"Shortly before my 60th birthday...
I walked into my friend Gerry Friedman, MD’s office for a long-overdue check-up. I have spent the past 36 years of my professional life learning and operating in a field I dearly love, general and vascular surgery.
I have often placed it ahead of my family, my religion, and my own health. He told me my blood pressure was 178/104, I was spilling 2 grams of protein in my urine, I had exercise-induced asthma, I was 35 pounds overweight, and my total cholesterol was 278 with an HbA1C of 6.3. Gerry looked me in the eye and told me I would probably be on dialysis in 2 years. As a vascular surgeon, I knew that the average survival for this situation was about 7 years. For the last 10 years, integrative medicine has become the main focus of my practice."
Personal Precision Medicine
Integrative Medicine is the popular name for a health care practice paradigm shift that centers on finding and correcting the root causes affecting the patients’ problems. Instead of covering up their symptoms with drugs (chemicals that are not naturally produced and consumed by humans), Integrative Medicine emphasizes the discovery and application of the newer technological advances that are related to the process of aging and the disruptors of health. Chronic inflammation, stress, environmental toxic influence, and alienation of the sense of yourself and your surroundings are some of the multiple factors that need to be addressed to achieve wellness.
A small hole in the body makes a large hole in the soul.
* This quote is from a Chassidic master, the Maggid of Mezritch (d. 1772), who was over two hundred years ahead of his time in predicting the magnitude of analytics that we currently use in providing precision medical care today. Rabbi Schneerson (1902 - 1994) uses this quote to put forth the concept that when the body is healthy, it is possible to have a greater positive effect in all matters.
Mitochondrial health (subcellular organelle responsible for energy production and normal cell function) is another primary concern. Addressing the disruption of intracellular nutrition is a major therapeutic modality. Correction of metabolic limitations and improvement in mitochondrial function, along with exercise and proper sleep, are essential to restoring the normal homeostasis mechanisms, which are the key to a healthy adaptive behavioral response. Preserving a healthy nutrition capacity is vital to reclaiming your health. Homeostasis is the ability of our body’s cells to regenerate themselves back to their normal state. This is the hallmark of healthy aging and the beginning of our journey.
Who Is Dr. Bressman?
Paul Bressman, MD, FACS, is a general and vascular surgeon with more than 40 years of experience in saving lives. Dr. Bressman received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine, Bellevue Hospital, and completed his Internship at USC Los Angeles County Hospital.
He obtained his residency training in General Surgery at UCLA Harbor General Hospital and Kaiser Permanente Foundation Hospital in Los Angeles. Upon completing his residency, he served as a Major in the US Army Medical Corp and served in the 477th MASH unit in Korea and with the 101st Screaming Eagles at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
After serving his country, he returned to Los Angeles and completed his Clinical Fellowship in Peripheral Vascular Surgery at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, during this time in which he met and married his wife, Ellen. Following his fellowship training, he was certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Bressman has been a member of the Los Angeles County Medical Society and former President of the Tri County Surgical Society and a founding member and past chairman of the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Before my 60th birthday, I walked into my friend Gerry Friedman, MD’s office for a long-overdue check-up. I have spent the past 36 years of my professional life learning and operating in a field I dearly love: general and vascular surgery. I have often placed it ahead of my family, my religion, and my own health. He told me my blood pressure was 178/104, I was spilling 2 grams of protein in my urine, I had exercise-induced asthma, I was 35 pounds overweight, and my total cholesterol was 278 with an HbA1C of 6.3. Gerry looked me in the eye and told me I would probably be on dialysis in 2 years. As a vascular surgeon, I knew that the average survival for this situation was about 7 years. For the last 10 years, integrative medicine has become the main focus of my practice. I am off statins and anti-hypertensive medications and only take Metformin, specific vitamins, diet and exercise regularly to control my diabetes and hyperlipidemia. These changes have allowed me to enjoy excellent strength and stamina.
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