Healthy Aging and Wellness in Annandale, Virginia
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When changes in your energy, sleep, strength, hormones, or recovery start making life feel harder than it used to, you notice it in the things you care about most. Keeping up with your family, exercising, traveling, working, and staying independent can all take more effort. Over time, you may start wondering how much of yourself you are going to lose as you get older. At Health Builders, we provide healthy aging and wellness care focused on helping you protect your health, stay active, and keep doing the things that make your life feel like yours.
Healthy Aging and Wellness at Health Builders
At Health Builders, we bring primary care, functional medicine, nutritional assessments, musculoskeletal care, platelet-rich plasma, microneedling, hormone management, and other integrative services together in one practice. That gives us several ways to help as your priorities change over time. You can come to us with a specific health problem, a preventive care question, or a desire to take better care of yourself as you age. We will help you understand which care or treatment options address your health needs.
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Taking Care of Your Health as You Age
See how healthy aging can support your ability to stay active, independent, and present for the people and activities that are important to you.
How We Can Help
Explore the medical care and integrative services we use for healthy aging and wellness.
Prepare for Your Visit
See what to bring and what happens around your appointment.
Costs and Insurance
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How We Start Your Healthy Aging and Wellness Care
Your appointment starts with what you want help with and what you hope to protect as you get older. We take time to understand your health, review the information that can help us, and explain what we recommend from there.
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Tell Us What You Want Help With
We start with what brought you in and how it is affecting your life. You may have questions about preventive health, nutrition, energy, movement, hair, skin, sexual wellness, or another change you want to address.
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We Review Your Health and Previous Care
We review your medicines, supplements, past diagnoses, recent lab work, screening history, and treatments you have tried. If recent labs, imaging, or specialist notes relate to why you are coming in, bring them with you.
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We Decide Whether Testing Would Help
We use testing when it can help explain a symptom, check a health risk, or guide treatment. The testing we recommend depends on your health, your symptoms, and what we are trying to understand.
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We Explain What We Recommend
We explain what we found and what we recommend from there. Your care may involve primary care, functional medicine, nutrition guidance, a specific treatment, or a referral when another specialist should be involved.
Taking Care of Your Health as You Age
Your health priorities can change over time. Preventive care, nutrition, physical function, hair, skin, and sexual health can each affect how you feel and how you live. We can help you address these areas through medical care and integrative treatments available at our clinic.
Protecting Your Long-Term Health
Preventive care helps us monitor blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, bone health, cancer screening, vaccines, and other needs based on your age and health risks. We can help you stay current with these parts of your care and respond when your health changes.
Staying Active and Independent
Nutrition and Metabolic Health
Hair and Scalp Health
Hair thinning can affect how you feel about your appearance as you age. We evaluate possible causes of hair loss and can use platelet-rich plasma or microneedling as part of care for some types of hair thinning.
Skin and Facial Rejuvenation
Skin texture, tone, and firmness can change with age. We offer aesthetic platelet-rich plasma and microneedling to support collagen production and improve visible skin texture.
Sexual Health and Intimacy
Sexual function can change with age, hormones, circulation, medical conditions, and medicines. We offer penile PRP for erectile-function concerns and vaginal PRP for sexual wellness and stress incontinence.
How We Can Help With Healthy Aging and Wellness
At Health Builders, we can help you address different parts of your health as you get older. Your care can include preventive medicine, nutrition, treatment for pain or limited movement, hair-loss care, facial rejuvenation, or sexual wellness. We recommend the services that make sense for what you want help with and your medical needs.
Pain, Movement, and Recovery
Pain and stiffness can interfere with exercise, travel, work, family activities, and the independence you want to maintain. Depending on what is causing the problem, we offer chiropractic care, acupuncture, shockwave therapy, platelet-rich plasma, prolozone, prolotherapy, red light therapy, and PEMF to reduce pain and improve function.
Hair Loss and Thinning Hair
We evaluate hair loss and offer platelet-rich plasma and microneedling as treatment options for hair thinning. Platelet-rich plasma delivers concentrated platelets and their growth factors to the scalp. Microneedling creates controlled microchannels that stimulate a healing response around the hair follicles.
Nutrition and Functional Medicine
We use nutritional assessments to review your diet, supplements, digestive symptoms, and nutritional needs. Functional medicine can go further when persistent symptoms, lab results, digestion, or other health issues need additional investigation.
Preventive Medical Care
We provide integrative primary and family care for physical exams, preventive screening, medicines, common health risks, and new symptoms that come up over time. Having ongoing medical care also gives us a consistent view of your health as your needs change.
Facial Rejuvenation
We offer aesthetic platelet-rich plasma and microneedling for changes in skin texture, tone, and firmness. Platelet-rich plasma provides growth factors involved in tissue repair and collagen signaling, while microneedling stimulates new collagen through a controlled healing response.
Sexual Wellness
What to Expect Before, During, and After Your Appointment
Knowing what to bring and what happens during your visit can make it easier to prepare for your healthy aging and wellness appointment.
Before Your Appointment
Complete your new patient forms and bring a current list of medicines and supplements. Bring recent lab results, screening records, imaging, specialist notes, and information about treatments you have already tried when they relate to the health issue bringing you in.
During Your Appointment
You will have time to talk about the part of your health bringing you in and how it affects your day. We review the records, medicines, symptoms, and test results that apply, complete an examination when needed, and explain whether additional testing or treatment would be useful.
After Your Appointment
We explain what comes next. That can include primary care, testing, functional medicine, nutrition changes, musculoskeletal treatment, platelet-rich plasma, microneedling, another service, or a referral based on what your health requires.
Ready to Talk About Healthy Aging and Wellness?
Your health affects how much energy and independence you can bring to family life and everything else you do. Schedule an appointment if there is a part of your health you want to address now, and we can talk about the care available at our clinic.
Meet the Team Supporting Your Healthy Aging Care
Our team has decades of clinical experience caring for patients and families across Northern Virginia. Dr. Hai Jin Kim, Dr. Brett Fuller, and Andrea Kubota, FNP-BC, bring experience across family medicine, chiropractic care, acupuncture, and functional medicine, giving you access to several kinds of care within our clinic.
Patient Experiences With Health Builders
Changes in your health can touch very personal parts of life, including your appearance, intimacy, independence, and the way you participate in family life. Our patients mean a great deal to us. We care deeply about the people who trust us with those parts of their health, and we want every patient to feel listened to, respected, and genuinely cared for.
“I wasn’t feeling well and had the pleasure of being seen and treated by Dr Kim, she was nice, patient and very knowledgeable about my condition, made me feel heard and wasn’t in a rush to get rid of me and off to her next patient. She discussed with me in detail about receiving further treatment and referred me to Dr Fuller. He was amazing!”
Claudia Peralta-Monterrosa
“I’ve been going to Dr. Brett Fuller for chiropractic and acupuncture services for years. He has successfully treated a variety of well-being issues for me. I can always count on his incredible knowledge for the best treatment. The receptionist, Bianca, is a gem. I highly recommend this practice!”
Andi Harris
“I have the utmost respect for the Doctors and staff at Health Builders. Doctor Kim and Doctor Fuller and Bianca are attentive to one’s needs and focus on listening and accompanying one on their healing journey. I can reach out for an appointment and they work to get me in right away and their professionalism and care is always 110%!”
Maria Sanchez-O'Brien
Appointment Cost, Insurance, and Medicare
Your cost depends on the medical appointment you need, laboratory testing, and any treatment included in your care. Current new-patient medical appointment fees are listed in our general FAQs. We explain additional costs before you schedule testing or treatment.
New Patient Appointments
Current new-patient medical appointment fees for Dr. Kim and Andrea Kubota, FNP-BC, are listed in our general FAQs.
Later Appointments
Later appointment length and price depend on what needs to be addressed. Our team will tell you the appointment length and fee when you schedule.
Blood Draw and Lab Processing
Routine blood draws with us are $35. More extensive processing for out-of-network or functional laboratory testing may have a $55 processing fee. Charges from an outside laboratory are separate and depend on the testing ordered.
Insurance and Medicare
We are out of network with commercial insurance. For eligible non-Medicare services, we can provide a superbill for you to submit to your plan. Dr. Kim has opted out of Medicare and sees Medicare patients under a private contract. Andrea Kubota, FNP-BC, is out of network with Medicare.
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Questions About Healthy Aging and Wellness?
Tell us which parts of your health you want help with, any changes you have noticed, and which treatments you are considering. We can answer questions about scheduling, current services, and what to bring to your appointment.
What Does Longevity Medicine Mean?
Longevity medicine is a broad term for medical care focused on maintaining health and function as you age. Preventive care, physical activity, nutrition, sleep, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, bone health, and age-appropriate screening are all important parts of long-term health.
You may also hear the term healthspan. Healthspan describes the years you remain healthy and able to function well. At our clinic, we approach healthy aging through established medical care and specific integrative services that address your health needs.
What Kind of Doctor Helps With Healthy Aging?
A family medicine or primary care doctor can help with many parts of healthy aging. Primary care includes preventive care, common medical conditions, medicines, screening, and referrals when another specialist is needed.
Other parts of healthy aging can involve functional medicine, nutrition, musculoskeletal care, gynecology, urology, dermatology, or another field depending on the health issue. Our clinic combines primary care with several integrative services, allowing us to address many of these needs within one practice.
What Is a Nutritional Assessment?
A nutritional assessment looks at what you eat, which supplements you take, digestive symptoms, medical conditions, and other factors that affect your nutritional needs.
The assessment can help identify useful changes in food or supplementation. Laboratory testing can also be considered when it can answer a specific nutrition or metabolic question. Nutrition can then be addressed alongside the rest of your medical care.
Can Microneedling Be Used for Hair Loss and Facial Rejuvenation?
Yes. Microneedling uses very small needles to create controlled microchannels in the skin or scalp. This triggers a healing response and collagen production.
On the face, microneedling can improve skin texture and visible signs of aging. On the scalp, it can be used as part of hair-loss care because the healing response can stimulate activity around hair follicles. The treatment depth and number of sessions depend on the body area and reason for treatment.
How Is PRP Used for Facial Rejuvenation?
Facial PRP uses platelet-rich plasma prepared from your own blood. The platelet-rich portion contains growth factors, which are proteins involved in tissue repair and collagen signaling.
Aesthetic PRP places the platelet-rich preparation into the facial treatment area as part of facial rejuvenation care. The goal is to improve skin quality and address visible signs of aging. The exact technique and treatment schedule depend on the area being treated and the procedure being performed.
How Is PRP Used for Sexual Wellness?
PRP is used in sexual-health care because platelets release growth factors involved in tissue repair and blood-vessel signaling. Penile PRP has been studied for erectile-function concerns, while vaginal PRP is used for sexual wellness and stress incontinence concerns.
These treatments involve different anatomy, symptoms, risks, and treatment goals. We offer penile and vaginal PRP injections and explain the specific treatment being considered before care begins.
Healthy Aging and Wellness FAQs
These answers cover longevity medicine, doctors for healthy aging, nutritional assessments, microneedling, facial PRP, and sexual wellness with PRP.
Still Have Questions?
Call our clinic or send us a message. We can answer questions about healthy aging, current services, appointment costs, and what to bring to your visit.
Schedule a Healthy Aging and Wellness Appointment
Your health can affect your independence, family life, activity, appearance, and intimacy in different ways over time. Schedule an appointment with our team to talk about the part of your health you want help with.
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