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Empowering Health Through Insight, Innovation, and Integrity

At Optimal DX, we do more than analyze bloodwork—we uncover what’s truly going on beneath the surface. We help practitioners interpret complexity, inspire confidence, and guide their patients toward lasting, meaningful health improvements.
Born from the belief that “normal” isn’t good enough, our mission is to equip healthcare professionals with the tools, insight, and clarity to detect dysfunction before it becomes disease—and help patients experience what optimal health really feels like.

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We Are Translators, Mentors, and Detectives

We translate data into meaning, mentor our users toward mastery, and investigate the root causes of dysfunction—so you can deliver healthcare that’s proactive, precise, and personal.

What Guides Us

These values are the foundation of our platform—and the promise behind every report we generate.

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Creativity & Innovation We are constantly working to take the ODX Platform to new heights and think outside the box when it comes to serving our clients. Optimal DX is at the forefront of blood chemistry analysis, and we embrace a future-forward mindset in everything we do.
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Quality Our cutting-edge tools have been proven to perform. In addition to providing major time and cost savings, we enable our clients to maximize value for their patients and leave them empowered in their quest for better health and wellness.
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Excellence For us, excellence is everything. Day in and day out, we constantly strive to add value for you, the practitioner, and your patients and clients by anticipating, understanding, and fulfilling your needs.
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Integrity Throughout every aspect of our company, our team is committed to the universal principle of integrity. We treat all of our users and clients with the utmost respect and courtesy and always honor our commitments and obligations to the people we serve.

The ODX Platform

At Optimal DX, we empower practitioners to go beyond surface-level lab interpretation. The ODX Platform is a comprehensive solution that combines advanced biomarker analytics with functional insight and treatment planning—so you can turn complex data into personalized, life-changing care.

Whether you’re identifying early dysfunction, building precise health improvement plans, or educating your patients, the ODX Platform helps you do it with clarity, speed, and confidence.

The Insight Behind Optimal Health

Optimal DX stands at the intersection of data and discovery. We’re Translators who decode complexity, Mentors who guide with clarity, and Detectives who pursue the root cause. Our mission is simple: equip practitioners with tools that reveal the full picture of health—before disease has a chance to take hold. Welcome to a smarter, more proactive future in functional medicine.

The Optimal DX Team

Founder and CEO of Optimal DX

Dr. Dicken Weatherby

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Dr. Dicken Weatherby

Founder and CEO of Optimal DX

Dr. Dicken Weatherby is a world-leading expert in Functional Blood Chemistry Analysis. He graduated from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon in 1998. His bestselling book "Blood Chemistry and CBC Analysis – Clinical Laboratory Testing from a Functional Perspective" has become a seminal text on the functional analysis of blood test results. In 2012 he released the groundbreaking Optimal DX Software program to make it easier for health care practitioners to extract functional and nutritional information from their patients’ blood tests and to give them the Functional Health Report, a powerful analytical reporting tool to use with their patients.

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COO

Shane Redlick

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Shane Redlick

COO

Shane is Optimal DX’s COO.  He studied at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver, Canada.

Head of Sales & Partnerships

Jacqueline Minns

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Jacqueline Minns

Head of Sales & Partnerships

Based in North Carolina and with 20+ years of experience in the healthcare industry, Jacqueline brings a depth of knowledge and experience to the Optimal DX team.

Technical Architect / Developer

Daniel Corrêa

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Daniel Corrêa

Technical Architect / Developer

Daniel is our technical architect and senior developer at OptimalDX. He has worked with technology for over 20 years, 12 primarily for the civil aviation industry and the last 4 for the healthcare industry.

Customer Success

Liv Munroe

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Liv Munroe

Customer Success

Liv provides customer and technical support at OptimalDX. She has over 20 years of experience in business management and accounting and studied at the University of Washington. Liv enjoys plant-based cooking, tennis, and paddleboarding.

Research

Beth Ellen DiLuglio, MS, RDN, LDN

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Beth Ellen DiLuglio, MS, RDN, LDN

Research

Beth Ellen DiLuglio, MS, RDN, LDN is a Clinical Nutritionist and technical nutrition and health writer and manages the research and technical writing for Optimal DX.

She earned her Master of Science in Human Nutrition from Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons and taught Elements of Nutrition and general Health classes at Palm Beach State College for over a decade. 

Beth co-authored the Radiation Exposure/Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity chapter in Ingrid Kohlstadt’s medical textbook Advancing Medicine with Food and Nutrients, 2nd ed. She has contributed to various nutrition textbooks and nutrition manuals as well as functional nutrition continuing education courses.

Beth's favorite downtime activities include Jeopardy!, yoga, walking, and communing with nature.

Senior Fullstack Developer

João Braga

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João Braga

Senior Fullstack Developer

Senior Product Designer

Daniel Gomes

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Daniel Gomes

Senior Product Designer

Senior Developer

Rafael Guinho

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Rafael Guinho

Senior Developer

Optimal DX Advisors

Advisor and Naturopathic Physician

Dr. Dennis Godby

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Dr. Dennis Godby

Advisor and Naturopathic Physician

Dr. Dennis Godby, ND, MA, earned his 4 year ND medical degree from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, OR, and was one of California’s first licensed, primary care Naturopathic Doctors. Dr. Godby is a nationally known diabetes and abdominal fat loss expert and is the medical director of the Sacramento Naturopathic Medical Center in Sacramento, California.

Advisor and Functional Medicine Specialist

Dr. Brad Rachman

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Dr. Brad Rachman

Advisor and Functional Medicine Specialist

Dr. Rachman is a Functional Medicine specialist, chiropractic physician and yoga therapist. He studied biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan and completed his graduate studies with honors at Palmer University in Davenport Iowa. In 1990, he completed clinical studies at the Institute for Functional Medicine in Gig Harbor, Washington, which provides continuing clinical education to health care professionals. In the mid-1990s, Dr. Rachman was named vice president of medical sciences for Genova Diagnostics in Asheville. While at Genova, he helped to develop Genovations, a pioneering medical tool that combines elements of genome science and preventive medicine to treat chronic diseases.

Currently, Dr. Rachman is medical director of the Rachman Clinic in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Located in suburban Asheville in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the clinic offers functional medicine with an emphasis on chronic and challenging conditions. Dr. Rachman enjoys music, the outdoors and yoga in his spare time.

Advisor and Licensed Acupuncturist, Masters in Oriental Medicine

Dr. Ionela Hubbard

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Dr. Ionela Hubbard

Advisor and Licensed Acupuncturist, Masters in Oriental Medicine

Dr. Ionela Hubbard received her medical training at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania, and her Traditional Oriental Medicine degree from South Baylor University, Anaheim, California. She received her Masters Degree in Oriental Medicine from South Baylor University as well. Dr. Hubbard has advanced clinical training through the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and the Institute for Functional Medicine, where she is a certified Functional Medicine Practitioner.

She is currently Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Curriculum Director at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, California. She teaches Integrative and Functional Medicine, Clinical Nutrition, Herbs and Dietary Supplements, Acupuncture and Traditional Oriental Medicine. She also maintains a private Integrative and Functional Medicine, Nutritional Counseling and Acupuncture clinical practice in Loma Linda and North Tustin, California.

What Our Customers Are Saying

Hear how our customers have transformed their practice with the Optimal DX Software platform.

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“A great tool to be able to use and certainly worth every penny I pay for it – because of the time it saves me, and the professionalism it has.”

Dr. Dennis GodbyNaturopathic Physician, Sacramento Naturopathic Medical Center

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“I have noticed that since I have been using the software, scheduling the follow-up and patients actually sticking to that follow-up schedule has been much easier”

Dr. Ionela HubbardLicensed Acupuncturist, Masters in Oriental Medicine

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“[Patients] share [their functional health reports] with their medical doctors and physicians so that they can see the progress the patients are making. We’re getting nice feedback from them as well, saying, wow, this is a great report.

Dr. Richard PowellChiropractic Physician, Founder of Greater Chicago Functional Health

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