Practitioners
Origin Health Lab is led by IFM-certified functional medicine practitioners with a combined three decades of clinical experience.
Story
Dr. Mara Okafor founded Origin Health Lab in 2022, after a decade of seeing the same problem in conventional primary care: patients with real symptoms, normal labs, and no time set aside to actually figure out what was going on.
The clinic is built around a different premise. Every new member receives a 90-minute first visit, a comprehensive workup, and a written diagnostic plan within two weeks.
We have stayed deliberately small — three practitioners, no more than 220 active members at any time — so we can keep doing the work properly.
The Team
Dr. Mara Okafor, MD
Medical Director
Board-certified internist and IFM Certified Practitioner. Trained at Baylor College of Medicine; previously seven years as primary care physician at a concierge practice in Austin before founding Origin.
Sasha Reyes, NP
Lead Nurse Practitioner
A specialist in hormone optimization and gut-microbiome restoration. Twelve years in functional practice; lead clinician on our hormone-optimization program.
Dr. Linh Bauer, ND
Naturopathic Consultant
Naturopathic doctor specializing in microbiome restoration and methylation. Joins members on a consultative basis for complex gut and methylation cases.
Philosophy
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The first visit is 90 minutes. Every subsequent visit is at least 45. We do not run on a 12-minute primary-care schedule.
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We rely on data — comprehensive labs, validated questionnaires, and real-world biomarkers — before we recommend a single supplement.
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Symptoms are signals. We treat the signal only after we have understood the source.