Functional Medicine Calgary
Stop Chasing Symptoms. Discover the Root Cause and Reclaim Your Health.
True Healthcare, Not Just Sick Care
For decades, the traditional medical model has focused on a single goal: Lifespan. It asks, “How long can we keep you alive?” But today, we need to ask a better question: “To what end?” Lifespan is simply how long you live. Healthspan is how well you live.
The conventional model relies heavily on treating symptoms, typically matching a pill to a problem without considering your unique bio-individuality. This often leads to a gap at the end of life—a period of being kept alive by multiple medications, without the true vitality needed to actually enjoy your days.
At Live Younger, we merge healthspan with lifespan. We want you to feel younger, live stronger, and ultimately enjoy maximum health for as long as you live. By diving deep into your genetics, epigenetics, and lifestyle, we work to restore your cellular health and prevent chronic disease long before it starts.
Is Functional Medicine Right For You?
Transforming your health requires a commitment to new paradigms of science-based wellness. We typically partner with three types of patients:
Seeking Answers
You have seen specialists and run the tests, yet your symptoms persist. You are often told, “Your tests are normal, it must just be ageing.” We help you uncover the hidden dysfunction, so you can finally feel normal again and get your life back.
Not Sick, But Not Well
You don’t have a chronic disease, but you are struggling with low energy, poor sleep, digestive issues, or stubborn weight. You know you don’t feel your best, and you are ready to fix the foundation before it becomes a larger issue.
The Science of Longevity
You already live a healthy lifestyle, but you want to reach the next level. You follow the science, explore biohacking, and want to actively slow down or reverse the ageing process using advanced, targeted precision medicine.
A Smarter, More Accessible Approach to Healing
We start with a detailed questionnaire.
Healing begins with truly listening. We start with a highly detailed questionnaire that maps out everything from your family history to your toxic burden and digestive health.
It is common in many Functional Medicine clinics to immediately order extensive private testing to “prove” something is wrong, which can cost between $20,000 and $30,000 in your first year alone. We choose to do it differently.
With over 50 years of combined medical experience, our doctors have the profound clinical insight necessary to begin your healing journey without relying solely on expensive initial tests. Our clients typically invest $4,500–$6,000 in their first year, with costs decreasing as you regain your wellness. We start you on a highly effective foundational path, and if sophisticated private testing becomes pivotal, we order it strategically.
Where We Begin
No matter what symptoms you arrive with, true healing starts at the foundation. Our initial protocols focus on:
- Healing leaky gut and identifying hidden food sensitivities
- Lowering your toxic burden by supporting liver detoxification
- Identifying and reversing insulin resistance to restore metabolism
- Preparing the body for natural hormone rebalancing
- Correcting adrenal fatigue and healing the effects of chronic stress
- Resolving chronic pain and ensuring restorative, deep sleep
Precision Medicine: Advanced Functional Testing
When required, we utilise the most advanced scientific testing available to predict health decline, reverse symptoms, and optimise your longevity.
To treat the root cause, we have to see the full picture. Our clinic utilises advanced functional laboratory testing that goes much deeper than standard medical check-ups.
By analysing your genetics, gut microbiome, advanced hormone panels, and hidden food sensitivities, we remove the guesswork. This precise data allows us to design targeted, highly effective protocols that promote rapid, sustainable healing from the inside out.
The Team at Live Younger
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture is well over 5000 years old. This is an integral component of our programs at Live Younger. It is a non-drug approach to assist in our goal to be pain free, optimal in function and achieve healthy longevity. It is very difficult to explain to people who believe in the traditional medical model. It looks at the body as an interconnected system. It looks at the balance of energy and the flow of energy.
Clinical studies show that acupuncture helps allergy symptoms, PMS and improves pregnancy outcomes in pregnancy. How can we explain these results using a traditional medical model? We cannot. Acupuncture is recommended especially to our patients who have pain, anxiety and sleep impairments
Food and nutrition science has evolved at lightning speed over the last 5 years. Almost everything most people know about diet is outdated. The worst part is the indoctrination of poor advice that is still being handed out, even by doctors and dieticians.
Eat your fruit and vegetables. Avoid saturated fat. Use margarine. Limit eggs. Red meat is bad.
Vegetarianism is better. We know from science, evolution and measuring your hormone levels what helps you live longer and healthier, and achieve your ideal weight and maintain it.
Everyone needs coaching in the new rules of healthy eating.
We live in a sedentary world. Working at a desk leads to changes in posture that do not support independent living when you’re 80 if you continue to shorten certain ligaments and muscles from sitting too long and working at a desk and computer.
Injuries, motor vehicle accidents, headaches, arthritis and TMJ are also common problems our patients have that require attention to enhance the quality of their lives and how well they will live as they age. Chiropractic, when focused more on in depth treatments using multiple modalities (and not just quick adjustments) help patients remain active, agile and pain free.
Eliminating pain helps achieve hormonal balance more efficiently and is an important part of your program.
Massage therapy yields more than relaxation and pain relief. It helps flexibility, treats whiplash and chronic pain. Our therapists are skilled in Tuina massage, cross fibre release and acupressure, bringing in a vast enhancement of results and can treat conditions like sleep disturbance and digestive symptoms based on their integration of Chinese medicine principles and understanding of meridians and acupressure points.
Immediately after the treatment you will notice that the skin has a “frosty” appearance. This is the dehydrated skin that will peel away a next few days following the treatment. You may experience some skin redness and a sensation resembling sunburn, as well as mild swelling.
We want you to benefit from Functional Medicine because it transforms lives. Take the first step and book a call with our client services specialist.
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All those years of writing prescriptions, I realized my patients weren’t really getting BETTER. A drug for this and a drug for that…the same dose for everyone, even though every person is a unique individual. Then I discovered a Better way!