Today we’d like to introduce you to Paola Rosales.
Hi Paola, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
My name is Paola Rosales, I was born and raised in San Diego, when I graduated from high school I decided to go to medical school in Tijuana Mexico. In 2013 when I graduated from Medical School, I didn’t have the opportunity to do a residency and I had to start working right away. I worked as an aesthetic doctor on a cruise line in the Caribbean applying botox and fillers, I found my passion after working with a plastic surgeon from Miami, Florida. I loved aesthetic medicine BUT working on a cruise was not what I expected, so when I got back to Tijuana, I got hired by a company based out of Costa Rica who flew me out to Costa Rica to train for bio-identical hormone replacement therapy. This type of medicine is known as regenerative or functional medicine, preventative medicine, or getting to the root of the health problem. After a very extensive training, I became the medical director of their clinic and continued my education through different academies such as American Academy of anti-aging medicine (A4M). About a year later I completed my master’s in Sexual Education and got certified as a sexologist. This is how I integrated Bio-Identical hormone replacement therapy for treating sexual dysfunctions. My goal is to continue to grow both in my practice and knowledge. I have been growing my practice and added other services in my clinic so that my patients could get their full integrative treatment such as Hormonal Optimization, Nutrients and antioxidant treatments, Stem cell therapy, erectile disfunction therapy Intravenous Therapy, facial rejuvenation, hair restoration, and both invasive and noninvasive aesthetic procedures as well as a Medi Spa. After 7 years of working on the field of anti-aging medicine, I am proud to be the medical director of Longev Ageless Clinic, a functional medicine clinic where we specialize in hormone optimization, nutrients, IV therapies, cellular therapies and are able to treat our patients the integrative way. Our typical patient can be anyone who wants to promote longevity and improve quality of life to women going through menopause or men going through andropause and want to recover their quality of life. I am also the co-host of a podcast called Dosis Sexual where myself and a psychologist sexologist talk about different topics such as menstruation, sexual violence, transsexuality, etc.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
It definitely has not been a smooth road. My first struggle which I think is everyone’s struggle when they finish medical school in Mexico was not know what to do next, and without my parents’ economical help it definitely made it harder. I would have to say that my biggest struggle of all was my personal growth and knowing my self-worth. I say this because in medicine but specially in the type of medicine where I move it is mainly male doctors out there, as a young woman, and also younger looking woman my main issues were always patients not trusting me at first because “I could be their daughter” but also in reunions with my colleagues my voice wasn’t the first others paid attention to. Also, in Mexico or may be all around but in my experience, there were many people trying to take economical advantage. Definitely working on myself and growing myself love and self-worth has been my biggest struggle but my most rewarding. My final struggle is being able to balance my personal and professional life, medicine, in general, can steal so much from you, especially quality time with loved ones or even “me time”, it has been a consistent personal work and consistent professional work as well.
We’ve been impressed with Longev Clinic, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
We are a regenerative and functional medicine clinic. In other words, the patients that usually come in are either healthy and want to prevent diseases and promote longevity and quality of life. Or there are patients who have a medical condition such as diabetes, long covid side effects, andropause, menopause or just come in with a symptom of fatigue and are tired of western medicine just treating their symptoms but not really healing them. We get to the root of the condition. In our staff we have a medical doctor who specializes in aesthetic medicine and also specializes in IV therapy, where she applies different nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants directly in the vein and has protocols to treat patients with long covid, improve skin, improve immune system, improve hair loss, etc.
I have been specializing in hormone replacement therapy with bio-identical hormones for over seven years. This consists on replacing the hormones that our body is no longer producing. When we are 35 years of age our hormone production decrease significantly leading to a decrease in quality of life, my therapies will help gain that quality of life. I have been treating men with andropause and also women for perimenopause of menopause symptoms. And both myself and the other doctor specialize in cellular therapy, we make personalize protocols with stem cell therapies to help our patients regenerate from the inside out.
At Longev we distinguished by our multidisciplinary approach, empathetic practice, and our consistent update in the field. Our first consultation consist of one hour and half clinical history and we do personalized follow up with all of our patients.
We are consistently adding services to our clinic, we have a pain management doctor who does ultrasound infiltrations to regenerate joints, we added a medi spa where we offer noninvasive aesthetic procedures, and in 2023 we will be adding epigenetic testing which consists of examining genes to create an extra personalized treatment.
Alright, so to wrap up, is there anything else you’d like to share with us?
To follow us on social media (IG: longevclinic) we are constantly educating our patients and also showing them what their experience would be like, Our clinic is located in Tijuana Mexico, one of the top leading cities for medical tourism, where we offer the same and/or better quality of care for a fraction for the cost of what a patient would pay in the US. Our state-of-the-art clinic is conveniently located 7 mins away from the US-Mex border.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://longevclinic.com/
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/longevclinic?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Image Credits
Dr. Paola Rosales
Dr. Diana Hernandez
