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FeldMed is Dr. Feldman’s own blend of the best parts of Alternative, Functional, Integrative, Regenerative, Eastern and Western Medicine to create a practice that is singular in its approach to promote healing and prevent disease.

04/29/2026

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is another "new thing" to help you live better

Everywhere I look at health stuff, people are talking about and measuring HRV (Heart Rate Variability). And it makes sense when you understand that better (higher) HRV reflects improved mortality — people live longer. HRV measures the time between heart beats — the more variation, the better. Greater variation reflects a higher parasympathetic tone — more relaxed, less stressed. Not surprisingly, when the body doesn’t feel as stressed, it lives longer!

Virtually all the decent wearables measure HRV. Some are terrible, others are pretty good. One great method to enhance HRV is Heart Math — a heavily researched and validated scientific method of “breathing through your heart”. Consistent training improves HRV, resulting in big improvements from sleep, concentration, up through heart attacks and anxiety.

I’m happy to discuss HRV, Heart Math and whatever else you might want to talk about.
Give me a call and let’s chat.

www.feldmed.com/blog-2/heart-rate-variability-hrv-is-another-new-thing-to-help-you-live-better

04/15/2026

Longevity = Epigenetics

We all came into this world with a set of blueprints — our DNA. But if you have ever had to build something - whether from IKEA or a whole house, you know it’s the guy reading the plans that ultimately decides if your newborn will be sleeping on the floor (after the crib collapses), or the dining room is going to be flooded from the upstairs bath! The “BIG GUY (or Gal) “upstairs” laid out the plans (your GENES - your DNA - your genetics). But ultimately it’s up to you how the construction project turns out. You are the contractor — you control your EPIGENETICS. That’s what controls how people end up. Genes only account for between 25 and 35% of how we turn out — the rest is epigenetics. They are the switches that get turned on and off with everything we do, think, eat. Everyone is in charge of their own destiny by the daily choices we make. You can change your future right now! In fact, just reading this post has flipped some switches in your genetic code — hopefully they went in the right direction!! More about the specifics next time.

Be well.

www.feldmed.com/blog-2/longevity-epigenetics

04/01/2026

What is Longevity?

Everyone is talking about Longevity. How do we want to think about it?

Healthspan is the key — how long can you be healthy? How long can you keep doing the things you want to do, the things you think are important? Longevity is preserving those abilities. Live Long and Prosper — with the emphasis on PROSPER!

Over the coming year we’re going to talk a lot about LONGEVITY.

As usual when we’re talking about the HUMAN CONDITION, it can get complicated, but often simple things will get you most of the way there.

More to come!

Be well.

www.feldmed.com/blog-2/what-is-longevity

03/18/2026

MEAT - movement, exercise, analgesia and treatment.

The attached study reports how ICE actually slows healing, and in fact, it’s only heat that produces a positive healing response. This study showed how heat (at 107 deg for an hour) improves the healing response. I’d point out that the study did some terrible damage to the participants — loss of >50% strength in the affected muscle, with only partial recovery by the end of the study period. With that kind of injury, you certainly want better recovery. Typically, RICE works if swelling and pain are the biggest issues, but if recovery is key, then MEAT is the way to go.

www.feldmed.com/blog-2/im-injured-rice-or-meat

02/25/2026

WHEN should I eat?

Are you a morning person or an evening person? If you don’t know which you are, you can take the questionnaire and figure it out. (https://reference.medscape.com/calculator/829/morningness-eveningness-questionnaire)

Why do we care?

A recent study showed that if you adjusted your calorie intake to match your CHRONOTYPE (“time” type), you would do better at managing weight. Evening person, eat later, morning person eat earlier. Only makes sense, but it cuts against the long-held belief that everyone should concentrate calories early in the day (heck, even I said that!).

www.feldmed.com/blog-2/when-should-i-eat

02/11/2026

IT MUST BE THE SHOES!

In the famous words of Mars Blackmon (classic NIKE commercial) — IT MUST BE THE SHOES! And in this case, IT IS!

Something like 12 years ago I heard of APOS Health — a funky shoe for arthritis of the knees and hips, also helping to relieve back pain. And now I finally see an article!

By wearing these computer designed personalized shoes for 15-30 minutes a day, knee replacements are avoided for years. It was a great technology then, and it still is.

If your joints aren’t what they used to be, and surgery doesn’t sound like something you’re ready for, call me — we’ve got options!

www.feldmed.com/blog-2/it-must-be-the-shoes

01/14/2026

Eating -- It's gotten very confusing

Actually, most people are not confused by eating — they do a damn good job of it! Too good.

What I’m talking about, of course, is all the contradictory reports of what to eat, how to eat, when to eat.

If you’re not out to sell books, most basic information is solid — eat food (not boxes of stuff), stop when you’re about 80% full (Okinowan Hara Hachi — they live a long time!), get good sleep, move and lastly — Stop eating so that the time between your last meal of one day is more than 12 hours to the first meal of the next. This used to be a standard, but now it isn’t always, but it should be.

The concept is called Time Restricted Eating (TRE) - not intermittent fasting, which is not eating for more than 24 hours. TRE comes in numerous varieties, but the concept is restrict eating to a certain time window less than 12 hours. The extreme is OMAD (one meal a day), or a 2 hour eating window. A 10 hour eating window is common and pretty easy to achieve for most everyone.
The study reviewed variations in an 8 hour eating window, and found that each of them did better at weight loss and weight loss maintenance than a non-restricted window. There was a slight advantage to an early eating window (eat breakfast, early dinner), but only slight.

If you haven’t tried TRE, it’s worth a try. I’m happy to assist — it can take a little guidance to maximize the benefits.

www.feldmed.com/blog-2/eating-its-gotten-very-confusing

12/10/2025

Up Your Nose -- for Migraine Relief

Migraines can be a real problem for some people. Relief can be hard to come by. A new device has been studied and shows some promise — blowing cool air up your nose! It requires a little precision, but Mi-Helper (https://mihelper.com/blog/) seems to work.

www.feldmed.com/blog-2/up-your-nose-for-migraine-relief

11/25/2025

Microplastics in YOUR BRAIN -- YUCK

Microplastics seemed to be in conversation for a while, and not it’s gone a little quiet. Some months back a large medical meeting discussed the impact of microplastics and their association with low lying coastal communities. What was found was that in areas with high microplastic concentrations in the surrounding seawater, there was a correlation with significantly higher levels of dysfunction in the population. Disability in mobility, cognition, self-care and independent living were all increased between 6 and 16%. The statistics were very strong, but as usual, there are confounders. Since people were found to have microplastic in the cholesterol plaques in their arteries, and deposits in parts of the brain, people are making the case that there is some causality here. It may be, but it’s certainly not definitive. It would not be unreasonable, though, to try to limit your plastic exposures. That could only benefit you in the long run.

www.feldmed.com/blog-2/microplastics-in-your-brain-yuck

11/13/2025

Tylenol causes Autism AND Ice Cream causes Drowning

While there are some positive things that can be said about the attempts to tweak the current medical establishment (and we know we need that!), there are some real what I’ll call missteps in what’s been happening. The latest is the warning about use of acetaminophen (Tylenol) in pregnancy, and the “FACT” that it “CAUSES" autism. As is often the case these days, ASSOCIATION is conflated to be CAUSATION. They are not the same thing! Lots of things are associated, not so many are causal in their relationships.
I’m attaching a few articles that even STATE association, but then warn as if there is causation. UGGH. There’s a lot of work to do.

www.feldmed.com/blog-2/tylenol-causes-autism-and-ice-cream-causes-drowning

10/29/2025

How Stressed Are You? Part 2

Last time we talked about stress and that we should measure how your body is actually handling the stress that it’s under. Today we want to review a little bit about the actual “stuff” we’re going to measure and how some of it might be surprising, or explain a few connections in your system that you might not have thought about.
Remember, it’s just that the thigh bone is connected to the knee bone (neither of which are actual anatomic terms, 😊), but EVERYTHING is connected. If something’s off, it’s going to have consequences, and sometimes those consequences can be quite “distant”.

Measuring is better than guessing.

Interested in seeing how YOU measure up? Give me a call.

www.feldmed.com/blog-2/how-stressed-are-you-part-2

10/15/2025

How Stressed Are You?

I like to say Attitude Trumps Biology….until it doesn’t. The people I work with get S**t done. They don’t have time to worry about being stressed. That doesn’t mean their bodies aren’t “feeling” it, and that there aren’t consequences. Everyone is stressed — but is your body keeping up? We shouldn’t guess at that — we should measure it and see, then correct what may not be quite right.
Give me a call if you are feeling not quite right or don’t want to wait until things stop working!

www.feldmed.com/blog-2/how-stressed-are-you

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