Our Philosophy

You have incredible potential.

To realize it, you must proactively manage your most valuable asset: your health.

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Traditional medicine diagnoses and manages “dis-ease.” Biohackers take health to an unscientific extreme. Both leave most of us stranded in the middle, confused about how to craft a health plan for our unique physiology, psychology, and priorities.

At VIM Medicine, Dr. Joseph has pioneered and practices Performance Medicine, a blend of evidence-informed medicine with lifestyle design, behavior change, and tailored training of the mind and body so that you can bring attention and energy to what matters most to you, both now and into the future.

The objectives of Performance Medicine include the following:

A focus on maintaining and increasing an individual’s adaptive capacity throughout life through the incremental application of targeted stress, paired with optimal recovery.
If you are not growing, you are atrophying. There is no steady state. And this is true across all domains—not just the physical. Continued growth and development requires that we seek and learn to embrace discomfort.
The adoption of strategies and tactics that increase an individual’s capacity to postpone physical decline, prevent and reverse disease, and protect against injury.
The chronological passage of time and entropy are immutable forces constantly at work on our bodies. But by understanding our unique risk factors, devising a personalized plan, and deploying proactive practices, we can increase our resilience and optimize our healthspan.
A greater sense of physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing that enables one to contribute to the greater good of humanity.
Longevity should not be a fear-driven or ego-centric endeavor. The paramount purpose of better health and vitality is to enable service and contribution to a better world.
Proactive health care

You deserve more. To be at your best, you must demand more. 

To our modern health care system, you are a symptom to treat, a diagnosis to bill, a chart to sign.

Your health is likely scattered among siloed practitioners, inefficient systems, and fragmented industries. As a result, you may be feeling and living below your capacity.

Your health plan should be personalized and proactive. It isn’t.

Your health care providers should practice, promote, and prescribe health-enhancing practices for your everyday life. They don’t.

Your health care should help you consistently and courageously express health as a value amidst the many pressing demands and priorities in your life. It doesn’t.

We do.

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