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At Robinson MD, our concierge medicine plan is designed to get to the root cause of illness and promote long-term health. Here’s how.
Is a concierge medicine plan really worth it, and will it make a significant impact on your health? In order to answer that question, it’s necessary to first examine the alternative. More and more patients are growing dissatisfied with the traditional approach to...
At Robinson MD, our concierge medicine plan is designed to get to the root cause of illness and promote long-term health. Here’s how.
Is a concierge medicine plan really worth it, and will it make a significant impact on your health? In order to answer that question, it’s necessary to first examine the alternative. More and more patients are growing dissatisfied with the traditional approach to...
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7 Amazing Benefits of Sauna Therapy
People have been using sauna for centuries and it is far from a new idea. Thought to purify and detoxify, saunas were common in Roman and Greek bathhouses around 2000 B.C. The Turks made public sauna baths, the “Hammam” popular and accessible and a cleansing ritual...
If You Need Round-the-Clock Doctor Access on Your Busy Schedule, a Concierge Physician is Your Best Option. Here’s Why.
There never feels like there's enough hours in the day. Whether you've got a busy family life (you have to drive from dance class to karate class and somehow make a nutrition meal afterward), you might like to keep odd hours, or you need a professional available...
Are You Getting the Best Testing to Evaluate the Current Status of Your Health?
The typical approach in traditional or conventional medicine is to sit back and wait until you have a problem or disease then treat it. We call this “reactive medicine”. At Robinson MD, we believe in “PROACTIVE medicine”. Our approach is to assess your current health...
High Blood Pressure – Looking Beyond Medications
High blood pressure can be a difficult diagnosis to process. Overwhelmingly, it causes no symptoms and its causes can be elusive. Patients can be left feeling “why me?”. Americans have a 90% lifetime risk of developing hypertension. Further, age and genetics can...
How Do I Find a Doctor for My Busy Schedule? 5 Things You Should Know
“How on earth do I find a doctor for my busy schedule?” Questions like these are becoming increasingly common for patients in need of primary care, and not just because of COVID-19. For years now, appointment wait times have trended longer and longer, while facetime...
What to Ask Before You Purchase Genetic Testing
Genetic testing can be a very useful tool to optimize your health based specifically on your unique genetic makeup. DNA test results can help guide you so you can proactively address the problems for which you are at higher risk. However, it can feel overwhelming to...
Here’s What To Do if You Have a Tight Schedule and Can Never Get a Doctor’s Appointment When You Need One
It’s becoming more and more difficult to get a doctor’s appointment quickly. According to recent studies, patients are waiting anywhere from two weeks to 18 days on average to actually get into their physician’s office. Once they’re there, facetime with their doctor...
The New GRAIL Galleri Test – A Potential Game Changer For Cancer Screening
Finally… A New Era of Cancer Screening! Here at RobinsonMD we are all about preventative care and wellness. We follow the U.S. Preventive Task Force guidelines cancer screening, which includes screening for breast, cervical, colorectal, prostate and lung cancers (in...
If You Can’t Find a Primary Care Doctor for Your Busy Schedule, You Should Consider This Solution
If you’re in between primary care doctors, the road to finding a new physician can seem like a long one–and, depending on how you go about your search, it can be. With increasing patient complaints about long appointment wait times, short facetime with physicians, and...
How Do I Find a Doctor for My Busy Schedule? 5 Things You Should Know
“How on earth do I find a doctor for my busy schedule?” Questions like these are becoming increasingly common for patients in need of primary care, and not just because of COVID-19. For years now, appointment wait times have trended longer and longer, while facetime...
Here’s What To Do if You Have a Tight Schedule and Can Never Get a Doctor’s Appointment When You Need One
It’s becoming more and more difficult to get a doctor’s appointment quickly. According to recent studies, patients are waiting anywhere from two weeks to 18 days on average to actually get into their physician’s office. Once they’re there, facetime with their doctor...
If You Can’t Find a Primary Care Doctor for Your Busy Schedule, You Should Consider This Solution
If you’re in between primary care doctors, the road to finding a new physician can seem like a long one–and, depending on how you go about your search, it can be. With increasing patient complaints about long appointment wait times, short facetime with physicians, and...
Too Busy For The Doctor? Here’s How You Can Make Sure You’re Taken Care Of
There’s never a convenient time to be sick, and if your schedule is already jam-packed, it can be difficult to find a good time to see a doctor in the first place. It’s no secret that, generally speaking, patients have plenty of gripes with the traditional healthcare...
10 Facts About Gut Health and its Impact on your Overall Well-Being that you Should Know
Gut health has become an increasingly popular topic of conversation, both in and out of doctor’s offices. Generally speaking, this is a great thing! Gut health is an instrumental part of overall wellness and maintaining a healthy balance in your entire body. With that...
Is It Worth It? Why Concierge Medicine is a Smart Investment in Your Health
As concierge medicine becomes increasingly popular, patients are enjoying longer doctor’s appointments, better relationships with their physicians, and higher-quality care. For a recurring monthly fee, patients receive direct, quality access to their physicians....
8 Major Benefits of Concierge Medicine Over Traditional Doctor’s Visits
The medical landscape is changing, and patients have more options when it comes to the type of care they receive than ever before. Rising dissatisfaction with the conventional model of primary care (17-minute patient visits, quickly scrawled prescriptions, and minimal...
How Robinson MD’s Concierge Model Helps Patients See Holistic Health Improvements
Robinson MD was founded with a simple mission: to offer patients effective, individualized care that goes beyond what most of us have come to expect from a conventional doctor’s visit. To us, helping each patient achieve their best health means understanding the...
5 Ways Concierge Medicine Brings You Tangible Health Results
Switching to a concierge medical care plan isn’t just about the convenience of better access to and more one-on-one time with your physician; it’s a patient-focused, relationship-based model that makes a real impact on your long-term health and well-being. Working...
A breakdown of what supplements do and what that means for your health.
Dietary supplements are nothing new: from brightly-colored gummies marketed to children to daily capsules meant for men and women alike, there is no shortage of options out there. While advertisements for supplements are widespread, information about what they...
What’s in your supplements? Ingredients to look for and avoid in the vitamins you’re taking – and why it matters.
There is no shortage of options available when it comes to dietary supplements, and it’s easy to assume that they’re all pretty much the same. After all, they all just contain the nutrients featured prominently on the bottle, right? Not necessarily. While most...
What are probiotics, and how do they impact your health?
The topic of gut health is rising in popularity both in and out of medical circles, and for good reason. The more research medical professionals do, the more it becomes evident that gut health is connected to various other elements of a person’s overall wellness. With...
Do supplements work? A doctor’s take on how supplements actually impact your health
Do supplements work? Though there’s no blanket answer that covers every supplement out there, there’s definitely some valuable general knowledge that everyone who is interested in taking supplements should know. Generally speaking, there are some supplements that are...
5 Ways Dr. Stacey is Unlike Any Other Functional Medicine Doctor in Tampa Bay
Cleveland Clinic put functional medicine at the forefront when, in 2014, it became the first academic medical center in the country to open a department dedicated to this “root cause” model of care; instead of naming the disease, we seek to discover why the patient is...
Why “15 Minute Prescriptions” Aren’t Cutting It and What You Can Do to Take Control of Your Care
Every patient is unique, with their own history, lifestyle, and set of circumstances that, together, cause the symptoms they’re experiencing when they visit a primary care doctor. Unfortunately, physicians often have very little time to dig through these various...
The Genetics of Getting Fit: How to Make Sure Your Lifestyle Choices Work with Your Genes – and Why That’s Important
For a long time, the popular discourse surrounding fitness has been pretty one-note: eating well and exercising results in getting fitter. Of course, there’s a lot to be said for this formula - a healthy diet and regular exercise are instrumental building blocks of a...
7 Reasons Why Functional Medicine is the Key to Holistic Health Improvement
Symptoms never appear out of nowhere. More often than not, they have hidden root causes that can impact other parts of your life. From chronic issues to unprecedented ones, getting effective treatment is about understanding why you’re experiencing what you’re...
5 Research-Based Lifestyle Changes to Help Boost Your Energy and Well-Being
Lifestyle changes don’t have to be disruptive in order to work. In fact, for a busy working professional whose daily routine is chock-full of time-sensitive deadlines and responsibilities, it’s the small, unassuming lifestyle changes that make the biggest impact. It...
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How to Get a Better Workout in Less Time…
High Intensity Interval Training commonly referred to as the “HIIT” method can be used in almost any aerobic format such as walking, biking, treadmill, swimming, rowing, etc… and can be done indoors or outdoors. HOW DOES IT WORK? This method combines the aerobic...
The 411 on IV Nutrition Therapy
Perhaps you have heard about celebrities like Madonna, Simon Cowell, Cindy Crawford and Rihanna receiving IV Nutrition Therapy. This therapy has become popular among celebs and patients alike to help receive the vitamins and nutrients your body needs. Read on to learn...
11 Tips to Eat Healthy at a Restaurant
Eating healthy is not always easy, especially during the summer when you often enjoy traveling for vacations. During vacation time, it it easy to slip back into unhealthy eating habits. However, there are many ways that you can still stay on track, even when eating...
Hydrate with Infused Water
One of the key components of health is adequate intake of water. Water is your body’s principal component and makes up about 60 percent of your body weight. Every system in your body depends on water – to flush toxins out of vital organs, carry nutrients to your...
Are the Foods You are Eating Sabotaging Your Health?
The New Year is coming and are you ready to make some positive changes? Health is likely at the top of your resolution list. Do you want to have more energy, sleep better, think more clearly and look better? The food that you choose to eat is the most important...
Think Outside the Cereal Box… Healthy Breakfast Ideas
For decades, we have been brainwashed by the food industry to eat cereal for breakfast. It is so ingrained in our society, that it is hard to “think outside the cereal box”. But the fact is that the majority of cereal is full of sugar and processed carbohydrates and...
Overnight Oats
Overnight Oats There are several advantages of having overnight oats for breakfast - there is no cooking required, they are prepared the night before and it is healthy and delicious. This is the basic recipe. There are a vast number of recipe combinations so you can...
Mini Veggie & Quinoa Quiches
Ingredients 3/4 cup cooked quinoa 1 tsp olive oil 1.5 cups chopped veggies (such as cauliflower, broccoli, or zucchini) 2/3 cups cheese (such as cheddar, feta, or blue) divided 1 cup Greek style plain yogurt 2 Tbsp low fat milk (you can use unsweetened almond or...
Brain Boosting Blueberry Walnut Overnight Oats
Mix the oats, chia or flax, milk, sweetener and spices in a mason jar. Place fruit and nuts on top. Seal and refrigerate overnight. Your delicious, healthy breakfast will be ready to eat in the morning. You can eat cold or heat lightly. Mix and enjoy... *1/2 cup...
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Stop Cold & Flu in Its Tracks!
It is that time of year when you may be exposed to viruses that can cause you to feel tired, run down, and achy. With normal stresses compounded by lack of sleep and less than perfect eating habits your immune system often does not have the ability to recharge and...
The natural way to build strong bones…
Patients often come to my practice for help with natural treatment of osteoporosis and osteopenia, usually after their physician has recommended medications such as Fosamax or Actonel. These medications block the body's breakdown of bone. Our bone is living tissue, in...
Which organ is the most important for your health? The answer may surprise you…
More than 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates said, “All disease begins in the gut”. Modern medicine often ignores this organ that is central to our health. Conditions associated with poor gut health include not only common gastrointestinal conditions such as irritable bowel...
What can you do when you get a cold or flu…
One of the most common questions that I get this time of year is, "How do I get better faster if I get a cold or flu?" Start the following as soon as you notice any cold/flu symptoms such as sore throat, cough, congestions, fever, body aches, etc... This regimen is...
How to stay well during cold and flu season
As cold and flu season approaches, many patients ask what they can do to decrease their risk of getting sick. The first and most important step is to build a strong immune system: 1) The key element of building a immune system is good nutrition. Our immune system...
Are you getting enough Vitamin D?
What is Vitamin D? • Although called a “vitamin”, this important element of health is actually a potent hormone that affects over 2,000 genes and at least 36 organs of the body. • We get most of our Vitamin D from sunshine and a smaller amount from foods such as fish,...
Liquid poison – Are the beverages you are drinking slowly killing you?
One of the key components of health is adequate intake of water, especially during the summer months. Yet, many people fill themselves with anything but water: sodas, various brands of "vitamin water" and energy drinks. So many patients tell me, “I hate water”. How...
Does fish oil cause prostate cancer?
News of a newly-published study titled “Plasma Phospholipid Fatty Acids and Prostate Cancer Risk in the SELECT Trial” has been covered in the mainstream media over the last several days, leading to quite a bit of confusion. Because of this study, many now believe that...
A beacon of hope for physicians battling the epidemic of chronic disease…
I spent an incredible past week with over 300 physicians and health care providers who recognize that medicine today is going in the wrong direction. If we don't change our approach, we will continue on a path towards more and more chronic disease. The meeting was the...
Controlled Breathing
Doing this exercise regularly can reduce the physiologic effects of stress. The 4-7-8 (or Relaxing Breath) Exercise This exercise is simple, takes very little time, requires no equipment and can be done anywhere. Exhale completely through your mouth, making a whoosh...
I want to be a coffee bean…
Somebody sent this to me years ago and I think it is a great analogy of the importance of attitude. Attitude can be defined as our readiness to act or react in a specific way. Although we can't control other people and we can't always control our circumstances, we do...
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