Meet Dr. Maria and Dr. Carol
The story behind Functional Blueprint™ — and why we built it.
Eight years ago Dr. Carol Chaney walked up to a complete stranger at a medical conference and said something most people would never have the courage to say:
“Hello — my name is Carol Chaney. I think you are exceptionally intelligent and bright — and I would very much like to get to know you and become your friend.”
That stranger was Dr. Maria Keller.
There was no agenda. No ask. No networking strategy. Just one woman recognizing something exceptional in another — and having the rare courage to say so out loud.
A genuine friendship grew from that moment — built over time on shared values, mutual respect, and a common passion for finding real answers for the patients that conventional medicine kept failing.
And then — after the friendship was firmly established — came the question that would change both of their careers:
“By the way — would you consider precepting me?”
Dr. Maria almost said no. She always says no.
Something made her say yes.
Eight years later — that yes has become Functional Blueprint™.
What started as admiration became friendship. What became friendship became partnership. And what became partnership became a mission — to build something that finally delivered the answers their patients had been searching for.
That is what you are holding in your hands right now.
What Happens When an MD and a Doctoral Level NP Build Something Together Style:
Dr. Maria brings the precision of medical training, the authority of board certification, and the deep clinical expertise of a hormone specialist who has spent a decade at the forefront of integrative medicine.
Dr. Carol brings 30 years of private practice wisdom, a PhD in nutrition, the gold standard in functional medicine certification, and the lived experience of navigating chronic illness for 40 years.
Together they bring something that is genuinely rare — complementary expertise, genuine mutual respect, and a shared refusal to accept that their patients should keep suffering without real answers.
They are both cash-pay practitioners. They are both peptide therapy certified. They have both attended A4M for nearly a decade. They have both watched brilliant, persistent patients be dismissed by a system that was not built to find what they were looking for.
Functional Blueprint™ was built to change that.
Dr. Maria Keller,
MD, FACOG
- Doctor of Medicine
- Board Certified OB/GYN — FACOG
- Hormone Specialization
Testosterone and Pellet Therapy Expert - Peptide Therapy Certified
A4M Member — Nearly a Decade - Cash-Pay Private Practice
Dr. Carol Chaney,
FNP-C, IFMCP, PhD
- PhD in Nutrition
- Family Nurse Practitioner: FNP-C
- Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner — IFMCP
- Board Certified Advanced Holistic Nurse Practitioner
- Peptide Therapy Certified
- A4M Member — Nearly a Decade
- 30 Years Private Practice
Cash-Pay Practice
Serving patients in all 50 states through Functional Blueprint™
Why We Built Functional Blueprint™
Both of us have sat across from patients who were exhausted — not just physically, but emotionally. Exhausted from being dismissed. Exhausted from being handed another prescription that treated a symptom but never answered a question. Exhausted from being told they were fine when they clearly were not.
We built Functional Blueprint™ for those patients.
The ones who are still searching. The ones who know something is wrong even when every lab says otherwise. The ones who are tired of guessing and ready for real answers.