Family Ties

Dr. Brian Martin, ND - Founder and Owner, EnerChanges

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photo by Jaime Kowal

With a long list of achievements and degrees, Dr. Brian Martin’s certificates and thank-you notes line his office like wallpaper. But it’s not just the letters after his name that brand him as a pioneer in the fields of integrative and preventative medicine that brand this naturopathic doctor as a pioneer. He also attributes many of his medical revelations to his daughter, Aleah, 13.

“I learned about happiness and love from my daughter. Whenever I think of a concept, I ask her opinion, and she always tells me the truth,” Brian says.

As founder and owner of EnerChanges, North America’s first medically supervised anti-aging, weight-loss, and fitness clinic, Brian is a rarity in the medical world: he combines conventional medicine with naturopathic and anti-aging treatments to enhance health, and prevent and reverse chronic disease.

Brian’s fierce commitment to his patients’ well-being began with his realization that the body and mind are connected—the idea at the forefront of his practice. His catch-cry is: “The body is connected to a head, and the head is connected to a body.”

Father and daughter share a deep connection, too. In fact, Brian often uses Aleah as a yardstick to measure how his patients are doing. “She is the happiest person I know,” he boasts. “[She’s] never worried about the past or the future. She sparkles and radiates love.”

Brian believes that everyone has the power to be happy and healthy if given the right tools—and his is Aleah. “Aleah’s taught me that what I’m doing has meaning, purpose, and impact—for not only my own life, but also for those I care for. I am a better father, husband, doctor, and person because of my daughter.”

—Tara Thorne