Digestive symptoms
Bloating, excessive gas, constipation or diarrhea, acid reflux, and irritable bowel symptoms.
Sieveking/Functional Medicine/Gut Health & Immune Restoration
Gut Health & Immune Restoration
Physician-Led · Root-Cause · Whole-Body
Your digestive system does much more than process food — it is the foundation for your immune system, metabolism, hormone regulation, and overall health. Nearly 70% of your immune system resides within the gut. The Gut Health & Immune Restoration Program through Ageless Solutions at Sieveking Plastic Surgery serves patients throughout Franklin, Nashville, and Middle Tennessee, identifying the underlying causes of digestive dysfunction and restoring balance from the inside out.
Restore your gut. Strengthen your immune system. Optimize your health.
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Trillions of organisms, one balance worth protecting.
Your gut microbiome is home to trillions of bacteria and microorganisms that influence nearly every aspect of your health. A balanced microbiome supports a healthy immune system and reduced inflammation, better digestion and nutrient absorption, metabolic and blood sugar regulation, healthy weight management, hormone balance, mood and cognitive function, and the integrity of the intestinal barrier itself.
A healthy intestinal lining acts as a protective barrier between your digestive tract and the rest of your body. When that barrier becomes compromised, unwanted substances may pass into the bloodstream, triggering inflammation and unnecessary immune activation. Because so much of the immune system resides in the gut, restoring that barrier is central to restoring immune balance.
The approach
Finding the root cause.
Microbiome imbalance rarely has a single cause. The evaluation considers nutrition, fiber intake, stress, sleep, antibiotic exposure, metabolic health, hormonal balance, inflammatory conditions, food sensitivities, environmental toxins, and lifestyle factors — identifying the underlying drivers of digestive dysfunction rather than managing symptoms in isolation.
That interpretation shapes a protocol tailored to your physiology rather than a standardized template: personalized anti-inflammatory nutrition built around sustainable habits, precision probiotic, prebiotic, postbiotic, and synbiotic recommendations, intestinal barrier repair strategies, and lifestyle work on sleep and stress — all under ongoing physician monitoring.
Because this practice offers integrated functional and longevity medicine alongside medical aesthetics and surgery, gut care can be coordinated with related programs — hormone optimization, thyroid care, or metabolic health support — when your clinical picture calls for it.
Signs your gut may be out of balance.
These symptoms can have many causes — whether this program is appropriate for you is a medical determination made after a thorough evaluation.
Food sensitivities
Reactions to foods that once caused no trouble, often pointing to barrier and microbiome changes.
Fatigue and brain fog
Low energy and clouded thinking — the gut-brain connection is real, and imbalance shows up far from the intestine.
Skin and immunity
Skin conditions such as eczema or acne, frequent illness, chronic inflammation, and autoimmune conditions.
Weight difficulty
Difficulty losing weight despite consistent effort, as microbiome imbalance affects metabolism and blood sugar.
After antibiotics
Poor recovery after antibiotic courses, and recurrent yeast or urinary infections.
Why choose this program
What a balanced microbiome gives back.
Optimizing the gut supports far more than digestion — it underwrites immunity, metabolism, and healthy aging.
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Immune resilience
A healthy gut supports the roughly 70% of the immune system that lives there — reducing chronic inflammation and unnecessary immune activation.
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Digestion and absorption
Improved digestion, nutrient absorption, and production of important vitamins and beneficial compounds.
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Metabolic regulation
Support for blood sugar regulation, insulin sensitivity, and healthy weight management.
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Mood and cognition
A balanced microbiome supports mood and cognitive function through the gut-brain axis.
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Barrier repair
Restoring the intestinal barrier so unwanted substances stay out of the bloodstream — central to calming systemic inflammation.
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Longevity
Cardiovascular health, immune resilience, body composition, and vitality all draw on gut health over the long term.
Progress is typically gradual rather than immediate, and the pace varies with the underlying cause and how consistently the protocol is followed — which is why monitoring and adjustment are built into the program.
What to expect: comprehensive gut and immune assessment.
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Consultation
Your history and drivers
The evaluation begins with your full picture — nutrition, fiber intake, stress, sleep, antibiotic exposure, and lifestyle — because microbiome imbalance rarely has a single cause.
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Testing
Targeted diagnostics
Depending on your clinical picture: comprehensive metabolic evaluation, inflammatory markers, nutritional analysis, hormone testing, food sensitivity evaluation, functional digestive testing when indicated, and immune system assessment.
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Protocol
Restoration, precisely
Personalized anti-inflammatory nutrition, precision probiotic, prebiotic, postbiotic, and synbiotic recommendations, intestinal barrier repair strategies, and lifestyle optimization — tailored to your physiology, not a template.
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Monitoring
Adjusted as you improve
Some patients notice improvements in digestion and energy within the first several weeks, while microbiome and immune changes typically develop gradually over several months. Your protocol is monitored and adjusted based on your response.
Why Sieveking
Meet Dr. Sieveking
Why choose Sieveking for gut health in Nashville and Franklin, TN.
Directed by Dr. Sieveking · Led by Jan Stanley RN, MS
Sieveking Plastic Surgery at 1200 Old Hillsboro Road in Franklin, Tennessee, is the only practice in Middle Tennessee that integrates world-class plastic surgery, advanced medical aesthetics, and clinical functional and longevity medicine under one physician at a single address.
The physician-led program combines functional medicine, comprehensive diagnostics, personalized nutrition, precision supplementation, inflammation reduction, metabolic optimization, hormone assessment, and lifestyle medicine. For patients throughout Nashville, Franklin, Brentwood, and Williamson County, that means digestive symptoms are evaluated in the context of your complete health picture rather than treated in isolation.
Every protocol is physician-directed and nurse-managed by the same care team, visit after visit.
Membership & investment
Cost of the gut health program.
Program cost depends on the diagnostics your evaluation calls for and the scope of your restoration protocol. Pricing is reviewed transparently at consultation.
Ageless Solutions is structured for continuity, with membership options that keep monitoring and refinement continuous rather than episodic. HSA and FSA funds are accepted.
Questions, answered.
The questions most prospective patients ask before booking a consultation.
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Standard care often focuses on managing digestive symptoms directly. A functional approach evaluates nutrition, stress, sleep, antibiotic exposure, hormonal balance, inflammation, and food sensitivities to identify why symptoms are occurring, then builds a protocol around those root causes.
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The term refers to increased intestinal permeability — a state in which the intestinal lining no longer functions as an effective barrier. When that barrier is compromised, unwanted substances may pass into the bloodstream and trigger inflammation and immune activation.
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Yes. Because nearly 70% of the immune system resides within the gut, microbiome imbalance is associated with chronic inflammation, skin conditions, fatigue, brain fog, autoimmune activity, weight difficulty, and hormone imbalance.
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Timelines vary by individual. Some patients notice improvements in digestion and energy within the first several weeks, while microbiome and immune changes typically develop gradually over several months. Your protocol is monitored and adjusted based on your response.
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Yes. The Franklin office at 1200 Old Hillsboro Road serves patients throughout Williamson County, Brentwood, and the greater Nashville area.
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Begin your journey
Begin physician-led gut health care in Franklin, TN.
Schedule a consultation at the Franklin office to discover how a personalized Gut Health & Immune Restoration Program can help improve digestion, strengthen immunity, reduce inflammation, and support healthy longevity.
1200 Old Hillsboro Road, B2 · Franklin, Tennessee
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