PrimalMed® Metabolic
Medical Health is Metabolic Health
In one’s never ending search for the fountain of youth, we must never lose sight of the real goal…optimal health-span. Not measuring your life in years, but rather your years with life.
A robust life. A life filled with purpose, energy and vitality. We may not be able to definitively prevent the onset of the medical maladies of modernity, such as atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, cancer, and cognitive degeneration, but I believe that by gleaning a certain understanding as to the root causes of such disease states (such as obesity and diabetes) at a cellular or metabolic level and implementing strategies, we can succeed in delaying that onset.
It is my hope, that we can be your guide, your mentor, your sherpa on this journey. We can help you go from knowing to doing. We can help give you the insight and understanding needed to allow you to be the author of your story and create your best and healthiest version of yourself.
Meet the Expert
Ted S. Metzger, MD
Diagnostic Radiologist
PrimalMed® Co-Founder
I am a Diagnostic Radiologist. An MD, licensed in Connecticut and Massachusetts, whose specialty and expertise is that of interpreting diagnostic medical images such as CT scans, MRI, Ultrasound and conventional radiographs. For over 30 years, I have functioned as a ‘consultant’ to all the other medical specialists and general practitioners.
Seeing and interpreting these images of the ‘inside’ of the human body has allowed me to consult with cardiologists, oncologists, general practitioners, emergency room physicians and other health care providers to help them diagnose and treat their patients.
Over that past 30 years, I have seen and still continue to see, an increasing incidence of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and complications from underlying obesity and diabetes, especially in a younger population. This is almost epidemic and is quite disheartening. After witnessing the recent demise of my parents to chronic neurodegenerative disease and autoimmune disease, I realized that it was time to apply the fund of knowledge I had accumulated over these years in a new direction.
Now it is time to build on that accumulated skill and expertise as a medical consultant to also become a ‘Metabolic Health’ consultant. This is a new undertaking that is intellectually stimulating and vitally important. Metabolic Health is the discipline of going ‘upstream,’ to consider all diseases as diseases of metabolism or how our cells process nutrients to create the energy needed to promote our optimal state of health.
Studying and implementing metabolic and nutritional strategies through an ancestral and evolutionary lens as a way to maximize our health-span and sharing it with friends, family and clients is the primary goal of PrimalMed®.
I continue to be a Diagnostic Radiologist. But now as PrimalMD, I wear an additional cap, that of Metabolic Health consultant.
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Bachelor of Arts - University of Pennsylvania
Board Certified Physician - SUNY Downstate, New York
Board Certified Radiologist - Rush Presbyterian - St. Lukes, Chicago
Fellowship trained in Cross Sectional Body Imaging - University of Pennsylvania
Certified Primal Health Coach, studied with Mark Sisson
Certified Kion Health Coach, studied with Ben Greenfield
Certified Ketomastery Specialist, studied with Ryan Lowery, PhD
Currently studying Medical and Nutritional Epigenetics - Apeiron Academy
Member-Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners
Private consultations and coaching services on Metabolic Health are planned for the future. My current services include education and advocation. I share my observations and musings on Metabolic Health as seen through the lens of a curious Radiologist on Substack at primalmed.substack.com
Information/opinion included in any services or blog, is considered NON-MEDICAL advice. Discussions are not Medical Diagnosis or Treatment, but rather fall into the category of consulting and coaching.
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