Dr. David Minkoff’s Health Blog

“Cookie Cutter” Chronic Illness Treatments Don’t Work – OHR #409

Lifeworks offers chronic illness solutions customized to fit your body
05 Aug

When one works with people who are suffering from a chronic illness like Lyme or cancer, the real pay one receives from helping them is to see them get better. The medicine we practice is not a cookie cutter one size fits all solution. It’s not a drug prescription that is given after a five-minute interview and often times not even a cursory physical exam.

Our interactions are personal. The patients in our practice are our family.
I just received the following letter from such a patient. While as a very young and very educated professional she could barely work or even get out of bed for years and sought help from many clinics before she came to us. We worked together for a year and a half. While suffering she never lost her optimism and her husband cared for her and helped her to an amazing degree.

She writes:

“For my 6-month checkups it is always a pleasure to see Dr. Minkoff, review my progress, and rejuvenate my health plans moving forward. It is an uplifting and positive experience I am grateful for and worth the 3-hour drive! I am thankful every day for the guidance and treatments Dr. Minkoff has provided me. There was a time when I didn’t know if I would ever be this well and functioning again. It is my miracle.
All is well here, and all my questions so far have been answered.
Thank you again, I’ll be sure to reach out if anything comes up.”

For me, this acknowledgement is what brings me to work every day and what carries me through the nights when I am worried about a patient that is having a hard time. To see her now, glowing and beautiful and energetic is wonderful.

If you or someone you love is having health problems, we can help them.
We have the knowhow to bring them back to vibrant health. If they will just make the appointment, we can take it from there.

Have a great week.
Dr. David I Minkoff, MD

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Dr. Minkoff Podcast: All About Fitness w/Pete McCall and Dr. Minkoff

On this episode of All About Fitness, we’re speaking with Dr. David Minkoff, a co-founder of LifeWorks Wellness Center and the author of The Search for the Perfect Protein. Not only is Dr. Minkoff a fully licensed medical doctor who specializes in an alternative approach to medicine but he is a competitive triathlete, having completed numerous Ironman length triathlons, even over the age of 70 and stops by to share his insights on health, nutrition and, yes, fitness so that you can be as fit as he is when you’re in your 70s. This is an informative and motivational conversation on how to get fitter as you age on this episode of All About Fitness.

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About Dr. David Minkoff, Medical Director

Dr. David Minkoff graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in 1974 and was elected to the “Phi Beta Kappa” of medical schools, the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Medical Fraternity for very high academic achievement. He then completed both a Pediatric Residency and a Fellowship in Infectious Disease at the University of California at San Diego. He worked at the University of California and Children’s Hospitals in San Diego as an attending physician in infectious disease while conducting original research on Ribaviron, a broad spectrum anti-viral agent to fight disease. He also co-directed a neo-natal intensive care unit and worked in emergency medicine. In 1992, Dr. Minkoff’s wife Sue, a Registered Nurse, became interested in nutrition and health and began to go to lectures from some of the experts in the field. At the time, Dr. Minkoff was pretty fixed in his view of traditional medicine and it took a lot of convincing to get him to come to one of these lectures. After hearing Dr. Jeffrey Bland speak, Dr. Minkoff had a eureka moment and began pursuing the alternative field with a vengeance. Based on this new knowledge Dr. Minkoff and his wife set up a small clinic in 1997 to help some friends with their medical problems. What began as an experiment blossomed into Lifeworks Wellness Center, one of the most successful clinics for complementary medicine in the United States. In the process, he gained expertise in Biological medicine, integrative oncology, heavy metal detoxification, anti-aging medicine, hormone replacement therapy, functional medicine, energy medicine, neural and prolotherapy, homeopathy, and optimum nutrition. He studied under the masters in each of these disciplines until he became an expert in his own right. Dr. Minkoff is one of the most in-demand speakers in the field and wrote an Amazon best-selling book called The Search For The Perfect Protein. The demand for the products and protocols he discovered became a catalyst for founding BodyHealth.Com, a nutrition company that now manufactures and distributes cutting-edge nutritional solutions for the many health problems of today. Dr. Minkoff writes two free online newsletters, “The Optimum Health Report” and ”The BodyHealth Fitness Newsletter”, to help others learn about optimum health and fitness. Dr. Minkoff is an avid athlete himself and has completed 43 Ironman Triathlons. To keep his fitness maximal, he lives the lifestyle he teaches to others and tries to set an example for others, so they can enjoy a life free of pain and full of energy.