Meet Dr. Sharon Ng, a board-certified physician and an Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) certified medical doctor. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Doctor’s Edit , an advanced preventative and precision health practice.

In her own health pursuits, Dr. Ng entered medicine specifically to practice a root-cause, integrative approach to reversing the reversible and preventing the preventable diseases. However, in her words, “While I’m grateful that I’ve been able to help people more effectively using the functional and integrative medicine approach, it's still not enough. There’s still a lot of trial-and-error involved with treating chronic conditions, just like with conventional medicine. After all, conventional medicine is the foundation for practicing functional and integrative medicine. We need to lessen the guesswork and leverage the power of AI and precision medicine. We also need it to help put screening and prevention on steroids. The prevalence and incidence of preventable, chronic disease and cancer are still rising.” Dr. Ng is always on the lookout for cutting-edge technologies that she can bring to her patients.

“The future of medicine is here and it’s only going to get better. This is just your introduction to precision medicine. One day soon, precision medicine is going to be the norm and expected from every patient.” 

Dr. Ng graduated with Honors from Ross University School of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency at Tower Health Reading Hospital in PA, one of the top 1% of hospitals in America.

She developed The Doctor’s Edit after experiencing the shortcomings of practicing in corporate and insurance-driven medicine, where the quantity of patient care supersedes the quality of care, and where “trying to practice real preventative and root-cause medicine, and thrive doing so, is pretty much impossible.” In her experience, “Whole, personalized care requires time. It’s not a scaleable or mass-producible approach without resorting to band-aid medicine or being encouraged to use cookie-cutter treatments just to survive the volume and complexity of patients pushed onto you. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of trying to be personalized?”

“My focus is on quality, not on quantity, proactive medicine, not just reactive medicine, optimizing healthspan, not merely prolonging poor quality lifespan, and reversing or at least slowing biological aging, the #1 risk factor for disease.” She adds, “Health care is also not something practiced by just professionals. It’s practiced by everybody. Self-care is the original health care. The medical system was designed for disease care. You know it’s true!”

“The advantage of The Doctors Edit is that you get the best of conventional, root-cause, and precision medicine all rolled into one. I call it Precision Health.”

Dr. Ng believes that continual investment in self-care, personal development, and lifelong learning are the keys to a healthy and abundant life. Her practice embraces 3 philosophies: 

1. Oubaitori - The art of non-comparison. Like the flowering cherry, apricot, plum, and peach trees in Japan, every person blooms on their own timeline. “It’s a reminder to let go of comparison culture and just do you.”

2. Kintsugi - The art of golden repair. Broken pottery mended by gold is more special, more beautiful, and stronger than before. “The same way people can recover, heal, and grow stronger from adversity, big or small. Your scars and flaws are a part of your strength, your resiliency, and make you who you are.”

3. Wabi Sabi - The art of embracing imperfection as perfection. “If you can love the imperfect people around you, you can love your imperfect self too. Precision health isn’t about being perfect or precise, it’s about being precisely and authentically you.”