About Us

SummitMD is a private telemedicine practice that specializes in medical wellness and longevity.

Medical Wellness and Longevity

Our practice includes treatment (and if possible reversal) of chronic medical conditions, as well as optimization of health for disease prevention and longevity. This is all done from a precision/personalized medicine perspective where each patient's goals, preferences, genetic background, lifestyle factors and medical biomarkers guide treatment plans. Mental, emotional, social and spiritual health (a sense of purpose) are also critical aspects to healthy aging.

Two foundational components of maximizing health and longevity include achieving a healthy body composition and optimizing gastrointestinal function. We address these components in detail with all patients.

Medical Weight Loss

Achieving a healthy body composition is one of the most important things we can do to maximize longevity. However, doing so is much more complicated than simply 'eating less and moving more.' This is because obesity is about hormones, not about behavior per se.

Consider the following, do children grow as a result of eating more? Or do they eat more as a result of growing? We all know that the latter is correct and that a child's increased appetite is driven by hormonal changes. Obesity is similar. There is an imbalance of hunger and satiety hormones (ghrelin and leptin) that cause a person to overeat. The cause is hormones, not behavior or will power!

Further, our bodies have a built in weight 'set point.' If you drop below your set point, your body thinks you may be in a famine and it will do everything it can to help you regain the weight (this was advantageous throughout history). To do this, various hormones kick in to decrease your resting metabolic rate, decrease the number of calories you burn when working out, decrease your motivation to exercise, and make you hungrier and less satiated when you eat. Not fair! This is why weight loss is difficult but maintaining weight loss long-term is nearly impossible.

The key to maintaining weight loss is reestablishing a healthy weight set point and rebalancing hormones. This is achieved through a combination of multiple treatment modalities.

Gastrointestinal Health

"All disease begins in the gut" - Hippocrates

Although not ALL diseases begins in the gut, Hippocrates was correct in principle in that the gastrointestinal tract is foundational for health. Intestinal permeability and the gut microbiome are associated with many seemingly non-connected diseases such as anxiety, depression, brain fog, autoimmune disease, neurological issues, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and others.

Having personal experience with gastrointestinal issues, Daniel is passionate about helping patients get to the root cause of their functional gastrointestinal conditions. These include IBS, GERD, intestinal permeability (leaky gut) and SIBO. In addition, Daniel helps all patients to optimize their gastrointestinal function and microbiome as a key component of living a long healthy life.