About Fernando Porras
Physician
Functional medicine has allowed me to serve my patients ethically, with the best scientific standards and to get to know the person I am treating. I am able to provide a more personalized and individualized approach, and patients are also able to actively participate in their treatment, asking questions, changing their habits and lifestyles. It opens the possibility for them to get to know their body in a way that they can determine when something is not right and can correct it themselves.
I completed my medical studies in Costa Rica, at the Universidad de Ciencias Medicas (UCIMED), where I graduated in Medicine and Surgery, in 2011. The first few years, I worked in primary care and preventive medicine, treating patients of all ages in an acute and chronic setting. While I greatly enjoyed working with patients, I was not fully satisfied, and my concern arises to provide other types of care and treatment to the people that required it.
I enrolled in the Kresser institute Practitioner ADAPT level 1 program which allowed me to learn more about different ways of approaching a patient and practicing medicine in a more comprehensive and integrative model. I have also had influence from other physicians in the Functional Medicine field, in which I have received continued education for many years. I am truly blessed to be able to work with patients and together, find the best way for them to achieve optimal health.
About Guiselle Solís
Office Manager
I’m a proud mother of a child, Physical Therapist specialist on pelvic floor by profession and the office manager for PorrasMD.
18 years ago, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, two years later with an unspecified atopic dermatitis (a strange case because it normally appears in childhood), depression, fatigue, gut problems and dozens of other symptoms.
As a health professional it was very complicated and even embarrassing not to be able to solve my own problems. How was I going to be able to help others?
I suffered for a long time from the side effects of treatments that were not fully working and for some time, I even had pity on myself. Many doctors and known people used to say that at the end of the day, it was one less day to suffer.
Functional medicine came to me at the least expected moment, with the solution to my ailments in the most economical way, even without expecting it.
Today I know that it is just not one less day, it is one more day to feel good, to regain my health. That I have to take care of certain things that my body still resents.
Behind this page you will find me working to bring the best care and be able to bring a ray of light to whoever requires it, I will help guide your health so that, like me, you can take charge of your own health.
Our objective
Help all people, anywhere in the world to improve or maintain their health through Functional Medicine.Provide online care in a safe, accessible, individualized and personalized way.