Dr. Marianna Magri discusses how she combined science, awareness, and longevity in a new women’s health methodology

Luca Moreira
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Dra. Marianna Magri
Dra. Marianna Magri

A leading figure in integrative medicine and longevity, Dr. Marianna Magri has revolutionized the way the body and mind are understood in contemporary medicine. Leading the Magri Clinic and the Magri Group, she proposes an approach that goes beyond laboratory tests and traditional protocols—combining science, aesthetics, and self-awareness with a single purpose: restoring vitality and awareness to people.

Creator of the “Magri Life” philosophy, which unites health, performance, and purpose, Marianna advocates that true well-being arises from the balance between body, mind, and energy. In addition to providing personalized and precise patient care, she also leads the “From Doctor to Doctor” mentoring program, an initiative aimed at training professionals seeking to pursue a purposeful and sustainable medical career.

With a career marked by innovation and humanization, Dr. Marianna Magri continues to expand her impact in the healthcare field and inspire a new generation of women to look at medicine—and themselves—with greater awareness, empathy, and the power of transformation.

Dr. Marianna, what led you to expand your perspective on traditional medicine to a more integrative approach focused on longevity and female well-being?

I’ve always believed that health isn’t the absence of disease—it’s the presence of vitality. Early in my career, I noticed a recurring pattern: exhausted people with real symptoms but “normal” test results. This idea of normality has always bothered me, because laboratory parameters are statistical, not individual. Traditional medicine still relies on population averages, when in fact we should be looking for optimization, not just normality.

It was during my first specialization that I realized that medicine needed to return to being a space of precision and reconnection—body, mind, energy, and aesthetics as a single system. Precision medicine taught me that each body has its own metrics and that treating without understanding the context is like trying to mop up ice: you alleviate symptoms but keep the underlying causes active.

Today, I see longevity as a consequence of awareness. It’s built when we optimize what sustains health—sleep, nutrition, movement, emotional balance—and silence chronic inflammatory processes that silently erode us. And true well-being begins when we understand that self-care isn’t a luxury—it’s a vital structure.

You talk a lot about “Magri Life” as a philosophy of life. How did this concept come about, and what does it mean in practice, both for your patients and for you?

Magri Life was born from an internal breakdown, from a moment when I realized I didn’t just want to practice medicine—I wanted to live what I believed in. Shortly after graduating, I almost left the profession. It didn’t make sense to me to treat people with only generic, temporary prescriptions. I wanted to understand the causes—and I realized that they were, most of the time, found in habits, emotions, and lifestyle.

I began studying precision medicine and the biology of longevity and understood that true medicine begins with daily choices—in sleep, in food, in how we manage stress and relate to our bodies. I learned that a healthy body reflects a harmonious system—and that metabolic balance, muscle building, and inflammation control are just as important as laboratory markers.

Today, at Magri Clinic, we work with genetic testing and personalized strategies because I believe personalization is the medical ethics of the future. Magri Life is this philosophy of living with energy, clarity, and presence—with an optimized body and a lucid mind. It’s about uniting science and sensitivity, precision and purpose.

Your mentorship has transformed the careers of many healthcare professionals. What was the turning point that made you realize you could—and should—help other doctors become entrepreneurs?

The turning point was when I realized that what truly transformed my practice wasn’t technical knowledge—it was mindset. I began receiving messages from colleagues who wanted to understand how I could combine science, aesthetics, purpose, and lightness. And I understood that medicine teaches us to care for others, but not to care for our own structures—emotional, creative, and financial.

I created the Doctor to Doctor mentoring program to teach what we’ve never been taught before: that purpose and sustainability go hand in hand, and that undertaking a career in medicine isn’t about losing your essence, it’s about expanding your impact.

I began my career working shifts in mobile ICUs, in low-income clinics, and then in reference centers for functional medicine and nutrition. It was through this process that I learned about management and realized I wanted to build something different.

Thus was born Magri Clinic: a boutique clinic created to offer a medical experience that integrates science, aesthetics, and hospitality. Every detail was designed to convey a sense of care—from the service to the ambiance, the time, and the attentiveness. I wanted to prove that it is possible to offer excellent, humane, and sustainable service and inspire other doctors to do the same.

What are the biggest challenges women face in medicine today—especially when trying to balance career, purpose, and personal life?

Medicine is still an environment structured around male logic: performance, control, and resistance. Women enter this system and often become ill trying to fit in. They feel guilty for desiring balance, beauty, and time—when, in fact, these are the pillars of health.

The biggest challenge is redefining what success means. It’s not about doing more—it’s about doing it consistently. Being a doctor means serving, but it also means sustaining the energy and purpose to continue serving. When women allow themselves to be human, they become more precise, empathetic, and powerful professionals.

Managing a successful business group and clinic requires a mindset that goes far beyond the office. How did you develop this business vision without sacrificing patient care?

Developing business acumen was an act of coherence. For a long time, I also believed that management and financial return were “non-medical” topics. Until I understood that without management, there is no lasting impact—and that a healthy business is a natural extension of good care.

Learning about branding, positioning, experience, and cash flow was a way to understand that medicine and culture are connected. Today, leading the Magri Group and Magri Clinic means expanding the scope of the same purpose: caring for human beings in all their dimensions—physical, aesthetic, emotional, and cultural. My rule is simple: if something improves the human experience, it’s part of my medicine.

You have a strong and inspiring digital presence. How has social media helped expand your message and the reach of your work—and how do you handle the responsibility of influencing so many people in the healthcare field?

Social media taught me that knowledge without vulnerability doesn’t transform. At first, I was afraid of exposure. Over time, I realized that what connects isn’t the ideal, it’s the real—the behind-the-scenes, the process, the doubts.

The internet has allowed me to translate science into accessible language, democratize access to precision medicine, and inspire people to take conscious care of themselves. Influencing, for me, means educating with purpose. It’s elevating the public conversation about health and showing that longevity is a daily construct, not an aesthetic promise.

In your opinion, what still needs to evolve in the way medicine views women — especially when we talk about self-esteem, hormones, and integrative well-being?

Medicine still views the body as a machine to be corrected, not as an intelligent system constantly seeking balance. For decades, we’ve reduced health to numbers and forgotten that each cell responds to its emotional, nutritional, and environmental context.

I believe in a medicine of potency, not deficiency. A medicine that understands sleep as a hormonal pillar, muscle as an endocrine organ, the cycle as a metabolic data point, and desire as a vital marker. Self-esteem, libido, energy—all of these are also biology. Integral health begins when we look at the human being with depth and respect, not with haste and protocols.

What are your next steps with the Magri Group and the “From Doctor to Doctor” mentorship? And, looking ahead, what legacy would you like to leave for medicine and the women who follow you?

The Magri Group is consolidating itself as an ecosystem of health, aesthetics, and consciousness, and the Magri Clinic represents the materialization of this philosophy—a space that combines precision medicine, advanced aesthetics, and integrative well-being, with a human, sensorial, and scientific perspective.

More than a clinic, Magri Clinic is a center of performance and longevity, where every detail—from the architecture to the patient experience—was designed to convey what I believe: that science and aesthetics are part of the same vitality process.

In the coming years, our focus is to expand this experience to new formats and locations, without losing what sets us apart: deep care, extreme personalization, and the constant pursuit of human and scientific excellence. I want to create bridges between medicine and culture—documentaries, courses, projects—that show that longevity is more than just time: it’s a quality of presence, mental clarity, and emotional depth.

My legacy is simple: that people return to inhabiting their own bodies with intelligence, and that medicine returns to being about people, not protocols. The health of the future is the union of precision and consciousness—and that’s what drives me every day.

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