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Desiree Aiken

Desiree Aiken

Dr Desiree Eakin, MD, is a board-certified integrative medicine physician and founder/Chief Medical Officer of Total Illusion Aesthetic & Wellness Center in Seal Beach, California, specializing in hormone, metabolic, and brain health.

Sep 14, 2026

3:40
Is that from experience, or is it just something you're interested in?
3:44
Right.
3:44
So no, that's from experience.
3:45
So I have a lot of patients, um, in the brain health, um, area as part of, as part of my, um, practice with, um, hormones and obesity medicine and metabolic health.
3:58
Brain health follows in that, and, and we know that there's, um, those areas are all connected.
4:05
And so I have, uh, many patients who come to me seeking, uh, more of a, um, holistic approach.
4:13
Not that they are not doing pharmaceuticals, but how can we further advance their health, um, without adding more pharmaceuticals and give them more tools, looking more from an integrative approach, uh, to medicine and, uh, how we look more at systems and how they, uh, integrate with one another versus just focusing on each individual's symptoms.
6:20
How, how do other physicians react to that? Do they say it's okay to integrate, or should they be two separate things?

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