Why Age Management with Dr. Maureen Sweeney
I have spent many years doing what I love to do. In 2003, I named my practice LIVEYOUNG with the spirit of exactly that: working with patients to live life while staying young in
health.
At Live Young Medical, age management is a collaborative partnership. You bring your goals, concerns, and life realities; I bring the latest evidence, deep clinical experience, and a
boutique practice that allows me to get to know every patient.
Extending Healthspan, Not Just Lifespan
Modern medicine has added years to the average life; my focus is your healthspan—the years you remain energetic, clear-minded, mobile, and fully engaged.
How this is achieved:
- Deep dive into how you feel and function. We explore your health and quality of life past and present, and the role your family’s health might play in your own.
- Proactive testing. Comprehensive metabolic and hormonal panels reveal the earliest signs of age-related change— which can start in our 30s and 40s, when insulin resistance or perimenopausal shifts first appear.
- Body-composition focus. Excess weight amplifies risk for almost every chronic disease, from heart disease and type 2 diabetes to dementia and osteoarthritis. Fine-tuning metabolism and body composition is woven into every plan.
Symptoms Are Signals, Not Just Nuisances
Symptoms often act as early warning lights:
By treating these clues seriously, we can intervene long before certain diseases take hold.
- Severity of hot flashes are linked to a higher future risk of cardiovascular disease.
- Erectile dysfunction can surface three to five years before Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure and may signal future heart issues.
- Mood changes may not always be the sign of a disorder; in some instances they can be
symptoms of shifting hormone function.
How We Work Together
Your program may include:
- Tailored nutrition you can live with
- Targeted movement that fits your structure and schedule
- Restorative-sleep strategies
- Practical stress-regulation tools
- Precisely calibrated hormone health interventions with close monitoring
- Early intervention for the risk factors for disease
My role is clear: add life to your years, so you can live fully—with greater confidence and lasting health—for decades to come.
Patient Perspectives
“I feel like I have a fullback—so I can keep playing my position.”
— Alex, 57
“We have been together for 15 years; I feel the hormone and broader
support helps me stay adventure ready.”
— Jane, 62
Ready to start your journey?
Let’s design a plan that keeps you ready for a full life, year after year.
Important Updates to the Age Management Care Model
We appreciate your ongoing trust in Live Young Medical.
We are excited to share some important updates to our Age Management care model with Dr. Sweeney. These enhancements have been carefully designed to provide a more structured, proactive, and comprehensive approach to your long-term health and wellness.
What’s Changing?
We are transitioning from a per-visit fee structure to a simplified annual fee model to ensure a consistent, streamlined, and proactive approach to your care. This updated model allows us to focus even more on preventative strategies, metabolic health, and hormone optimization through the DESSERT Framework—a structured, evidence-based approach to Age Management.
Dr. Sweeney has developed wellness programs that focus on attaining and maintaining optimal physical and mental function through disease prevention and bioidentical hormone rebalancing for multiple hormone systems. Programs incorporate diet, exercise, and nutritional supplements as well as address unhealthy sleep patterns and stress levels. Pairing these fundamentals with normalized, youthful hormone levels is crucial in achieving optimal health and longevity. And you will feel and function better.
An individualized approach ensures your program works for you.
The levels of our hormones start to change in midlife; our physical and mental function decline and ageing are accelerated because hormones are essential for a normal cellular function for all organ systems. Most hormone levels drop estrogen, progesterone, testosterone (for men and women), DHEA, melatonin, growth hormone, and possibly thyroid. Others such as insulin and cortisol may rise. These changes in hormone production influence not only our energy and vigour but the body’s ability to repair and regulate itself. The signs and symptoms of impaired hormone levels include:
- Weight gain, especially abdominal fat
- Loss of muscle and bone mass
- A compromised immune system- recurrent colds, flu and other infections and slow recovery
- Foggy thinking, memory and cognitive decline
- Depression, anxiety, feeling overwhelmed and stressed
- Insulin resistance, increased blood glucose and blood pressure, unhealthy cholesterol and other metabolic parameters
- Low sex drive and reduced sexual function
- Fatigue and sleep disruption, lower mental and physical energy
- Wrinkled, thinning and sagging skin, age spots and keratosis
- Bladder dysfunction and genital atrophy
Restoring hormones or balancing hormones means returning levels to optimal youthful physiological levels. This is one of the most useful tools to slow age-related change and benefits people as they age in three main areas: symptom relief, improved well-being and quality of life (restorative sleep, improved energy or libido), and as a tool in disease prevention (heart disease, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis).