5,000 years of clinical wisdom, rigorously applied alongside modern functional medicine — going all the way to the root of what's driving disease.
Integrative Medicine
Ayurveda is the world's oldest continuously practiced medical system — a tradition that treats the person as a whole: their constitution, their seasonal rhythms, their relationship with food, their mental patterns, and their structural health. Dr. Starsiak integrates Ayurvedic principles not as an alternative to medicine, but as its oldest form.
He prescribes certified organic Ayurvedic herbs alongside modern medicine when clinically appropriate, educates on seasonal eating, oil pulling, and detoxification, and uses constitutional typing to individualize recommendations that go beyond generic nutritional advice. Functional medicine adds root-cause investigation — exploring gut health, toxin burden, mold toxicity, nutritional deficiencies, and chronic inflammation as drivers of disease that conventional care often misses entirely.
Well supported: The lifestyle core — sleep, movement, diet, and stress physiology — plus individual herbs with real trial evidence behind them; ashwagandha and triphala are among the best studied.
The traditional framework: Dosha-based assessment is a clinical lens refined over millennia — accumulated human experience used here alongside labs and modern diagnosis, never instead of them.
Contested territory: Mold and environmental illness involve real suffering and unsettled science — approached with testing, symptom tracking, and honest uncertainty rather than dogma.
What it doesn't replace: Conventional workup of red-flag symptoms, or medications that are working.
Common Questions
A root-cause investigation into why you don't feel well — nutrition, gut health, mold toxicity, and inflammation — addressed with evidence-based protocols and real, unhurried time with your physician.
Dr. Starsiak prescribes certified organic Ayurvedic herbs, integrated thoughtfully alongside modern medicine — a rare combination in Indianapolis.
No — it works alongside it. Dr. Starsiak chooses the most appropriate tool for each situation, conventional or integrative.