If there’s one thing we want at Regain Functional Medicine + Aesthetics, it’s for you to feel like yourself.
But as you age, it seems like feeling “off” is just another part of life you have to accept. Our team, on the other hand, doesn’t accept it, and neither should you.
Modeling our practice around functional wellness, we aim to restore your health, enhance your appearance, and rebuild your confidence. Understanding the body as an interconnected system, we start by addressing your symptoms instead of masking them.
But functional wellness in Kansas City also leads us to dig deeper than simply addressing symptoms. We want you to function, move, feel, and look your best at all times while also preventing further complications down the road. We achieve that by building relationships with our patients, tailoring your treatment, and providing ongoing support throughout every season of your life.
We designed our treatments to help you function optimally in every aspect. We teach you how to improve longevity at our wellness center with the following treatments.
1. Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)
You may not realize it, but your hormones could be to blame for your “off” feeling. Often, people only think about these chemical messengers in relation to major life events, like puberty, childbirth, menstruation, and menopause. But really, your hormones are in a constant state of rise and fall, controlling everything from your metabolism to your sleep-wake cycle.
With that in mind, it’s no wonder you’re not feeling like yourself these days. In their 30s and 40s, men and women see a reduction in crucial hormones including estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone. For functional wellness in Kansas City, we restore and replenish your hormone levels with hormone replacement therapy and testosterone replacement therapy.
At Regain, we only offer bioidentical hormone replacement therapy because they are molecularly identical to your body’s natural hormones. Unlike pharmaceutical hormones, which can be derived from equine sources, our hormones are sourced from plants like wild yams or soy, which your body uses more readily with fewer side effects.
After starting your BHRT treatment, you can experience the following benefits:
- Better sleep
- Increased bone health
- More energy
- Increased sex drive
- Enhanced memory and focus
Numerous clients visit us looking to improve their aesthetic, mental, and sexual wellness. They’re struggling with hair or skin problems, brain fog, and low libido, unaware that hormonal imbalances could be the root cause behind it all. In addition to your hormone replacement therapy, our sexual wellness clinic can restore your love life with various treatments for vaginal rejuvenation and erectile dysfunction.
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2. Medical Weight Loss
Functional wellness hinges on pinpointing the root of your symptoms, especially concerning weight management. If you’re overweight, the last thing we want you to do is follow crash diets and exhaustive workouts that just leave you hungry and burned out. The problem with these one-size-fits-all plans lies in their inability to address what your body actually needs in order to lose weight.
To promote functional wellness in Kansas City, we offer medical weight loss services to help you lose weight and sustain your results. Sitting down for an in-depth consultation, we start by learning about your lifestyle, diet, and previous weight loss attempts. Following this conversation, we use our InBody body composition analysis to evaluate your body’s core components:
- Body fat percentage
- BMI and BMR
- Protein
- Skeletal mass
- Body water
After your body composition scan, we’ll either review your blood work or draw blood in the office. These lab tests help us determine the best weight loss program for you. For some patients, traditional methods like nutritional guidance and exercise recommendations will work. For others, we may decide that medications like semaglutide or tirzepatide will work better for their unique biology.
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With weight loss medications, we still offer lifestyle guidance so that you can learn to make healthy lifestyle choices. Medications like semaglutide work in tandem with a healthy lifestyle, but they never replace it.
3. IV Therapy and Vitamin Injections
Your body relies on vitamins and minerals to function properly, aiding in metabolic processes to help your body convert macronutrients like carbs, proteins, and fats into energy. Ideally, your diet would include nutrient-dense foods packed with vitamins A through K and minerals like calcium, magnesium, and zinc—to name a few. Unfortunately, that’s not always achievable, leaving us deficient in these necessary micronutrients. This is where IV therapy and vitamin injections work to improve your functional wellness in Kansas City.
When you’re at the grocery or drug store, you might feel tempted to just grab an oral multi-vitamin instead. While these may help, they don’t work nearly as effectively or quickly as an intravenous or intramuscular injection. Oral supplements lose potency when they go through the digestive system. Vitamins delivered via IV therapy or injection travel through your bloodstream, where they reach your cells quickly for optimal absorption.
These infusions and injections can help you recover quickly from a night of too many drinks, support your immunity, and even improve your mood. After your first session, you can notice a few of the following benefits:
- Boosted mood
- Improved allergy symptoms
- Strengthened hair and nails
- Enhanced wound healing
- Increased energy levels
- Improved immunity
That’s only a small sample of the many benefits you can enjoy from IV therapy and vitamin injections. We provide a large selection of vitamins and minerals at our office. Based on your symptoms and health-related goals, we can determine and customize the best infusions for your needs.
The Relationship Between Functional Wellness and Aesthetics
People like to say, “Beauty is only skin deep,” but we think that diminishes the importance of feeling confident. At Regain, we incorporate aesthetic treatments into our approach to functional medicine in Kansas City because we understand the importance of loving your reflection.
Your self-esteem refers to how you view yourself from the inside out. This includes aspects of not only your personality and capabilities, but also your physical appearance. When you love the way you look, you have more confidence and feel more able to form connections, stay motivated, and improve your mental health.
While scars, redness, and wrinkles don’t make you unattractive, they may make you feel unattractive and negatively impact your self-image. That same line of thinking applies to issues you may have with your body; thinning hair, too much body hair, and excess body fat may be aesthetic issues that you’re fixated on, distracting you from your true beauty, even if everyone else can see it.
Remember, the body is interconnected. No single aspect of your system is isolated from the others—that’s a key tenant of functional wellness in Kansas City. Therefore, your external appearance can provide a glimpse into your internal health, and we use this philosophy to guide our care. When you have premature wrinkles, persistent acne, or hair loss, we can review your blood work or take a deeper look into your skin health using our Visia Skin Analysis to determine the cause of these issues and identify the best treatments for your needs.
Besides aesthetic treatments, we might also recommend hair restoration, BHRT, or IV therapy to enhance your inner health and outer appearance.
Laser Skin Treatments
Laser skin resurfacing removes the outer layer of skin, where layers of dead and damaged skin from years past have accumulated. Hiding underneath that top layer lives healthier, tighter, and clearer skin that our laser unveils for a more rejuvenated and refreshed appearance. Not only do laser skin resurfacing treatments leave you with glowing skin, but they also boost collagen production for extra skin support and health.
PHYSIQ Body Contouring
We have no control over how our body distributes weight. We can thank our gender and genetics for that. However, with PHYSIQ Body Contouring, we can destroy fat and build muscle in select treatment areas for a sculpted, slimmer appearance. Using a combination of heat and electrical muscle stimulation, we reduce unwanted fat and tone the muscles underneath simultaneously. Increased muscle mass leads to enhanced strength, improving workouts and resulting in a stronger you.
RF Microneedling
Creating tiny punctures in your skin can actually help it glow, resulting in clearer, smoother skin. At Regain, we enhance traditional microneedling with radiofrequency energy, which takes the effects even further. RF microneedling can be combined with skin rejuvenation and body contouring, making it a head-to-toe treatment.
Hair Restoration
Hair loss can result from hormones, stress, genetics, and even nutritional deficiencies, among many other causes. For hair restoration, we are the exclusive provider of GetHairMD in the Kansas City area providing a 3-step approach that includes genomic testing, in-office red-light laser treatment, customized prescriptions based on the findings of your genetic testing, and at-home care. This system allows us to tailor your hair restoration treatment to address the root cause of your hair loss and provide ongoing support for lasting results. In some cases, our BHRT services and IV therapy can complement this program, addressing hormonal imbalances and nutrient deficiencies.
Improve Your Function and Your Quality of Life
Functional wellness in Kansas City improves your physical and mental health by addressing your concerns at the source. These treatments also promote longevity and help you function at optimal levels so you never feel “off” or just not like yourself again. To get started, try our treatment planning tool. After we receive your submission, a member of our team will reach out with treatment options and available appointment times.
If you’re more interested in speaking with us face-to-face, you can request a consultation with a member of our team.
