Redefining Medicine to Feel Your Best Self

Functional Hormone Care that Makes You the Priority

AREAS OF FOCUS

East x West Med was built on the idea that health optimization is personal. 

Merging various approaches to medicine, we provide 1:1 support that is driven by results.

No bouncing between practitioners or shared-managed care that comes with large virtual platforms and multicenter clinics.

No assessing your health against “normal” lab ranges or cookie-cutter protocols that are strictly conventional or functionally-based.

East x West Med provides expert hormone and longevity care that centers on enhancing your quality of life.

Services

  • Testosterone is not just an athletic performance drug. For the average male, testosterone production starts to decline in his 30s and symptoms can manifest in ways not typically realized.

    East x West Med can help support functionally-low testosterone with different options for younger and older men to: 

    • Improve symptoms including (but not limited to) poor libido and/or sexual dysfunction, low energy, poor focus, and changes in fat and muscle composition

    • Improve insulin sensitivity and glycemic control for overall longevity

  • Women do not have to be menopausal to experience hormonal shifts that impact how they feel. Women too start to lose testosterone in their 30s. Female sex and adrenal hormone levels evolve throughout the lifespan and can be exacerbated by genetics, stress, lifestyle changes, life events like pregnancy and delivery, and more. Comprehensive testing (including Dutch testing, if indicated) can look at how these hormones fluctuate or decline for a more customized treatment plan to:

    • Address changes in menstrual cycle patterns due to PCOS or other disease 

    • Identify root-cause of cyclical symptoms including mood swings, PMS or PMDD

    • Gain hormone insights as part a fertility journey

    • Detox excess estrogen that may have gone unnoticed

    • Detect low testosterone levels that may need support

    • Restore hormonal hair loss and boost daily energy

  • Everybody's body responds differently to stress. Stress can be in the form of tension or emotional demand, poor sleep, metabolic dysfunction, chronic disease, and more.

    Gain insights into adrenal function to:

    • Detect underlying causes of chronic inflammation

    • Improve daily stress levels and response to (realized and unrealized) triggers

    • Manage insomnia without bandaid solutions

    • Recalibrate areas most affected like brain waves, metabolism and gut microbiome

  • At East x West Med, we can provide low-dose thyroid therapy as well as micronutrient support to treat functional hypothyroidism, a subclinical condition that is tied to many of the manifestations of thyroid disease.

    Goals of thyroid support include (but are not limited to):

    • Alleviating chronic sluggishness and fatigue

    • Eliminating brain fog and feel sharper

    • Restoring optimal metabolism and body weight 

    • Reducing water retention causing bloating and/or puffiness

    • Identifying root cause of hair loss for more efficient restoration

  • We offer bio-identical and natural options to support estrogen, progesterone and/or testosterone levels for women to:

    • Manage the common aggravators of menopause

    • Address symptoms not typically viewed as hormonal

    • Be set up for success prior to peri/post-menopause

  • When it comes to weight gain, oftentimes hormonal root causes can be overlooked. Control metabolic dysfunction with many intervention modalities, including bioidentical hormones, GLP-1 peptides (when medically indicated), holistic and lifestyle medicine.

    Working together, you’ll:

    • Receive results-driven recommendations for better support

    • Feel your best self from treatment to maintenance

Michaela Robbins, DNP

Michaela Robbins is a Doctor of Nursing Practice, Board-Certified Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner, and founder of East x West Med. She has over a decade of experience in medicine with a background in hormone health, longevity health, functional and lifestyle medicine. 

Dr. Robbins received her masters and doctoral training at Columbia University and has completed additional training through the Hormone Health Institute, the Institute of Functional Medicine and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Prior to founding East x West Med, she led the functional wellness direct patient care as well as the longevity coaching program at Modern Age, Upper East Side, NYC. After turning down an offer at one of the largest hormone health companies, Dr. Robbins aimed to start a company that fused boutique longevity medicine with approachable and compassionate care.  

At East x West Med, Dr. Robbins sees patients focused on health optimization and hormone balance. She also has advised many healthtech startups in the wellness space and is currently the primary in-house medical consultant for Truemed Payments. She is published in several accredited research journals and has authored and co-authored textbook chapters focused on diagnosis and management of chronic disease and doctor of nursing practices.

Dr. Robbins pulls from different areas of medicine to offer people an individualized approach and help people become wellness-focused instead of disease-focused.

Assessment Plans

The Initial Consult

It all begins at the first visit. Maybe you’ve been feeling “different” and are ready to make a change by learning more about your body. Maybe you’ve been dismissed by other practitioners about finding the root cause of your symptoms. Or, maybe you feel well and want to keep it that way. Whatever it is, your first visit can make all the difference. 

What is included:

  • Comprehensive online medical intake + hormone assessments to screen for potential hormone imbalances

  • Virtual consultation to review intake, assessment results, concerns and goals of therapy, and to determine what hormone diagnostic pathway is right for you

The Ultimate Hormone Report

The most comprehensive of journeys. Maybe you feel like you have a complex problem that requires the most complex investigation. Maybe hormone therapy has not been working and you don’t know why. Maybe you want the deepest understanding of your hormone health or want to achieve hormone optimization with zero stones unturned. At East x West Med, we offer a test that aligns with this need. This test may be recommended to you based off your initial consultation screeners and/or concerns either in conjunction with or in replacement of lab testing.

Unlike typical hormone testing, our approach goes beyond reviewing foundational hormone balance. With this report, we’ll investigate hormone metabolism and detoxification — not usually provided within traditional and longevity blood panels — to understand their impact upon your hormone functionality and, more importantly, how you feel.

This package includes:

  • Complete hormone testing, with up to 70 hormone biomarkers tested looking at sex hormone production and metabolic patterns, including optional add-ons. To learn more about what we test, click here.

  • Detailed report of lab results that includes visuals of how your body is producing and detoxing hormones and clinical interpretation of the report with prescriptive, non-prescriptive supplement and lifestyle recommendations to achieve the goals outlined in the intake 

  • Optional virtual consultation with Dr. Robbins to review result highlights and choose a treatment plan together.

Healthcare Advisory + Partnerships

Corporate and business services offered (but not limited to):

  • Medical content/operational review

  • Speaking or writing engagements

  • Brand content partnerships

  • Other strategic partnerships and collaborations

 FAQs

  • East x West Med offers telemedicine visits only. Dr. Robbins is currently accepting patients in New York, New Jersey, and Florida.

  • Please use the form below or book a free phone consultation for information on our fees for service and to learn more about our limited time introductory offerings. Rates are subject to change at any time.

  • We do not accept insurance for medical services, however a superbill for any type of service (including The Ultimate Hormone Report + any labs) can be provided to the patient to be submitted directly to insurance for reimbursement. Some labs can be ordered through insurance via Labcorp and most specialty tests can be offered at up to 80% discounted rates through our relationship with a specialty lab service.

    East x West Med cannot guarantee reimbursement rates and is not responsible for any fees not reimbursed by insurance. We recommend you speak with your insurance company directly to discuss your benefits.

  • The cost of services does not include medications, supplements or treatments. Virtual visits do not include the cost of lab testing, which is determined during the initial visit, however we offer insurance-based and discounted specialty lab options.

    At all follow-up visits, including the visit after the initial consultation/report, we review results beyond the conventional lab result phone call or patient portal message and develop/perfect a treatment plan at that time. Therefore, all follow-ups are billed as individual visits.

    All services and labs are also subject to online processing fees.

  • Yes! We do accept HSA/FSA as payment for all visits, including for fees for reports and specialty tests.

  • You may use the contact form below or email us at hello@eastxwestmed.com for any questions or to book.

    Upon booking a visit you will receive a link to create a patient portal. You may use this portal to send messages related to scheduling needs as well as messages to Dr. Robbins for medication refills and medical questions. Depending on the complexity of the concern, you may be asked to set up a phone or video visit to discuss in further detail.

  • There is a 48-hour cancellation/rescheduling policy without penalty. If you need to cancel or reschedule, please email or use the patient portal to inform us of the cancellation with adequate advanced notice. Cancellations or rescheduling requests past the 48 hour mark will be subject to the cost of a full visit amount.

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