Halo's Mission

to help you increase your healthspan
We believe optimizing health is the best approach toward avoiding sickness and chronic illnesses that often come with aging. As a Halo member, we are committed to helping you increase the length of time in your life when you are in optimal health. 
 
It’s important to have healthcare insurance, however, a better description might be to call it sick-care insurance. Sadly, insurance pays for almost no proactive or preventive care. Doctors in traditional primary care practices are far too busy taking care of sick patients to have time to invest in helping their patients stay healthy. This is why Halo doctors provide each patient with a written wellness plan as part of your platinum concierge primary care Halo membership. To help our members achieve their wellness goals, Halo also offers expanded optional wellness services.

IV Therapy

a commitment to invest in your health & well-being

Halo Health Concierge Doctors offer our patients IV Therapy to benefit and boost nutritional health. Most of our elective IV therapies are administered in our office. Occasionally we are able to administer elective IV therapies at your home or office alongside regularly scheduled medical appointments. Contact our office to inquire.

Why choose IV Therapy?

Amino acids, nutrients, vitamins, and metabolism boosters help optimize your body’s health & performance to aid in:

Improved Metabolism – by pulling fat from storage to use as fuel (lipotropic agent).

Cleansing the Liver – of fat and detoxifying liver tissue.

Stimulating nerve conduction – improving focus and concentration, reducing anxious and depressive symptoms. Used in the treatment of ADHD, bipolar, autism, dementia, and nerve pain.

Raising acetylcholine levels – to keep energy consistent.

Building and repairing tissues –  making chemicals and proteins needed by the body, and repairing the immune system.

Increasing androgen receptors – to promote muscle growth.

Destroying homocysteine – in the body can help reduce coronary heart disease and strokes.

Enhancing energy & boosting endurance – in those with low vitamin B & D levels.

Benefits of IV Therapy

General nutritional health – IV therapy can help replenish nutrients, minerals & vitamins essential to health, mood, and skin tone.

Recovering from cold/flu – IV therapy can help boost your immune system to reduce the length and effects of illness.

Recovering from illness/surgery – IV therapy can help patients with chemotherapy, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and dialysis feel better.

Immune system – IV Therapy can strengthen the immune system to fight off pathogens that lead to illness.

Before and after sports competitions – IV therapy helps marathoners, bodybuilders and other athletes perform their best and recover more quickly.

Boosting energy & metabolism – Providing nutrients that are essential for enhancing metabolism.

Hangover relief – IV therapy relieves hangover symptoms.

Addiction recovery – Specialized IV treatments, like NAD+, help reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms during recovery.

Anti-aging – Specialized IV treatments, like NAD+, may slow aging by boosting cellular health.

We offer these Nutritional Additives in our IV Therapies

GLUTATHIONE

Glutathione improves the health of your cells. It acts in your body:

  • As an anti-aging agent
  • To help fight obesity
  • As a liver detoxer
  • To prevent and reverse acne and wrinkles
  • To improve age spots, brown spots and dark eye circles by protecting the skin against oxidative damage

MIC – METHIONINE | INOSITOL | CHOLINE

Amino acids are the building blocks of your cells that act in your body:

  • To break down fat & boost metabolism
  • To improve gut-nerve function
  • To help keep energy consistent during workouts
  • To help treat some seizure disorders, dementia and alcoholism
  • To help reduce anxiety and improve mood, concentration and attention span
  • To regulate leptin, a key fat regulator in your body

IRON

Iron is needed to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that acts in your body:

  • To enable your blood cells to carry oxygen in the body
  • To treat fatigue
  • To treat anemia
  • To increase energy

VITAMIN D

Vitamin D receptors are found in cells all over the body affecting:

  • Weight loss and metabolism
  • Hormone regulation
  • Preservation of telomeres for anti-aging benefits
  • Improvement of mood
  • Sustaining energy

ZINC

Zinc supports your body’s T-cells that occur in various organ systems, tissues and bones:

  • To help increase immunity.
  • To aid in jet lag and post travel immunity
  • To maintain thyroid function and regulate hormones
  • To enhance athletic performance
  • To help heal wounds
  • To help libido in men.

MAGNESIUM

Magnesium creates cellular energy and boosts energy production to promote activation of enzymes in your cells which help:

  • Reduce fatigue
  • Regulate muscle and nerve function
  • Regulate blood pressure
  • Mitigate migraines frequency and severity
  • Decrease GI irritation such as constipation, cramps, flatulence and indigestion

L-CARNITINE

L-Carnitine builds stamina playing a crucial role in producing energy by mobilizing fatty acids to aid in: 

  • Decreasing LDL cholesterol
  • Promoting muscle growth
  • Aiding recovery from exercise
  • Increasing stamina
  • Helping prevent fat storage
  • Inducing fat metabolism

B COMPLEX – B6& B12

B Complex is active at the cellular level in the function of your brain and nervous system acting:

  • To support nervous system
  • To regulate blood sugar levels
  • To support red blood cells
  • To nourish skin, hair and nails
  • To enhance energy and boost metabolism

VITAMIN C

Vitamin C can help your body at a cellular level by:

  • Helping fight inflammation
  • Helping produce collagen which aids in repairing wounds
  • Helping fight heart disease risk factors
  • Helping lower LDL cholesterol and triglycerides

NAD+ IV Therapy

What is NAD+?

Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide

A coenzyme needed to stay alive. As a “helper” molecule, it binds to other enzymes to facilitate reactions at the molecular level which produce positive outcomes on your health.

How does the amount of NAD+ in my body affect my health? 

Low levels of NAD+ are often accompanied by negative health consequences. As you age, your NAD+ supplies decline. Recently, research has shown that NAD+ has positive impacts at a cellular level on the aging process, inflammation, sleep cycles, immunity, oxidative stress, and brain & nerve function.

NAD+ and your body

Why is NAD+ necessary for my body? 

The depletion of NAD+ can negatively affect the health and functioning of your body at the cellular level. Here are a few conditions that can suppress levels of NAD+:

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Alzheimer’s disease
  • Natural aging
  • Brain injury or trauma
  • Excessive alcohol intake
  • Substance abuse
  • Anxiety & depression
  • Neurodegenerative diseases
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NAD+ and Aging

NAD+ levels decline as we age, leading to a decline in the function of cells and organs. As you age, the telomeres in your DNA shorten which increases disease risk. Recent studies show that replenishment of NAD+ slows this process.

NAD+ levels decline with age

Research shows NAD+ levels in the body decline by about 50% by the age of 50. By the age of 80, NAD+ levels are reduced to only 10%. This partially explains the decline in cognitive function and ability to repair cellular damage with aging. Research shows NAD+ levels in brain tissue, hair & skin decrease as you age.

NAD+ & Substance Abuse. 

In some patients, NAD+ has been shown to significantly reduce the severity of cravings associated with opiate and alcohol withdrawal as well as reduce the number of relapses.

How to boost NAD+ levels in your Body

You cannot absorb NAD+ from your diet, but there are dietary precursors that do help your body make NAD+. You can increase NAD+ levels in your body by:

  • Intravenous (IV) NAD+ administration is the most effective way to boost the level of NAD+ in your body.
  • Exercising, (along with many other physical benefits), increases NAD+ levels.
  • Eating raw foods rich in Vitamin B which help increase NAD+ levels.
  • Eliminating processed foods which can make it harder for your body to produce NAD+.
  • Consuming higher levels of proteins. Proteins obtained from poultry, fish, mushrooms, nuts, and eggs are excellent sources of NAD+ precursors.
  • Intermittent Fasting. When you are fasting, your body produces more NAD+ to convert fat into energy. 

Halo’s Hormone Optimization

for Age Management & Quality of Life

Hormone optimization therapy can relieve age-related symptoms that result from the natural loss of hormones due to aging. In addition to restoring quality of life, individuals can feel more youthful and energetic. Often, hormone loss or imbalance is a contributing factor to mood swings, irritability, anxiety, depression, and lack of motivation. Hormone therapy can also improve or slow the signs of physical aging, improve skin radiance & texture, slow hair loss and thinning and improve and slow down memory loss.

Hormone Optimization Therapy is an option for individuals who may have certain symptoms with no other underlying health condition to explain the symptoms:

What hormones are prescribed for hormone optimization?

When it comes to hormones, many people think first of sexual hormones, such as testosterone, progesterone, and estrogen and Halo doctors look first at these important hormones. However, as we age, the body’s ability to produce hormones dramatically decreases, and in addition to low hormone levels, hormones can become out of balance. There are dozens of hormones that are critical to your body’s functioning that helps sustain your cells and organs and contribute to vitality. Hormone optimization therapy helps to counteract the adverse effects of the body’s natural hormonal decline due to aging. When hormones are restored to optimal levels, it helps you feel and look your best and decreases your risk of chronic disease.

When lab results indicate your hormones are out of balance, Halo doctors can help you restore them to more youthful levels, through peptide therapies, IV therapies, and other types of hormone replacement therapies.

Halo’s Medically Supervised Weight Loss

jump-starting your metabolism for fat loss

Halo’s Physician supervised weight loss combines nutrition counseling, fitness recommendations, peptide therapies and FDA approved weight loss medications when medically indicated. Peptide therapies are often used to help curb hunger & increase fat metabolism. Medications work via different mechanisms, phentermine is an example that works on the brain to reduce hunger, cravings and improve mood and energy. Other drugs work in the gut or periphery with insulin resistance and diabetes. Saxenda, semaglutide, metformin and tirzepatide are examples of these type medications.

“Lose Fat, not Weight”

We don’t want our patients to lose weight. We want them to lose fat and increase muscle. Increasing muscle increases calorie burning since muscle is the furnace of your body, the more muscle in the body, the more calories are burned. This is why it’s important to increase weight bearing exercise during any weight loss regime. Even small increases amounting to 15 minutes a day of exercise will help. As patients see success and start to feel and look better, usually people are motivated to increase physical activity.

Halo Physician Weight Loss measures your success

Understanding your body’s composition is important to know how best to create a pathway for weight loss. Halo uses a computerized scale that measures your total percent body fat and visceral fat (located around the intestines and mid-body) which is associated with metabolic syndrome. Muscle weight, bone weight, and water weight are measured, and a baseline is set. As a person loses fat, the amount of fat loss vs the amount of lean body loss is tracked to make sure you are not losing muscle that keeps your metabolism burning calories.

Underlying Medical Issues affecting Weight

Often weight loss by calorie counting is not successful. The “calorie-in, calorie-out” formula does not account for underlying medical problems such as hormonal imbalances and deficiencies, diabetes, nutritional issues such as leptin resistance, autoimmune diseases, and side effects of medications that affect overall metabolism. Some people have a very slow metabolism due to low lean body mass. Halo takes the time to measure these important indicators prior to beginning any medically supervised weight loss program.

Peptide Therapies & Healthspan: A Smarter, Whole-Body Approach

Our Philosophy: Foundations First

Before peptides are considered, we focus on optimizing the essentials:

  • Metabolic health and insulin sensitivity

  • Hormone balance and adrenal function

  • Nutrition, gut health, and micronutrient status

  • Sleep quality and circadian rhythm

  • Strength, mobility, and cardiovascular fitness

  • Inflammation and immune regulation

Peptides are layered only when these fundamentals are in place, and only when they align with your personalized goals.

How Peptides May Support Your Healthspan​

Growth Hormone Support & Recovery

As we age, natural growth hormone signaling declines, which can affect recovery, sleep quality, and body composition.

Certain peptides may support:

  • Muscle recovery and repair

  • Lean mass preservation

  • Restorative sleep quality

  • Healthy aging physiology

When used alongside resistance training, proper nutrition, and sleep optimization.

Musculoskeletal Health & Injury Recovery

Maintaining mobility is essential to long-term independence and vitality.

Some peptides are utilized for their role in:

  • Tendon and ligament healing

  • Joint and soft-tissue repair

  • Inflammation modulation

  • Supporting connective tissue integrity

These therapies can be paired with physical therapy, corrective movement, and strength training to enhance results.

Metabolic Health & Body Composition

Sustainable fat loss and metabolic flexibility are cornerstones of longevity.

Select peptides may help support:

  • Fat metabolism

  • Insulin sensitivity

  • Mitochondrial efficiency

  • Energy utilization

We always layer with nutrition coaching, strength training, and cardiovascular conditioning.

Cognitive Performance & Stress Resilience

Mental clarity and emotional resilience are critical to quality of life.

Certain peptides may support:

  • Focus and cognitive endurance

  • Stress response balance

  • Neurologic protection

These are considered alongside sleep health, nutrient status, and stress physiology.

Immune Health & Inflammation Balance

A well-regulated immune system is essential for long-term wellness.

Some peptides are utilized for their role in:

  • Supporting immune signaling

  • Modulating chronic inflammation

  • Enhancing tissue repair

Used as part of a broader immune and gut health strategy, peptides can augment and enhance improvments.

Cellular Aging & Longevity Signaling

At the cellular level, aging affects repair mechanisms and circadian regulation.

Specific peptides are being utilized for:

  • Supporting cellular renewal pathways

  • Circadian rhythm alignment

  • Healthy aging processes

These therapies are considered selectively and monitored carefully.

Sexual Health & Quality of Life

When hormones, cardiovascular health, and emotional well-being are optimized, select therapies may further enhance quality of life.

Certain peptides may support:

  • Central libido signaling

  • Sexual wellness in both men and women

Administration is always within a comprehensive, personalized medical plan supervised by Halo clinical practitioners.

What Makes Halo’s Approach to Peptide Therapy Different?​

What Makes Our Approach Different

  • Physician-led evaluation and oversight

  • Personalized, goal-driven care, no cookie-cutter sales-driven protocols for everyone

  • Integration with lifestyle, diagnostics, and core medical care

  • Measured, time-limited use, not indefinite therapy

  • Ongoing monitoring to ensure safety and effectiveness

  • Not every patient needs peptides, and not every phase of care includes them.
    We work with you closedly to determine whether peptides are appropriate based on:

    • Your health history and lab data

    • Your goals and stage of care

    • Safety, effectiveness, and regulatory considerations

  • Our priority is always long-term health, function, and trust.

What Peptides are Used in Integrative Care?​

Growth Hormone Related Peptides

  • CJC-1295 – Stimulates natural growth hormone (GH) release; supports body composition, recovery, and sleep quality.

  • CJC-1295 (with DAC) – Longer-acting version; sustains GH elevation over time.

  • Ipamorelin – GH secretagogue with minimal cortisol or prolactin impact; commonly paired with CJC-1295.

  • Sermorelin – Mimics growth hormone–releasing hormone (GHRH); supports healthy GH signaling, especially with aging.

  • Tesamorelin – Targets visceral fat reduction via GH stimulation; FDA-approved for HIV-associated lipodystrophy.

 

Tissue Repair & Regeneration

  • BPC-157 – Promotes healing of tendons, ligaments, muscle, gut lining, and may support nerve repair.

  • TB-500 (Thymosin Beta-4 fragment) – Enhances tissue repair, angiogenesis, and inflammation modulation.

  • GHK-Cu – Copper peptide involved in wound healing, skin regeneration, collagen production, and hair support.

 

Metabolic & Weight-Related Peptides

  • AOD-9604 – Fragment of HGH studied for fat metabolism without GH-related side effects.

  • MOTS-c – Mitochondrial-derived peptide that improves insulin sensitivity and metabolic flexibility.

  • 5-Amino-1MQ – Targets NNMT inhibition; studied for fat loss and metabolic efficiency.

 

Cognitive, Mood & Neurologic Support

  • Semax – Nootropic peptide that may enhance focus, memory, and neuroprotection.

  • Selank – Anxiolytic peptide with calming effects without sedation; may support immune modulation.

  • Cerebrolysin – Neurotrophic peptide complex studied for brain repair and cognitive recovery.

 

Immune & Longevity-Focused Peptides

  • Thymosin Alpha-1 (TA-1) – Immune-modulating peptide that enhances T-cell function and immune resilience.

  • Epitalon (Epithalamin) – Studied for telomerase activation, circadian regulation, and longevity signaling.

  • LL-37 – Antimicrobial peptide involved in innate immune defense and wound healing.

 

Sexual Health & Well-Being

  • PT-141 (Bremelanotide) – Acts on the central nervous system to enhance sexual desire in men and women.

Peptide FAQs

What are peptides?

Peptides are short chains of amino acids found naturally in the body that support cellular communication and normal biological processes.

Peptide therapy uses targeted peptides to support wellness goals such as body composition, recovery, sleep quality, inflammation support, and healthy aging.

Many peptide protocols are administered via injection to support absorption and bioavailability, since many naturally occurring peptides break down in digestion.

Peptides can bind to cell receptors and relay messages that support normal cellular pathways. Different peptides are selected for different goals.

Some peptides are used to support the body’s natural growth-hormone–related signaling pathways, depending on clinical evaluation and goals.

Halo’s Approach to Metabolic Optimization

There are many benefits to making sure the body’s metabolism is working as it should. Halo subscribes to the belief that monitoring and correcting metabolism is one of the most straightforward ways to optimize health, fitness and well-being and help you achieve faster and better results toward fitness and vitality. When the metabolism is working, the benefits are great:

Halo Doctors Help Correct the Causes of Metabolic Malfunctions

Using executive blood panels, Halo doctors will monitor your labs and order additional tests when indicators suggest metabolic dysfunction. Many treatments are available, such as peptides, nutritional vitamin and mineral supplementation, functional medicine and hormone therapies.

What Factors Contribute to Metabolic Malfunctions?

Halo offers in-office IV therapies, cellular blood testing for nutritional deficiencies and toxicities and physician supervised on-going monitoring that helps our patients keep their metabolism optimized.

Halo offers in-office IV therapies, cellular blood testing for nutritional deficiencies and toxicities and physician supervised on-going monitoring that helps our patients keep their metabolism optimized.

Shockwave Therapy for Musculoskeletal Pain Relief

Regenerative Healing Through Acoustic Science

Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) is a cutting-edge, non-surgical treatment used to accelerate healing and relieve musculoskeletal pain. Offered in-office and completed in under 30 minutes, this therapy requires no anesthesia, no downtime, and minimal disruption to your day.

Commonly Treated Areas Include:

How Shockwave Therapy Works:

Using high-energy acoustic waves applied directly to the affected tissue, ESWT triggers the body’s natural healing response. These shockwaves reduce inflammation, stimulate blood flow, and promote cellular regeneration—all essential for resolving chronic pain at its source.

Treatment Benefits:

What to Expect:

During the session, a conductive gel is applied to the skin and targeted impulses are delivered for 5–15 minutes. While some patients report mild discomfort, most find the treatment tolerable and experience noticeable relief within days. Results build over time, with full regeneration typically achieved in 2–3 months.

Halo offers in-office IV therapies, cellular blood testing for nutritional deficiencies and toxicities and physician supervised on-going monitoring that helps our patients keep their metabolism optimized.

Sofwave Skin Lifting in Raleigh

Tighten, lift, and renew your skin—without surgery.

Sofwave is an FDA-cleared, non-invasive regenerative treatment that uses advanced ultrasound technology to improve skin laxity, reduce fine lines and wrinkles, and lift areas like the eyebrow, submental region, and neck. It’s also approved to treat acne scars and improve the appearance of cellulite — all with no downtime, needles, or surgery.

What Areas Can Be Treated?

Proven Technology. Noticeable Results.

 

Sofwave’s patented SUPERB™ technology delivers energy precisely to the mid-dermis while protecting the surface layer of skin and underlying fat, nerves, and blood vessels.

Why Choose Sofwave at Halo?

What to Expect:

During the session, a conductive gel is applied to the skin and targeted impulses are delivered for 5–15 minutes. While some patients report mild discomfort, most find the treatment tolerable and experience noticeable relief within days. Results build over time, with full regeneration typically achieved in 2–3 months.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why should I choose Sofwave?

Sofwave is a leader in non-invasive skin treatments. It stimulates collagen, elastin, and hyaluronic acid with just one session, delivering real results with no downtime.

Results develop over 4–6 months as your body regenerates collagen and elastin. Some clients notice improvement sooner.

We recommend 2 treatments spaced 6 months apart. For more advanced skin laxity, additional sessions may be needed.

No. Sofwave treats surface skin layers, while Halo’s laser therapy targets deeper layers. Combining both provides full-spectrum skin rejuvenation.

Most patients tolerate Sofwave well. We use a topical anesthetic gel for comfort during your session.

Halo offers in-office IV therapies, cellular blood testing for nutritional deficiencies and toxicities and physician supervised on-going monitoring that helps our patients keep their metabolism optimized.