A 4-month functional health program for children + teens
Uncover the best version of your child
Investigating the Root is a 4-month 1:1 partnership with parents, designed to uncover the best and healthiest version of your child. Together we address the root of your child’s symptoms to restore balance and support lifelong health, happiness, and vitality.
an in-depth and tailored approach
We connect the full picture of whats going on when no one else has.
Kids have big stuff going on under the surface too - and most of the time, nobody's connecting the dots. Investigating the Root for Kids is how we change that. This isn't a one-size-fits-all protocol or a band-aid solution. It's a tailored deep dive into your child's unique physiology so we can figure out what their body actually needs to thrive.
Investigating the root is an in-depth, 4 month program designed for babies to the teenage years
We're who you come to when nothing adds up - and you're done guessing.
You've noticed it.
The eczema that keeps coming back.
The constipation you keep having to manage with supplements.
The constant colds.
The picky eating.
The meltdowns that feel bigger than they should.
Your daughter's painful periods and increasing anxiety.
And you've been told:
"It's normal."
"She'll grow out of it."
"Let's try another supplement."
"It’s just puberty."
But you know your child. And you know something isn't adding up.
You know they aren’t thriving but you don’t know how to help them.
You may have already seen the pediatrician, the dermatologist, the allergist, and tried the elimination diets and supplements. Or you may just be starting to ask questions.
Most care looks at managing symptoms.
I look at what's driving the symptoms.
When you investigate the root behind your child’s symptoms, that’s when everything changes. Imagine……
The relief of finally having answers
Knowing exactly what is driving your child’s symptoms, instead of guessing
No longer having to manage symptoms that keep coming back
Having a clear plan, in order, so you always know what to do next and why
Understanding your child’s labs and how everything connects
Making decisions about your child’s health with confidence, without second-guessing
Not lying awake researching and wondering what you missed
No longer feeling like you have to figure this out on your own
Having one practitioner who sees the full picture, so you stop retelling your child’s history to provider after provider
The reason what you’ve tried hasn’t worked is because ONE question hasn’t been asked:
“Why?”
Children's symptoms are usually managed one at a time. A cream for the skin. Magnesium or a random probiotic for the constipation. Some omega 3’s for behavioral issues. An iron supplement for the “low ferritin”.
Meanwhile, no one asks WHY. Why does my child have low iron? Why does she have constipation in the first place? Why does the eczema keep coming back?
When the behind the symptoms isn’t addressed, symptoms get quieted instead of resolved, and they often reappear in a different form as a child grows.
This is the best time to address it.
Children's bodies respond quickly. Patterns that are identified early are simpler to support than patterns that have been building for decades. The eczema, constipation, or frequent illness you see now can shape gut health, hormones, and immunity in the teen and adult years.
You don't need to wait until you've tried everything. You don't need a diagnosis to know something's off.
You need someone who will look at the whole picture, explain it to you clearly, and give you a plan you can follow as a busy parent.
We offer root-cause clarity for children, so symptoms are understood, not just managed.
Not another cream. Not another guess.
A clear answer, and a plan built for your child.
sustainable wellness = happy kids
Investigating The Root for Kids is designed to restore balance and ensures lifelong health, happiness and vitality so that kids can get back to being kids.
ask yourself this!
Have you ever felt…
Like you…
Could be doing something more to help your child but you aren’t sure where to start?
Like you…
Are tired of googling, trial-and-error, and DIY and you just want to know exactly what is going on and what your child needs?
Like your…
Child is struggling with a slew of unwanted symptoms and you just want your child to be happy, healthy and thriving?
Like you…
Have worked with several other practitioners and no one has been able to connect the dots, establish your child’s underlying conditions and put a solid plan together and you’ve just tired of wasting time and money?
If you find yourself saying yes, I’m here to help!
Mara’s Methodology
Meet the mind behind the method
I started my practice over 7 years ago and have worked with more than 800 families.
Before that, I was a school psychologist, evaluating children for learning and developmental disabilities in the school system. I quickly saw that many children weren't thriving. They had chronic health conditions, were often on multiple medications, and struggled to regulate their emotions. Anxiety, trouble focusing, and frequent meltdowns were common, and they affected every part of their day.
These children were being evaluated for how they learned and behaved, but no one was asking what was happening in their bodies.
That question is why I do this work. Today, I look at the physiology behind what parents see: the gut, minerals, blood sugar, sleep, and immune patterns that shape how a child feels, focuses, and regulates.
It became my mission to address the WHY. It was then that I completely shifted gears and went to study functional medicine.
After initially practicing under the “functional medicine” or “holistic nutrition” umbrella, I very quickly realized there were many gaps in the way these methodologies were implemented — namely, symptom management (managing symptoms with endless supplements instead of identifying the true underlying drivers to any of the symptoms) and one-size-fits-all protocols that left a lot of people stuck and frustrated.
It became my obsession to break the mold and develop methodologies and solutions that actually work for even the most chronic cases. Because of that, my clients get incredible results.
My goal is a healthier generation of children, raised by mothers who have the energy to enjoy them.
Investigating the Root is an entirely new approach to root cause health.
Investigating the Root
Investigates the why: Digs beneath symptoms to identify underlying dysfunction that’s causing the symptoms.
Targeted, purposeful interventions: Every recommendation has a reason, informed by your child's unique findings and the underlying issues identified.
Connects the dots: Most reviews go result by result and flag what’s out of range, then you receive a supplement to get that marker back in “range”. Here, every finding is read against your child’s history, symptoms, and the rest of their labs, because the pattern across results is what identifies the driver.
A custom plan built around your child: Considers the whole child and the interconnected factors behind their symptoms. We’ve never given the same protocol twice.
Typical functional/holistic approaches
Manages symptoms: Targets what the symptoms look like, without fully uncovering why they're happening.
More supplements, more protocols: Adds interventions without identifying which underlying problems need to be addressed first.
Labs without the full picture: Interprets individual results without fully connecting the findings to one another and your child's symptoms. You may feel like you have a lot of “data” but no one has connected the dots with any of it, you don’t know what any of it means or how this data directly connects to your child’s symptoms/condition.
One-size-fits-all solutions: Relies on familiar protocols and generalized recommendations that may miss what makes your child unique.
How i’ll support your child
Investigating the Root Investment
In 4 months, we will uncover the underlying causes of your child’s symptoms and health ailments, and you will deeply understand the results of their functional labs so that you can make informed decisions on your child’s health and overall wellbeing.
Here’s what’s included
Extensive health history intake & in-depth health analysis: Before we even meet, we start gathering important insights about your child’s health. After enrolling, you’ll complete an in-depth health history intake form, sharing your child’s symptoms, stories, and key health information. From there, we dive into the data—reviewing the intake form, past lab results, and any relevant medical history.
45 minute Initial Deep Dive Consult: Our first video session is where we identify the gaps in your child’s data and collect exactly what is missing.
30 minute Laboratory Review: A couple days prior to this session, I will send you a detailed, recorded laboratory review so you can absorb the findings. During our 30 minute laboratory review session I will be answering any questions you have after you’ve digested all of the information.
Customized protocols: personalized plan built around what’s actually driving your child’s health challenges—not another generic protocol of supplements and surface-level solutions. Every recommendation is strategically selected based on your child’s unique findings, the underlying dysfunction identified, and how the pieces of their health connect.
Follow up session: A 30-minute session to evaluate your child’s response, assess progress, and refine their protocol based on what we’re learning. We will address additional layers that need attention and strategically adjust our approach as your child’s needs evolve.
16 weeks of ongoing support and guidance
16 weeks of message access with your practitioner in between sessions
Access to all labs, data & results plus interpretation videos for you to keep
Here’s How it works
STEP 1: Initial deep dive consult to Identify What’s Actually Driving Your Symptoms
Your First Session: High-Level Clinical Deep Dive
Our first video session is where we identify the gaps in your child’s data and collect exactly what is missing.
We go through your child’s health history, labs, lifestyle patterns, emotional contributors, and symptom language in detail, and connect each piece to the others. We ask the questions other practitioners haven’t asked, and we start gathering the data that answers the “why” behind your child’s symptoms.
You’ve probably already run labs. We don’t start from scratch, and we don’t follow a template. We build on what you’ve already done, and we only add functional testing when it answers a specific question. Sometimes the answer isn’t new testing, but reading the results you already have differently.
This is where root-cause clarity begins, with the right data instead of more data.
Step 2: Laboratory review & first protocol delivery
This is where the data comes together. In this session, we connect everything we’ve gathered into one clear picture of what is driving your child’s symptoms.
Before this session, I spend hours analyzing your child’s labs, intake, and first session to find what is behind their symptoms. Symptoms that seem unrelated often share one cause, and that is what I look for.
I will send you a detailed recorded laboratory review a couple days prior to our session, where I walk you through what each piece of data means, how it connects to your child’s symptoms, and why it matters. You then receive a step-by-step protocol that tells you what to start first and why. It is built for your child and your family’s routine, not a long supplement list or a template. We’ll then utilize your session to answer any questions you have after you’ve digested the information.
You Walk Away with Clarity Over Confusion.
This collaborative process is designed to give you answers that finally make sense and a plan that fits your family’s life.
Step 3: Ongoing guidance with1x follow up session
Once we’ve identified what your child’s body is trying to tell us, we can address the root issues with ongoing guidance every step of the way. We will meet for a follow up session approximately 1 month later to continue addressing additional layers and modify your child’s plan based on how his/her body is responding.
Practitioner Access
Personal attention and guidance: high touch, ongoing access to your practitioner for 16 weeks.
You need ongoing support to make the most progress. We’re here when things shift, so you are never left guessing and you don’t spiral.
Message your practitioner anytime between sessions. Get real-time support when questions, symptoms, or shifts come up.
You’ll have direct access to your practitioner via secure messaging, so you can:
Get clarity on questions as they come up
Share updates and get real-time guidance and feedback
Adjust the plan based on how your child is responding
Feel supported without needing to “wait until your next session”
This is what real partnership in healing looks like.
We walk with you so that you can move forward with clarity and confidence.
$2,500
or 2 payments of $1,300
Family Package
For moms who want their child's health addressed alongside their own. You save $1,500 compared to enrolling separately, and both of you are supported in the same timeline. (family package can be for used for siblings, mom and child, or couples).
$3,500
OR 2 PAYMENTS OF $1,800
investigating the root for kids
This program is built for your child if…
You are tired of jumping from one provider to the next and are ready to finally address your child’s root causes with someone who can think critically and put your child’s puzzle pieces together.
You have acquired A LOT of data, but no one has been able to put it all together and connect the dots.
You are NOT looking for a quick-fix or band-aid solution for your child’s symptoms.
You are ready to work with a practitioner with a deep understanding of root cause healing so you can stop wasting your money on random supplements and surface level solutions for your child.
You want to give your child the best foot forward, but you aren’t sure where to start.
This isn’t another health appointment.
It’s a partnership that finally brings you answers—and relief.
Real transformation requires real support.
Investigating the Root for kids
Frequently Asked Questions
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I know this can be frustrating. Nearly 60% of my clients have worked with other providers so this is a common concern.
What I find in nearly all cases is the approach many providers take are more symptom management without full system integration and likely over-reliance on labs/supplements. This is unfortunately very common with naturopathic providers and many functional medicine providers.
The provider was likely not asking the right questions, not digging deep enough, not running the right labs, not connecting the dots or looking at the right patterns, not knowing what to address first, and not addressing foundations. Something (or many things) were missing in their approach.
Many find that they were always consistently needing new protocols or addressing the same things over and over with no progress or inconsistent progress. What I tend to focus on is understanding why your body keeps needing new interventions, and what’s preventing changes from stabilizing.
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My modality is more clinical investigation. Asking the right questions, running the right labs, connecting the dots and identifying patterns that others miss.
My approach is biochemically individual. Because every person’s landscape is unique, I don't use 'off-the-shelf' modalities like only giving you a bunch of supplements, or only diet changes, or only homeopathy. I use them all! My process starts with an intensive investigative phase where I look at Labs/Symptoms/History.
I spend several hours behind the scenes synthesizing that data before I even touch a protocol. Your plan won’t just be a list of supplements or an extreme, restrictive diet; it’s a comprehensive approach that would include a lot of different modalities depending on your unique situation.
I often find it’s not necessarily the modality that was wrong with the approach your previous provider used. Supplements aren’t inherently a wrong modality…. the issue more often than not is the provider may be using the modality incorrectly - like using supplements to mask or manage symptoms vs using them to addressing the “root cause” so to speak. Recommending 15 supplements for a person (no one ever needs this many supplements). Recommending supplements based on isolated markers. The modality wasn’t wrong, the provider was just using the modality incorrectly.
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I get asked that a lot! The truth is, no, I can't tell you what your protocol might look like on a brief call because I haven't 'met' your child’s biology yet and I don’t know your child’s full story. I treat your child like a unique puzzle, not a diagnosis. It would be a red flag if I could - that would likely be a practitioner that uses one-size-fits-all protocols or templates in their practice and that is not how I practice (for example, you have eczema, so here is my eczema protocol). That approach will never work! There’s as 100 different reasons and layers for eczema, pans/pandas, ADHD, GI symptoms, etc.
My approach is to move beyond just “diet and lifestyle” and look at the underlying triggers. Your protocol is the result of my deep-dive research into your specific case - it's a custom roadmap.
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This is a whole body healing program, so nearly all areas of yours and your child’s health will be explored! This is not a “supplement stack” program where your protocols just consist of a bunch of supplements. We address all facets of your health - including nervous system, movement, and many other areas.
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I work with babies to teens in college!
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After you join the program you will be sent digital paperwork to complete and you will then be able to schedule your initial deep dive consult. During the initial consultation I will give you instructions on completing the labs and all labs will be ordered.
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No! I do not have a cookie cutter set of labs I recommend for every individual I work with so I am very against including labs into package prices - that is essentially forcing you to purchase the labs when you may not even need them. Each person will require different labs & I am not a practitioner that goes overboard with labs. I determine what labs are necessary based on presenting symptoms, what i'm suspecting your root causes/underlying conditions to be, your health goals and your budget.
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Yes everything is run virtually. We meet via video chat (practice better has an embedded zoom). We can also meet via phone if you prefer. If there is anything visual I need to see, I will ask you to take specific photos and upload them to the document center. I used to see clients in-person and have not experienced any sense of diminished care for any clients due to the virtual nature.
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Ones that are very specific to your child! During the initial deep dive consult we’ll determine together which functional labs would be most beneficial to investigate your child’s root causes.
I only run labs that are necessary to uncover root causes/underlying conditions. I do often feel that many "functional" providers run too many unnecessary, costly labs. I run anything from functional bloodwork, to HTMA, to bioresonance/bioenergetic testing, stool and breath tests, Organic Acids Test, mycotoxin urine testing, among many others.
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I certainly do! Fun fact: I almost always work with more than one family member in a household. I LOVE healing whole families! The family plan saves $1,500 total versus purchasing two individual packages.
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I would budget $100-$200 per month for individualized healing tools - supplements, lifestyle tools, etc. I find that by truly addressing root causes. You do not have to worry about your child being on 15 different supplements in this program.
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Yes! Due to high regulation and restrictions in these states, if you live in New York, you will have to complete ALL functional labs and blood work outside of NY. If you live in NJ or RI, you can be mailed the functional labs, but you will need to complete blood work outside of NJ and RI.
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Yes, I work with clients in Canada and the UK. Other clients in other countries on a case-by-case basis. Please reach out: hello@drmarabargeron.com
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As of yet, I haven’t worked with anyone that is consistent and diligently follows each protocol that hasn’t made some progress. Remember that healing is a journey and takes time, consistency, and commitment.
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I do not offer refunds as individual results are dependent on the person, their adherence to protocols, etc.