by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Dec 13, 2022 | Optimization
This isn’t the first time we’ve discussed intermittent fasting. Restricting your calorie-consumption window can have incredible benefits: weight loss, anti-aging effects, improving or sometimes even reversing type II diabetes, lowering inflammatory markers, even...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Oct 18, 2022 | Optimization, Prevention
Standing up from a chair. Lifting a laundry basket. Getting to the telephone before it stops ringing. When we imagine our lives at 80 years old, we probably don’t imagine these everyday tasks becoming impossible. The world’s proportion of people 80 years and older is...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Oct 11, 2022 | Optimization
Aging is inevitable. We do so many things as humans to try to delay aging and mitigate its effects, but the reality is that we all still get older. The question, then, is how do you become a happy, well-adjusted older person? In my experience in medical practice, I’ve...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Sep 20, 2022 | Optimization
When we recommend a medication, we sometimes hear responses like: “I’d rather take a holistic approach.” “I’d like to wait a while before getting on medication.” “I don’t like taking medicine.” A lot of people have become much more hesitant about taking medicine in...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Jul 19, 2022 | Optimization
Nowadays, it seems like everyone has a health tracker. From steps and heart rate to sleep quality and menstrual cycles, people can track just about any health metric they want. But is it actually helping us live healthier lives? Or are smart health devices just adding...
by Dr. Jonathan Schmidt | Jul 12, 2022 | Health, Optimization
Whenever a new diet becomes popular, health professionals get a lot of questions. Sometimes we have to spend a lot of time and energy debunking a popular fad or convincing our patients why the latest trend isn’t a cure-all. So when intermittent fasting first came into...
