Why I Built Promotive Metabolic Health
Promotive Metabolic Health
Promotive Metabolic Health is the natural progression of my personal quest to restore my own health and fitness. Before I became a physician, I spent my twenties and thirties as a wildland firefighter, battling forest fires throughout the West. Cutting fire line by hand for weeks at a time required me to be in top physical condition. It’s a demanding yet meaningful life., But it's also a young person’s game. Medicine offered me a way to continue serving my community long after my back and knees would have forced me off the fire line.
I found myself in my mid-forties, borderline obese
Emergency medicine was a natural fit for me, given my time as a firefighter. But by the end of my medical training, I found myself in my mid-forties, borderline obese, with rising blood pressure and failing energy. My sleep was hit or miss, and my diet was whatever I could get my hands on in the moment. Working in the emergency department, I regularly saw patients not much older than me already disabled by chronic diseases that were almost entirely preventable. Their chronic conditions, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, combined to make them highly susceptible to heart attacks, kidney disease, strokes, and more. In stark contrast, I also saw patients in their 90s who swam and hiked miles every week, had relatively few health issues, and radiated with energy.
Maintaining Health
Clearly, I wanted to maintain my health so I could be there for her and my wife. I set out to change my lifestyle, searching for the best exercises, the best diet, the best fixes for my poor sleep. It’s long been known that adequate exercise and proper nutrition prevented many of these same chronic health conditions, but what types of exercise and nutrition were actually effective? How do we tell fact from fiction when we are inundated with conflicting information and an industry of influencers peddling questionable “cures”?
To find out I did what a clinician should do: I delved into the medical science. I built a knowledge base on hundreds of peer-reviewed, published studies and reviews. Then, I applied this knowledge; first to myself, and saw results; then to friends and family, and saw more results. Now, I want to share this knowledge with you.
Help My Patients Live Long Active and Fulfilling Lives
I founded Promotive Metabolic Health to help my patients live long, active, and fulfilling lives by directly treating the root causes of chronic disease. I share what I’ve learned in my 10 years of medical training with patients interested in making lifestyle changes to improve their health and fitness. My approach goes beyond the standard “a-pill-for-every-ill” treatment and focuses instead on you, your lifestyle, your health concerns, and your goals in order to create a personalized plan for a better quality of life.
Metabolic medicine is not just for patients suffering from chronic disease or disorders, but for anyone looking to optimize their health and fitness by fine-tuning their diet, exercise, and lifestyle regimen.
This practice is both a professional endeavor of demanding rigor and a deeply personal pursuit of health and fulfillment. I hope you’ll join me on the journey.