What does it actually take to build a healthcare system that treats the whole person — not just the symptom in front of you? In the inaugural episode of the Vida Vitality Podcast, Dr. Michelle Leary sits down with Dr. Kris Sasaki, Founder and CEO of Vida Integrated Health, for a wide-ranging conversation about where Vida came from, what makes it different, and where it's going.

Dr. Sasaki shares the story behind his unlikely path — from a wrist injury at a provincial basketball championship in Canada, to building chiropractic clinics in Peru, Brazil, Spain, and eventually Seattle. What drove him wasn't ambition alone. It was a conviction that patients deserved better — real musculoskeletal care done right, and a whole team working together to get to the root cause.

That conviction became Vida's foundation: an integrated model where ch ...