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My name is Dr. Brian Martin, a Naturopathic Physician with specialized training in optimal aging medicine. Over the past 18 years EnerChanges™ Clinic in Vancouver, BC has been dedicated to teaching, motivating and guiding each patients to become not only healthier….but happier. Optimal aging medicine is a branch of preventative medicine, which not only looks at the early detection and treatment of chronic disease, but also the many ways that one can enhance a person’s overall quality of life. This includes the proper testing and safe use of bio-hormones.
Doc Martin Background
One of my motivations to become an optimal-aging physician was my own families’ medical history of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.
EnerChanges™ job is to – remove, replace and balance.
I have learned that the body has an innate wisdom to heal but also that it operates on a very simple logic. It says "give me what I need, when I need it, and I will do the best a body can do.
Our job at the Vancouver clinic, as far as the body is concerned to act like a big gas station, evaluating, testing and treating whatever was low. This includes vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and hormones. Also if there are any obstructions to the body, like excessive toxins or heavy metals or even negative emotions these need to be addressed.
No one knows your body better than you. Most patients can sense when something is not right way before a doctor tells them, however even this knowing, without awareness or understanding can still cause decreased quality of life and progression to a more serious problem or disease. Under-stand that your body ultimately works for you. It is a valuable mechanism that carries supports and unconditionally takes care of you, until it can no longer live. What makes optimal aging unique is the incorporation of, not only the physical aspect to each person’s health but also the mental emotional aspects of happiness. Studies constantly show that stress, anger and depression suppress aspects of immune system; this direct effect on the body is typically further aggravated by the behaviours that go along with these emotions, such as smoking, excessive drinking, emotional eating, high sugar, lack of sleep and exercise, poor diet and lack of vitamin support. It’s not too difficult to see that all of these combined over time increase the risk of disease.
At EnerChanges™, patients are given tools to decrease and change; stress responses, negative thoughts and poor lifestyle choices. Other tools are given to increase, gratitude, peace and happiness. Once used these po-werful interventions, change how much suffering you experience, how much disease you get, how fast you heal and how much fun and purpose you will experience in your life. Optimal aging is about gaining health and happiness. Creating a foundation of long-term health and well-being is rooted in positive lifestyle choices and effective interventions both physical and emotional when necessary.
Is it possible to reach 60, 70, and beyond, and feel and function like a healthy 40 or 50 year old? Unequivocally, the answer is, YES. It is possible to thrive. Yes. When I first started my practice, I had to believe it to be true. Now, after 15 years of seeing what the body and a person in that body can do, I know it to be true.
If you are ready for a positive change in your life, your health and energy, if you want to get rid of that stubborn weight I invite you to call the clinic and put these principals of optimal aging to work for you. It’s your life, your gift, you hold the power.
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