Shield of Life
Our Mission
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Shield of Life is founded on the passion for bringing HOPE to those seeking to reclaim their vitality, through TRUTH in evidence-based scientific research, and by providing LOVE, support, and guidance to foster FAITH and BELIEF in the profound human capacity for renewal and transformation.
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Restored wellness is not the destination- It is the doorway to the life you were meant to live and the people you were meant serve.
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This transformation is made possible through the 7 layers of your Shield — a comprehensive, evidence-based framework built from Dr. Klioze's clinical experience and personal practice. Each layer is essential. Each one builds upon the next. Together they form a living shield of protection, resilience, and vitality that no single layer could provide alone.
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Our Shield
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Nutrition — Fueling your body with evidence-based food choices that support whole-body wellness.
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Exercise — Building strength, endurance, and longevity through purposeful movement
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Sleep — Restoring the body and mind for optimal wellness and cognitive resilience
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Nasal Breathing — Unlocking the body's natural capacity for oxygenation and calm
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PEMA Support (or "Electromagnetic Wellness") — Supports recovery and longevity
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Community— Building the relationships that sustain your transformation and journey
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Spirituality — Nourishing the soul as the foundation of whole-person wellness
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This is your Shield of Life — your path to HOPE, TRUTH, LOVE, FAITH, and BELIEF, and to a life lived fully in service of others.
Meet Dr. Andria Klioze
Dr. Andria Klioze is board certified Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine physician. She is a community educator and community advocate, and founder of Shield of Life. For more than 25 years, she has helped people reclaim their health.
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Her career began at the VA in Gainesville, Florida, where she helped build a Hospitalist Program from the ground up while serving as Director of Education in the University of Florida's Dean's Office. In 2002, she moved to the Daytona Beach area and founded a first-of-its-kind Metabolic, Obesity, Diabetes, and Insulin Pump Clinic at the Daytona Beach VA — a program with no equivalent elsewhere in the VA system. For more than 23 years, she built and ran it, treating patients with complex disease states.
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What she learned — both at the VA and from decades of informally guiding friends, family, and neighbors — was that lasting transformation comes from a whole life transformation. It came from addressing: diet, movement, sleep, breath, mindset, and community. Long before she had a name for it, she was practicing what would become the 7 layers of the Shield of Life.
It was the people she'd helped — patients, colleagues, friends, and family who witnessed these transformations firsthand — who urged her to share this approach more broadly. In October 2025, more than 25 years of service to the VA, Dr. Klioze stepped away to devote herself fully to Shield of Life.
Her influence reaches well beyond the clinic. As a Clinical Assistant Professor at Florida State University, she has lectured to physicians and faculty. She has delivered Grand Rounds at local hospitals and the Orlando VA, spoken for the Florida Academy of Family Practice and the Obesity Medicine Association, lectured nationally for Brown & Brown, and addressed chambers of commerce, businesses, and Rotary clubs across Volusia and Flagler Counties. For more than 17 years, she and her husband, Dr. Scott Klioze, have co-hosted "Doctors Are In" on WNZF radio in Flagler County. She is Past President of the Volusia County Medical Society and remains active with the Flagler County Medical Society.
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Dr. Klioze doesn't just teach the Shield of Life — she lives it and shares her own health journey openly as as example of what a whole-life approach can look like.
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Her vision is simple: when people are living a healthy life, they stop focusing inward on their own suffering and start focusing outward — on family, community, and purpose. That's what Shield of Life is for. Not just healthier lives, but fuller ones.
