About

Dr. WellhausenSylvie Wellhausen DC, DABCI, DACBN

Dr. Sylvie Wellhausen has great success in treating patients unable to find answers in the traditional medical paradigm. She was born and educated in France. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Paris, France. She became a Doctor of Chiropractic in the United States and continued her training with a Post Doctorate in Internal Disorders, Post Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition. She has following the Functional Medicine movement for 20 years. She has been in private family practice, first in Riverside and now Loma Linda, since 1990. Dr. Wellhausen utilizes all regular and functional diagnostics tests available and treats her patients utilizing a balanced combination of clinical nutrition, homeopathy, chiropractic, lifestyle and emotional support. Her patient base reflects the current statistics, with all the chronic, degenerative diseases that affect Americans today. She is fluent in four languages besides English including Spanish, Farsi, German, and French.

She enjoys teaching as well as learning from her peers and the scientific community at large. She holds a faculty position at Loma Linda University with the task of asserting functional medicine into the Medical School and the Preventative Medicine curriculum. She is concentrating on clinical nutrition and its effect on genetics (Epigenetics).