The New Standard in Family Care

  Hey everybody, it's Dr. Davenport, the DPC guru, talking to you guys again about a new medical device that my wife, Christine, and I have started using. My wife and I have had repetitive interactions with some of our patients and other people have been using...

  Hey everybody, it's Dr. Davenport, the DPC guru, talking to you today. I wanted to educate all of you about a new medical device that my wife, Christine, and I have begun to use. This device is from a company called Life Wave and it's called the X-39 patch. I'm...

As conversations around Direct Primary Care and Health Savings Accounts swirl around our country, there is some important information for you to know. There is some clarifying language separating surgical procedures requiring anesthesia, medications (not including...

 In the recent legislation passed at the federal level called the "One Big Beautiful Bill" there is a one-page document called "Treatment of Direct Primary Care Services." This one-page document will for the first time identify DPC Services as NOT insurance. We have...

  So when we're discussing diabetes, if I start as a normal individual and progress to the disease process of diabetes, it starts with an individual who has normal function, then you develop insulin resistance, which makes the pancreas work harder. Eventually the...

  With respect to the endocrine system, when you carry too much weight, it will affect your hormone levels. In the peripheral fat, testosterone gets converted to estrogen. So for overweight men, they literally begin to have higher levels of estrogen than they are...

  When discussing the cardiovascular system, the inflammatory nature of excess weight and unhealthiness, because of excess weight, affects our immune system. Similar to smoking or diabetes or some other disease processes, obesity increases the inflammation which...

  Weight management is important to overall health because it affects every aspect of a person. It affects the cardiovascular system as well as the muscles, bones, and joints. It affects the endocrine system and how well your body responds to certain nutrients,...