About
Charan Shikh, MD
Forty years of internal medicine, one consistent question: not just how do we live longer, but how do we stay ourselves the whole way through.
The Physician
Four decades at the bedside.
Charan Shikh, MD, is a physician with more than forty years of clinical practice in Internal Medicine, with a focus on longevity, preventive, and aesthetic medicine.
Most of that career has been spent in the ordinary work of internal medicine — blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, thyroids, sleep, weight, the slow accumulation of small problems into large ones. It is unglamorous work, and it is where the real leverage over how a life ages turns out to live.
Over those years a pattern became impossible to ignore. Two patients of the same age, with similar labs, could be living entirely different lives — one still traveling, lifting, working, thinking clearly; the other narrowing year by year. The difference was rarely a single dramatic intervention. It was the accumulation of decisions made across decades, most of them modifiable, most of them made long before symptoms appeared.
That observation became a practice, and eventually a book.
Practice Philosophy
Three convictions shape the work.
Function over numbers
Lab values matter because of what they predict about strength, clarity, and independence. The goal is never a prettier panel. It is a life that still works at eighty.
Evidence, stated plainly
Longevity attracts more enthusiasm than proof. Where the evidence is strong, it should be acted on. Where it is thin, that should be said out loud rather than sold.
Decades, not appointments
Aging is a forty-year process. It responds to what you do consistently across it, which means the plan has to be something a real person can actually sustain.
Since 2002
Jawani
In 2002 he founded Jawani — a longevity and wellness practice guided by the belief that medicine’s highest purpose is not only to treat disease, but to protect the vitality that makes life worth living.
Begins clinical practice in Internal Medicine.
Founds Jawani, focused on longevity and preventive care.
Thousands of patients through metabolic, hormonal, cardiovascular and cognitive care.
The Longevity Blueprint, a companion app in development, and the collection ahead.
Areas of Focus
What the work covers.
- Metabolic health, insulin resistance, and weight
- Hormonal transitions in men and women
- Cardiovascular risk and prevention
- Cognitive vitality and sleep
- Strength, mobility, and the dimensions of training
- Nutrition and protein across the decades
- Biomarker interpretation and screening cadence
- Evidence-based longevity medicine, including HRT and GLP-1s
