Physician-Led, Board-Certified Integrative Medicine
Root-cause care, Lifestyle, and Longevity Medicine on the Connecticut shoreline.
If you've spent years being told your labs look fine while you still feel exhausted, foggy, inflamed, or unwell — you're exactly who this practice was built for.
Tantien Integrative Medicine is a small, physician-led practice in Branford, Connecticut. Dr. Laura Tavernier, MD brings 34 years of clinical experience, board certification in integrative medicine (ABOIM), and fellowship training from the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona — the most rigorous integrative medicine training pathway in the country. She limits the practice to 100 patients so every visit gets the time complex illness actually requires.
Instead of ten-minute appointments and symptom-by-symptom prescriptions, care here starts with a 90-minute consultation and a clinical genetic test that shows how your body handles inflammation, nutrients, hormones, and stress.
Then we build a plan around your biology — not a template.
Integrative Care
Personalized physician-led care with time to investigate connections across body systems.
Longevity
Brain Health
Chronic Health Concerns
Root Cause
Advanced Genomics & Nutrigenomics
A simple at-home cheek swab reveals how your genes affect inflammation, energy, hormones, and how you handle stress — so your treatment plan is built for your body, not the average body.
Integrative Therapeutic Planning
Treatment plans are individualized and may include nutrition, targeted supplements, lifestyle medicine, prescriptions, and follow-up refinement over time
Two Kinds of People Find Us
You’re Trying to Get Your Health Back
You’ve been passed between specialists, handed prescriptions that quiet one symptom while three others get louder, and told your labs look fine. We start over — with time, root-cause thinking, and real data about your specific biology. We commonly work with adults dealing with:
Chronic fatigue syndrome and unexplained fatigue
Hormonal imbalance and metabolic dysfunction
Digestive disorders, including IBS, SIBO, leaky gut, and food sensitivities
Autoimmune conditions and chronic inflammation
Brain fog, insomnia, anxiety, and depression
Lyme disease and tick-borne co-infections, including Babesia and Bartonella
Patients seeking personalized, longevity, preventive, and genomics-based care
You’re Trying to Protect Your Health
You feel well, and you plan to stay that way — sharp, strong, and energized for decades, without chasing whatever supplement is trending this week. We use your genetics to protect what actually matters as you age:
• Cellular energy: How efficiently your cells make and defend the energy your brain and muscles run on.
• Brain health: Supporting cognitive vitality with specificity, based on your predispositions — not vague promises.
• Performance, fitness, and recovery: How your body responds to training, where injury risk sits, and what recovery asks of you.
• Metabolic and hormonal health: Catching the tendencies that drive decline early, while they’re still easy to shift.
Grounded in real longevity medicine — not social-media noise.
Personalized Care, Guided Through Two-Eyed Seeing
“Two eyed seeing is the ability to see through one eye the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing, and through the other eye, the strengths of Western ways of knowing.”
What Makes Our Integrative Medicine Practice Different
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Fellowship-trained and Board-Certified
Andrew Weil Center fellowship, University of Arizona plus ABOIM board certification. Most physicians who call themselves integrative haven't done this training.
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90-minute first visits
Long enough to hear the whole history instead of a symptom list.
• Limited to 100 patients. So every visit gets the time complex illness actually requires.
• Cash-pay, by design. No insurance company dictating ten-minute medicine.
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Genomics-informed
A 3x4 Genetics test shows how your body handles inflammation, nutrients, hormones, and stress. A clinical genetic test, read by your physician, not a printout you’re left to decode alone.
We’ll briefly review your goals, answer practical questions, and help you decide whether the practice is the right fit.
Cash-pay practice. Longer visits. Personalized, physician-led. Practice limited to 100 patients
Tantien Integrative Medicine is located in Branford, Connecticut and serves adults throughout the Connecticut shoreline and Greater New Haven region, including New Haven, Guilford, Madison, Clinton, East Haven, North Haven, Hamden, West Haven, Milford, Orange, Woodbridge, and Bethany. Telehealth appointments are available for follow-up visits for patients throughout Connecticut.