About Dr. Katherine Noscal
Your Partner in Healing, Rooted in Science and Empathy.
Katherine “Kathy” Noscal is an Internal Medicine, Functional Medicine, and Lifestyle Medicine physician based in the Philippines. She offers in-person consultations in Metro Manila and Nueva Vizcaya, and online consultations nationwide and worldwide.
As both a doctor and a lupus warrior, Dr. Noscal understands what it means to navigate chronic illness, not just from textbooks, but from lived experience.
Mission
To help Filipinos prevent, treat, and manage chronic diseases by addressing root causes through a compassionate blend of Internal Medicine, Functional Medicine, and Lifestyle Medicine grounded in science, sustainability, and empathy.
Vision
A Philippines where people heal beyond prescriptions—where care plans integrate food, movement, sleep, stress mastery, relationships, faith, and evidence-based medicine so families can live well for the long term.
Core Principles
- Root-Cause First: Look beneath symptoms to find drivers of disease.
- Personalized & Practical: Plans that fit your life, culture, and budget.
- Sustainable Habits: Progress over perfection.
- Doctor-as-Partner: Decisions made with you, not for you.
- Compassion Built from Lived Experience: Care from a doctor who’s walked the same road.
From Living with Lupus to Living Well
In 2011, while in residency at St. Luke’s Quezon City, Kathy’s life shifted from healer to patient when she was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Fatigue, brain fog, numbness, and repeated hospitalizations forced her to rethink health beyond managing symptoms.
Conventional medicine kept her alive, something she will always be grateful for, but she felt a gap between treating illness and living well. This search led her to Functional and Lifestyle Medicine, where nutrition, sleep, movement, stress, and relationships became part of the prescription.
Through a comprehensive approach combining proper nutrition, lifestyle modifications, emotional and mental support, targeted supplementation, prescribed medications, gut healing, and advanced laboratory testing, she regained mental clarity, sustained energy, and experienced far fewer flares. With the guidance of her physician friend, she later incorporated Celergen for cellular repair—enhancing her resilience as she rebuilt her life.
The pandemic disrupted her clinic and routine, leading to setbacks. But Kathy rebuilt slowly: one meal, one walk, one good night of sleep at a time. In Nueva Vizcaya, she co-founded Live Well Medical & Diagnostic Center, bringing specialized testing and accessible care to her community.
Her biggest lesson? Strictness breaks, sustainability bends and holds. Healing isn’t about perfection, it’s about small, consistent steps that last.
“I still have lupus, but it doesn’t have me. My promise is simple: we’ll build a plan you can live with, and live well by”.
Education & Medical Training
- Philippine Science High School Main Campus – Science-focused foundation
- University of the Philippines Los Baños – BS Computer Science
- University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery – Doctor of Medicine
- St. Luke’s Medical Center (Quezon City)– Residency in Internal Medicine
- Institute for Functional Medicine – Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice and Completed all Advanced Practice Modules
- Philippine College of Lifestyle Medicine – Training in Lifestyle Medicine
Professional Highlights
- Founder, Live Well Functional Health Clinic and Live Well Medical & Diagnostic Center.
- Physician blending Internal, Functional, and Lifestyle Medicine.
- Advocate for accessible, sustainable, and root-cause focused care.
- Speaker and educator on chronic illness management and lifestyle medicine in the Philippines.
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Let’s design your next small step toward sustainable healing.