Digestive & Immune Conditions in Greenville, SC
The gut is the body's epicenter of immune function — housing approximately 70% of the immune system and serving as the primary interface between the environment and the body's internal terrain. Digestive and immune health are so deeply intertwined that virtually every immune condition has a gut component, and every gut condition has immune implications. At Integrative Health Partners, Dr. Hendry's functional medicine approach to digestive and immune health uses the most advanced testing available — gut microbiome analysis, intestinal permeability assessment, SIBO breath testing, food sensitivity panels, and comprehensive autoimmune markers — to build a complete picture of gut and immune function that standard gastroenterology or immunology testing misses. Whether you're dealing with IBS, Hashimoto's, chronic fatigue, food sensitivities, or a complex autoimmune condition, Dr. Hendry's systematic root-cause approach — combined with acupuncture's remarkable gut-regulating and immunomodulatory effects — provides a genuinely comprehensive path to healing.
Digestive & Immune Conditions We Treat (10)
Dr. Hendry's Approach to Digestive & Immune Conditions
Digestive and immune health are intimately connected — the gut houses approximately 70% of the immune system, and disruption to gut barrier integrity, microbiome composition, or digestive function creates cascading immune dysregulation throughout the body. Dr. Hendry approaches digestive and immune conditions with the most advanced functional medicine testing available: gut microbiome analysis, intestinal permeability assessment, SIBO breath testing, comprehensive food sensitivity panels, and autoimmune marker panels that go far beyond what standard gastroenterology or immunology testing captures.
Acupuncture has well-documented effects on gastrointestinal function — regulating motility, reducing visceral hypersensitivity, calming IBS symptoms, and modulating the enteric nervous system (the "second brain"). Combined with herbal medicine's long tradition in digestive health and the targeted repair protocols of functional medicine (addressing leaky gut, microbiome rebalancing, and inflammatory triggers), this integrative approach provides comprehensive digestive healing that isolated conventional treatments cannot match.
For autoimmune conditions — including Hashimoto's thyroiditis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and inflammatory bowel disease — Dr. Hendry uses a root-cause framework that identifies and addresses the environmental triggers and gut-immune dysfunction at the foundation of immune dysregulation. While not a cure for autoimmune disease, this approach can meaningfully reduce symptom burden, lower inflammatory markers, and reduce the immune system's activation against self-tissue.
Why Patients Choose Integrative Health Partners
Many of our digestive and immune patients have been told their labs are "normal" despite ongoing symptoms, or have received diagnoses like IBS without investigation into the underlying causes. Dr. Hendry's functional medicine approach is specifically designed to find what standard testing misses — and to create targeted protocols based on what he finds, not a generic elimination diet or probiotic recommendation.
Integrative Health Partners is one of the few practices in Upstate South Carolina offering this depth of functional digestive and immune evaluation. Our in-house herbal pharmacy allows same-day dispensing of customized formulations for gut healing protocols. New patients are welcome — call (864) 365-6156 to schedule.
Ready to address the root cause?
Dr. Hendry is accepting new patients. Schedule a consultation to find out how integrative medicine can help your specific condition.
Call (864) 365-6156