Connect Health

Connect Health Are you ready for your journey of optimal health? Connect Health is one of Vancouver’s leading physician directed integrative medical clinics.

Whether you wish to inject more vitality and energy into your life, or want to be more proactive to shift and change your outcome, new patients come to our clinic with a variety of health goals. Combining the best of conventional medicine and complementary approaches to effectively care for the whole person, we passionately pursue our mission: To transform people’s lives by helping them achieve an

d maintain their highest health potential. Guiding every aspect of our practice is a firm and heartfelt set of beliefs. Above all, we believe health and wellness are our most valuable assets, a dynamic and respectful partnership between patient and practitioner is essential to healing, and a collaborative and coordinated approach provides the best care. We believe in treating the whole person – mind, body and spirit – using a rational scientific integration of the best of conventional and complementary methods. INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE is a healing-oriented approach that focuses on the whole person (mind, body and spirit), considers all aspects of lifestyle and intelligently combines the best of conventional medicine and complementary therapies. FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE is a personalized, empowering approach that recognizes each patient’s biologic uniqueness and seeks to optimize health by addressing underlying causes of disease. COLLABORATIVE CARE – where a group of committed professionals work together to provide a multidimensional, uniquely powerful approach to healthcare – is at the heart of the Connect Health approach. We have carefully assembled a team of competent, caring practitioners who’ve dedicated their careers to improving their patients’ health and wellness. While each is a passionate leader in his or her field, the synergy created by our integrative care model is our unique difference. Our Unique Approach
1. Identify health triggers by listening to your story
2. Review lifestyle factors including nutrition, movement, sleep/relaxation, stress resilience, relationships and physical environments
3. Identify imbalances in your core systems (digestion, immunity, energy, detoxification, transport, hormonal, musculoskeletal)
4. Organize, prioritize and investigate through standard and advanced laboratory testing
5. Treat the whole person by combining best evidence-based conventional and complementary therapies
6. Track progress through timely follow-up appointments with your practitioner who can help support you and keep you accountable

The practitioners at Connect Health understand that medicine is not just about treating the symptoms of disease. It’s about increasing health and vitality. We offer a new model of primary care that will help you achieve your personal health goals in an empowered partnership with a coordinated team. We practice the principles of integrative and functional medicine, which treats the whole person, addresses the root causes of illness and intelligently combines a complementary array of approaches and therapies. Our team of professionals includes:
~ physicians specially trained in integrative + functional medicine
~ naturopathic doctors
~ osteopathic practitioners
~ registered nurses,
~ nutritionists,
~ counselors/mind-body therapists
~ health planners

05/26/2026

High cholesterol does not always come from the same source.

 

Some people absorb more cholesterol through the gut. Others produce more internally through the liver. The lab result may look similar, but the biology and the strategy can be completely different.

 

That is why precision testing matters. At Connect Health, we look deeper to understand where risk is coming from before deciding what to do next. ✨

 

05/21/2026

Meet the doctors behind Connect Health ♾️

Dr. Riskin and Dr. Cheng combine backgrounds in emergency medicine, functional medicine, precision diagnostics, and longevity medicine to help patients better understand, optimize, and protect long-term health.

At Connect, the focus is not only on treating disease.
It’s on prevention, performance, resilience, and extending healthspan through deeper, personalized medicine.

We assess over 100 markers related to the microbiome, inflammation, and gut barrier function, looking not just at indivi...
05/20/2026

We assess over 100 markers related to the microbiome, inflammation, and gut barrier function, looking not just at individual results, but how patterns within the gut may be influencing metabolism, hormone balance, immune function, and overall health 🔍

These are not quick snapshots.

They’re comprehensive reports that help guide clinical decisions over time. In many cases, we investigate the gut even when symptoms aren’t obvious, because early patterns often show up long before traditional testing identifies an issue.

Comprehensive gut testing is included in our Signature and Longevity 100 programs, and can be selectively added within Optimize 360 based on clinical context.✨

05/15/2026

Most women don’t think about bone density until later in life. But the truth is, bone loss can begin long before menopause symptoms ever appear.🦴

A DEXA scan can give insight into your bone health early, helping you understand where your body stands before it becomes harder to rebuild strength later on.

Healthy aging isn’t only about how you look or feel today. It’s also about protecting the foundation that carries you through the decades ahead.

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05/13/2026

Most chronic disease develops silently for years before symptoms ever appear.

Changes in metabolism, muscle mass, insulin sensitivity, hormones, cardiovascular risk, and cognitive health often begin decades before a diagnosis is made.

Dr. Lawrence Cheng breaks down what people should be paying attention to in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, what changes with age, and why the best outcomes come from paying attention early, not reactively.

The goal isn’t to fear aging.

It’s to understand it well enough to influence it.

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A normal cholesterol panel does not always mean your cardiovascular risk is low.Inflammation, oxidative stress, lipid pa...
05/08/2026

A normal cholesterol panel does not always mean your cardiovascular risk is low.

Inflammation, oxidative stress, lipid particles, vascular function, and inherited risk markers often shift long before symptoms appear, and long before standard labs catch it.

That is why we look deeper. At Connect Health, advanced cardiac testing helps uncover the patterns most conventional screening misses, so prevention becomes more precise, personal, and actionable. 🫀✨

05/05/2026

We’ve been taught to wait for symptoms ⏳
�But when it comes to cardiovascular disease, that model is already too late.

Heart disease doesn’t begin with a heart attack.
�It begins silently, years earlier, driven by processes most standard testing doesn’t even measure.

As an ER physician, one of the most common emergencies Dr. Cheng sees is heart attacks, often in people who felt completely well just days before.

The question isn’t do you feel fine?�It’s what’s happening beneath the surface?
Because the earlier you look, the more you can change.

Health looks different when it is built around prevention, insight, and long-term strategy ⚒️At Connect Health, each pro...
04/30/2026

Health looks different when it is built around prevention, insight, and long-term strategy ⚒️

At Connect Health, each program is designed for a different stage of that journey, whether you want more personalized primary care, deeper diagnostics, executive-level health oversight, or a structured longevity plan guided by physicians who look beyond symptoms.

Because modern medicine should not begin when something feels wrong. It should begin when you decide to understand your health more deeply.

Physician-led. Data-informed. Designed for how you want to live now and later. ✨

04/22/2026

You can have normal cholesterol and still carry hidden cardiovascular risk.

One reason is Lipoprotein(a), an inherited marker linked to earlier heart disease, stroke, and plaque buildup, even in people who otherwise seem healthy.

Because Lp(a) is largely genetic, it is not something lifestyle alone can fully change, which is why knowing your number matters.

This helps explain why some people develop cardiac disease younger than expected, despite doing many things right.

At Connect Health, we look beyond standard labs to uncover risk earlier, when prevention still has power. 🫀✨

Heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined.And yet the research, the diagnostic tools, and the clinical tr...
04/20/2026

Heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined.

And yet the research, the diagnostic tools, and the clinical training were largely built around men.

If you’ve ever been told your symptoms are anxiety, or stress, or “just perimenopause.” you deserve a second opinion.

Share this with every woman in your life who takes their health seriously.

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04/16/2026

Health trends can be helpful but they can also be distracting!

Creatine, Peptides, Magnesium Glycinate, cold exposure, hormone therapy, none of it matters if you do not first understand what your body actually needs.

The right intervention starts with the right question: what is driving the symptom, the imbalance, or the early signal beneath the surface?

At Connect Health, we use advanced biomarker testing and physician-led longevity care to look deeper, identify root causes, and build a strategy that supports energy, resilience, and healthy aging over time.

The future of medicine isn’t reactive, it’s precise, personalized, and decades ahead of disease. 🧬✨

Address

205/2786 West 16th Avenue
Vancouver, BC
V6K4M1

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+16047334400

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