Rick Cohen, MD

Cohen reads health through a systems-performance frame: insulin signaling, mitochondrial efficiency, VO2max, respiratory exchange ratio, hormone balance, and nutrient status all inform the plan. His work combines targeted nutrition, performance physiology, hormone optimization, and longevity medications such as rapamycin, acarbose, or SGLT2 inhibitors when the clinical picture supports them.

• Engineering plus medicine. Biomedical engineering at Duke gives Cohen's functional-medicine work a measurement-heavy systems frame.
• Athlete-performance depth. His background includes international-level luge, college hockey, and decades advising elite athletes on nutrition, hormones, and recovery.
• Builder and author. PureClean Performance, Ignite Longevity, and books on hormone and blood-sugar health show how his clinical ideas move into products, writing, and patient programs.

• Healthspan role. Cohen advises on protocols and science content; Healthspan members work with assigned platform physicians and coaches.
• Direct clinical work. Patients seeking Cohen personally should look to Ignite Longevity in Brevard, North Carolina.
• Clinical style. His public framework is functional and performance-oriented, with ACAM/A4M affiliations and terminology such as mTOR cycling and mitochondrial efficiency.