For me, after all my years of study to diagnose and treat disease, optimal health comes down to this one simple fact: I can help you the most -- contribute to prolonging your life and improving its quality -- by helping you reframe your experience. Your blood pressure, blood sugar and weight do factor into the overall picture of your health. However, too many doctors and patients get lost in the pursuit of “ideal” numbers. They are meaningless out of the context of who you are, how you think and how you feel. In conventional medicine, we don’t talk enough about the mind -- where you have the greatest opportunity for optimal health and where you have the most potential to make the biggest improvements.
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