About
Dr. Bethany Recker serves as Medical Director and co-founder of Retro Health and Aesthetics in Worthington, Ohio. She trained in family medicine and now focuses on concierge primary care, functional medicine, and hormone optimization. Before joining Retro Health, she managed a panel of over 3,000 patients in a traditional insurance-based practice. She saw firsthand how administrative demands eroded the time needed for genuine patient care.
In 2022, Dr. Recker joined Gregory LaFontaine's mobile urgent care practice and added primary care to the model. She noticed that most urgent care patients needed a primary care doctor who actually knew them, not episodic treatment from a stranger. That insight shaped Retro Health's entire clinical model. Her specialties include women's hormone therapy, perimenopause, menopause treatment, thyroid disorders, insulin resistance, and chronic disease management. She partners with each patient to review labs, build a personalized hormone plan, and monitor progress over time. She is passionate about lab optimization and employer health benefits, and she writes on those topics for the Retro Health blog.
Conditions Treated
Who is Dr. Recker right for?
Dr. Recker works well with adults who want a primary care physician who knows their full history. Women navigating perimenopause, menopause, or hormonal imbalance benefit directly from her clinical focus. She also treats patients managing thyroid disorders, insulin resistance, hypertension, and chronic fatigue. Patients who have received normal lab results despite persistent symptoms often find more complete answers with Dr. Recker. Her panel size allows her to spend the time each visit actually requires.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Dr. Recker specializes in women's hormone therapy, perimenopause, menopause, thyroid disorders, insulin resistance, and chronic disease management. She also treats hypertension, fatigue, brain fog, and weight management concerns. Her functional medicine approach focuses on identifying root causes through comprehensive lab work rather than treating symptoms in isolation.
Dr. Recker partners with each patient to identify exactly where hormone levels stand using detailed lab work. She then builds a personalized plan using bioidentical or FDA-approved hormone options tailored to those results. Follow-up visits and ongoing monitoring are included in the membership.
Dr. Recker holds an MD and practices family medicine, functional medicine, and preventive medicine. She co-founded Retro Health and Aesthetics after years in traditional family medicine, including experience managing a panel of over 3,000 patients.
Dr. Recker left a large traditional practice because administrative demands made it difficult to deliver the care her patients needed. She wanted to practice medicine where clinical judgment guided treatment, not insurance approvals or billing requirements. Co-founding Retro Health gave her the structure to do that.
Yes. Dr. Recker provides concierge primary care for all adults. While her clinical specialization includes women's hormone health, she also manages chronic disease, preventive care, and metabolic health for male patients.
Dr. Recker orders comprehensive metabolic workups that go beyond standard annual physical panels. She reviews results with patients directly and builds treatment plans from those findings. Follow-up and ongoing monitoring are part of her standard approach, not separate appointments to schedule around.
Yes. Dr. Recker focuses on chronic disease management and takes a functional approach to understanding how conditions interact. She treats hypertension, thyroid disorders, insulin resistance, and fatigue, often finding connections between conditions that previous providers addressed separately.
Doctor profile last updated September 17, 2026