OUR TEAM IS SKILLED, COMPASSIONATE AND IS READY TO GET YOU TO A BETTER YOU.

MEET THE FOUNDER

Alexis Anvekar MD, ABIHM

FOUNDER · THE LIVING METHOD™

Dr. Anvekar built the CogSpan™ System to detect The Silent Gap™.

Her mother died a few years after a mild dementia diagnosis, leaving decades of medical records full of small findings, each dismissed on its own. When Dr. Anvekar organized them into what became the Ten Intrinsic Capacity Domains, a pattern appeared that no single test could show. Most findings traced to just two domains: Metabolic & Glycemic Stability and Risk Behaviors, Environment & Health Engagement. Together, they had been harming her brain for at least 17 years before anyone called it dementia.

Medicine waits for a diagnosis. By then, the window that matters most has closed. That window is The Silent Gap™.

The discovery put Dr. Anvekar at the front of a new movement in longevity medicine: measuring and preserving intrinsic capacity, the physical and mental reserve that shapes how well you’ll live at 80. The World Health Organization calls it the foundation of healthy aging. Most medicine still doesn’t measure it. The CogSpan™ System does. It turns intrinsic capacity into ten concrete scores you can act on and retest every year, for life.

Where medicine sees nothing, CogSpan™ sees a pattern — and time to act.

Today, Living Method is the largest woman-owned
longevity center in Los Angeles County.

CREDENTIALS

MD, ABIHM — Board Certified in American Board of Integrative & Holistic Medicine · Board Certified in Internal Medicine, National Board of Physicians & Surgeons

INNOVATION

Founder and Creator of Living Method

and its patent-pending

CogSpan™ System, built to detect The Silent Gap™

SPECIALTY

Precision longevity, cognitive and metabolic aging, advanced diagnostics, performance medicine, concierge primary care

LOCATION

The Living Method

445 S Fair Oaks Ave

Pasadena, California

91105

Dr. Alexis Anvekar was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah and was not allowed to attend college due to her gender. She left home at age 17 and enrolled in a local community college. She was a homeless student off and on for most of her college years. She worked full time throughout college, took on leadership roles to have tuition reductions, and took several breaks in school to take second jobs.

She eventually graduated with honors from both University of California, San Diego and Keck School of Medicine at USC.

She was the only student in her medical school who was awarded USC's very highest honor. Dr. Anvekar also was nationally recognized as "the most promising female physician-in-training in the country" with an award presented to her by the American Medical Women's Association (AMWA).

Her leadership roles during her education years included SLCC Vice President and Editor of Student Newspaper, Medical School Class President, Medical School Co-Editor of Student Newspaper, Committee of Interns and Residents Southern California Chapter Vice-President, Los Angeles Chapter President, National Chapter Vice-President, Co-Founder of Student Organization for the Medical Awareness of AIDS, and creator of a curriculum in USC Medical School that continued decades after she graduated, Delegate for American Medical Association (AMA) and American Medical Women's Association (AMWA).

As a senior at the medical school, she was invited along with the top 0.01% of graduating seniors to complete a coveted leadership fellowship called the USC Presidential Fellowship run by USC's Marshall School of Business.

When in residency, Dr. Anvekar met regularly with politicians in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C. as an ambassador of the LAC+USC Medical Center and ally of the Angelinos in all walks of life served by LAC+USC.

She has been practicing since 2001 and was amongst the first in California to start a personalized type of healthcare service that mirrors the old ways of practicing medicine, now known as concierge medicine.

Awards include Top Docs, Most Compassionate Doctor Award (given to top 3% nationwide physicians), Patient's Choice Award (given to top 6% nationwide physicians), America's Most Honored Professionals Award, LA Magazine's Top Doctors Award, Pasadena Magazine Top Docs Award, America's Best Physicians Award and Who's Who Among Women Entrepreneurs.

Being active in her community and fostering a love for charity in her children is a priority to Dr. Anvekar. She Co-Founded a group called "Kids for Change." This is a group of amazing local families who introduce their children to charity by purchasing, cooking and serving meals to the 50+ homeless men, women and children of the Union Station Homeless Services Family Center one dinner a month since 2010 until the children all left for college.

In an effort to do her part in furthering science education, she served as Chair of the Science Fair at her local elementary and middle schools from 2011 to 2017 with some students advancing to national competitions. In 2009 she founded Wild 4 Science, an after school enrichment program aimed at fostering a lifelong love for science in young children. Dr. Anvekar believes that by introducing children to the fun and creativity in science at an early age, they are more likely to enjoy and succeed in science in the future.

Dr. Anvekar is proud to serve on the Board of Song For Charlie, a non-profit saving lives by education countless young people all over the world about the fentanyl crisis.

She loves spending time with her family and friends. She enjoys photography as her primary hobby and maintains roots in the mountains of her home state, Utah.