This systems-based approach has grown in popularity and acceptance over the last 1-2 decades as perhaps the most powerful tool for you and your doctor to reverse disease and optimize wellness.  And rightfully so, as it focuses on understanding the biological processes at the cellular level to treat the causes of disease, often using specific tests that can measure biomarkers that conventional labs ignore.  The foundation of functional medicine holds that healthier cells will lead to a healthier you.  By optimizing metabolism, mitochondrial energy, and hormones while reducing inflammation, oxidative stress, and your body’s toxic burden, better health is within your reach.  Founded in the most-recent medical literature, functional medicine is the most powerful way to both sustainably reverse disease and optimize your health now.

Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine

Founded in the same biologic processes and scientific paradigm as Functional Medicine, Anti-Aging medicine can be thought of as the flip side of the disease-wellness coin.  Just as Functional Medicine is the most powerful tool to reverse disease in sick patients, Anti-Aging Medicine is the most useful paradigm in which to optimize health.  While the two are not mutually exclusive, Anti-Aging Medicine aims at more subtle ends — improving vitality and recovery, prolonging lifespan, supporting growth factors and youth-promoting cells, preventing disease (Alzheimer’s, heart attacks, strokes), repairing tissue, optimizing immunity, reducing inflammation, prolonging life.

Leverage Points

A foundational concept in Functional and Anti-Aging Medicine that refers to the art of prioritizing which biologic processes to treat first.  Borrowed from Archimedes belief, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I will move the world,” leverage points aim to identify the one or two therapies or lifestyle changes that will result in the most downstream effects. Reducing inflammation by treating food allergies and healing your gut, for example, will improve arthritis, headaches, hypertension, and immunity. Unlike conventional medicine, research is often lacking and standards of care are not yet established.  As such, the success of your experience in functional medicine is highly-dependent on the experience of your doctor.  Dr. Rogoff carries 15 years of functional medicine experience with tens of thousands of patient encounters to your bedside, optimizing your chance of long-lasting success as you invest your time and resources into achieving optimal health.