Deborah J. Post, advanced registered nurse practitioner (ARNP) and owner of Wellbridges, in Bonita Springs, wholeheartedly believes that individuality is the key to maintaining and protecting health and experiencing life’s joy. “My approach to healthcare is strictly individualized. I spend all the time needed to organize all the pieces and history that an individual brings to me,” says Post, who enjoys helping people understand how and why their health problems began, as well as offering solutions that bring about the best possible outcomes.

“The U.S. healthcare system has spent billions of dollars reducing individuality to collective ‘normal limit’ statistics, which insurance providers insist on healthcare professionals applying to all patients regardless of their individual circumstances. Health care based on insurance coverage dictates the time that I or any other medical professional can spend with a patient for evaluating and consulting with them as a ‘whole person’ and not just a disease,” advises Post, who uses traditional and integrative medicine to create the path to the best solutions, rather than just managing pathology.

Post trained at the Institute for Functional Medicine, the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and with the Age Management Medicine Group. “The kind of medicine I’ve trained in since becoming an ARNP is the kind of personalized medicine that I visualized in my younger days,” she states. “It wasn’t available in 1984 when I graduated from Boston University’s nurse practitioner degree program.”

Post began her work in functional medicine with Dr. David Perlmutter’s office, in Naples. She practiced there for six years before opening the Wellbridges Health Center, where she creates solutions to health problems that are unavailable in more conventional medical services, noting, “Radical recovery from chronic and debilitating conditions requires time and education, support and caring, and these are my major focus with all clients. Working individually with clients, we educate and explore diet/nutrition, evaluating food reactions, fixing the gut, optimizing nutrient status, balancing hormones, supporting energy metabolism, enhancing detoxification, supporting health in body and mind, and looking for hidden infections.”

Location: 9200 Bonita Beach Rd., Ste. 213, Bonita Springs. For more information or an appointment, call 239-231-8354 or visit Wellbridges.com