About
LivingWell Integrative Healthcare is proud to offer our community a very unique service. We provide our clients a cutting edge individualized program of natural hormone replacement and anti-aging medicine.
The practice of medicine is undergoing a change. Physicians and researchers are beginning to look for ways to promote health rather than simply treat diseases. They are moving toward seeing the body as wonderfully capable of taking care of itself if provided the correct environment. This environment includes optimal nourishment and also by naturally replacing those things that are missing. No where is this more evident than in the field of HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy).
As we age our once youthful levels of hormones drop drastically. These hormones are the body’s regulatory system and they function to maintain and improve our current state of health. When these hormones reach greatly reduced levels due to age, stress, surgery and other medical conditions we begin to age more rapidly.
We begin to see the results of decreased hormone levels increase weight and the inability to get it off. We see the effects in our skin as it becomes drier, less supple and much thinner. We find our minds becoming more dull and less nimble. We find our sex drive diminishing and we become less capable in this area. Our bodies begin to take a much longer time to recover from an injury or from a work out. Our heart becomes flabbier and our blood vessels less pliable. Our muscle mass decreases making us less able to work hard or fully enjoy our recreational activities. We begin to have trouble processing the nutrients we take in and we become less sensitive to insulin and thus more prone to diabetes. Our kidney function decreases with age. Our metabolism slows as we produce less thyroid hormones.
At LivingWell Integrative Healthcare it is our goal to help you restore your natural hormones to more youthful levels and thus eliminate or greatly reduce many of these problems. We approach the patient as a whole person and seek to provide hormone replacement, lifestyle and nutrition plans that will maximize their vitality and health. We seek to achieve an optimal level of health for our patients using sound scientific knowledge and cutting edge information to bio-identically replace hormone levels to reach a much more beneficial level. This coupled with sound advice on lifestyle changes and diet can dramatically improve a person’s health and wellbeing. We consider it an honor to be able to offer these services to the Upstate.
James C. (Clif) Caldwell, MD
Co-Founder LivingWell Integrative Medicine
Traditionally trained and certified in Family Practice. He has been practicing medicine in South Carolina for 13 years. He has received additional training in anti-aging medicine from Cenegenics Anti-Aging Center in Las Vegas, NV in addition to many other seminars in anti-aging medicine and natural hormone replacement. He has lectured extensively on the subject of bio-identical hormones both for the general public and at professional complementary medicine conferences. He has been a keynote speaker for men and women’s health conferences, Wellness programs and selected community events.
He is singularly concerned with seeing his patients acheive a state of health that helps prevent the ravages of aging and avoids many of the diseases people consider inevitable as they age. He has a passion for implementing the latest research and has a voracious appetite for finding and applying the latest clinical research in the fields of hormone restoration, anti-aging medicine and wellness.
Being a devoted follower of Jesus Christ is his most important priority. He has been happily married for over 20 years and is the proud father of 4 wonderful children. He is a very active member of Rock Springs Baptist Church where he teaches a couples class, sings in the choir, serves as a Deacon, and ministers in many capacities.
He is currently serving on the South Carolina Baptist Disaster Relief Management team, and has traveled extensively performing missions work. The latest trip was to Indonesia doing relief work following the Tsunami. He is currently serving as a Board Member for Sharing Inc. a non-profit organization benefiting the children of the Upstate of South Carolina. (See www.sharinginc.com for more information)
He also maintains an active emergency medicine practice at Cannon Memorial Hospital where he is Wellness Director and is an active member of the Medical Staff. He has served as Chief of Staff and served on the Ethics Committee, Credentials Committee, Mortality Review Committee and the ER Committee. He is currently Medical Control Officer for the Clemson University Fire Department and EMS, and also Medical Control Officer for Bowers Ambulance service which serves the upstate of South Carolina and is the premier ambulance service for special events in Greenville such as The Greenville Drive and multiple sporting and special events.
He has too many hobbies and interests but enjoys them all.
Cheryl Middleton, PA-C
Co-Founder of LivingWell Integrative Medicine
Cheryl is a Certified Physicians Assistant with over a decade of experience in Family Medicine. She has supplemented her Family Medicine training with multiple seminars on nutrition and natural hormone replacement. Due to her particular interest she has become one of the most respected voices in the Upstate of South Carolina on nutritional issues. She has lectured extensively and is a much sought after speaker for women’s groups and health organizations for both her knowledge about bio-identical hormone restoration and nutritional issues. She has put in countless hours finding local resources for obtaining nutritionally superior food in the our local area. She has a very active and comprehensive approach toward addressing the needs of her patients.
She has a wonderfully complete and unique set of skill, talents, and knowledge of hormone replacement and nutrition. Her enthusiasm and passion shows in her care of each client.
She is happily married with two wonderful children and an active member of her church. Her priorities are faith, family and then everything else.