Supplements

Hi, thank you for coming back for the latest edition of Beyond Primary Care’s blog- supplements. In Beyond Primary Care blogs we highlight healthcare news, advice for medical conditions, and how membership for care works! Beyond Primary Care is an insurance free, membership based family medicine clinic. Beyond Primary Care is the highest rated Direct Primary Care clinic serving patients in Ann Arbor and throughout Washtenaw, Livingston, and Wayne counties giving families and employers peace of mind about healthcare costs by providing affordable and accessible primary care services.

The primary purpose of the blog is to introduce healthy lifestyle concepts and answer common questions we receive from patients that we believe are important. We want to start discussions that will help educate, benefit, and improve your well-being. 

In this blog post, we want to educate our patients and any prospective patients about supplements.

Supplements

We have something new to offer our patients here at Beyond Primary Care! In addition to the prescription medications that we have been dispensing, we are now stocking and dispensing various supplements. 

While supplements are not something that “classically” trained physicians have much training in, there is rapidly growing evidence that certain ones can help with a great number of medical conditions and concerns, and prescribing them is becoming more common. Checking things like vitamin D and B12, and using fish oil to treat high triglycerides are things that are becoming more “mainstream.”

Supplements for Health

So what can supplements help with? There is evidence for supplement use in pretty much every concern and condition you can think of, from anxiety and depression, to high blood sugar and high cholesterol, to insomnia and pain. 

There are some things you want to keep in mind when choosing a supplement, one being the quality of what you are buying. Not all supplements are created equal- some companies will cut corners to save costs, and the product they sell may not contain what it says it does, or it may be contaminated with other substances. The supplements we stock here at Beyond Primary Care are from a very reputable company called Ortho Molecular, so you can be sure you are using something that is high quality!

Affordable Supplements

One barrier to using supplements to help with symptoms or medical conditions is that high-quality supplements can be expensive! As with everything we do here at Beyond Primary Care, we want to make this treatment affordable and accessible, so our supplements are priced lower than anywhere else. 

If you are thinking about starting a supplement but are on other medications, be sure you talk to your doctor first- even though supplements are natural, they can still have interactions with other medications that can be harmful. 

Thank you for reading

Please reach out if you have any questions about supplements or about becoming a member of our clinic!

- Dr. Jeff O’Boyle