You are not imagining this.
You have been tired for years. Your joints ache. You lose words mid-sentence. You react to foods you used to eat without thinking. You get every cold that goes around and hold onto it for a month.
And every workup comes back normal.
Somewhere along the way, someone suggested it might be stress, or anxiety, or that you should try getting more sleep. You have tried getting more sleep.
We start from a different assumption: your symptoms are real, and something is causing them.
Who We See
Verve Holistic Health works with people navigating complex, persistent illness — often after years of appointments that did not lead anywhere.
Chronic and post-infectious illness
- Autoimmune conditions and unexplained autoimmunity
- Long COVID and post-viral syndromes
- Chronic and reactivated Epstein-Barr virus
- Lyme disease and tick-borne co-infections
- Recurrent or lingering infections that never fully clear
Environmental exposure and toxic burden
- Mold and mycotoxin exposure, including water-damaged buildings
- Toxic metals — lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, palladium, and others
- Chemical burden — glyphosate, phthalates, bisphenols, VOCs, solvents including bromopropanes, flame retardants, and pesticide residues
- Microplastics exposure
- Symptoms patients associate with electromagnetic field exposure
If you are among the people who feel worse around wireless devices or electrical equipment: we take that history seriously and record it, and we will look thoroughly for other drivers of your symptoms at the same time. What we will not do is dismiss what you are experiencing.
When Your Symptoms Don’t Fit a Box
Complex illness rarely shows up as one clean problem. It shows up as eight things at once, in different body systems, that no single specialist quite owns.
Energy and sleep
Chronic fatigue that rest does not fix · Sleep that never feels restorative · Waking unrefreshed · Crashing after exertion
Brain and nervous system
Brain fog · Memory lapses and word-finding trouble · Confusion or disorientation · Migraines and headaches · Dizziness · Tremors or shakiness · Difficulty with speech or coordination · Anxiety or low mood that feels physiological rather than situational
Pain and inflammation
Joint pain · Muscle pain · Widespread inflammation without a clear source
Digestive
Bloating, irregularity, and other GI disruption · Gut dysbiosis · New or expanding food sensitivities
Hormonal and endocrine
Hormone imbalance · Thyroid dysfunction · Menstrual and reproductive changes · Fertility difficulty · Shifts in body composition that do not match your habits
Immune
Frequent colds and flus · Illnesses that linger far longer than they should · Infections that keep coming back
Skin, hair, and cardiometabolic
Rashes and changes in skin · Thinning hair · Blood pressure changes · Blood sugar moving toward pre-diabetes
An honest word: every symptom above can have several possible explanations, and some of them are conditions that need conventional diagnosis and treatment. Part of our job is helping you sort out which is which — not assuming everything traces to one cause.
What May Be Driving It
Chronic illness often has more than one driver, layered over years. Four patterns come up repeatedly:
Persistent infection. Some infections do not fully resolve. Others reactivate when the immune system is stressed. Epstein-Barr, tick-borne infections, and post-viral syndromes including long COVID can leave people symptomatic long after the acute illness has passed.
Environmental exposure. Mold in a water-damaged home or workplace, metals from dental work or occupational exposure, and chemicals from food, packaging, furnishings, and personal care products accumulate over time — often without any single dramatic exposure event.
Mitochondrial strain. Mitochondria produce your cellular energy, and they are sensitive to both infection and chemical exposure. When they underperform, the tissues that need the most energy — brain, muscle, heart, gut — tend to complain first. That is one reason fatigue and brain fog travel together so often.
Endocrine disruption. A number of common environmental chemicals — including certain phthalates, bisphenols, and flame retardants — are studied for their capacity to interfere with hormone signaling. Because hormones regulate energy, mood, metabolism, reproduction, and sleep, disruption here can look like almost anything.
Specialty Testing You Will Not Find in a Standard Workup
This is where our approach differs most from a conventional evaluation. A standard panel is not designed to look for environmental exposure, and it will not find what it is not looking for.
Dr. Mehta orders from a deep menu of specialty laboratory testing, selected individually based on your history, exposures, and symptom pattern.
Mold and mycotoxin testing
Urinary mycotoxin panels screen for markers of exposure to mold species associated with water-damaged buildings — including ochratoxin, trichothecenes, aflatoxins, gliotoxin, and zearalenone.
Toxic metals testing
Urine, blood, and provoked testing for lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, aluminum, palladium, nickel, and other metals — with attention to occupational, dental, and dietary sources.
Chemical and environmental exposure profiling
Advanced urinary metabolite panels using mass spectrometry, screening for well over a hundred environmental pollutants from a single sample:
| Exposure category | Common sources |
|---|---|
| Organophosphate pesticides | Conventional produce, home and garden pesticides, lice shampoos, flea treatments, proximity to agriculture or golf courses |
| Glyphosate | The most widely used herbicide worldwide; food residues, lawn and agricultural use |
| Phthalates | Plastics, food packaging, fragrance, personal care products, vinyl flooring |
| Bisphenols (BPA and relatives) | Can linings, receipts, hard plastics |
| Organophosphate flame retardants | Furniture, electronics, plastics, nail polish |
| Solvents and VOCs | Benzene, xylene, styrene, vinyl chloride — paints, adhesives, fuels, off-gassing materials |
| Bromopropanes (1-BP) | Dry cleaning, metal degreasing, foam gluing, adhesives |
| Acrylamide | High-temperature cooked foods, cigarette smoke, industrial processes |
| Pyrethroid insecticides | Household insect sprays, agricultural use |
| Ethylene oxide, acrylonitrile, perchlorate | Industrial and manufacturing exposure, sterilization, contaminated water |
These panels also include markers relevant to mitochondrial function, which helps connect an exposure picture to the fatigue and cognitive symptoms that often accompany it.
Extensive endocrine and metabolite testing
Comprehensive hormone assessment that goes well past a basic thyroid or estrogen panel — mapping sex hormones, adrenal output, thyroid function, and, critically, the downstream metabolites that show how your body is actually processing those hormones. Two people with identical hormone levels can be metabolizing them in very different directions, and that difference matters clinically.
Infection and immune testing
Advanced serology and immune profiling for Epstein-Barr and other persistent viruses, tick-borne infections, and markers of immune activation and systemic inflammation.
Gut and microbiome analysis
Comprehensive stool testing for dysbiosis, pathogens, digestive function, intestinal permeability, and inflammatory markers.
How we read results. Specialty testing tells us about exposure and function — it does not hand over a diagnosis on its own. Dr. Mehta interprets every result alongside your history, your environment, your timeline, and your conventional workup. A number without that context creates anxiety rather than answers, which is why we do not sell testing without interpretation.
What Working With Us Looks Like
A first visit with real time in it. Complex histories cannot be taken in twelve minutes. Your intake covers your full timeline — when you were last well, what changed, where you have lived and worked, what exposures you have had, and everything that has already been tried.
Testing chosen for you. Not a fixed panel sold to everyone. Dr. Mehta selects testing based on what your history actually suggests, and explains what each test can and cannot tell us before it is ordered.
A plan built around your results. Our protocols are tailored to each patient’s individual results. Two people with the same diagnosis often leave with very different plans, because their testing points different directions. Plans typically address exposure reduction first, then drainage and elimination pathways, targeted nutritional and botanical support, immune and mitochondrial support, and gut repair — sequenced deliberately, because moving too fast in complex illness tends to backfire.
Therapies matched to the picture. Where clinically appropriate, Dr. Mehta may incorporate Ozone Therapy, RHP / EBOO, IV Nutrient Infusions, Vitamin Injections, Peptide Therapies, or Advanced Pain Therapies.
Retesting and adjustment. We measure again, review what moved, and adapt. Recovery from complex chronic illness is rarely linear, and the plan should respond to what your body is actually doing.
Why Patients Choose Verve for Complex Cases
Environmental medicine is a focus here, not a sideline. Dr. Mehta’s clinical work centers on the intersection of environmental exposure, chronic infection, and immune dysfunction — the exact territory most patients with these presentations have been bounced around without answers.
Fellowship-level ozone training. Dr. Mehta is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ozonotherapy, the professional body setting training and practice standards for ozone therapy in the United States. Ozone and related oxidative therapies are a meaningful part of how complex cases are supported here, and that training is not common in Orange County.
Answers without the usual wait. Specialty testing is ordered at your first visit rather than after months of gatekeeping, and results are reviewed with you as soon as they arrive. For patients who have spent years being referred from one office to the next, having a working picture within weeks rather than years is often the biggest single change.
Everything under one roof. Testing, IV and ozone therapies, hormone support, and ongoing follow-up all happen in one Tustin office with a team that knows your case.
We work with your other physicians. Complex illness often needs more than one set of hands. We coordinate readily with your primary care physician, rheumatologist, infectious disease specialist, or anyone else on your team.
Frequently Asked Questions
My labs are all normal. Does that mean nothing is wrong?
No. Standard panels are designed to catch a specific set of conditions, and they do that well. They are not designed to assess environmental exposure, mitochondrial function, hormone metabolism, or persistent low-grade infection. Normal results rule certain things out. They do not rule out everything.
Can testing prove that mold is making me sick?
Not on its own, and we want to be straightforward about that. Urinary mycotoxin testing measures markers of exposure. It cannot, by itself, establish that mold is the cause of your illness or identify where the exposure came from — mycotoxins also enter the body through food. What it can do is add a meaningful piece to a picture that includes your symptom timeline, your building history, and your other results. Anyone who tells you a single urine test proves mold illness is overselling it.
Do you treat Lyme disease?
We work with patients who have Lyme disease and tick-borne co-infections, focusing on immune function, inflammation, and the environmental and mitochondrial factors that often complicate recovery. We coordinate with infectious disease specialists where antibiotic management is part of your care.
Is long COVID something you can help with?
Yes. Post-viral illness is a significant part of our practice. The approach looks at immune activation, mitochondrial function, gut integrity, and any exposures or infections that may have been present before the acute illness.
Does insurance cover specialty testing?
Most specialty environmental and functional panels are not covered by insurance. Some conventional testing may be billable. We tell you what each test costs before it is ordered and help you prioritize when budget is a factor.
How long does recovery take?
It depends on how long you have been unwell, what is driving it, and how much exposure remains in your environment. Some patients notice meaningful change within weeks. Complex, long-standing cases more often measure progress across months. We would rather set an honest expectation than a flattering one.
Do I have to stop seeing my other doctors?
Not at all. Naturopathic doctors are trained and licensed in California as general practitioners, so some patients do consolidate more of their care here over time. Many others keep their existing physicians and add this work alongside. Either is fine, and we coordinate willingly.
I have been dismissed a lot. Will this be different?
That is the most common thing we hear, and it is the reason the first visit is built the way it is. You will be listened to at length, and your history will be taken as data rather than as a complaint.
Start With a Conversation
If you have been unwell for a long time without answers, a short call is a low-risk way to find out whether this approach fits your situation. Request a free 10-minute discovery consultation with Dr. Mehta.
13225 Jamboree Rd, Tustin, CA 92782 · (714) 832-8226
Book OnlineThe information on this page is for general educational purposes and is not medical advice, a diagnosis, or a treatment recommendation. Individual results vary, and no outcome is guaranteed. Many specialty laboratory tests referenced here are laboratory-developed tests that have not been cleared or approved by the FDA, and results must be interpreted in clinical context by a qualified practitioner. Symptoms described on this page are non-specific and may result from many causes, including conditions requiring conventional medical diagnosis and treatment — please do not delay evaluation for new, severe, or worsening symptoms. Dr. Mehta is licensed to practice naturopathic medicine in California and practices within the scope defined by the California Naturopathic Doctors Act. Statements on this page have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Please consult Dr. Mehta regarding your specific situation.