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View productFunctional medicine · Buena Park, CA · Est. 1988
Real healing startswith getting real answers,not masking the symptoms.
Dr. Augustine’s root-cause approach helps uncover the answers conventional medicine often misses.
38
years in practice
6,000+
patients helped
15 min
free discovery call
None of this is “just getting older.”
Each of these is a message from a body asking for help. Most have been waved off somewhere along the way — as stress, as age, as hormones, as “something we’ll watch.” Dr. Augustine reads them differently: as evidence, pointing at a cause.
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- ✳Tired no matter how much you sleep
- ✳Weight that won’t move, whatever you try
- ✳Brain fog — names, words, focus
- ✳Hair thinning or hair loss
- ✳Wide awake at 3 a.m., exhausted by 3 p.m.
- ✳Hot flashes or night sweats
- ✳Anxiety, low mood, or a shorter fuse
- ✳Bloating, constipation, or new food reactions
- ✳Aches that migrate from joint to joint
- ✳Skin that suddenly changed
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The difference
Not another seven-minute appointment.
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A typical visit
Ahead to Wellness
Time with your doctor
~7 minutes
60–90 minutes to start
The question asked
“What’s the symptom?”
“Why is this happening?”
Labs
~20 markers, “you’re normal”
Functional blood chemistry, read for optimal
The plan
A prescription
A terrain: nutrition, therapies, retesting
Who does the healing
The drug
Your body, with the obstacles removed
When your body speaks, listen.
A symptom is not a malfunction. It’s a message: your body reporting a problem that lives deeper. Treat only the symptom, and you’re asking your body to stop complaining about a problem it still has. Trim the leaves and they grow back. Tend the roots, and the whole tree changes.
FIELD NOTE · THE TREE
The leaves are what you notice. The roots are where the work happens.
How it works
You don’t need a diagnosis to walk in.
You need a starting point. Here’s the whole path, costs included.
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A free discovery call 15 min · free
You tell your story; Dr. Augustine tells you honestly whether he can help, and what the path might cost. If he’s not the right fit, he’ll say so.
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Your first office visit $80 flat
Onboarded through the patient portal, then face to face: he goes deep on your history and starts the workup the same day.
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Advanced diagnostics in-office
MenlaScan, CIMT imaging, heart sound recorder — run right in the office. When your case calls for outside labs, he orders exactly those panels, no more.
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The report of findings in person or telehealth
What the numbers revealed, in plain English, and a program built around them. Supplements, therapies, timelines, and every cost, named before you commit.
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Follow-up & re-testing ongoing
Repeat diagnostics track your progress, so you see improvement in real numbers — not just in how much better you feel.
Why does this cost more than a copay?
Because it’s a different product. Insurance medicine pays for seven minutes and a symptom. This is root-cause diagnostics and a doctor who stays with the case until your body takes over. There’s no menu of packages, because no two programs are alike. What there is, is a doctor who names every cost before you spend a dollar.
Who is Dr. Augustine — and what makes him different?
A doctor of chiropractic and functional medicine — Doctorate from Cleveland Chiropractic College, B.S. in Human Physiology from West Coast University, advanced training in neurology, autonomic nervous system health, functional blood chemistry, and cellular physiology — practicing in Buena Park since 1988.
The difference is the question he starts with. Where a seven-minute appointment asks “what’s the symptom?”, he asks why it started: labs read for optimal instead of “normal,” advanced diagnostics run in his own office, and a program built around the cause — nutrition, targeted therapies, and re-testing until the results hold. He’ll tell you himself: he isn’t the healer. His job is to return your body to a state where it can heal itself.
38years in practice
40+conditions addressed
6000+patients helped
50+podcast episodes
Real patients. Real turnarounds.
Most people who find this practice have already been told there’s nothing wrong. Paige was one of them.
Testimonials reflect individual experiences and are not a promise of outcomes.
Paige
Years of chronic illness, then a different kind of answer. In her own words.
The dispensary
Dr. Augustine’s Protocols
Curated by the doctor who’d recommend them across the desk: his own Ahead to Wellness formulations alongside the professional-grade brands he stocks and dispenses in the office.
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*These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
The goal isn’t managing illness. It’s getting your life back.
He’s been answering your question for years.
605 videos. 50+ podcast episodes. A decade of articles. All free.
YouTube
Dr. Jim Cares
605 videos on root-cause health, from cortisol to biofilms.
→ PodcastDr. Jim Cares Podcast
50+ episodes of plain-English functional medicine.
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Articles
Pathways
Root-cause thinking, written down. The clinic’s journal.
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