WORK WITH ME
You wake up tired.
Not the tired that goes away with coffee. The kind that's just… there. A low-grade exhaustion that's become so familiar you've almost stopped noticing it.
Your labs came back normal. Your doctor says you're fine for your age. For your age. There it is — the phrase that's supposed to make you feel reassured but instead makes you feel like a door quietly closing.
Here’s What Nobody Is Telling You.
This is not just aging. This is aging faster than you should. This is your biology running ahead of your years — your clock taking control and aging you faster and faster — driven by inflammation, hormonal shifts, gut dysfunction, and metabolic patterns that conventional medicine isn't designed to fix. Not because your doctor doesn't care. But because conventional medicine is built to watch and wait — until your numbers cross a threshold, until there's a diagnosis code, until you have a disease they can now treat.
Meanwhile you're sitting in the waiting room feeling terrible — and being told everything looks fine. See you next year.
IMAGINE THIS INSTEAD
Your best years are not behind you.
Energy that's there when you need it — not rationed, not borrowed from tomorrow.
A digestive system that works quietly in the background the way it's supposed to — not one that dictates your social calendar or makes you quietly dread certain meals."
Workouts that feel good again. Recovery that actually happens. A body that responds the way it used to — maybe better.
Weight that shifts — not because you're starving yourself or taking shortcuts — but because your metabolism is finally working the way it was designed to.
Sleep that restores. A mind that's clear. A to-do list that feels doable instead of overwhelming.
The trip you've been putting off gets planned. The hobby gets picked back up. You say yes to things you'd been quietly avoiding.
You stop measuring your health by what you can manage. You start measuring it by what you can do.
You're not just healthier. You're back. Aging on your terms — not the clock's. Writing a second act that looks nothing like your parents' — and everything like the life you imagined. You still got it. You just need someone to help you find it again.
YOU ARE WORTH MORE THAN WATCH AND WAIT
Getting your health back is not luck. Not genetics. Not watch and wait.
Getting your health back is digging deeper. It's refusing to accept 'everything looks fine' when you know it doesn't. It's taking control — putting in the work, fighting for the version of yourself you know is still in there.
You've been patient with a system that wasn't built to find what's driving your symptoms. That ends here.
Most of what's been bothering you didn't show up in isolation — it's connected. One system under strain puts pressure on the next. Treating one symptom at a time was never going to work, because that was never the real problem.
"It's time to reset your clock — not wait for it to run out."
Let me show you a path forward — where we dig together, where we don't stop at normal ranges, where we don't wait for things to get worse before we act. Where getting your health back — and your life back — is the only acceptable outcome.
Here's how we do it.
OUR FLAGSHIP PROGRAM
The Ascent
A four month climb to the best you’ve ever felt.
Four months. Four pillars. One outcome. Find it. Plan it. Reset it. Together.
PILLAR ONE - THE INVESTIGATION
We find what conventional medicine is not looking for.
The Ascent begins where everything else stopped — with a real investigation into your biology. And it starts before we ever meet.
First, you'll complete an in-depth history — not a generic form that disappears into a file, but a detailed map of your story that shows us exactly where to start looking. Then we sit down together, for a full hour, one-on-one. We dig into every concern, ask the questions nobody's taken the time to ask, and follow the threads your primary care doctor never had the chance to — because that kind of time doesn't fit inside a seven-minute visit.
Only then do we talk about labs. Not a standard panel ordered on autopilot — the specific tests your story calls for, often ones you've never had run, or familiar ones read in a way conventional medicine simply doesn't. The conversation tells us where to look. The labs are how the rest of the story unfolds.
This is what watching and waiting can never be: someone finally investigating why. And we're not waiting for anything.
PILLAR TWO - THE BLUEPRINT
We build a plan that is entirely, specifically, unapologetically yours.
Your blueprint is personalized and grounded in science. It's not a generic diet. It's your diet — built around your metabolism, your results, your life, and what your body actually needs to heal and perform.
Not a random supplement stack. Your protocol — targeted, purposeful, and based on what your labs actually show is missing or dysregulated. No more bottles collecting dust. No more money spent on potions that made someone on Instagram feel better. Every single recommendation has a reason — and that reason is you.
And then there's the part most plans skip. Not a generic lifestyle plan copied off the internet — how you move, how you sleep, how you handle stress. Get these wrong, and the diet and the supplements are just a band-aid. It's the harder, quieter half of the plan, and the part that requires the most personalization — built around your body, your life, and where we're taking them, all pointed at one thing: getting you toward the best you've ever felt.
PILLAR THREE - THE RESET
The right things, in the right order.
Sleep, movement, diet, precise supplements, and stress management aren't lifestyle suggestions — they're clinical levers. And here's what almost nobody gets right: it's not just which levers you pull. It's the order — the sequence. And getting the sequence right is the whole game.
This is where most people lose years. They read about a gut protocol online and dive in. They add the supplement everyone's raving about. They overhaul their diet overnight. Each thing is good on its own — but done in the wrong order, or all at once, the body pushes back. Supplements you can't yet absorb are money down the drain. A diet changed too fast floods you with symptoms. Too much, too soon, and the body rejects the whole thing. That's why chasing one fix after another never adds up to feeling better.
The Reset is the blueprint put into action — sequenced. In the right order, at the right pace. We build the foundation first, so the next layer actually lands. We move at the speed your body can absorb, the pace that maximizes recovery. And we adjust as we go, because your strengths and your sticking points are yours alone, and no plan survives contact with a real life unchanged.
This is where the downward spiral stops. Where the slipping, the fog, the quiet acceleration of aging — the things you'd started to accept — begin to reverse. Not because we threw everything at you, but because we did the right things, in the right order, until your body finally had what it needed.
This is where you climb to new heights and begin to feel better than you have in years.
PILLAR FOUR - THE ROPE TEAM
On a real climb, no one goes up alone. You're roped to a small team — and if you slip, the rope holds. The people tied to you simply don't let you fall.
That's what these four months are. Not a portal. Not a chatbot. Not a PDF and a follow-up in six weeks. A doctor and a dedicated health coach — both tied to your outcome, both working from the same plan toward the same goal.
Every month you sit down with Dr. Ashforth — reviewing your progress, adjusting your protocol, making sure the plan is working and evolving as you do. Every month you meet with your health coach — the person in your corner for the day-to-day, the accountability, the questions that come up at 7pm on a Tuesday when you're standing in the kitchen trying to figure out what to eat. Every week there are office hours. And in between all of it, your coach is reachable — because real transformation doesn't happen on a schedule.
You were dismissed once, and sent off to manage alone. That doesn't happen here. This time, you're roped in — for the whole climb.
You won't be doing any of it alone.
This is the climb you've been trying to make alone. Now you don't have to.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Resetting the clock. Adding life to your years.
Comprehensive intake session — full health history, root cause exploration, in depth questionnaire
Advanced functional medicine testing — labs you've probably never had done, looking for patterns and digging deep for answers
Select targeted additional blood labs based on your specific health history
A review and detailed explanation of your findings and a review of and implementation of your care plan
4 monthly visits with Dr. Ashforth — updating protocol and care plan based on your real time response to treatment
4 monthly visits with your dedicated health coach — accountability, implementation, ongoing support
Weekly office hours with your health coach- get your questions answered and get clarity. No guessing.
Direct messaging access to your health coach between visits
Coaching app and tracker software to assist your implementation
A PDF of your condition specific information guide
Your personalized nutrition and meal plan — built from your results, not a template
Your personalized exercise and movement framework — designed for where you are now and where you're going
Your individualized targeted supplement protocol — purposeful, specific, no guesswork. You will know the “why” behind anything you are taking.
15% discount on all professional-grade supplements throughout your program
15% of any additional labs that may be needed
Your investment in The Ascent is discussed on your Ascendant Clarity Call. We discuss investment, payment options, and answer any questions you have before you make any decisions.
AFTER THE ASCENT
The Summit Membership
FOR THOSE COMMITTED TO LIVING THEIR BEST LIFE
Completing The Ascent doesn't have to be the finish line. Now that your feeling your best, this is where we reach the Summit. We now shift from resetting your biology to optimizing how you age. Optimizing the metabolic energy, cognitive sharpness, hormonal balance, and physical vitality that lets you do everything you want to do, for as long as you want to do it.
Monthly live longevity webinar with Dr. Ashforth - the latest information on how to stay healthy and vibrant - the bio hacks, the supplements, the exercises, the do’s and don’ts of maximizing your health span.
Full on-demand webinar library
Quarterly 1:1 check-in with Dr. Ashforth - we update protocols, answers questions and keep you living your best life.
Ongoing 15% supplement and lab testing discounts
Priority scheduling acute issues.
Membership details and investment are shared with Ascent graduates.
What to Expect on Your Ascendant Clarity Call
HOW IT WORKS
It's a free 20–30 minute video conversation — no pressure, no obligation, no hard sell. We'll talk about where you are, what you've been through, what you've tried, and what you're looking for. You'll leave with clarity. Whether you enroll or not.
Your primary health concerns and how long you've been dealing with them
What you've already tried and why it hasn't fully resolved things
Your goals — not just health goals, but life goals
Whether The Ascendant Reset is the right fit for your situation
What the path forward looks like if we decide to work together
WHY WORK WITH DR. ALLEN ASHFORTH, D.C.
He's not here to watch and wait. And neither are you.
Dr. Allen Ashforth, D.C. has spent over 31 years in clinical practice helping patients understand and take control of their health. His journey into functional healthcare is both professional and personal — his own experience navigating Hashimoto's thyroiditis and watching his daughter struggle through gut health challenges the system kept missing gave him a patient's understanding of what it means to search for real answers.
Today through Ascendant Health and Longevity, Dr. Ashforth helps adults in their 40s, and 50s, get to the root of what's been holding them back.
READY TO START
Are you tired of waiting? You've been patient long enough.
The answers exist. The path forward exists. You just haven't had the right guide yet. Let's find out if we're the right fit.
No cost. No obligation. Just clarity
Ascendant Health and Longevity is a cash-pay practice. We do not bill insurance. HSA and FSA funds are accepted.