Naturopath Serving North Melbourne
Serving North Melbourne patients in-clinic at Kealba and via telehealth Australia-wide. Functional medicine testing to find what standard pathology misses.
Book Your Free 20-Minute Call →Why Patients From North Melbourne Choose Vital Health
Most patients who make the trip from North Melbourne to Vital Health have already seen their GP. Blood tests came back normal. They've been told to reduce stress, eat better, or manage their symptoms with medication. They still feel terrible.
Domenic Pisanelli takes a different approach. Using functional pathology — including GI microbiome mapping, salivary hormone testing, and organic acids panels — he investigates what standard medicine typically doesn't assess. The answers are almost always in the data.
The Difference
A standard GP appointment is 15 minutes and a referral. A consultation at Vital Health is 60 to 90 minutes — a full clinical investigation covering your complete health history, previous results, lifestyle factors, and targeted functional testing.
Every treatment plan is built from your results. Clinical nutrition, herbal medicine, targeted supplementation, and lifestyle modifications structured into a clear program with measurable checkpoints.
See How a Consultation Works →What We Treat
Chronic, unresolved health conditions that haven't responded to standard care. Functional testing identifies the driver — not just the label.
IBS, SIBO, leaky gut, bloating, microbiome dysfunction, and food intolerances that expand over time.
PCOS, perimenopause, thyroid disorders, endometriosis — salivary hormone testing captures what serum panels miss.
Post-viral fatigue, adrenal burnout, and persistent low energy investigated at the mitochondrial and adrenal level.
Hashimoto's, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, Crohn's disease — naturopathic support alongside medical management.
Insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and unexplained weight gain — functional testing identifies drivers beyond caloric intake.
Gut-brain connection, adrenal health, and the biochemical drivers behind anxiety — addressed at the physiological root.
Our Clinical Framework
Four structured stages developed over 25 years of clinical practice. Every patient moves through the same rigorous process — regardless of how complex their case.
Complete review of your symptom timeline, previous results, medications, and every treatment tried and its outcome.
Not a blanket screen. Testing selected specifically for your clinical presentation — the right tests for the right reasons.
Results interpreted in full clinical context, not just against a lab reference range. Normal doesn't always mean optimal.
A protocol built directly from your findings — clinical nutrition, herbal medicine, supplementation, and lifestyle changes with measurable checkpoints.
Why Patients Trust Vital Health
"Domenic managed to solve the issue and change my life. After years of GP appointments going nowhere, one microbiome test revealed everything. Lifechanging."
— Sonya Llewellyn, Crohn's Patient | View All Google Reviews →
Getting Here
Vital Health and Natural Medicine is located in Kealba, approximately 20 minutes from North Melbourne via the Western Ring Road. Free parking directly in front of the clinic. Telehealth consultations are also available for patients who prefer to consult from home.
Our clinic is in Melbourne's northwest — easy to reach from North Melbourne and surrounding suburbs.
Can't make it in? All consultations are available via telehealth. Functional testing kits are delivered directly to your door — no need to visit a collection centre.
The Practitioner
Domenic Pisanelli is the founder and sole practitioner at Vital Health and Natural Medicine. He holds a Bachelor of Health Science in Naturopathy and is registered with the Australian Traditional-Medicine Society (ATMS).
With over 25 years of clinical practice, he has built this clinic specifically around complex, chronic cases that haven't responded to conventional approaches. Most patients who come to Domenic have already spent years being told their results are normal.
His clinical approach is grounded in functional pathology, root-cause investigation, and the ROOT Method™ — a framework developed from decades of working with patients whose standard results came back normal, but who were anything but well.
Existing Patients
If you're an existing patient and ready to book your next initial or follow-up consultation, you can do that directly below. Appointments are available in-clinic at Kealba or via telehealth anywhere in Australia.
New patient? Book a free 20-minute discovery call first →
The free 20-minute discovery call is where it starts. No referral needed. No commitment. Domenic will tell you honestly whether functional testing is likely to give you the answers you've been missing.
Book Your Free 20-Minute Call →