Functional Medicine for Midlife Women Who Want to Feel Better Now and Protect How They Age Later

Understand what’s changing in your energy, memory, and metabolism and what actually deserves your attention. Especially if you’ve watched a parent experience dementia and want to be proactive about your own future health.

Led by a board-certified nurse practitioner, Katie Creedon, with nearly two decades of experience caring for older adults, New England Functional Wellness brings a long-term lens to the health decisions women make in midlife. We provide medical care for women in midlife across Massachusetts and New Hampshire, combining advanced lab testing, clinical oversight, and personalized lifestyle support to address the real reasons your body feels different.

Many of the patterns that influence long-term brain health and dementia risk begin decades before symptoms appear. Midlife is the moment when those patterns can still be understood and changed.

You’ve tried the labs, the diets, and the supplements, yet you still don’t feel like yourself.

You’re not imagining it—and you’re not broken. Changes in energy, cognition, metabolism, sleep, hormones, and inflammation often become more noticeable during midlife.

And if you’ve watched a parent experience cognitive decline or dementia, brain fog and forgetfulness can raise a much bigger question: “Is this how it starts for me?”

Not necessarily. But it deserves more than guessing.

The goal is to determine what may be driving your symptoms now, which factors could influence your health later, and what actually deserves your attention.

Midlife isn't just about managing symptoms. It's an important window for your future health.

Fatigue, brain fog, forgetfulness, stubborn weight, poor sleep, and changing metabolic health often become more noticeable during these years. They deserve to be evaluated in context—not automatically dismissed as aging or hormones.

What many women don't realize is that many of the factors associated with how the brain ages—metabolic health, blood pressure, sleep, physical activity, hormonal changes and more—begin influencing health long before cognitive decline appears.

At New England Functional Wellness, we use a functional medicine approach to evaluate these patterns together and determine where intervention may have the greatest impact—so the work we do for your health today also supports the way you want to age.

You don't need more health information. You need clinical judgment about what actually matters for you.

You may be in the right place if…

If dementia runs in your family, you may have quietly wondered what that means for your future.

You value expert medical guidance but want more time, context, and personalization than conventional care allows

You’re tired of being told “everything looks normal” when you don’t feel normal

You've already done the research, but you're not sure which labs, supplements, or recommendations actually apply to you.

You’re willing to engage in your health — ask questions, reflect, and make changes that actually fit your life

You want a clinician who can tell the difference between something we can work on together and something that needs further medical evaluation.

You care about how you feel now and how your brain and body will age over the next decade

You want support that evolves as your body does — not one-size-fits-all care

You want someone who can see the whole picture, explain what’s going on in plain language, and guide you with confidence

Functional Medicine for Women in Midlife in Massachusetts & New Hampshire

This is NP-led medical care, not generic wellness advice. Care may include individualized lab ordering, clinical interpretation, treatment planning, monitoring, and referral when something deserves a closer medical look.

Energy + clarity:

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Metabolic Health

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Brain health

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Explore contributors to persistent fatigue, brain fog, and changes in focus so we can determine what deserves further evaluation—and where intervention may help.

Address insulin resistance, blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure, body composition, and other metabolic factors that influence how you feel now and how your brain and body age.

Understand the modifiable factors that influence memory, focus, cognitive resilience, and long-term dementia risk—especially if cognitive decline runs in your family.

Hormones & Midlife Health

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Gut + inflammation:

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Sleep & Stress Physiology

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Evaluate how perimenopause and menopause may be interacting with sleep, mood, cognition, metabolism, and cardiovascular health—not assume every midlife symptom is “just hormones.”

Evaluate persistent bloating, reflux, bowel changes, food reactions, and inflammatory patterns when they may be contributing to symptoms elsewhere in the body.

Evaluate sleep quality, possible sleep-disordered breathing, chronic stress, recovery, and daily patterns that influence metabolic and cognitive health.

Start With the Care That Fits Why You're Here

Clinical care at New England Functional Wellness begins with a Blueprint. Choose the comprehensive Better With Age assessment or, if cognitive health is your primary concern, the Better Brain Blueprint. Not sure which fits? A complimentary 15-minute Clarity Call can help you decide.

Better With Age Blueprint

A comprehensive starting point for midlife health

For women who want a comprehensive clinical look at changes in energy, metabolism, hormones, sleep, digestion, cognition, and long-term health.

We’ll review your health history, symptoms, risk factors, and individualized laboratory data to identify patterns, prioritize what deserves your attention now, and determine what I recommend we do next.

The goal: clarity about what matters most for your health today—and the future you’re working to protect.

Investment: $997

Better Brain Blueprint

Focused Brain Health + Cognitive Assessment

For women concerned about memory or cognitive changes—or those with a family history of dementia who want to be proactive about their own brain health.

Your assessment includes the comprehensive Blueprint evaluation plus dedicated cognitive assessment and standardized virtual cognitive screening, with attention to modifiable dementia risk factors and when further medical evaluation may be appropriate.

Investment: $1197

Not sure which Blueprint is right for you?
Book a complimentary 15-minute Clarity Call to determine which starting point makes the most sense.

YOUR BLUEPRINT IS THE STARTING POINT.

WHAT COMES NEXT IS PERSONAL.

Your Blueprint is designed to stand on its own, giving you clear clinical priorities and recommended next steps. But for many women, understanding what to do is only the beginning.

When ongoing care would be beneficial, established patients may be invited to continue into Better With Age Signature Care for more intensive implementation and support, followed by tiered membership options for longer-term monitoring and clinical partnership. You don’t need to choose any of that now. We’ll determine together what level of care, if any, makes sense after your Blueprint.

You deserve to feel strong, clear, and fully yourself ... at every age.

MEET Katie Creedon, NP

Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner | Root-Cause Strategist | Healthy Aging Advocate

I’ve spent nearly two decades caring for older adults with chronic disease and cognitive decline. Today, I work at the other end of the timeline—helping women in midlife identify and address the factors shaping their brain health and long-term health before decline becomes the conversation.

Midlife isn’t the beginning of decline. It’s where we start changing the trajectory of how we age.

As a board-certified nurse practitioner with advanced training in functional medicine, I provide medical oversight, individualized lab testing and interpretation, treatment planning, and ongoing clinical care, not generic wellness advice. My job isn’t simply to give you more health information. It’s to help determine what actually matters for you, what we can act on now, and what may need a closer medical look.

I created New England Functional Wellness because I’ve seen what can happen when we wait until chronic disease and cognitive decline are already part of the picture. I want women to have the opportunity to work upstream, while there is still so much we can influence.

You don’t need to chase every lab, supplement, diet, or health trend. You need clarity about what deserves your attention now and a clinician who can help you decide what comes next.

STRAIGHT FROM OUR HAPPY PATIENT

"I have been looking for someone like Katie for a long time. I needed a wholistic approach to my health challenges that were not being met by traditional western medicine. Katie’s knowledge and insights coupled with her process was exactly what my health needed and improved every aspect of my health profile. I can’t say enough good things about Katie and I would highly recommend her."

In less than 2 minutes, discover if your symptoms point to deeper system strain and what your next best step should be to reclaim energy, clarity, and resilience.

Is Your Body Aging Well or Working Too Hard to Keep Up?
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