Dr. Schwarz   is a Board Certified MD in CARDIOLOGY  and ANTI-AGING MEDICINE - INTEGRATIVE HEALTH whose philosophy and approach to his patients is directed at looking at ROOT CAUSES to determine a personalized treatment plan which involves:

INTEGRATIVE CARDIOLOGY is a specialty that focuses  attention on non conventional therapies, such as optimizing nutrition, low dose medication if needed,  targeted nutrient support with herbal supplements, natural  approaches to optimize metabolism, functional fitness - CROSSFIT, utilization of BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES, repairing the GUT MICROBIOME, stress management and natural approaches to lengthen TELOMERES. 

• NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING with LIFESTYLE CHANGES
• TARGETED AND PERSONALIZED SUPPLEMENTATION 
• CROSSFIT - FUNCTIONAL FITNESS
• HORMONAL OPTIMIZATION 
• MEDICATIONS WHEN NEEDED
• GUT HEALING 
• TELOMERE LENGTHENING

His goal is to coach patients to learn and  take a proactive approach to help themselves learn how to heal themselves  

Conventional  medicine (or as Dr Peter Attia describes it - Medicine 2.0) is built around the concept of labelling you with a reimbursable diagnostic code (diagnosis) and then finding the medications or a procedure to match.

A functional or integrative  model of care (Medicine 3.0) works through the functional  matrix, balances imbalances, considers the connection of mind-body-spirit and often can’t label your symptoms with a single diagnostic name because body systems communicate.  Care is  unique to the individual and unlike conventional Medicine 2.0 , you are not broken into parts or systems but  rather viewed as a whole person.  The core of functional medicine is finding the why, or the root cause, and simply operating in a diagnosis to medication model doesn’t fit. 

In addition, the egg-timer approach to your care is eliminated and there is more time spent with you (both in person and afterwards researching your unique case) to get to the root of your issue, using advanced testing that takes more time and knowledge to interpret, and then personalizing your treatment plan. 

Many treatments in functional medicine are considered “alternative” because they don’t involve a medication for symptoms, but rather supplement an individual’s unique needs. Functional / integrative  physicians understand that what works for you might not work for the other 99 people in a study, because you have a unique genome, microbiome, and lifestyle – factors that aren’t considered in mainstream medicine recommendations.

• Medicine 2.0  keeps doctors stuck in the current “standard of care” because that is often what is reimbursed, even if that standard of care is outdated. Insurance companies  can easily track (expense to benefit) which medications are prescribed.  Medications are also easier to study because it’s one intervention and not a more difficult to measure multi-factorial approach of lifestyle and natural therapies. (Not to mention medication studies have more funding). Yes, medications can be life-saving and necessary and as an MD I still prescribe them, but it is only part of our treatment plan.
• Personalized care. Medicine 3.0 is based on  treatments that provide the  best possibilities for an individual with a unique genome, microbiome, and lifestyle, instead of basing our treatments simply on what the insurance company tells us they’ll pay for.
• Time.  Medicine 2.0 teaches physicians to spend no more than 10 minutes with a patient and move on to the next room.  We have to know what is going on in your life before we can improve it and there is a tremendous amount of teaching and education that occurs between the physician and patient. 
• 1:1 personal relationship. There’s no one in between your doctor and you. It’s a true partnership. Your doctor is only working for you. When you are passive at the visit - you will never heal.  When you are an active participant, you will work on cure.