ABOUT KAROLINA
I grew up in medicine.
My family was medical - it was the context I was raised in, the language I grew up speaking. I remember being six or seven, sitting with my mother going through piles of her patients' handwritten medical records, sorting through them with genuine curiosity, already wondering about the people behind those notes and whether they got better.
With 15+ years in medicine across three continents - conventional training, clinical practice, and eventually integrative health - I've seen the system from almost every angle.
It took my own health to show me where it stops working.
MY APPROACH
Making peace between two divided worlds.
I call myself a peacemaker between two worlds that usually position themselves as enemies - conventional medicine and natural healing. Having spent real time in both, I understand what each does well, where each falls short, and why that divide isn't serving patients.
My interest in longevity and health optimisation started around 2018 - well before it became the mainstream conversation it is today. What drew me in then, and still does, is the gap between what medicine manages and what the body is actually capable of, given the right conditions.
My background is in conventional medicine. My practice is integrative. Having trained and worked in both, I understand what each does well - and where each falls short.
I practiced conventional medicine long enough to understand both its strengths and its blind spots. My own health eventually took me deeper - into functional medicine, nutrition, hormone and peptide therapy, and herbal traditions from Ayurvedic and TCM practice. That path gave me a working knowledge of what each approach can realistically do - and just as importantly, what it can't.
MY HEALTH STORY
The part that changed everything.
For a long time, I was the practitioner asking the questions. Then I became the patient who couldn't get answers.
I'd already navigated my own health challenges over the years - conditions my colleagues couldn't explain, that standard testing missed, that I eventually resolved by looking beyond conventional care. That experience quietly shaped how I practiced.
Then came the mold.
A severe mold exposure triggered CIRS - Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome - and activated dormant Lyme disease that had been sitting quietly in my body for years. What followed was one of the most difficult periods of my life. At times I was bedridden. Treatments that work for most people backfired on me. I became, in clinical terms, hypersensitive - reactive to things that shouldn't cause a reaction, in a body that had lost its ability to regulate itself.
It was humbling in a way that no amount of medical training prepares you for.
It also taught me things I couldn't have learned any other way - about nuance, about pacing and timing, about what it feels like to be dismissed, overwhelmed by conflicting protocols, not knowing who to trust when your body rejects everything you try. About how to cut through the noise when every practitioner and marketing strategy claims their product is the answer, rarely mentioning the risks. About the growing trend of AI-generated advice presented as clinical guidance, without verification or the years of practice that make the difference between a recommendation and a guess. About how essential compassion is when someone is suffering - and how rare it is to find a practitioner who offers it without agenda.
I came out the other side with a much clearer sense of what real healing requires - and a lower tolerance for the noise that gets in the way of it.
A BROADER PERSPECTIVE
Why getting the right help is harder than it should be.
I’ve spent enough time in both worlds to say this honestly: neither has it completely figured out.
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Conventional medicine looks at parts, not people.
Specialists who are excellent within their domain but trained to look at one system at a time - in a body where everything is connected. You can see an endocrinologist for your thyroid and leave without anyone asking about your gut. A gastroenterologist who never evaluates your stress levels. Patients cycle through referrals with no one holding the full picture. And the curriculum still teaches things we know to be incomplete - that certain conditions can't be reversed, that the only tool for female hormone problems is birth control or ibuprofen, that chronic Lyme doesn't exist, that mycotoxins aren't clinically significant. The evidence is moving fast, but he institutions haven't always caught up.
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The functional and natural medicine has a certainty problem.
The field has produced genuinely brilliant work - protocols and frameworks that have helped thousands of people conventional medicine gave up on. But it also has a culture of performative certainty that makes me uncomfortable. The "my way is the only way" approach is a great marketing strategy - I fell for it too, early on. But in my view, it's as damaging as any misdiagnosis, because practitioners who are more invested in being right than in their patients getting better will always miss something.
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Patients need compassion more than they need false certainty.
have deep respect for the people who built the frameworks many of us work from. But expertise isn't the same as infallibility. People who are sick, confused, scared, and looking for answers deserve intellectual honesty - not a practitioner's ego dressed up as clinical certainty. Real healing is rarely black and white. It usually requires tuning out a significant amount of noise and finding what's actually true for your body, in your situation, right now.
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When health optimisation, wellness and biohacking go wrong.
The optimisation space has given us genuinely useful tools - but also a culture where more is always assumed to be better. People stack supplements based on influencer recommendations with no baseline testing, chasing peptides and NAD+ infusions on five hours of sleep and chronic stress. The basics aren't glamorous, but they're where the results actually come from. The space is also shaped by a narrow demographic - protocols built around performance metrics that don't translate to women or people navigating chronic symptoms. Meanwhile, people are self-administering hormones and peptides based on forum posts, without oversight and without anyone watching for what goes wrong. I'm deeply invested in this space - which is exactly why these patterns concern me.
WORKING WITH ME
What to expect.
I work with people virtually, primarily US-based with some international clients. My background spans clinical medicine, functional and integrative health, peptide therapy, nutrition, herbal medicine, and biohacking — I draw on whatever is actually relevant to your situation, not a fixed protocol applied to everyone. If you're dealing with something complex, something you've been told is fine when it isn't, or you simply want to take your health seriously before you have to — I'm happy to start with a conversation.
EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
Training & qualifications.
Medical Doctor (MD) (academic qualification — I currently practice as an educational health consultant, not as a licensed physician)
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
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Clinical Practice
Tongji University, Shanghai
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Clinical Internship
Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Integrative Health Practitioner
IHP Institute, Boston, USA
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NET Certified — Neuro Emotional Technique
NET Institute, Encinitas, CA
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Functional Blood Work Analysis Training
MBCE
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Herbal Medicine Therapy Train
Lebowitz D.C.
Active participant in leading longevity and biohacking conferences across the US and Europe, including A4M, Biohacker Summit, Beyond Biohacking, Health Optimisation Summit, Eudemonia and others.
GET STARTED
Not sure where to begin? Start with a free call.
Fifteen minutes to find out whether I'm the right person to help - whether you're dealing with something unresolved or simply want to understand your health at a deeper level. No obligation, just a conversation.
Complimentary · 15 min · Video or phone