Functional Health Testing

Functional Health Testing and Analysis

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When you’re suffering from pain and illness, it’s coming from an imbalance in your body; that’s why it’s crucial to find the root of the problem. At Total Health DuPage, we’ll start with a comprehensive overview of your health and lifestyle and run preliminary tests to determine your baseline of important body functions and levels. After discussing your health history, concerns, and goals, we’ll come up with the best course of action to get to the source of your ailments. 

Our tests generally include:

  • Adrenal gland function to test for DHEA & cortisol levels
  • Autoimmune testing
  • Blood test to assess vitamin & nutrient levels
  • Fatty acid testing 
  • Food sensitivity 
  • Gluten sensitivity
  • Hormone evaluations
  • Stool testing to check for gut health & digestive function
  • Neurotransmitter test
  • Thyroid panel

What is functional medicine?

Whether you suffer from chronic health issues or are looking to achieve optimal health, it’s helpful to look outside of traditional medicine, an approach that often fails patients or masks the root of the problem. 

By looking at your body, health, and wellness differently, we assess patients from a different perspective. We’re looking for the root causes of your pain or illness, not simply treating the symptoms with medication. We run various tests and discuss everything from diet and lifestyle choices to wellness goals and medical history to collect detailed data in order to get to the root of your issues - and then make the necessary changes to make real changes to your health.

Common health issues we treat

  • Autoimmunity
  • Brain fog
  • Constipation 
  • Chronic Pain
  • Diarrhea
  • Environmental allergies
  • Fatigue
  • Food allergies
  • Hormonal imbalances
  • Skin problems

Each treatment plan is unique to you

Your treatment plan is completely individualized, unlike traditional medicine. Since no two bodies are alike, we cannot treat patients with a one-size-fits-all approach. In fact, with a functional medicine approach to health, the name of the disease isn’t as important as we discover the real cause of your symptoms. 
While conventional medicine has areas of specialities like neurologist, cardiologist, and endocrinologist, functional medicine realizes that bodies are complex, intertwined systems that must be looked at together, not independently. If you’re suffering from pain or illness, you may feel frustrated and confused in a traditional medicine approach - which specialty should you see? How many specialists need to treat you? Will anything work when you’ve been failed so many times before?

We look at you as a whole person, including all of your body systems, lifestyle, and history to effectively treat or even reverse chronic issues.

What factors impact my health?

Our science, research-based functional medicine approach treats underlying causes of pain and illness. Through individualized treatment plans, we’re able to balance the body functions that are causing your problems, and restore your health for a happier, healthier, fuller life.

What are these factors causing imbalances in your body? Common issues include:

  • Environmental factors, such as toxins & pesticides
  • Infections like parasites, yeast, mold, lyme, herpes, and SIBO that are difficult to find
  • Inflammation
  • Poor diet 
  • Nutritional imbalances
  • Food allergies & sensitivities 
  • Hormonal imbalances
  • Oxidative stress
  • Impaired Liver detoxification
  • Gastrointestinal function

Common ailments that we treat include:

  • Autoimmune diseases
  • Back & neck pain
  • Cardiovascular problems 
  • Chronic fatigue
  • Chronic headaches
  • Cognitive problems
  • Endometriosis
  • Female hormone imbalance
  • Fibromyalgia 
  • Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis
  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Graves Disease
  • Irritable bowel syndrome
  • Male hormone imbalance
  • Migraines
  • Peripheral neuropathy
  • Restless leg syndrome
  • Sleeping disorders
  • Type II diabetes

Why conventional medicine may be failing you

There are many reasons why you’re still suffering, even after years of being treated by your doctor. Not only are doctors trained to treat your symptoms through medication, HMOs and managed care gets to say what tests are “necessary” and covered by insurance - they would rather pay for medicine than test to actually determine the source of the problem; as a functional medicine doctor, Dr. Jawad works outside of these ludicrous restrictions, offering testing to determine your underlying issues.
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