Dr. Luigi Vilchis
MD · FMCP-M · DipIBLM · ABHRT
THE WHY
Why, and what for
From early on I carried two things: the habit of seeing life as a system of connected parts, and a stubborn instinct to question everything. That instinct followed me into medical school, where certain questions kept insisting: How far could we really take a patient? Not just toward fewer symptoms or a better controlled disease, but toward real healing, and in many cases, reversal. Through the way a person lives, and by understanding why they get sick and why they don't heal. What we're taught in medicine is what has always been done, and recycling this way of practicing has brought us to an epidemic of chronic disease. Is there a better way to practice medicine?
The call to functional medicine came in the hospital. I saw how how the medicine I practiced eased pain and symptoms, but I also noticed how patients kept coming back with new problems, often arising from the same root-cause that medications where not resolving. I also realized how much calm, containment, and real transformation could emerge from what the guidelines left out: human connection, patient education, and changing the everyday habits of a life. So I followed that path.
What I observe today gives urgency to our mission. Chronic disease keeps rising, and drug resistant conditions keep growing. We're extending life expectancy, but the gap between how long we live and how well we live, our healthspan and wellspan, keeps widening. Closing that gap requires a systems based, root cause, lifestyle centered approach. That is the medicine I practice.
“More important than any of the above… I am a human being whose intention is to share and teach, by example, a way of living rooted in science and consciousness — one that optimizes our biological and spiritual health as beings who are part of a community and an ecosystem.”
Dr. Luigi Vilchis
Credentials at a glance
Training & credentials
Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner – Medical
FMCP-M · IFM
Member, International Board of Functional Medicine Certification
IBFMC
Advanced Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy
ABHRT I–IV · WorldLink Medical, USA
Diplomate, Lifestyle Medicine
DipIBLM
Sanoviv Medical Institute
2 yrs · functional medicine hospital
TEACHING & SPEAKING
Educating the next generation of functional clinicians
› Founding member, International Board of Functional Medicine Certification (IBFMC)
›Invited professor — cardiometabolic module, Clinical Nutrition Master's, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (2024–2025)
›International speaker — 40+ talks across Mexico & Latin America
›Host for clinical rotations — physicians, nutritionists, and an osteopath from Rocky Vista University (USA) have trained with the practice
FOR THE CURIOUS
Full training & certifications
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• MD — Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
• Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (IFMCP)
• All 7 Advanced Practice Modules (APM): Cardiometabolic · Immune · AFMCP · Hormone · Environmental Health · Bioenergetics · GI
• Diplomate, International Board of Lifestyle Medicine (DipIBLM) · Member, AMMEV
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• Functional Cardiometabolic Health — IEMF 2021
• Functional Gastrointestinal Health — IEMF 2022
• Regenerative Medicine Diploma — Universidad Anáhuac Mayab 2024
• Bioidentical Hormones & Sexual Health — IEMF 2024
• Advanced Bioidentical Hormone Management (ABHRT I–IV) — WLM / Academy of Preventive & Innovative Medicine 2024
• Therapeutic Food Plans — IFM & American Nutrition Association
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• Advanced Ozone Therapy — Instituto Mexicano de Ozonoterapia & AMO 2024
• Perineural Injection Treatment (Lyftogt P.I.T.) — CITESEC / IIES 2024
• CHEK Practitioner Level 1 — Holistic Lifestyle Coaching & Integrated Movement Science
• Functional Kinesiology — CHEK Institute
• Complex, critical & systems thinking in health
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• Treating physician, Sanoviv Medical Institute — 2 years (first IFM-certified hospital)
• Physician, Centro de Nutrición y Medicina Funcional — functional medicine, IV therapy & hyperbaric oxygen
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• Founding member, International Board of Functional Medicine Certification (IBFMC)
• Invited professor, cardiometabolic module — Clinical Nutrition Master's, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública 2024–2025
• Faculty, Functional Medicine Diploma — AMF / TecSalud
• Faculty, Functional Endocrinology Diploma — AMF / TecSalud
• Guest faculty, Instituto de Especialización en Medicina Funcional (IEMF)
• Guest faculty across additional functional medicine certifications in Mexico
• Educator / facilitator, IFM's AFMCP 2023–2024
• Mentor to dozens of functional medicine physicians and nutritionists in Mexico
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• "Breathing as a Universal Strategy for Metabolic Homeostasis" — Convención Internacional de Sobrepeso y Obesidad 2025
• "Intermittent Living" — Congreso Internacional de Medicina Funcional 2026
• 40+ conferences, webinars & workshops for health professionals across Mexico & Latin America
WHAT I BELIEVE
How I see health
“A harmonious relationship with our environment, outer and inner, is vital to generating and regenerating health.”
A sacred experience
Drawing on Charles Eisenstein, the sacred holds two qualities: every human is unique, and every interaction carries a sense of connection. Care should revive both in every person, in every relationship.
Health in community
How well we recover, its course, its duration, the intensity of symptoms, is strongly correlated with the support around us. That we are social beings is well established across clinical research.
Sustainable health
Every act we perform on our body affects the Earth, and every act we perform on the Earth affects our body. We aren't only what we eat, we're also what our food ate.
Holistic health
We belong to an enormous web, macro- and microscopic, where everything plays an essential role in the outcome of our health. To believe medicine is only what doctor and patient discuss is reductionist, and reductionist beliefs return reduced results.
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