Our personalized approach is designed to guide you toward better health and lasting well-being.
Personalized Approach
Root Cause Focus
Lasting Wellness
Chronic Fatigue
Long COVID
Healthy Aging
Chronic GI discomfort
Autoimmune Disease
Brain Fog
Adrenal Dysfunction
Detoxification
Hormone Balance
Cognitive Decline
As an ICU physician, I witnessed the challenges of long COVID. Functional medicine helps us understand why some recover fully while others don’t, guiding us toward effective treatments for Long COVID and other post-viral conditions.
This is a complex topic with many factors involved. Early intervention and family support are essential. I’ve completed ReCODE 2.0 training with Dr. Dale Bredesen and additional training in neurodegenerative diseases. You would also be working with a ReCODE trained health coach to help implement the extensive lifestyle interventions necessary to get the best outcomes.
Functional medicine is a flexible approach, suited to many conditions beyond those listed. By targeting correctable imbalances, it supports improved health across a range of issues. Schedule a discovery call to see if this approach may benefit you.
– Dr. Anna Sattah
Functional medicine is a holistic approach focused on optimizing health by addressing root causes rather than just symptoms.
By considering factors like lifestyle, environment, and genetics, it provides personalized care to support wellness and vitality.
This approach empowers individuals to make sustainable changes for lasting health, helping them engage fully in life.
Patients with chronic disease can have a range of symptoms that prompt a specialist workups. These can rule out many serious diseases, but may leave you without answers if the workup is normal.
We believe patients get the best results when they can benefit from both conventional approaches and the root cause analysis of functional medicine. My experience practicing in the intensive care unit has highlighted both the life saving potential of modern medicine as well as the need to invest in healthcare and not just sick-care
We believe in the Physician-as-Teacher model to empower patients to act in their own journey to health. In support of that, we've created a Core Education Track to provide patients the insight they need to direct their own path to wellness.
We start with an initial 90-minute consultation, followed by a 3-Month Immersion Program designed to promote a rapid course correction in your health.
Beyond one-on-one consultations, we offer monthly educational sessions and a support group, fostering a space for patients to share and learn from one another.
We closely support your journey with health coaching to help implement sustainable changes in your lifestyle.
Our journey starts with a 90-minute initial visit to assess your health and create a personalized plan.
One-on-one visits for personalized support
Health coaching to implement changes
Advanced functional labs tailored to you
Monthly group education (Core Education Track)
Quarterly in-person community visits
Members enjoy ongoing access, supplement discounts, and continuous support to maintain and build on your wellness progress.
Physician & Medical Director at Insight Functional Health
Dr. Anna Sattah is an ICU physician with traditional medical training who experienced firsthand the limitations of conventional, disease-based medicine during the COVID pandemic.
Her search for alternative ways to support her patients led her to functional medicine, a comprehensive approach focused on identifying and addressing root causes rather than just symptoms.
Today, Dr. Sattah is dedicated to guiding her patients toward better health, combining her ICU expertise with a holistic approach to create personalized wellness journeys.
Dr. Sattah has treated me for Long Covid for over a year and I have only superlatives to say about her. She shows extraordinary care and commitment to her patients in many ways. She listens carefully during appointments and explains what the science says about my condition in ways I can understand. She responds quickly to email questions and requests about treatments. She also understands that treating a novel disease such as Long Covid requires setting aside the hours to keep up with the emerging research and networking with fellow Long Covid clinicians. And although she is clearly a brilliant doctor, she treats me as a partner in this process and respectfully considers the options that I have read about on my own.
I have worked with functional medicine practitioners in the past with good results, but prior to finding Dr. Sattah, I was offered only generic immune-support treatments and supplements that failed to halt the worsening of my Long Covid symptoms and labs results. In contrast, Dr. Sattah recognizes that Long Covid is a complex disease that requires experimentation and patient feedback to design an individualized program, that for me, is stabilizing my condition while science works towards a cure. If you have a chronic health condition, such as Long Covid, I highly recommend Dr. Sattah.
Dr. Sattah's practice has been very helpful to me... It is working and making a big difference in my energy, comfort, and overall well-being. I highly recommend her practice. It's worth the investment.
I have worked with functional medicine practitioners across multiple practices for the better part of the last decade, and Dr. Sattah is one of the best.
I’ve been working with her to improve / resolve / manage my long covid symptoms for over a year now.
Dr. Sattah's patient centered approach starts with a focus on listening and ensuring she understands her patients.
Only then does she begin evaluating and working together with her patients to build a health improvement plan. It was refreshing to have a doctor who truly wanted to take the time to understand my experience with whatever pathology I’m dealing with (compared with so many doctors who simply churn out a quick list of standard next steps based on a quick evaluation).
Dr. Sattah takes both the big and small view of recovery - checking in periodically to ensure whatever plan we’ve come up with is still a fit and working.
And if it’s not, she’s not afraid to get creative - pulling in medical resources from all over to help construct an updated, medically researched, better suited plan for me as needed.
She also sees the human in the equation.
Sometimes she’ll suggest health improvement efforts that I just can’t manage due to [insert a variety of life constraints] and she doesn’t judge. She continues to work with me as a partner in my health journey.
If you are dealing with chronic health issues, Dr. Sattah is an excellent detective and problem solver partner to work with to help you get to better.
Unfortunately no. Insurance is designed to cover disease based services rather than prevention or wellness. We have partnered with Reimbursify to help patients use any out of network benefits they may be eligible for.
No, unfortunately we are unable to accept Medicare at this time. Medicare is a population-based government health care system designed to cover general medical care for patients over 65 years old.
Unfortunately, it does not reimburse adequately to cover the cost of providing significantly extended visit time for consultations we use at Insight Functional Health, LLC. That extra time is a foundational aspect of the ability to provide root cause holistic care using a functional medicine approach. Alternatives: There are providers who accept Medicare listed on the Institute of Functional Medicine website “Find a Practitioner” page. Under advanced search options, you can search for those providers currently accepting Medicare. If you would like to work with a provider who accepts Medicare, I would recommend checking out the link below.
Functional medicine is focused on understanding the factors that support health, and identifying the underlying causes for the development of disease. This is vastly different from my conventional training which focused on diagnosis of disease through laboratory testing and imaging studies and treatment of disease through the use of pharmaceuticals and invasive procedures. As an ICU physician, still in practice, I am very familiar with the latter approach. It can be lifesaving for treating acute diseases, and stabilizing chronic disease. I would encourage all of my patients to continue to see their primary care provider. I see functional medicine as filling a gap in healthcare to address issues before they progress to the level of acute disease.
I can work with patients with a range of conditions, but have focused on those listed below. If your primary concern is not on that list, it does not mean it would not respond to functional medicine approaches. In general I have found that supporting the underlying tenets of health is a very flexible approach and can help patients with a vast array of concerns. Long COVID Fatigue Healthy Aging Chronic GI discomfort Autoimmune disease Brain fog Adrenal dysfunction Detoxification Cognitive decline* And More *Cognitive decline is a complex topic with numerous contributing factors, some of which are easier to address than others. In this area in particular, early intervention and family support is key. I by no means consider myself an expert in this, but I have completed the ReCODE 2.0 training under Dr Dale Bredesen as well as additional training in neurodegenerative diseases with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. The potential for improvement is encouraging, but it is by no means certain.
No. My residency training was in general surgery, and my fellowship was in critical care. My first-line blood pressure medication is an IV drip in the intensive care unit with the nurse at your bedside. Primary care physicians have gone through at least 3 years of residency training in either family medicine or internal medicine and are inherently better suited for outpatient management. Functional medicine and primary care go hand-in-hand, but do not replace each other. My goal is to help identify underlying causes of chronic illness, but that is not a rapid process and won't replace the need for acute care. For example, if you have uncontrolled Crohn's disease, I still want you to be working with your primary care and GI doctors to get your symptoms acutely under control. We can work together to try to identify causes that may have contributed to any acute flare and make them less likely to return. Those strategies complement each other, but I believe patients do best with both approaches.
At this time, I do not work with children, however I can send you recommendations for functional medicine colleagues that do.
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