Keri Francl, ND
Dr. Keri is a Board Certified Naturopath and founder of Alternative Answers
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Board Certified Naturopathic Doctor
Profession: Doctor of Natural Medicine
Specialties: Chronic Lyme Disease, Chronic pain management, Homeopathy, Hormone Balance, Menopause, Muscle testing, Quantum Muscle Testing
Dr. Keri Francl has spent her career doing what conventional medicine too often fails to do: listening.
As a Board-Certified Naturopathic Doctor and Doctor of Natural Medicine with 11 years in practice, Dr. Keri built her practice on the conviction that every patient deserves real answers, not just managed symptoms.
Under Dr. Keri’s leadership, Alternative Answers has grown from a single-practitioner office into a thriving wellness community. It offers structured, multi-month healing programs built around advanced diagnostics, nutritional response testing, biofeedback scanning, and whole-body analysis.
Her approach centers on identifying root causes — the kind of underlying dysfunction that often goes undetected in a standard appointment — and addressing them with personalized, natural protocols. Her clinical methodology earned her a feature in TopDoc Magazine, which recognized her root-cause approach as a model for the future of patient-centered care.
Patients come to Dr. Keri after years of being told their labs are “normal” while they continue to suffer. They leave with clarity, a plan, and measurable results. Reviews consistently speak of transformation: thyroid conditions resolved, autoimmune symptoms quieted, energy restored, and hope renewed. Her philosophy is grounded in the timeless principle of Vis Medicatrix Naturae — the healing power of nature — and the belief that true healing is the result of the body’s own innate ability to restore itself when given the right support.
With over a decade of clinical experience, Dr. Keri operates with a quiet, determined tenacity — navigating a state that does not yet license naturopathic physicians, continuing to serve patients, and continuing to advocate for a more complete and compassionate model of care. She doesn’t wait for the landscape to change. She leads.
Ideas for podcast episodes :
- Why root-cause medicine works when conventional care doesn't
- What naturopathic medicine actually is — and what it isn't
- 40 years of Alternative Answers: what's changed, what hasn't, and what we keep getting wrong as a society
- Why your labs can be "normal" and you still feel terrible
- The difference between managing symptoms and actually healing
- Perimenopause vs. menopause — what no one tells you before it hits
- Why women's hormone symptoms get dismissed and what to do about it
- Thyroid, adrenals, and sex hormones: why you can't fix one without addressing all three
- Reading your cycle as a health report card
- GLP-1 medications — what functional medicine thinks about the weight loss drug wave
Questions I'm always ready to answer :
- How did you end up in naturopathic medicine — what's your personal story?
- Where do you draw the line between natural and conventional medicine — when do you refer out?
- What's the first thing you look at when a new patient walks in?
- How do you handle patients who've tried everything and are skeptical?
- What's the most common mistake people make when trying to improve their health on their own?
- What does hormonal balance actually look like, and how do you test for it?
- How do you approach patients who are on multiple medications and want to go natural?
- What's the one lab marker or health metric you think everyone should know?
- What's the biggest shift you've seen in patient health concerns over the last decade?