MMC Anti-Aging @ North Shore
Hormones and weight,
managed by a physician
Menopause and perimenopause, low testosterone, and medical weight management at our North Vancouver clinic. Each one starts with an assessment — your history, your symptoms and, where it helps, bloodwork — and the assessment is allowed to end with “not this”.
The assessment is a paid consultation; the fee is confirmed when we call to arrange it. Anything that follows is explained in writing — what it involves, how it is monitored and what it costs — before you decide. This clinic is self-pay and does not bill MSP, and your family doctor can look into any of these as well.
Why these start
with an assessment
- The symptoms overlap
- Tiredness, poor sleep, weight gain and low mood each have a long list of causes. Thyroid, iron, sleep apnoea, medication and mood come before hormones, and bloodwork is how they are told apart.
- A prescription is a decision, not a product
- Whether any medication is appropriate — and which — depends on your history and your results. We do not name or promote medications on this website; the physician explains the options, their risks and their costs at the assessment.
- It is a programme, not a visit
- Whatever is started is followed: repeat bloodwork, a review of how you are, and a real decision about whether to continue. Stopping is a legitimate outcome.
Not sure where you fit?
These are sorted by what is bothering you rather than by treatment name. Each page says what actually helps, what does not, and when the honest answer is that nothing here is needed.
- Loose Skin After Weight LossLosing the weight is the hard part and you have done it. What is left is usually a skin problem rather than a fat problem, and those have completely different answers.
- Fatigue & Low EnergyThis is the concern where we are least likely to sell you anything, and we would rather say that at the top of the page than at the end of a consultation.
- Dullness & Uneven ToneDullness and dehydration are a texture problem, not a shape problem. That distinction decides which half of the menu is even relevant.
- Volume Loss & HollowsVolume loss is the change people describe as looking tired or gaunt without being able to name a line. It is also the one where over-treatment is most visible from across a room.
- Forehead & Frown LinesForehead and frown lines are muscle before they are skin. The question that decides your result is not the dose — it is whether the line is still only there when you move.
- Hooded Upper LidsThe line where this stops being an injectable question and becomes a surgical one is unusually clear, and you are entitled to be told which side of it you are on.
- Jawline & Contour LossThe most common reason people book here, and the one where the honest answer changes most with age. In your forties a device usually does it. In your sixties it usually does not.
- Nasolabial FoldsNasolabial folds are usually a symptom. Filling the fold itself is the most common way to end up looking heavy in the lower face.
- Stubborn Body FatA pocket that stays the same size while the rest of you changes. Usually the flanks, the lower abdomen, or under the chin. The useful question is not which machine to use — it is whether what you are looking at is fat at all.
- Under-Eye Hollows & ShadowsThe most common request here, and the one where the answer is most often no. Under-eye shadow has at least four causes and filler helps exactly one of them.