Dr. Melissa Ponce

Hi, pleasure to meet you! I’m Dr. Ponce.

Born and raised in southern California, I grew up very involved in athletics and academics. My own struggle for physical excellence and fascination with human health drew me to this phenomenal field of chiropractic and natural medicine.

I began my professional career at age eighteen while attending the University of California at Los Angeles working with NCAA athletes at the sports medicine center. It did not take me long to realize that conventional medicine was not my intended career path. Receiving a formal education at UCLA, one of the largest western medical universities on the west coast, “alternative medicine,” to me, was an unfamiliar area of healthcare.

Chiropractic was an amazing find as I realized how impacting its therapies are on the nervous system. Throughout my doctorate program at Palmer Chiropractic College, I was heavily involved in the clinical nutrition seminar circuit, spending hundreds of additional hours in higher education learning. Within the whirlwind of weekend seminar after weekend seminar I progressively became enlightened to the latest concepts of revolutionary patient care and innovative treatments. I developed a philosophy that the human body is astoundingly powerful and has amazing healing capabilities.

I now know that the job of the practitioner is to measure, assess and facilitate the healing process by supplying tools necessary for improvement. No drug in the world can match the astounding advances your own body can make toward health and healing. A knowledgeable doctor will know what direction to take with their patients and what supplements or adjustments the body needs to elicit proper changes. I see that chiropractic combined with functional medicine is an evolutionary advancement in modern health-care as the nervous system and physiological processes of the body are tightly intertwined in the web of well-being and physical excellence.

I have made it my life’s mission to share this message with the world and make natural medicine more available. Educating the community that each individual can be in control of their health and achieve physical excellence is a cause I am very passionate about.

I look forward to getting to know you and aiding you in your own quest for optimal health and wellness!

Melissa Ponce, DC

Chiropractic Kinesiology, Clinical Nutrition, Functional Medicine