DESSERT 
summarizes the framework used at Live Young Medical to help you achieve a longer, healthier and more vital life.  

DIET
EXERCISE
SLEEP OPTIMIZATION
STRESS  MANAGEMENT
EARLY DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF THE DISEASES OF AGING
RISK REDUCTION FOR THE DISEASES OF AGING
TREATMENT OF HORMONE IMBALANCE

A customized program can give you:

• Better energy and physical function
  Improved memory and focus
• A greater sense of wellbeing and improved mood
• Decreased body fat and increased muscle and bone mass
• Improved immune function
• Improved sexual function
• Slowed skin aging and address hair loss
• There is relief of symptoms from menopause, andropause, perimenopause and other hormone imbalances.
• It will reveal the diseases you may be at risk for and the path for their prevention.

  Age Management Programs.
  Prevent disease, slow aging and optimize hormones.

  Weight Management
  Achieve effective, lasting optimal weight for improved health, quality of life and longevity

Restoring hormones and using natural hormones to return patients to optimal physiological levels is one of the most useful tools to slow age-related change.

Dr. Sweeney has developed wellness programs that focus on attaining and maintaining optimal physical and mental function through disease prevention and bioidentical hormone rebalancing for multiple hormone systems. Programs incorporate diet, exercise, and nutritional supplements as well as address unhealthy sleep patterns and stress levels. Pairing these fundamentals with normalized, youthful hormone levels is crucial in achieving optimal health and longevity. And you will feel and function better.

An individualized approach ensures your program works for you.

Restoring Hormonal Health For Men and Women is Essential for Optimal Health at Every Age

The levels of our hormones start to change in midlife; our physical and mental function decline and ageing are accelerated because hormones are essential for a normal cellular function for all organ systems. Most hormone levels drop estrogen, progesterone, testosterone (for men and women), DHEA, melatonin, growth hormone, and possibly thyroid. Others such as insulin and cortisol may rise. These changes in hormone production influence not only our energy and vigour but the body’s ability to repair and regulate itself. The signs and symptoms of impaired hormone levels include:

• Weight gain, especially abdominal fat
• Loss of muscle and bone mass
• A compromised immune system- recurrent colds, flu and other infections and slow recovery
• Foggy thinking, memory and cognitive decline
• Depression, anxiety, feeling overwhelmed and stressed
• Insulin resistance, increased blood glucose and blood pressure, unhealthy cholesterol and other metabolic parameters
• Low sex drive and reduced sexual function
• Fatigue and sleep disruption, lower mental and physical energy
• Wrinkled, thinning and sagging skin, age spots and keratosis
• Bladder dysfunction and genital atrophy

  Restoring hormones or balancing hormones means returning levels to optimal youthful physiological levels. This  is one of the most useful tools to slow age-related change and benefits people as they age in three main areas: symptom relief, improved well-being and quality of life (restorative sleep, improved energy or libido), and as a tool in disease prevention (heart disease, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis).

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Medically supervised and using the latest scientific research, The Live Young Integrated Weight Loss and Maintenance Program will make the difference in not only losing unwanted pounds but in keeping them off. Unlike other programs, The Live Young Integrated Program combines both diet and exercise strategies in the setting of hormone optimization and sleep and stress management. Additionally, we help identify underlying factors that may be barriers to weight loss and provide individualized, ongoing follow up.

The combination of all of these key components is crucial and is why this program can work for you when past efforts have not.

Read our Understanding Overweight and Obesity blog to find out more about how these conditions affect health and wellbeing.

We appreciate your ongoing trust in Live Young Medical. 



We are excited to share some important updates to our Age Management care model with 
Dr. Sweeney. These enhancements have been carefully designed to provide a more structured, proactive, and comprehensive approach to your long-term health and wellness.

What’s Changing?


We are transitioning from a per-visit fee structure to a simplified annual fee model to ensure a consistent, streamlined, and proactive approach to your care.

 This updated model allows us to focus even more on preventative strategies, metabolic health, and hormone optimization through the DESSERT Framework—a structured, evidence-based approach to Age Management.

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Restoring hormones to optimal physiological levels is one of the most powerful tools to slow age-related change. When paired with an optimal lifestyle, the combination is an effective prevention strategy for common diseases such as heart disease; the leading cause of death in both men and women.

DIET
An individualized eating plan based on insulin and other metabolic parameters, total weight loss target, personal style, dietary preferences and restrictions, and past dieting history.
Protein, calorie and/or carbohydrate targets are specified.

EXERCISE
A customized exercise strategy based on weight and fitness goals, personal preference, geographic location, physical limitations and past physical activity.
Increased non-exercise activity and building frequency and intensity of existing exercise pattern are goals.

SUPPLEMENTS
Specific supplements and probiotic support for complete health as well as weight management.

BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE ADAPTATION
Record keeping has been shown to help with weight loss and weight loss maintenance.
We help you avoid a short term mindset, instead, you need a plan that can be adopted for life, a healthy and sustainable plan. We also strive to cultivate a growth vs fixed outlook to help change all or nothing and failure based thinking.

HORMONE SUPPORT
Hormone management using: estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, thyroid, GH, HCG depending on your individual requirements. Repeated cycles of dieting may cause weight loss to occur at ½ the rate and weight gain at 3x the rate compared to controls with the same calorie intake. Thyroid replacement, for example, may help counter effects of exercise and caloric restriction on the slowing of metabolism. Estrogen and testosterone therapy help counter insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.

MEDICATION
As needed for individuals with medical barriers to weight loss in the context of our comprehensive program.

MONITORING
There are two stages for success: weight loss and maintenance at target weight. We provide regular ongoing coaching, assessment and follow through with visits and follow up physiologic and laboratory benchmarks. Follow up is also to evaluate the compensatory behaviours with food intake and activity expenditure that may occur as a result of a weight loss program.