Take charge of your health.

Live healthier, longer - in midlife and beyond.

We treat the whole person

Empower Lifestyle Medicine is a membership-based direct care clinic focused on extending longevity and healthspan, reducing reliance on medications, and helping people live with energy, clarity and purpose.

We combine cutting-edge, evidence-based medical care with powerful lifestyle interventions—exercise, nutrition, restorative sleep, and stress management—to support lasting, meaningful change.

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Our Focus

Health Optimization Care

Understand your current health profile and achieve your best health and longevity.

Menopause Care

Hormonal and non-hormonal treatments to manage your symptoms and optimize your health during this time of profound change. All our physicians are Menopause Society Certified Practitioners.

Weight and Metabolic Care

Holistic weight management, including injectable GLP-1 medications if appropriate, along with lifestyle change to create sustainable results.

Cancer Survivorship Reset

A program for cancer survivors focused on restoring health, including support for fatigue, pain and deconditioning, reducing metabolic and cardiovascular risk, bone and muscle rebuilding, hormonal and sexual health, and reducing risk of cancer recurrence.

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More than just medication…

While medications can be essential tools, we believe that true health and longevity are about more than just prescriptions. Our unrushed, highly individualized visits give you the time and space to feel truly heard—and provide the guidance and support often missing in conventional care. As a member, you’ll never deal with hurried appointments or long waits—because your health is our top priority.

What our patients are saying…

  • Dr. Ihnatsenka has been my physician for years. I am so grateful that she is Board Certified in Lifestyle Medicine. She is extremely knowledgeable and passionate about helping her patients live as "healthy" as possible for as "long" as possible!!! She communicates quickly and follows up on all questions that I may have. As a vegan and one who studies whole food plant-based nutrition, I am thrilled to have Dr. Ihnatsenka as my personal physician.

    Suzanne

  • Sharon Byun has a vast amount of knowledge about a diverse group of subjects. As a 65 year old man with 18 and 22 year old children, she and I are going to make sure I exercise, eat and sleep well so that I will be present and able to participate in all the good stuff that has yet to come. HIghly recommended for everyone.

    John

  • I met with Dr. Yeung today for a weight loss consultation. She was kind, compassionate, and thorough. We addressed multiple issues that may be contributing to my ongoing struggles with weight loss and made short term goals for dealing with each of them. Lots of education was provided and the overall care provided was top notch. I feel confident moving forward in this journey with Dr. Yeung and Empower!

    KJ

  • My experience with Empower Health was exceptional. I was not sure what to expect, but what I encountered was a very engaged, interested and attentive physician who really listened and heard what I had to say. The 90-minute consult was an unexpected treat and not one I have experienced with my traditional health care team - ever! Dr. Coleman’s recommendations, preventative and root-cause approach were encouraging. Her knowledge of the healthy lifestyle field was refreshing and encouraging. Highly recommend!

    Kim

  • Empower Lifestyle Medicine makes healthy living so approachable! Their suggestions for improving nutrition, exercise, and overall wellness were simple and easy to integrate into my daily routine. The guidance was practical and tailored to my lifestyle, which made sticking to the changes so much easier. If you’re looking for a straightforward way to adopt healthier habits, I highly recommend them!

    Dede

The 6 pillars of Lifestyle Medicine are proven to prevent and even reverse chronic disease…

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    Move Your Body

    Together, depending on your current level of physical activity, we will create a plan that will help you to improve your cardiovascular fitness and strength. In general, one should aim for a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate intensity cardiovascular exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity exercise (or a combination of both) and 2 sessions of strength training per week.

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    Eat Good Food

    The evidence overwhelmingly supports a whole foods plant-predominant eating pattern. We aim to meet you where you are in your nutrition journey and create a manageable and sustainable plan that will work for you. We understand that for many individuals, this may be a work in progress!

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    Sleep Better

    More than 1 out of 3 adult Americans get less than the required 7-9 hours of sleep per night. Whether you struggle with insomnia or have been diagnosed with or suspect a sleep disorder such as Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), we can work to help you improve your sleep regularity, quality and duration.

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    Stress Less

    Heart Rate Variability (HRV) has been demonstrated to be a reliable measure of physiologic and psychologic stress. We can use this data to help you determine and adjust how you approach your day-to-day life whether it be at work or home. Some strategies may include incorporating mindfulness meditation, breathing techniques, yoga, journaling, and/or physical activity.

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    Live with Love

    In addition to focusing on your personal relationships, you will have the option to connect with the network of individuals in our practice through group visits as well as on our FaceBook page.

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    Substance Control

    Whether you need assistance with tobacco cessation or have questions about alcohol use or other substances, we can help you modify these harmful health behaviors.

Did You KNOW?

Millions of Americans suffer from chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity, but with the right lifestyle changes, many of those conditions can be halted or even reversed without the use of drugs or procedures.

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Our team can help you with:

  • WEIGHT MANAGEMENT

  • MENOPAUSAL TRANSITION

  • SLEEP PROBLEMS

  • CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

  • DIABETES AND PRE-DIABETES

  • HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

  • HIGH CHOLESTEROL

  • DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND ADHD

  • OSTEOPOROSIS

  • SARCOPENIA (MUSCLE LOSS)

  • CANCER PREVENTION

  • ARTHRITIS

 

We are physicians who have spent our careers caring for patients and training future doctors within the traditional health care system. Like many of our patients, we have personally navigated the realities of modern life—parenting, balancing career and family, midlife transitions, menopause, and caring for aging parents. Along the way, we discovered firsthand how powerful nutrition, movement, sleep, and other lifestyle strategies can be in reclaiming health and well-being.

What we value most in medicine is building meaningful relationships and having the time to truly listen, educate, and partner with patients. Over time, we felt constrained by a system that prioritizes treatment and procedures over prevention—and productivity over presence—making it difficult to deliver the kind of care we believe patients deserve.

We believe there is a better way. Lifestyle Medicine is an evidence-based approach that uses sustainable behavior change to prevent, treat, and even reverse many chronic conditions. While medications and procedures absolutely have an important role, lifestyle medicine addresses a critical gap in traditional medical training and gets to the root of long-term health and quality of life.

With our medical expertise, we guide patients using the six pillars of Lifestyle Medicine: a whole-foods, plant-predominant diet; regular physical activity; restorative sleep; stress management; avoidance of risky substances; and strong social connections. Our goal is to help you take control of your health—now and for the long term.

 

Our Story

 

Meet the Team

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    Sharon Byun, MD,
    FACOG, DipABLM, MSCP

    Obstetrics and Gynecology

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    Olga Ihnatsenka, MD,
    DipABLM, DABOM

    Family Medicine

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    Anamaria Yeung, MD,
    DipABLM, DABOM

    Oncology

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Your Questions, Answered

  • Visits are not billed to insurance. This allows for longer visits, deeper care, and proactive planning. Labs, imaging, and medications may be billed to insurance or offered at cash rates. You can use HSA funds to pay for this program.


    Direct care clinics, such as ours, offer an innovate alternative payment model that improves your access to your physician for a flat monthly fee. Instead of being limited by insurance, both you and physician are able to spend increased time focusing on your needs and goals. You don't need to worry about not being able to get an appointment for months on end, and not hearing back from messages for days. We have eliminated these problems for you. And no worries about insurance denying a claim.   

  • We are currently accepting patients 18 years and over who are residents of Florida.

  • We work with your primary care physician, but we don’t replace your PCP.

  • Our membership includes:

    • Monthly visits with your physician, either in-person in Gainesville, FL or virtual.

    • Free access to any of our workshops and classes.

    • Medication management.

    • Complete Lifestyle Medicine assessment and plan.

    • Ordering and review of advanced diagnostic tests including labwork.

    The cost of labs and other diagnostic tests, and medications is NOT included in the membership.

  • Yes! There is no time commitment required. However most of our patients choose to continue their membership for 6-12 months as they find, often for the first time, that they are able to truly understand how to improve their health and make sustainable changes.

 

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