Functional Medicine

A Holistic Approach to Identify and Treat the Underlying Causes of Diseases

What Is Functional Medicine?

Functional medicine is a client-focused approach that seeks to find and address the root cause of a condition. It examines physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health, as well as medical and family history and lifestyle. Practitioners consider everything that contributes to your well-being because unobvious factors, like environmental influences and nutritional issues, may affect your condition.

After identifying a disease’s root cause, a doctor will implement a personalized treatment plan to restore normal bodily functions and improve your quality of life.

Functional Medicine in the Greater Philadelphia Area

At the Yang Institute of Integrative Medicine, we recognize that emotional distress, digestive dysfunction, hormonal imbalance, immune dysregulation, chronic infection, nutritional deficits and food and environmental toxicity all contribute to brain dysfunction and physical and mental illness. These factors also impact how we perform and age.

For these reasons, we base our treatment approach on functional medicine and practice its principles in all our locations. Our highly trained care providers will take the time to get to know you and discover the underlying contributors to your condition before building a personalized treatment plan.

Here are some of the factors they’ll explore:

Lifestyle: A functional medicine doctor will ask questions about your sleeping patterns, stressors, exercise routines, work life, diet and personal relationships.
Environmental factors: They’ll ask if your home and work environments expose you to toxins and allergens, such as pet fur, tobacco smoke, pollen and dust.
Family history: Some health conditions like Type 2 diabetes, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and heart disease have genetic components that make them likely to run in families. As a result, the practitioner will examine your family history to get to the root cause.
Medical history: By assessing your complete medical records, the practitioner may find information that helps them connect the dots and determine your condition’s underlying cause.

Conditions Functional Medicine Can Treat

Diabetes

Alzheimer's & dementia

Digestive, gastrointestinal & eating disorders

Women's Health issues like premenstrual syndrome, menopause symptoms and pregnancy discomfort

Learning problems

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Depression

Client Testimonials

I wish my doctors could help me find out why I had been so constipated and bloated, and my stomach hurt. One of my doctors even suggested surgery! I found Yang Institute from my search. Dr. Yang recommended a dietary change eliminating dairy and gluten from my food, walk, and intake of digestive enzymes and herbal remedies. I am 100 % better!

-Peter T

I did not know the food I considered healthy generate inflammation in my body until I did a food sensitivity test at the Yang Institute. My family doctor said that I had an autoimmune condition called costochondritis, which made my chest hurt all the time. Once I eliminate the food that gave me inflammation, it just disappeared.

-Jackie Y

I always feel cold, tired, and swollen. And I lose hair too. But my blood work of thyroid tests showed I was normal. Dr. Yang helped me find out the test I did was not sufficient to identify the real function of my thyroid. I do not convert and produce enough active thyroid hormone called T3. Dr. Yang made me take my body temperature four times a day for a week and discovered that I was 1.5 degrees lower than the normal. I suffer from hypothyroidism for sure but not detected by standard lab tests. The treatment of supplementing T3 reversed 90% of my symptoms. Now we are working on how I developed hypothyroidism in the first place.

Why Choose the Yang Institute for Functional Medicine?

Consider visiting the Yang Institute to see benefits such as:

Individualized treatment: We aim to get to know you so we can develop solutions that can enhance the quality of your life.
Flexibility: Whether you want us to address a chronic condition or are looking for generalized wellness, our functional medicine doctors in New Jersey and Pennsylvania can help. Any person of any age can benefit from this practice.
Evidence-based remedies: We use the latest medical research and technology to guide our recovery plans with effective, evidence-based approaches.
Integrative approach: Our care providers combine functional medicine principles, technology, traditional Chinese healing arts and alternative medicine to create comprehensive treatment plans to improve your health.
Dependable expertise: We have an exceptional team of passionate and board-certified professionals from top-ranking programs like Thomas Jefferson and Penn Med.

Talk to a Functional Medicine Practitioner Near You

The Yang institute has reliable and highly experienced functional medicine doctors to help you regain your health. You can find our team at our Marlton, NJ, and Bryn Mawr, PA, offices.