It is always about you. we review your history, symptoms, diet and environmental context, we outline a plan for you!
What is Fully Functional ®?
Starting with The Five Pillars
Five Pillars to becoming Fully Functional ®
We often hear from people who are hopeless and overwhelmed by their medical issues or declining health. Typically they have seen numerous doctors, received endless medications as well as conflicting information, and just can’t seem to get better. We were once in this desperate place.
01. Identify
the true cause of symptoms/illness, complex health concerns often missed
02. Reduce
inflammation and stressors
03. Optimize
detoxification, all physiologic functions of the body, RESTORATION to a healthy state
04. Support
the body (all symptoms), the mind, the spirit, the community, and education
05. Personalized Treatment
so that based on your unique biochemistry and environment you can become Fully Functional® for life.
What is it about you?
Through an extensive review of your history, symptoms, diet and environmental context, we outline a plan to uncover and treat underlying root causes that are keeping you from becoming Fully Functional®.
Our Proprietary Process
To address these concerns we created a proprietary process called FULLY FUNCTIONAL®.
To address these concerns we created a proprietary process called FULLY FUNCTIONAL®. Through this process, we bring hope and healing as well as provide laser-like focus so that our patients can manage risk, mitigate the effects of time and toxicity, and be Fully Functional® for life.
We make it easy to understand your health!
Confused by the plethora of opinions in the Information Age?
We also hear from people who are interested in optimizing and maintaining their health for the long run but who are confused by the plethora of opinions in the Information Age.
EXPERTISE
How we can be useful for you
FULLY FUNCTIONAL® Services!
What we offer to our patients
Through an extensive review of your history, symptoms, diet and environmental context, we outline a plan to uncover and treat underlying root causes that are keeping you from becoming Fully Functional™.
OUR TEAM
Highly qualified specialists
Dr. Ellen Antoine
DO, FACEP, ABOIM, IFMCP
CEO & Co-Founder
FULLY FUNCTIONAL®
Dr. Ellen Antoine completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her medical degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Ellen was in the first class of practitioners certified by the Institute for Functional Medicine.
Dr. Scott Antoine
DO, FACEP, FMNFM, ABOIM, IFMCP
Co-Founder & Physician
FULLY FUNCTIONAL®
Dr. Scott Antoine completed his residency in Emergency Medicine followed by a fellowship in Hyperbaric Medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he received a full military scholarship. Dr. Scott earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of Scranton, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
WHAT IS FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE?
a comprehensive approach
The Functional Medicine Approach
from The Institute for Functional Medicine
Functional Medicine is a systems biology–based approach that focuses on identifying and addressing the root cause of disease. Each symptom or differential diagnosis may be one of many contributing to an individual’s illness.
As the graphic illustrates, a diagnosis can be the result of more than one cause. For example, depression can be caused by many different factors, including inflammation. Likewise, a cause such as inflammation may lead to a number of different diagnoses, including depression. The precise manifestation of each cause depends on the individual’s genes, environment, and lifestyle, and only treatments that address the right cause will have a lasting benefit beyond symptom suppression.
The Functional Medicine Model
Merging Science and Practice
The Functional Medicine model evolved from the insights and perspectives of a small group of influential thought leaders who realized the importance of an individualized approach to disease causes based on the evolving research in nutritional science, genomics, and epigenetics. These thought leaders found ways to apply for these new advances in the clinic to address root causes using low-risk interventions that modify molecular and cellular systems to reverse these drivers of disease.
These Functional Medicine thought leaders were able to apply new research in a way that often brought dramatic results to patients who had previously received unsuccessful treatments. Part of this advance was a return to scientific principles of finding new ways to look for unifying factors at the cellular and systems levels that underlie organism-wide problems.
As others became interested in learning Functional Medicine, it became necessary to systematize the approach so that it could be taught to a wider group of practitioners of differing backgrounds. The IFM approach to applying Functional Medicine is mainly practiced through a set of tools that formalizes both history-taking and mapping symptoms to the categories of root processes that underlie illness.
