Christopher Campbell, DO, ABAARM, FMNM

Dr. Chris Campbell is a top-ranked concierge doctor specializing in integrative, regenerative, and anti-aging medicine for patients from Rocklin, CA, and all throughout the United States. At Best Life Medical Center, Dr. Campbell offers a concierge medicine model of care, providing patients with an array of state-of-the-art, customized testing and treatment options. Dr. Campbell’s emphasis is on optimizing and balancing hormones using bioidentical hormone therapy, nutritional analysis and heavy metals, toxicity testing with corresponding appropriate care. Cosmetic and aesthetic care options like BOTOX^®, JUVÈDERM^® and Voluma^® are also offered to help men and women look as good as they feel.

Board certified in Family Practice, Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine, Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine and Aerospace Medicine, Dr. Campbell has over 25 years of experience of knowledge and delivering exceptional care. He earned his Bachelor’s degree at Alfred University, followed by his osteopathic degree at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and his Family Practice residency at Eastmoreland General Hospital. Following his residency, Dr. Campbell joined the U.S. Air Force where he completed additional medical training and received multiple certifications in the fields of aerospace medicine, hyperbaric medicine, and allergy medicine. While stationed at Edwards AFB, Dr. Campbell served as Chief of Flight Surgery and Allergy Medicine. In 2010, Dr. Campbell became a fellow of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M). He believes that anti-aging medicine is the “most rewarding and comprehensive approach to optimizing one’s health and returning an aging mind and body to a more youthful time.”

At Best Life Medical Center, Dr. Campbell combines his medical expertise and passion to give his patients the guidance and tools to achieve their best possible health. Call today to learn more about the unique concierge medical care that Dr. Campbell offers!

January 2019 A4M Member of the Month

Q1: Before joining A4M, what was your medical background?

After completing a Family Practice residency, I joined the Air Force. Having gone through medical school and residency on my own, I had some leverage to go into a Flight Surgery program, which is what I did. The Air Force trained me in Aerospace Medicine and Allergy Medicine. Shortly after that training was completed, I became “Chief of Flight Surgery” at Edwards AFB in Southern California. As exciting and fun as my time in the Air Force was, when my three years were up, I had to get out into the “real world” and start paying back my student loans.

I moved to Northern California and focused on raising my two boys and my Family Practice. One day, about twelve years ago, I had a female patient come in asking about “Bioidentical Hormones”. She was going through menopause and was reading one of Suzanne Sommers books. She was full of questions. Questions, I had no idea how to answer. However, this patient was very intelligent and piqued my interest. And, it wasn’t long before I found myself sitting in a A4M BHRT symposium. I remember sitting in a lecture on the first day of the conference, thinking to myself, “where has all this information been hiding and why weren’t we taught this in medical school and residency”? What an eye opener! After that conference, I couldn’t sign up as an A4M member fast enough.

Q2: What anti-aging techniques have you incorporated into your practice? And how did you so?

Initially, I continued my Family Practice and incorporated everything I was learning during my ABAARM fellowship. I replaced “Big Pharma” hormones with BHRT hormones. I also started checking the testosterone levels on Symptomatic male patients and replacing their “T” if indicated. I also did targeted supplementation of nutraceuticals and made life style changing recommendations.

During this time where I was completing my ABAARM fellowship training, I started incorporating more and more changes to the way I was treating my patients. Changes that were making real improvements in the lives of my patients.

I refer to this time in my life as the “transformation stage”. I found myself becoming increasingly frustrated with practicing the “status quo” of conventional “band aid” medicine. I realized the best thing for both me and my patients would be to get away from the restraints of a conventional “insurance based” practice.

Therefore, six years ago I left my conventional band aid, insurance based, big Pharma practice and opened a concierge Integrative Medical practice. It is the A4M training that has given me the tools to become so successful and truly optimize both the quality and quantity of my patients lives.

Q3: What are the benefits of practicing anti-aging medicine? (as a professional, and for your practice?)

Wow! Where do I start? Every aspect of both my life and my patients lives has benefited from my ABAARM and FMNM training.

As physicians, we are residency trained to treat a given disease or condition. A4M and MMI Fellowships provide us with a means to further our education and hone our skills as physicians. We learn how to become more complete in how we think and deliver health care to our patients. I have so many more tools, better tools in my doctors bag. Now, when a patient presents, I automatically start looking for the underlying cause of their complaint and not just writing them an Rx and sending them on their way.

Q4: What are the changes you see in your patients?

My patients see improvements both physically and mentally. Better overall health with more energy, strength, sleep and drive. They seem to enjoy life better.

Q5: Why would you recommend Anti-Aging Medicine to your peers?

Why wouldn’t I? Before I found A4M and became a fellow, I had lost the passion I had in medical school and residency. I felt like my life was a scene out of the Groundhog Day movie. Simply starting my first A4M fellowship put the wind back in my sails. I could actually treat my patient’s with new modalities that not only treated the underlying cause of disease but prevented disease. Anytime we can cure an existing “chronic disease” in a patient or prevent future disease, we’ve accomplished the very thing most of us got into medicine for.

Q6: Where do you see the future of Anti-Aging medicine 20 years from now?

Anti- Aging, functional and integrative medicine will only grow in popularity. The more physicians that receive training, the more patients will be exposed to the life changing differences compared to conventional medicine. It may take another 10 to 15 years but it is my belief the present system will be replaced by what we are doing at A4M and MMI. Once the medical schools start teaching an integrative approach instead of a predominant pharmacological approach, we will have won as both physicians and patients.

• Anti-Aging Medicine
• Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy/ BHRT
• Functional Medicine
• Heavy Metals Toxicity
• Integrative Medicine
• Regenerative Medicine