High Sierra Restorative Health
January 28, 2025 | Kayla Anderson
Originally Published in LIVE.WORK.PLAY Magazine. Written By: Kayla Anderson
The warm natural atmosphere with soothing color tones, green thriving plants, and a trickling water fountain is a nice contrast to the stormy weather outside, as Emily Allina sits in a bright office waiting for her next appointment.
Allina moved to Incline Village in September of 2021 and started a mobile urgent care practice that November. In the early days of the pandemic, she went to Kings Beach to take an advanced wilderness life support class. A friend suggested that Allina should consider practicing medicine on the Nevada side of the lake because there was a need for her kind of specialized health services…especially during covid. (She still treats people dealing with long covid symptoms.)
“It was busy and a big focus for a while,” Allina says. She holds a master’s degree in nursing and has more than 23 years of experience working as a nurse practitioner, in settings such as the ER and critical care transport. When Allina moved here, she wanted to start her own business but didn’t want to take on too much overhead, so she offered mobile care mainly to suss out the need in the community and build up her clientele. Allina also wanted to get more into wellness offerings, and didn’t require a lot of equipment to provide her types of services. Her specialties include emergency medicine, urgent care, integrative & longevity medicine, and regenerative medicine.
In February of 2024, Allina opened a brick-and-mortar office on 923 Tahoe Boulevard, Ste. 100.
“It’s so nice to have a space for patients to come here,” Allina says about High Sierra Restorative Health, which also has lab services now.
When asked what the most popular service is, Allina says that a lot of people—both men and women—are seeking out hormone replacement therapy. Peptide therapies, hormone balancing, and regenerative therapies can help with weight loss, thyroid function, cortisone issues, brain health, restorative sleep, and more. There are also plenty of people who look for that episodic care– like treating a UTI or ear infection—who would rather go to her than anyone else in town.
However, her favorite kind of patient/client is one who takes a proactive approach to their health.
“I like to focus on getting people healthy and then maintaining that longevity,” Allina says. “The earlier you start to investigate your baseline health and optimize it, the better chance you have to prevent chronic, more serious diseases in the future.” She explains that it helps to make sure that: 1) your gut health is good; and 2) your endocrine system/hormonal health is good.
“Those two systems are upstream of everything else,” she says. “It can seem overwhelming to tackle everything in your body at once, so focusing on those two systems are good to optimize first,” she says. Allina also enjoys practicing health and wellness in Nevada, which is quite different from working in a general hospital ER.
“Here I get to establish a relationship with patients and get to follow through with them. ER is episodic, you treat patients for a specific thing and then they’re gone. You don’t get any kind of closure,” she adds.
“Here it’s a journey… I get to see if what I’m doing is working and it helps inform the practice,” Allina says. Plus, getting the opportunity to create a more personal relationship with people helps her tailor treatments to their individual needs.
“I really like the community, and all the patients are great. This really is a wonderful place to live, work, and play,” she says with a wink. “I love helping people who are invested in their health.”
If people are interested in her services but don’t know where to start, the High Sierra Restorative Health website is a good resource. Allina also offers free 20-minute discovery phone calls, available to book online.
“I want to continue to grow, offer cutting-edge treatments and maybe bring in another provider,” Allina says about her goals.
“Healthcare is a science and an art. We look at each person individually. We know scientifically what should work but the art is that there’s no one like you. So, you have to pivot, have to adapt sometimes to treatments because each person is unique. Medicine requires a more personalized approach and frequent visits. That’s the benefit of coming here.”
For more information about High Sierra Restorative Health, visit https://restorativehealthnv.com/.