BETTY SY GO, MD
 

Specialty:  Family Practice

Years in Practice: 15 Years


Education/Training:

Undergraduate: B.S. Medical Technology ,Velez College, (Cebu City, Philippines)

Medical Degree: Cebu Institute of Medicine (Cebu City, Philippines)

Residency Training: Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital Center, Chicago, Illinois

Board Certification: Family Practice

Post-Graduate  Education &Training: Medical Acupuncture (sponsored by the Helms Medical Institute, UCLA School of Medicine & Stanford University School of Medicine)  


Professional Affiliations:

American Academy of Family Physicians

Founding Diplomate, American Board of Holistic Medicine (non-ABMS member)

Affiliate Member, American Academy of Medical Acupuncture


I am a Family Medicine-trained MD that applies the principles of integrative medicine, which blends the best of conventional western medicine with complementary medicine. I have a total of 15 years’ extensive clinical experience that includes outpatient, inpatient, Obstetrics/Gynecology, urgent and primary care settings. The last 12 years have been focused on Integrative Medicine. My practice philosophy emphasizes that disease processes are the body's response to the presence of toxins in the body as it tries to either store them or get rid of them. Eventually, these toxins can cause tissue and organ inflammation and degeneration. By recognizing that we live in a highly stressful and toxic world that weakens our immune and detoxification systems, my goal for each patient is to help the body eliminate these toxins so that the body can move toward the path of healing. I tailor healing programs specific to each client based on the results of biochemical and energetic testing - using the principles of Functional Medicine, which employs assessment and early interventions to improve physiological, emotional, cognitive, and physiological functions.

I also received seminar trainings in Functional Endocrinology which utilizes simple measures as diet, nutrition, herbal support and lifestyle changes to balance and support hormone production instead of supplying hormone replacement which can potentially down-regulate the body's own hormone production. This takes into consideration the adrenal-thyroid-sex hormone connections.