Start where you are
What brought you here?
Care at Levitas begins with your question — not a service menu. Choose the one that sounds most like you.
You're doing the work and the scale won't move. There's usually a measurable reason.
Why can't I lose weight? I'm always tired.Fatigue is a signal. We look for the metabolic and physiologic causes behind it.
Why am I always tired? Exercise keeps getting harder.Declining capacity is measurable — and often reversible once you know the cause.
Why is exercise getting harder? Am I metabolically healthy?Normal labs aren't the same as metabolic health. We measure what routine visits miss.
Am I metabolically healthy? Am I insulin resistant?Insulin resistance develops years before blood sugar rises. It can be found early.
Am I insulin resistant? I feel older than I should.Muscle, metabolism, and fitness drive how you age. Each one can be measured and improved.
Why do I feel older than I should?Our approach
We start with physiology, not a prescription.
Medication may be part of the answer. First, we work to understand the system it is acting on.
Measure
Metabolism, body composition, and fitness are tested directly — so decisions rest on evidence, not assumptions about willpower.
Understand
We identify the factor — or combination of factors — most responsible for limiting progress right now.
Build
A focused plan, the reasoning behind it, and a clear set of measurable targets that give both patient and physician a way to evaluate progress.
Reassess
Longitudinal measurement confirms what's changing — and what should change next. The plan evolves as the physiology does.
Diagnostic testing
We measure what most visits skip.
The same testing used in metabolic and performance medicine — applied to your everyday health.
Metabolic
Your metabolism
How efficiently your body burns fuel at rest — measured by indirect calorimetry, the engine behind energy and weight.
Resting metabolic rate testing →Functional
Your functional capacity
Grip strength, walking endurance, and sit-to-stand performance — objective measures of the physical reserve that drives daily function and surgical readiness.
Functional & preoperative assessment →Cardiometabolic
Your cardiometabolic risk
Insulin resistance, lipid patterns, blood pressure, and body composition indicators — the measurable factors behind metabolic and cardiovascular disease.
Cardiometabolic risk assessment →Learning Center
Understand the science before your first visit.
A growing educational library organized by topic — not a blog. Built to make metabolic medicine easier to understand.
Metabolism
How metabolism really works, metabolic adaptation, and energy expenditure.
Explore →Nutrition
Protein, fiber, meal timing, and the physiology of hunger.
Explore →Exercise
Zone 2, resistance training, VO₂ max, and recovery.
Explore →Medical Conditions
Insulin resistance, prediabetes, PCOS, MASLD, and sarcopenia.
Explore →Testing
What DEXA, metabolic-rate testing, and CPET measure — and why.
Explore →The full library
Browse every topic in the Levitas Learning Center.
Browse all →Physician-led care
Led by Timothy Roach, MD, DABOM.
Founder of Levitas Metabolic & Performance Clinic. Dr. Roach is a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine, building a practice around objective testing, physiology, and individualized care in Edina, Minnesota.
Levitas combines physician evaluation, metabolic and performance testing, and longitudinal care — so decisions rest on evidence, not assumptions.
Visit Levitas MPC
Located in Edina, Minnesota.
Levitas Metabolic & Performance Clinic
7300 France Avenue South, Suite 301Edina, MN 55435
952-800-3363
info@northstar-mpc.com
Not all services are available yet. Telehealth appointments begin December 2026. Please contact our office at 952-800-3363 or info@northstar-mpc.com for additional information regarding eligibility and availability.
In-person appointments and diagnostic testing are planned to begin in January 2027 at our Edina clinic.
Understand what is limiting you.
Not all services are available yet. Telehealth appointments begin December 2026. Please contact our office at 952-800-3363 or info@northstar-mpc.com for additional information regarding eligibility and availability. In-person appointments and diagnostic testing are planned to begin in January 2027 at our Edina clinic.