr Beatty can be found working on his farm raising a variety of fruits and vegetables, chickens and cows.
Natalie River
Registered Holistic Nutritionist
Natalie Rivier is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and award-winning health educator with over 25 years of experience in the wellness industry. For 18 years, she owned and operated the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition, where she taught and mentored thousands of aspiring functional nutritionists across Canada. Her work earned her the 2015 Leadership in Health Award for her outstanding contributions to health education.
A lifelong fitness enthusiast, Natalie holds over a dozen fitness certifications and specializes in training women—focusing on building strength, balancing hormones, and optimizing blood sugar. Her approach blends evidence-based nutrition with practical, sustainable strategies to help clients thrive at every stage of life.
Internationally, she co-developed three wellness-focused menus at Vietnam’s renowned Tia Wellness Resort, ranked among the top 100 spa resorts in the world. She also led a pioneering youth fitness initiative in partnership with local law enforcement, using movement and mentorship as a powerful tool for crime prevention.