The term Performance Medicine has been co-opted for commercial gain from hormone therapy and peptide injections. However, Performance Medicine has the power and the potential to be the much-needed paradigm shift towards a proactive health philosophy and clinical model.

GLP1a therapy is major advance in our arsenal to combat obesity. While we work to increase access to these medications for those who need them, we must also refine our inclusion criteria and clinical protocols in order to safeguard and improve patients’ long-term health.

A comprehensive review that digs into the existing scientific literature on heat therapy including its physiological effects, performance impacts, and health benefits.

In order to provide a proper prescription for the use of deliberate cold exposure, we must drill down into the physiological effects of a cold stimulus on our bodies, examine the current data on the performance and health effects of cold therapy, and address certain limitations and outstanding considerations.

With Performance Medicine, we can usher in more preventative, empowering, and community-driven models of care that not only improve health, but build individual and collective agency.

I’m a physician who specializes in medical weight management. And for everyone eager to drop excess pounds come January 1, let me offer some hard-won wisdom: stop focusing on your weight.

From Health Affairs Forefront

From the Harvard Health blog.

The financial services industry has an army of wealth managers working to help you save, allocate, diversify, and accumulate wealth. The healthcare industry offers no such service. You need a health manager.

Performance Medicine is anything but easy. There is no outsourcing or automating optimal health and performance. As is true for all of life’s greatest rewards, you get out what you put in.

From the Harvard Health blog.

Supplements supplement nutritional needs. Some may even reduce disease risk and improve health outcomes. But they do not treat disease.

Let’s take a peek under the hood and delve into the key pillars and the day-to-day practice of what we call “performance medicine.”