Justin Laube, MD
Integrative Internal Medicine, East-West Medicine & Men’s Health
Justin Laube, MD, is a dual board-certified integrative and internal medicine physician with more than 20 years of medical, clinical, and educational experience. He helps patients uncover why persistent symptoms, chronic illness, and declining vitality may be occurring — and creates a personalized path toward greater health, resilience, and well-being.
At the Akasha Center, Dr. Laube combines the diagnostic rigor of conventional internal medicine with functional medicine, nutrition, lifestyle medicine, acupuncture, and East-West medicine. His approach is collaborative, thoughtful, and highly personalized. By taking the time to understand each patient’s medical history, symptoms, lifestyle, stressors, and goals, he looks beyond isolated diagnoses to care for the whole person.
Dr. Laube cares for adults at all phase of life navigating complex and chronic health concerns, including autoimmune and inflammatory conditions, stress-related illness patterns, fatigue, sleep disturbances, chronic headaches, myofascial pain, and musculoskeletal injury recovery. He also has particular expertise in men’s health and creates a grounded, supportive environment for exploring concerns related to hormone health, vitality, cardiometabolic fitness, sexual health, performance, and healthy aging.
Dr. Laube is especially passionate about using Integrative East-West Medicine to help patients who feel frustrated by persistent symptoms or who want a deeper understanding of the patterns and barriers affecting their health. Drawing on his fellowship training and extensive clinical experience at UCLA’s Center for East-West Medicine, he integrates internal medicine diagnostic reasoning with traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, myofascial trigger-point therapy, and mind-body awareness. His work also recognizes the important roles that stress, emotional well-being, meaning, and spiritual health can play in the healing process.
Integrative Internal Medicine, East-West Medicine & Men’s Health
● Chronic inflammation and autoimmune conditions
● Stress-related conditions, anxiety, depression, burnout, and emotional well-being
● Fatigue, low energy, sleep disturbances, and nervous-system dysregulation
● Trauma-related illness patterns, mind-body symptoms, and barriers to healing
● Men’s health, hormone health, vitality, sexual health, and healthy aging
● Digestive health, food sensitivities, and the gut–brain connection
● Hormonal and metabolic health, weight management, and blood-sugar balance
● Cardiovascular prevention, longevity, vitality, and healthy aging
● Myofascial pain, musculoskeletal concerns, and injury recovery
Dr. Laube works closely with Akasha’s multidisciplinary practitioners, as well as each patient’s existing physicians and specialists. Together, they develop a coordinated and comprehensive plan that may include preventive care, laboratory evaluation, nutrition, movement, emotional well-being, pain management, and appropriate referrals.
Education and Professional Experience
Originally from Minnesota, Dr. Laube earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Wisconsin and his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School. While in medical school, he also completed a graduate certificate in Integrative Therapies and Healing Practices through the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing.
He completed his internal medicine residency in UCLA’s primary care track, followed by a two-year fellowship in Integrative East-West Medicine and acupuncture at UCLA Health’s Center for East-West Medicine.
Dr. Laube later served as an assistant clinical professor at UCLA Health’s Center for East-West Medicine and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. In addition to providing holistic primary care and integrative consultations, he served as fellowship director and supervised physician fellows, residents, and medical students.
He is also a member of the Everyday Health Expert Network and has contributed to more than 2,000 public-facing articles on integrative medicine, primary care, men’s health, and a wide range of other health topics.
In 2024, Dr. Laube completed a multiyear educational sabbatical focused on embodied trauma-healing approaches and mindful-awareness practices. This work further deepened his understanding of the connections among life experiences, stress physiology, emotional and spiritual well-being, and the healing process.
Outside of medicine, Dr. Laube enjoys life with his wife, Dr. Thaís Salles Araujo, their cat, Théo, and their growing family. He loves exploring Southern California’s natural landscape, traveling to Brazil to visit family, meditating, and preparing internationally inspired, California-fresh meals.
For patients experiencing persistent symptoms, managing a complex health condition, or seeking a more comprehensive and personalized approach to their well-being, Dr. Laube offers the time, expertise, and integrative perspective to help you move forward.
To learn more or schedule an appointment, please call the Akasha Center at 310.451.8880 or email info@akashacenter.com.
