The Bridge Between Success and Stability
For more than a decade, I cared for patients at every stage of life, helping them lose weight, improve their health, and achieve results once thought unattainable. But as their success grew, a pattern became impossible to ignore. When the structure faded and life intervened, maintenance was threatened and traditional medicine had nothing left to offer.
This was never a failure of discipline. It was a failure of design.
Self Designed Medicine was built to resolve that tension, whether you are protecting hard-earned results or simply committed to maintaining and optimizing your health for life. Not to replace your medical care, but to extend it into real life with something that actually endures.
As a physician, I understood the science.
As a woman, wife, and mother of three, I lived the reality.
This is not about becoming someone new. It is about being supported as you maintain your weight and your health throughout life.
Meet Our Founder
Lauren Self, DO, FACP, DABOM, DipABLM
Founder, Self Designed Medicine
Dr. Lauren Self is a board-certified physician in Internal Medicine, Obesity Medicine, and Lifestyle Medicine, with more than a decade of clinical experience at the intersection of weight, metabolism, and long-term health. Practicing in an academic setting, she has spent her career working with patients at every stage of the weight loss journey, including medical and surgical patients.
Dr. Self has seen firsthand that long-term success rarely comes down to information or medication alone. It is dependent upon structure, accountability, and support that extends into real life.
Self Designed Medicine was inspired by her commitment to extend what clinical medicine cannot offer into the place where health is actually lived.
TRUSTED CARE & PERSPECTIVES
"With simple changes to my kitchen, I was able to establish an environment that supported healthy eating and was practical and appealing for my family. I was so surprised and grateful how such a small change made such a large impact on my health."
— CP
"Dr. Self has supported my weight journey and health identity for years. Even during struggles, her ability to remind me of who I am and why I engage in my health has transformed my perspective and ability to care for myself and others."
— BM
The Self Method
A science-based framework built around seven pillars of sustainable health. Not a diet. Not a program with an end date. A way of living designed to work within your real life and for your health.
The Method. The Platform. The Difference.
Something meaningful is coming and it was built specifically for you
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The Platform
A first-of-its-kind behavioral health system, and not another tracking app that places the burden of perfect consistency on you. SDM is designed to carry that load, providing stability through systems and environments that replace endless decisions. When life shifts or the unexpected arrives, SDM offers solutions rather than setbacks, recalibrating your path forward without judgment or failure. Scientifically calculated to fit your life, while keeping your life aligned with your success, your goals, and your long-term health.
The Difference
Other tools give you a plan. SDM builds you a system. One crafted over years of clinical experience, designed by science, and proven with real patients in real life. The difference isn’t what it tells you to do. It’s what it builds around you.
Are you ready for solutions to move beyond weight loss and maintain your health and weight?
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