Better Health Starts Here

When you’re dealing with chronic health issues, finding relief can be a slow and frustrating process. At the Marcus Institute, we provide the thorough, thoughtful care you deserve from the start, beginning with a head-to-toe assessment. This allows us to identify the underlying factors affecting your health, and to create a powerful integrative treatment plan specific to your individual needs.

Our advanced approach goes beyond typical prescriptions to also include innovative testing, targeted nutritional therapies and lifestyle interventions that can help you heal and proactively manage your health.

Our Accelerated Healing program is designed to support patients with complex and chronic health-related issues, such as:
 

- Auto-Immune Issues

- Bone Health

- Chronic Fatigue

- Chronic Pain

- Diabetes

- Fibromyalgia

- Gut Health

- Hormonal Disruptions

- Inflammation

- Irritable Bowel Syndrome

- Lipid Disorders

- Nutritional Deficiencies

- And more

We use integrative modalities such as diet and nutrition interventions, stress-reduction techniques, lifestyle management counseling and select complementary therapies, to enhance the primary medical treatment plan. We go deep into your health history and may order additional diagnostic tests as part of the assessment process. And to ensure best results, our integrative physicians oversee and coordinate your care with your referring physician.

Take a look at some of our specialties and embrace the power of integrative care.

Renew Your Health and Vitality

As men and women enter midlife and beyond, it’s common to experience both gradual and sudden changes in your body. Discomfort, diminishing performance and low energy… night sweats, cardiovascular issues and pains you’ve never felt before… all can become commonplace. And when you look in the mirror, you don’t see the vibrancy that you feel inside shining outwardly.

You could be lacking nutrients — our requirements shift as we age. Or your fluctuating hormones could be the root cause. Whatever your health issues may be, our experts will build a program to address your concerns and return your zest for life.

Our patients often say, “I never knew this is what my body would do as I age, and I certainly never knew there was something to do about it.” At the Marcus Institute, we’ll show you how.

Replenish Your Body

As an international leader in micronutrient research and therapies, we offer intravenous nutrient infusions as part of our treatment plans for a variety of conditions. If you have become nutrient-depleted from chronic illness, gastrointestinal problems, poor diet and other many other health issues, discover how our targeted treatments can benefit your body.

Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C): Infused at pharmacologic doses as an adjunctive agent for supportive cancer care. This protocol is given in collaboration with your primary oncological physician. Our team has published groundbreaking research on this therapy.

Restorative Micronutrient Mix: Includes a range of vital nutrients infused at physiological doses to replenish and restore; and can be helpful for patients who have become nutrient-depleted from chronic illness, gastrointestinal problems or poor diet. The precise blend is customized to the individual patient based on clinical presentation and laboratory values.

N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC): When infused at moderately high doses, this is a powerful antioxidant with potential to treat a variety of health issues. We are currently studying the impact of administering this nutrient to patients with Parkinson’s Disease and neurocognitive/neurodegenerative problems, and our initial results are highly encouraging. Migraine Mix: A magnesium-based infusion for patients with chronic or intense headaches.

We’ve observed patients with malabsorption issues benefit more from these therapies than traditional pill-formed supplements. As we continue our research, the potential power of nutrient infusions grows every day. Join us.

Cost of nutrient infusions ranges from $150-$600, though the cost of many of our protocols are covered by grants.

Your Best is Good Business

The Marcus Institute’s Executive Health program helps busy professionals achieve superior health and sustain top-level performance — both on and off the job.

Our unparalleled approach centers on a scientifically rigorous, head-to-toe medical assessment that goes far beyond a typical physical exam. We examine your whole health comprehensively: body, mind and spirit. This gives us the most complete and accurate view of your current state, so we can identify immediate concerns, uncover potential risks and put you on the path to optimal health and wellness.

The best part? Convenience. We’ll send a concierge to your home or office to collect your pre-assessment labs. Then choose from our Center City and Villanova centers to receive your comprehensive health assessment and consult one-on-one with our physicians — all in one day.

Restore Balance in Your Body

Hormonal changes, in both men and women, happen regularly as we age, but their symptoms can feel anything but normal. From anxiety you can’t explain, to insomnia one week and fatigue the next, your mind, body and life can feel out of order.

Our Natural & Bioidentical Hormone Replacement (NBHR) program helps restore your hormonal balance safely and quickly. From start to finish, you’ll receive the time and expert integrative care you need to relieve your disruptive symptoms, boost your overall health, improve your quality of life, and feel like yourself again.

The NBHR program at the Marcus Institute offers safe and effective hormone therapy and tailored treatment plans to help relieve the moderate and severe symptoms of perimenopause and menopause in women and andropause (low testosterone) in men, including:

- Anxiety

- Decreased bone density

- Depression

- Fatigue

- Hot flashes

- Insomnia

- Irritability and mood swings

- Low libido or sex drive

- Low testosterone

- Muscle loss

- Night sweats

- Slow metabolism

- Thinning hair and hair loss

- Weight gain

Manage Stress Using Proven Techniques

The Myrna Brind Center for Mindfulness is the longest standing program of the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. The Center is the Philadelphia region's leading provider of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programs.

Mindfulness is about paying attention. It's about living your life in the richness of right now, not being lost in memories of the past or overwhelmed by the worries or projections of the future. It's a simple practice that strengthens the mind's ability to stay focused on what is happening right now and to be open to experience — meeting the present moment with kindness and nonreactivity. Learn more about mindfulness and MBSR.

Our MBSR programs are modeled after the MBSR program that was developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Our programs have helped thousands of people transform their lives, even in the midst of physical and psychological suffering. We offer MBSR programs throughout the year for the public, training programs for mindfulness professionals and mindful practices for the workplace.

An Integrative Approach to Weight Management

At the Marcus Institute, we provide the thorough and thoughtful care you need to reach your optimal weight, with plans designed specifically for you. In fact, our approach to weight loss is so personalized, you can call it the opposite of “one size fits all.”

Strengthen Your Mind and Body

By integrating promising complementary therapies and high-quality care, the Marcus Institute’s progressive-thinking physicians are here to help you on your journey to optimal mind, body and spirit health.

We focus on Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET), psychiatry consultations, hypnosis and biofeedback to help you neutralize stress, alleviate pain and other chronic health conditions, and be the best you.

Advancing the Study of Integrative Medicine

The research we conduct at the Marcus Institute is essential for improving all aspects of integrative medicine and care, for our patients and beyond. As we explore new and developing approaches, we evaluate the link between their clinical effects, such as reduced pain or improved function, with our participants’ physiological changes, which we measure using state-of-the-art imaging techniques.

We utilize the region’s only PET-MR scanner for adults to determine structural and functional changes associated with various integrative methods for neurological and psychiatric conditions, as well as specific diseases such as cancer and irritable bowel syndrome.

Cutting-Edge Scans, Combined in One Test

The latest in positron emission tomography (PET) to visualize functional physiology. Frequently used to evaluate organ activity and assess/detect malignancies in specific cases where there is a requirement to visualize functional physiology of a body area. These scans can also be leveraged to evaluate overall health and promote ongoing wellness.

The institute includes the most advanced technology in PET scanning, including the most precise imaging of the brain available using PET-MRI technology — one of only 30 such devices in the country. PET-MRI combines metabolic activity from the PET scan and anatomic data from the magnetic resonance imaging. Results from a PET-MRI offers a comprehensive look at the body.

Revitalize, Rejuvenate, Restore Confidence

Everyone’s skin ages differently, whether that appears as moderate to severe frown lines between the eyebrows, burrows on the forehead, smile lines, crow’s feet around the eyes, or other unwanted wrinkles and folds.

Our experts provide an approach to aesthetic enhancement that creates positively dramatic results without the complications of surgery. We offer injections of Botox®, Xeomin® or Dysport® that lead to relaxing of the muscles and fewer wrinkles. Results from this relatively painless procedure can often be seen in as little as 48 hours and usually last between three to six months.

To further smooth out wrinkles and refine your skin, you may benefit from volumizing and plumping dermal filler injections, such as Restylane® or Juvéderm®. Smoothing out fine lines and wrinkles can be done in just a few minutes — and it’s not painful. 

Contact us to schedule an evaluation of your needs and concerns, so we can determine which option is right for you.

Caring for the Brain Health of Veterans

The primary focus of the Veterans’ Brain Health program is to care for former military personnel who have traumatic brain injury (TBI) and related conditions, such as post-traumatic stress and other psychological health issues. It is our mission to aid in the healing, recovery and preventive treatment of our veterans. Our comprehensive, interdisciplinary care model is designed to meet the specific needs of veterans. Our experienced staff works closely with patients and their families to develop customized patient treatment plans based on the Jefferson integrative model of whole-person care. Treatment plans start with diagnostics and intensive assessments, and may include traditional and complementary therapies, such as targeted nutrition, stress reduction therapies and neurofeedback. The entire treatment plan, including accommodation near the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health in Villanova, Pennsylvania, is provided at no cost for the selected patients and one accompanying family member. In addition to clinical care, the initiative will support targeted research in conditions that impact service members, such as TBI, cardiovascular health and psychological health. Through Thomas Jefferson University, service members can access educational and career development opportunities tailored to their needs and goals. And finally, our focus on community engagement connects patients with programs that support and promote a strong community in Philadelphia.