Alive! Lifestyle Medicine is a Columbia, Missouri practice focused on direct primary care in internal medicine and lifestyle medicine. Guided by an osteopathic, whole-person approach, the practice emphasizes identifying and treating root causes of illness, supporting the body as an integrated system, and providing medically grounded, relationship-based care aimed at lasting well-being. The practice is led by Jessica Fleagle Bender, a board-certified physician in internal medicine and lifestyle medicine with prior experience in academic hospital medicine and residency program leadership at the University of Missouri.