Sepideh Moayed, MD, and the primary care medical team at Preventative Medicine Inc. in San Jose, California, provide diagnostic and treatment services for chronic disease management. The board-certified physicians use motivational, behavioral changes to reduce your risk factors for chronic disease while implementing a personalized treatment plan to address the root cause of an existing disease. If you need help managing chronic diseases, like high blood pressure, diabetes, or depression, schedule a chronic disease management evaluation at Preventative Medicine Inc. by calling the office today.
Chronic disease management
At Preventative Medicine Inc., Dr. Moayed will utilize a highly personalized, intensive, information gathering session to look for genetic contributors, lifestyle factors, harmful habit contributors and daily stress to identify existing chronic health conditions and markers of upcoming disease processes. There will be focus on root causes of disease rather than symptomatic relief through a prescription. Although symptomatic relief will be addressed, it is the underlying behaviors such as inactivity, sugar and carb overconsumption, anxiety, depression, insomnia, smoking, drinking alcohol to an excess that can turn on one's genetics. Environmental toxins, medications that compromise the gut health and immunity as well as gluten sensitivity / celiac disease will be supplemented by appropriate lab and imaging tests if needed. Once an appropriate assessment is achieved, steps will be taken to reverse or slow down the progression of the disease. The 4 legged stool management of chronic diseases includes:
1-Prevention: Wellness check ups; lifestyle behaviors that support health such as movement; a healthy diet,; individualized wellness plan of action; age, gender and ethnic appropriate supplements, vitamins and minerals
2-Early Detection: Personalized and integrative history, physical and comprehensive diagnostic work up
3-Behaviors to Prevent Progression: Decreasing underlying inflammatory pathways, minimizing intake of sugar, simple carbs, alcohol, stimulants, elimination of unnecessary prescription medications & environmental toxins
4-Treatment: A comprehensive and holistic approach that finds the underlying cause first and then reats the mind, body, spirit axis as a whole. Treatment will be more than symptomatic relief (of high blood pressure, insomnia, migraine or back ache) by prescription meds alone.
- Diabetes
- Inflammation
- Cardiac disease
- High blood pressure
The team also provides comprehensive screenings for anxiety, depression, chronic pain, migraines, indigestion issues and insomnia.
Additionally, weight evaluations and weight management programs are available to address obesity, which is a contributing factor to many chronic health issues.
Chronic disease evaluation
Dr. Moayed will utilize a highly personalized, intensive, information gathering session to look for genetic contributors, lifestyle factors, harmful habit contributors and daily stress to identify existing chronic health conditions and markers of upcoming disease processes. She will provide a highly personalized integrative healing treatment plan that focuses on your individual needs and the root cause of your disease. The goal will include decreasing whole body systemic inflammation as well as neuroinflammation. She will help you reduce your risk factors for more severe conditions.
To treat many chronic diseases, including persistent inflammation and high blood pressure, Dr. Moayed will recommend land help you with lifestyle changes and nutritional therapies to provide you with long-term relief from your symptoms and for continued reduction of the chronic disease burden.