Clarity Changes Everything.
Wellness By Design, MD is a physician-led metabolic and functional medicine practice in Lincoln Park, Chicago, for adults. We measure what's changing, explain what it means, and build your care around your own results.
Not sure where to begin? The $99 Clarity Consult is a 30-minute conversation to find out.
Your Reset Season™
Time is changing the rules. Your playbook deserves a second look.
You're doing what used to work. It isn't working anymore.
Your weight, energy, strength, or recovery is responding differently, even though your habits haven't changed much.
Your labs look normal. You don't feel like yourself.
You have questions that routine visits haven't fully answered.
You've tried more things. You don't have more clarity.
Supplements, diets, fitness trends. Plenty of effort, and no way to know which changes actually matter for you.
The space between healthy and disease is what I call The Gap. Early changes there deserve attention before they become bigger problems.
How care works
Measure first. Then build care around what we find.
We don't guess. We measure. Every patient starts with the same clear first step, and everything after it is designed around your results.
- First · Start with clarity
The Metabolic Snapshot™
Four measurements, my interpretation, and a written Personal Metabolic Blueprint with your three priorities.
See the Snapshot → - Then · Care designed around you
A program built from your Blueprint
When structured care will help, we sequence the right tools in the right order, with regular physician visits and re-measurement to prove what's working.
- After · Keep what you've built
Ongoing care
Continued support so your results last, adjusted as your body responds.
Our approach
Designed Outcomes, Thoughtfully Sequenced.
Most people in their Reset Season™ aren't short on options. They're short on a plan. So your care starts with the change you want to see. Your Blueprint picks the one that matters most right now, adds up to two that support it, and puts them in an order that makes sense for your body.
Weight and metabolism
From losing weight to keeping the body you want.
Lose fat while protecting muscle, with a plan for what happens when medication or routines change.
Hormones
From feeling unfamiliar to feeling like yourself again.
Hormone changes in women and men, evaluated carefully and treated when appropriate.
Energy and recovery
From running on empty to bouncing back again.
Rebuild the support your body needs to recover well, restore depleted reserves, and feel more like yourself.
Strength and function
From slowly getting weaker to getting stronger.
Build the strength, stamina, mobility and physical function to do what matters now and stay independent over time.
Skin and confidence
From noticing changes in the mirror to feeling at home in your skin.
Support visible vitality, skin and hair health, and confidence, always paired with a lead focus.
Five focus areas. Your Blueprint chooses one to lead, up to two to support it, and the order that makes sense for your body.
Illustrative examples only. Your Blueprint sets your actual order.
Every dot connected. Every plan, By Design.
Working with your doctors
Your doctors stay your doctors.
I work alongside your primary care physician and any specialists you already see. My role is to add a measured, connected view of what's happening in your body. With your permission, I share your Blueprint so everyone caring for you is working from the same picture, and you stop being the messenger between offices.
The cost of guessing
Another month. Another supplement. Another guess.
You've put in the effort: a new eating plan, new workouts, and advice that worked beautifully for your sister-in-law. The open question is how much of it was built on information about your body.
Before you invest in another solution, invest in understanding the problem.
You know your weight. Do you know how much of it is muscle? You follow a calorie target. Has anyone measured your resting calorie burn?
Where everyone starts
The Metabolic Snapshot™: Pause. Decode. Design.
Pause
Measure where you are.
Muscle Scan, Resting Calorie Burn Test, Strength & Longevity Check and Metabolic Risk Profile.
Decode
Understand what it means.
Your results in the context of your history, symptoms, medications and goals.
Design
Create your Blueprint.
A written plan with three priorities, reviewed with me in a 60-minute Results Visit.
Your physician
Dr. Tanesha Handy Lloyd, MD, MBA
I'm a board-certified internist with training in functional medicine and hormone therapy. I founded Wellness By Design, MD for adults who feel their bodies changing and want real answers, not another round of trial and error.
Every Snapshot and every plan is interpreted and written by me. You get real time with a board-certified internist, not a form and a brief check-in.
Questions
Good to know
What does a metabolic and functional medicine physician do?
I look at how your body is actually working, including muscle, metabolism, strength, hormones and blood markers, and connect those findings into one plan. I'm a board-certified internist with functional medicine training, so you get a physician's judgment and a measured, whole-picture approach in the same visit.
Where is Wellness By Design, MD?
2551 N. Clark Street, Suite 303, in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Measurements happen in the office. Results Visits and Clarity Consults are by secure video.
Do you take insurance?
Wellness By Design, MD is a cash-pay practice. We provide an itemized receipt on request, which you can submit to your HSA, FSA or insurer. Check eligibility with your plan.
Do you replace my primary care doctor?
No. I work alongside your primary care physician and specialists and, with your permission, share your Blueprint so everyone is working from the same picture.
Who do you see?
Adults, women and men, who feel their body changing: weight that responds differently, a GLP-1 medication they want to use well, hormone changes, lower energy, less strength, or labs that look normal when they don't feel normal.
How do I get started?
Book the Metabolic Snapshot™ ($497) to start with measurements and a written Blueprint, or book a $99 Clarity Consult if you'd like to talk first.
The monthly newsletter
One email a month. Every dot connected.
Something surprising I'm seeing in practice, why it matters, how you'd measure it, and what you can do with it.
- Plain language, sourced, no hype
- Muscle, metabolism, hormones, sleep and energy
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Your next step
You don't have to keep guessing.
Start with clarity, and let your results shape everything that follows.