Functional Medicine in Scarborough, Maine
Scarborough covers more than 50 square miles, so residents here are already used to a short drive for specialized care. Med Matrix serves Scarborough from its South Portland clinic, a short drive south down Route One. If you have been told your bloodwork is normal while the fatigue, weight changes, or low energy continue, functional medicine looks at the fuller picture. Your first visit includes an 80+ biomarker blood panel, an InBody 770 body composition scan, and a full 60-minute consultation with a provider who builds a plan around what your labs actually show. New patients receive a $100 voucher toward that visit.
10 min from Scarborough
Why Functional Medicine in Scarborough
Scarborough spreads across more than 50 square miles and 13 distinct neighborhood areas, which makes it the largest community in Maine still governed as a Town rather than a city. With that much ground, from the Scarborough Marsh lowlands to the inland farmland and forest, residents here are already used to driving a few minutes for the services they rely on. So when someone in Scarborough keeps hearing that their bloodwork looks normal while the fatigue, weight changes, or brain fog continue, the practical next step is a short trip south to Med Matrix in South Portland, for testing that looks deeper.
Med Matrix does not keep an office in Scarborough. The practice runs a single clinic at 198 Maine Mall Road in South Portland, and Scarborough sits just north of it with direct access down Route One. Because the town is only about 7 miles from the Portland metro area, that drive is routine rather than a barrier.
Integrative medicine brings conventional and complementary care together in a coordinated way, looking across the biological, behavioral, and environmental factors that shape how you feel rather than treating a single lab value in isolation. That is the gap many Scarborough searchers describe when they say their labs are normal but their symptoms have not gone away. At a first visit, Med Matrix answers it with an 80+ biomarker blood panel, an InBody 770 body composition scan, and in-depth health questionnaires, followed by a full 60-minute consultation with a provider who builds a personalized plan and monitors your labs over time.
That work is handled by a credentialed team of 7 providers, including Dr. Paul Laband, an internal medicine physician (MD), and Dr. Sasha Rose, a naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist. Across 3,000+ patients, Med Matrix holds a 4.9-star average on 150+ Google reviews. New patients receive a $100 voucher toward the first visit, and the clinic accepts HSA, FSA, and CareCredit on a cash-pay basis.
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Common Concerns We See in Scarborough
Your bloodwork keeps coming back normal, but the fatigue, weight changes, or brain fog have not gone away.
- Why it happens
- Standard panels are built to flag disease thresholds, so they can miss the fuller pattern that integrative care looks for across biological, behavioral, and environmental factors.
- Why it matters
- Without deeper testing, real symptoms get filed as normal and go unexplained, which is exactly the concern Scarborough searchers describe.
- What we do
- Med Matrix runs an 80+ biomarker blood panel, an InBody 770 body composition scan, and in-depth questionnaires, then reviews the results with you.
You want more than a rushed appointment to actually understand your results.
- Why it happens
- Short visits rarely leave time to connect symptoms to the numbers on a full lab panel.
- Why it matters
- When no one walks you through the findings, it is hard to know what to change or why.
- What we do
- Every new patient gets a full 60-minute consultation with a provider who builds a personalized plan and monitors labs over time.
You assume deep functional testing means traveling to a city, not somewhere near a spread-out town like Scarborough.
- Why it happens
- Scarborough is large and dispersed across 13 neighborhood areas, so specialized care can feel far away.
- Why it matters
- The perceived distance can stop people from pursuing testing that would actually help.
- What we do
- Med Matrix serves Scarborough from South Portland, a short drive south down Route One, so there is no long trip.
You are worried about how care like this gets paid for.
- Why it happens
- Functional medicine practices often work outside standard insurance billing.
- Why it matters
- Cost uncertainty can keep people from starting even when they want answers.
- What we do
- Med Matrix is cash-pay and accepts HSA, FSA, and CareCredit, with a $100 voucher for new patients toward the first visit.
You want your whole health looked at, not one number treated in isolation.
- Why it happens
- Conventional visits often focus on a single flagged value rather than the connected picture.
- Why it matters
- Treating one marker can miss the interconnected factors that actually drive how you feel.
- What we do
- Med Matrix uses an integrative, whole-person approach that coordinates conventional and complementary care across multiple domains.
You are not sure who you would actually see or whether they are qualified.
- Why it happens
- Functional and integrative clinics vary widely in the credentials of their providers.
- Why it matters
- The right team is what turns a lab panel into a plan you can trust.
- What we do
- Med Matrix has 7 providers, including Dr. Paul Laband, an internal medicine physician (MD), and Dr. Sasha Rose, a naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist.
Clinical Standards
Where Your Providers Train
Functional medicine isn't taught in medical school. Our providers invest years of additional training with the institutions that built this field.
Institute for Functional Medicine(IFM)
The academic home of functional medicine. IFMCP certification requires advanced training in hormonal, immune, gastrointestinal, and neuroendocrine systems. Multiple Med Matrix providers hold this credential.
Your provider sees how your hormones, gut, immune system, and metabolism connect, not just isolated symptoms.
Seeds Scientific Research & Performance(SSRP)
Clinical training in hormone dosing, advanced lab interpretation, and peptide protocols. Where textbook medicine gets translated into treatment plans that show measurable change inside 90 days.
Your protocol is built on real clinical training, not a one-size-fits-all template.
American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine(A4M)
The largest training body for age-management and longevity medicine. Fellowship and board certification cover hormone replacement, peptide therapy, metabolic medicine, and regenerative therapies.
Your care team trains with the organization that sets the clinical standard for longevity medicine.
See the full credentials and training history of every provider in our free practice guide.
When We Go Deeper
Advanced Diagnostics Beyond the Standard Panel
If the standard panel doesn't explain how you feel, there's usually a reason hiding deeper. Functional medicine means having the tools to find it. These are some of the advanced tests your provider can add when the initial results point to something that needs more investigation.
DUTCH Complete
What it measures: Dried urine panel of every sex hormone metabolite plus cortisol rhythm.
Why we use it: Serum hormones are a snapshot. DUTCH shows the full metabolic picture over a day, including how you process hormones and whether your stress system is burning out.
GI-MAP
What it measures: PCR-based stool test for pathogens, parasites, yeast overgrowth, and microbiome balance.
Why we use it: Most chronic gut issues trace back to one of four places. GI-MAP tells us which, so treatment targets the actual cause.
SIBO Breath Test
What it measures: Hydrogen and methane gas after a sugar challenge, flagging bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine.
Why we use it: SIBO is treated completely differently from large-intestine dysbiosis. Getting the diagnosis right changes everything.
Mycotoxin Screening
What it measures: Urine panel for the specific toxins produced by mold.
Why we use it: Mold toxicity looks like twenty other conditions. Until you rule it out, you won't find the real cause.
Heavy Metals Testing
What it measures: Urine or blood panel for lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and other toxic metals.
Why we use it: Heavy metal burden accumulates for years without symptoms, then drives neurologic or autoimmune issues that standard panels never catch.
Our practice guide includes the full catalog of advanced testing options with detailed descriptions of what each one measures. Get your free copy.
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Hours
Mon: 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Tue: 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wed: 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Thu: 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Fri: 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Sat: Closed
Sun: Closed
FAQ
Functional Medicine in Scarborough
Common questions about functional medicine near Scarborough, Maine.
No. Med Matrix runs a single clinic at 198 Maine Mall Road in South Portland and serves Scarborough residents from there. Since Scarborough sits just north with direct access down Route One, the drive is a short one.
A first visit includes an 80+ biomarker blood panel, an InBody 770 body composition scan, and in-depth questionnaires, reviewed with you during a full 60-minute consultation. The integrative approach looks across biological, behavioral, and environmental factors rather than a single lab value.
Med Matrix has a team of 7 providers, including Dr. Paul Laband, an internal medicine physician (MD), and Dr. Sasha Rose, a naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist. The practice has served more than 3,000 patients and holds a 4.9-star average across 150+ Google reviews.
New patients receive a $100 voucher toward the first visit, which includes the full 80+ biomarker panel, InBody 770 scan, and a 60-minute provider consultation. Med Matrix is cash-pay and accepts HSA, FSA, and CareCredit.
They overlap. Integrative health coordinates conventional and complementary care to restore health across multiple connected domains rather than only treating disease. That whole-person, root-cause focus is what Scarborough searchers are describing with terms like integrative health and whole medicine.
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