The drug of exercise [1] by all metrics is the most far-reaching and effective drug we have across the spectrum of human illness.

 

Your primary care doctor knows the powerful nature of that drug called exercise therefore when your doctor says, “Go exercise”…..

                    NOW WHAT?

Perhaps you were given an exercise prescription with some diagrams….

                     NOW WHAT?

 

 Most of us often put it aside because we don’t know what to do next.

 

As your Lamorinda House Call Fitness and Sports Medicine physician, I will organize your drug of exercise with care and treatment by critical body areas e.g. neck, chest, arms, core or mid-section, back, legs etc.

 

As a shared decision-making team we will

• design a program based on your level of fitness and medical status

• regularly redesign that program based on your goals as your level of care and/or health changes

• work towards slowing or stopping your disease progression at every turn

• work towards regaining losses as age or disease may slow your capabilities

As a team, we will work towards changing the paradigm in your health care with the exercise drug to ensure maximum efficacy.

 

The exercise drug should be either the first line or adjunct treatment for many medical problems that are now primarily treated with medications. Particularly for the brain, the evidence for the exercise drug as treatment for mild to moderate depression, sleep problems, back problems, lung problems, heart problems, neurological diseases, cancer, and even dementia is irrefutable. The exercise drug can reduce dependence on many higher cost and less safe treatments.

 

With my guidance as your clinical champion and with your input, at whatever stage of disease and age you are as a mature senior, the exercise drug can be both a preventative medicine and therapeutic medicine.[2]

 

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[1] The Exercise Cure By Jordan Metzl, MD Rodale Books 2016

 

[2] See Services: In the Services Section I speak more generally about my services

 

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