Finally Get Real Answers for Your Chronic Health Issues
Discover why you feel tired, inflamed, or unwell — even when labs say “everything’s fine.” Dr. Skolnikoff’s proven approach uncovers root causes and creates personalized healing plans.
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We Test, Don’t Guess Advanced diagnostics reveal what’s really wrong.
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Natural Healing No drugs, side effects, or guesswork.
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Serving Marin County Local care focused on long-term health.
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Licensed & Insured Professional care with proven results.
When Tests Say “Normal,” But You Still Don’t Feel Right.
Using advanced diagnostics and holistic care, Dr. Skolnikoff uncovers the hidden imbalances standard testing often overlooks — helping your body heal at the root cause.
Chronic Fatigue
You wake up tired, push through the day exhausted, and wonder why rest never feels enough.
Brain Fog
Your thoughts feel blurry — words slip away, focus fades, and clarity seems just out of reach.
Hormone Imbalance
Your mood swings, sleep shifts, and energy crashes — your hormones are sending distress signals.
Digestive Issues
Bloating, pain, and food sensitivities make meals stressful when they should be nourishing.
Sleep Problems
You lie awake staring at the ceiling — tired, wired, and unable to find the deep rest you need.
Chronic Inflammation
Stiff joints, aching muscles, and constant tension — your body’s silent alarm that healing is overdue.
You Deserve Real Answers — Not More Guesswork
You’ve been told “everything looks normal,” but you still don’t feel like yourself.
It’s time to stop settling for temporary fixes and finally uncover what your body’s been trying to say all along.
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The Skolnikoff Method:
Healing at the Root Cause
Unlike conventional medicine that only manages symptoms, Dr. Skolnikoff’s 4-pillar method combines advanced
diagnostics, natural therapies, and emotional healing to restore lasting balance from the inside out.
Functional Medicine
Advanced diagnostic testing and personalized nutrition reveal what’s happening inside your body — uncovering deficiencies, toxins, and imbalances that standard labs often miss.
Applied Kinesiology
Gentle muscle testing helps identify how your body responds to foods, supplements, and stressors — providing immediate insight into what supports or strains your health.
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Ancient healing wisdom blends with modern science to restore energy flow, strengthen organs, and bring balance to every system in your body.
Emotional Healing
Releases the emotional and stress patterns that keep the body in survival mode — restoring calm, clarity, and the foundation for deep healing.
Imagine Waking Up With Energy Again
Our patients don’t just feel better — they wake up ready to live again.
Here’s what happens when you heal the root cause instead of chasing symptoms.
Before Treatment
How you feel now
- No matter how much you sleep, you still wake up tired.
- Brain fog makes work and relationships harder to manage.
- Food leaves you bloated, uncomfortable, or in pain.
- Hormones feel out of balance — mood swings, low motivation.
- Worry and anxiety about your health never seem to stop.
- You feel unseen and unheard by doctors who say “everything looks normal.”
After Treatment
How you could feel
- Wake up refreshed with steady, natural energy.
- Think clearly and stay focused all day.
- Enjoy comfortable digestion and regular bowel movements.
- Feel balanced, calm, and emotionally grounded.
- Confident in your body’s ability to heal and stay strong.
- Finally feel like yourself again — maybe better than ever.
Hundreds
of Lives Transformed
Real patients who overcame fatigue, pain, and stress — and got their energy back naturally.
19+
Years of Experience
Guiding patients toward lasting wellness through advanced, natural care.
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Natural Healing Approach
No drugs, no side effects — just science-based, personalized healing that lasts.
How Our Patients Regained Their Health — Naturally
“It feels like I finally got my body back.”
For years I dealt with bloating, brain fog, and constant fatigue. At 40, I knew something wasn’t right, but every test and doctor visit left me with no real answers. Meeting Dr. Ilya changed everything. He helped me understand how nutrition, sleep, and stress were affecting my energy and mood. With his guidance, I made small lifestyle changes that turned into lasting habits. Now I sleep better, my energy stays balanced all day, my puffiness is gone, and I feel lighter, clearer, and more like myself again.
“I finally started feeling like myself again.”
“I hadn’t truly felt well since my teenage years. I struggled with anxiety, fatigue, mood swings, and constant exhaustion. Every doctor told me my lab results were normal, but I knew something was wrong. When I met Dr. Ilya, I realized how out of balance my body really was. After working with him, my thyroid and immune system began to heal, and I finally started feeling calm, strong, and full of energy.”
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Will Our Approach Work for You?
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Office Hours by Appointment Only
Monday
11 a.m to 7:30 p.m
Wednesday
11 a.m to 7:30 p.m
Thursday
11 a.m to 7:30 p.m
Friday
2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m
Closed
We are closed on Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday
FAQ
What is Functional Medicine and how does it differ from conventional care?
Functional Medicine in San Rafael digs into the root causes of your health issues—genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors—rather than just masking symptoms with medications. Conventional Medicine should not be used for chronic disease. It is emergency medicine designed for helping people who become seriously injured on a battlefield to survive. Conventional Medicine focuses on disease and pathology and dysfunction and sickness and illness. Functional Medicine focuses on health and healing, normal function, vitality, wellness, longevity and thriving with balance. The two are very different and should not be confused with each other.
What happens during my first consultation?
We will review your health history and current concerns together as a team, we are likely to go through recent labs, and we’ll recommend any advanced tests. This jump‑starts your personalized — San Rafael functional medicine — plan. Your first consultation is a comprehensive one-hour exam designed to uncover the root causes of your symptoms. Dr. Skolnikoff will evaluate your health using a wide range of holistic methods including allergy and hormone testing, neurological, nutritional, energetic, structural, and functional assessments. We’ll review your health history, past therapies, and current concerns to identify patterns and create a customized care plan. This exam helps us determine if we can accept your case and how best to help you.
Which lab tests are used?
It is hard to know what lab tests we will need to use because we have not yet scheduled you in or met you in person or through a Zoom meeting. We won’t know what labs need to be done, if any, without knowing more about you. We start with about a 20-30 minute health history to learn about you and what types of therapies you have done in the past that have helped you. We want to also know what types of therapies you have utilized that have not helped you. If you have used any therapies that have harmed you, we will want to know about that as well. In addition, we want to know what types of therapies you have used for a while and then stopped using if you plateaued and did not continue to progress. We want to get a complete world view of everything that has happened to you throughout your entire life that would have led up to the symptoms you are having now. We want to know what makes you the person that you are today with the health concerns that you have today. Typically, here are some of the examination procedures we use in our in office Skolnikoff Method Functional Medicine Exam:
- Allergy testing
- Hormone testing
- Up to 30 different tests for behavioral, emotional and learning disorders
- Tests for nervous system disease
- Tests for spinal disease
- Tests for nutritional deficiencies
- Homeopathic Constitutional exam
- Applied Clinical Nutrition exam
- Functional Medicine exam
- Chiropractic exam
- Naturopathic exam
- Acupuncture exam which includes Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Herbal Evaluation
- Vitalistic exam
- Osteopathic exam
- Energy Medicine exam
- Flower Essences Energetic Evaluation
- Professional Applied Kinesiological Exam
- Zinc taste test
- Oral pH Test
- Oral temperature testing
- Iodine skin testing
- Functional blood pressure testing in 3 different postural positions in order to learn about the health of your glands and organs.
- Gait Analysis to include proper evaluation of your functional anatomy and biomechanics
- Report of Findings that reveal the results of the exam
Think of Dr. Skolnikoff as being like a health puzzle solver and yourself as being like the puzzle that he will solve. Once we understand what the underlying pattern is that has led up to your health imbalances that you are having then that means we will be able to help you quickly. That means that things will start falling into place quickly like they have for thousands of our other patients over the last 19 years. This recognition of your health puzzle normally happens at the completion of the exam. People often have similar patterns so after having done this for many years, it makes it easier and easier for us to recognize those patterns among the people that we serve in our office. Most of the time we can get far more information just from using the methods of diagnosis that we use in our office than we can from doing additional blood, urine, saliva or hair laboratory analysis. We don’t diagnose pieces of paper. We diagnose real living, breathing, walking, talking sitting, standing and chewing people who come to our office and are there in front of us. We diagnose and treat real people, not pieces of paper (lab results) that have a snapshot of partial information on them that may or may not be helpful. People change much faster and more dramatically than pieces of paper do.
We use specialty panels—we learn all about your gut microbiome in ways that you never would dream were possible. We perforom a complete hormone analysis to discover how your hormones came to be at the levels they are at now. As you know, we do nutrient screens and investigate what type of inflammation markers you may have much in the way that Dr. Oz might do, but with more daily clinical experience as Dr. Oz is no longer practicing—to get a data‑driven picture of your health in Marin County. We want to put together a complete solution for your life and your health that takes you from where you are now with the symptom that you have to where you want to be where you have a better functioning body free of the nasty, pesky, irritating, annoying, frustrating and confusing symptoms.
How soon will I feel better?
That depends on you and how well you do with integrating lifestyle changes into your daily habits. Most people experience a huge improvement in their health after their first treatment visit. The majority of our patients in Marin County notice major changes in their energy, digestion, and sleep after their very first treatment visit. We will go as fast as we can from the symptoms you are experiencing to where you are feeling good with lifestyle changes that are specific to you. However, we should also go as slowly as we need to for you to get better and stay feeling better for as long as possible. Full results often take 3–6 months as we fine‑tune your plan. Sometimes we need to speed up your healing and sometimes we need to slow it down. We will pace ourselves as we go through the process together as a team. Dr. Skolnikoff will be working very hard to support you with your health and he will expect you to meet him halfway and work just as hard as he does to help you achieve your health goals. With your new body and your new health and your new found energy, you will likely also want to set new health goals.
How should I prepare for my visit?
You will want to print out the New Patient Forms that pertain to you and then hand write in the blanks and bring those hard copies in with you to your exam. Bring recent lab results from the last 6 months, the forms you will be filling out will ask you to make a list of medications and/or supplements that you use, and it includes a 3‑day food journal. Please fill it out as thoroughly and completely as you can. This ensures your San Rafael functional medicine plan starts efficiently. During the day of your exam please wear loose fitting clothing made of natural fibers. Avoid skirts and dresses and please remove all jewelry, watches, necklaces and bracelets before coming into the examination room.
Do you accept insurance for Functional Medicine consultations?
We don’t bill insurance directly for Functional Medicine services, but we provide detailed superbills for easy reimbursement. Many Marin County patients successfully submit claims for consultations and lab tests. We also offer flexible payment plans—ensuring personalized, root‑cause care remains accessible to everyone. We have a variety of affordable payment options that are so affordable that just about anyone can afford them. One of the major challenges with playing the health insurance gave that we play here in the United States is that the insurance only covers certain procedures and not others. We want you to get well as fast as you possibly can and stay well for as long as possible… while understanding what led you to have the symptoms you have now so you don’t have to go through this craziness ever again. We don’t want to have to treat you 30, 40, 50 or even 60 separate times and then you still have nearly the exact same symptoms you had when we started. Instead, we are going to home in in the exact causes of your health puzzle and then you should be able to get rid of 90% of your symptoms in just 5 to 10 treatment visits if you are like 95% of our patients. We will not be experimenting with your health so there is no reason to experiment just with the healthcare providers that have the perfect insurance billing policies. If you were able to get the results you are looking for from those healthcare providers that bill insurance for you, you likely would not be showing up at our office. Individual results may vary and past performance does not equate to future results. Lots of surgeries and regular medication use will complicate things. For example, if you have had your entire colon removed, that makes things more difficult — much more difficult. If you are taking 7 or more prescription medications that also complicates things. It doesn’t mean we cannot help you, but we want to do so safely and very carefully and may have to go at a slower pace than someone who does not use any prescriptions and has not had any surgeries ever. Our patients learn about a new way to live a healthier, better, fuller, and more complete experience of life with easy-to-follow lifestyle changes. We don’t want to over treat you and provide you with care that you don’t need like the insurance billing docs do. At the same time, we want to make sure that you get the care that you need to get the health results that you are looking for: nothing more and nothing less.
Discover What’s Really Causing Your Symptoms — and Start Healing Naturally
You don’t need another prescription. You need answers.
We reveal the hidden imbalances behind your fatigue, pain, or stress — and guide your body back to health.
