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Made for Health
What Really Causes Cardiovascular Disease
& How You Can Beat the Odds...
Discover how advanced screening, smart nutrition, and lifestyle tweaks can safeguard your heart.
Cardiovascular Disease | Part 4
Food as Medicine: Preventing Heart Disease with Diet
Food as Medicine: Preventing Heart Disease with Diet Alone Where’s the proof? For those who have been following me for more than a few days, the statistic that 50% of…
Cardiovascular Disease | Part 3
Nutrients that Reduce Risk of Heart Disease
What does a personalized approach look like when working with an integrative functional medicine practitioner to prevent or treat cardiovascular disease? With the aim of reducing the risk of heart…
Cardiovascular Disease | Part 2
Screening for Heart Disease
Last week we started our discussion on cardiovascular disease, the number one killer in our country. We talked about many risk factors and the root causes of heart disease: inflammation,…
Cardiovascular Disease | Part 1
The Cause of Cardiovascular Disease
Over the last several years, we seem to have lost sight of the most common killer in our country. Heart disease, also known as cardiovascular disease accounts for almost 660,000…
Medical Blindspots | Part 3
Becoming a Medical Feminist
Why Women’s Health Requires a Different Lens
About 80% of the patients Dr. Hartman sees are women. And over the years, he noticed a pattern. This article names six specific ways the system fails them (and why it’s not random).
Medical Blindspots | Part 1
How Often Is Modern Medicine Wrong?
The Pattern No One Wants to Talk About
Some medical errors are just errors. Others become doctrine.
How Much Sun Exposure Do You Need for Vitamin D?
A Doctor’s Guide to Getting It Right
The sun has been vilified for decades, but emerging research shows that avoiding it altogether may be just as dangerous as overdoing it. Dr. Hartman breaks down exactly how much sun you need and how his family navigates this balance every summer.
Mystery Illnesses | Part 1
The Myth of “Mystery Illness”
If your labs are “normal” but you don’t feel well, the mystery may be the model. A conversation on fragmentation, autoimmunity, and systems.
What If We Were Wrong About Food?
The Unintended Consequences of Getting Nutrition “Right”
What if some of our biggest nutrition problems didn’t come from eating the wrong foods, but from removing the ones our bodies needed?
UnCURABLE | Part 7
What Genetics Can (and Can’t) Predict About Your Health
A Functional Medicine Perspective on Epigenetics, Nutrition, and Why DNA Isn’t Destiny
We’ve been taught that genetics are destiny. But modern biology tells a more hopeful story: one where environment, nutrition, and epigenetics shape how genes behave over time.
Metabolic Syndrome | Part 2
The One Ring
How Mitochondria Control Your Metabolic Fate
“How can one thing tell me? I don’t believe you. How is this possible?” Dr. Aaron Hartman echoes the skepticism he hears from patients and colleagues alike when he explains that…
Metabolic Syndrome | Part 1
The Metabolic Gang
Why Your Health Problems Travel Together
Uncover why your “separate” health problems—from PCOS to brain fog—are actually members of the same coordinated metabolic gang.