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Our Team

FBE prides itself in genuinely caring about the well-being of our clients. We hire only highly-qualified, friendly staff members who pursue holistic health and fitness as a lifestyle to serve our clients. Owner Joseph Harounian has assembled an accomplished team of experts and staff to help with your goals. 

A Message from Joseph Harounian, Founder

FBE is the result of my own personal journey from illness to good health. Even though I went through a challenging and difficult time at an early age, I am grateful to have gone through this journey since it has inspired me to bring holistic methods of healing to others which has become both my passion and my purpose in life.

At age 20, I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease and other medical conditions for which up to now there are no known cures in Western medicine. Treatments are limited to managing symptoms and reducing the number of outbreaks.

For me, this meant endless tests and more and more medications – all of them with side effects that made me even sicker. I knew that I could not go on punishing my body. That’s when I approached Eastern medicine and learned about alternative methods of healing such as acupuncture, nutrition, and herbal remedies. These methods continue to be used by Chinese doctors and have proven themselves for more than 5,000 years. This approach turned out to be the answer for me: I’m in my 40s now and have been in excellent health for many years.

In 2008, as a result of this journey, I decided to open a facility that would promote and offer alternative, preventive and holistic approaches. By opening Firm Body Evolution, my hope was to educate and make alternative remedies more accessible to people in the Los Angeles area: I want people to know, when your doctor is out of answers and not listening to what your concerns are, don’t give up – look elsewhere!

At FBE, it's not about transforming your body into something you'd like to be. It's about renewing yourself to something you are and you've always been and teaching you how to maintain that ideal state of being.

I wish you the best in your lifelong journey toward wellness, and I welcome the opportunity to support you along the way.”