Preventive Care

Preventive care focuses on stopping major health problems before they set in. At N-of-1 Medicine in Santa Monica, California, preventive care moves into the future with the Precision Prevention approach. This helps you find ways to arrest the progression of many common diseases and also fine-tune your health to enjoy the best life long term. Book your appointment online or call the Los Angeles-area office to find out more about preventive care today.

What is preventive care?

Preventive care is medicine that aims to prevent disease, health problems, and disease complications. In a nutshell, preventive care is proactive instead of reactive health care. 

Instead of waiting for symptoms to start, preventive care is all about stopping those symptoms from appearing. If you’re already struggling with a chronic disease, for example, diabetes or heart disease, preventive care helps you slow down its progression and stop complications from happening. 

What does preventive care involve?

At N-of-1 Medicine, preventive care involves a specialized approach called Precision Prevention. It looks at all aspects of your life to formulate a highly personalized style of preventive care. Aspects include: 

Routine health screenings

Health screenings are one way to prevent disease by detecting health concerns early. Screenings can include routine lab work as well as cancer screenings, such as mammograms, colonoscopies, osteoporosis bone density tests, and other diagnostic tests.

The routine health screenings you might need depend on your sex, age, risk level for disease, family history, and other aspects of your health. 

Genetic analysis

Genetic analysis adds extra detail to lab testing. It’s DNA testing that looks at your genes and how they influence your health in great depth. Through blood, urine, or saliva tests, a precise view of your general health emerges. 

This testing reveals why you’re having certain health issues, whether you’re at risk for health problems, and how you can protect your health in the future. 

Customized health care

Customized health care is based on your routine screenings, genetic analysis, and other detailed information gathered from you. 

You get a personalized nutrition plan, a lifestyle management plan to target problem behaviors, medical weight-loss support, and anything else you need to better your whole-person health. 

When might I need preventive care?

Preventive care is helpful for everyone — and starting as early as possible is important. For all patients aged 18 and older, N-of-1 Medicine recommends annual physicals and sick visits (acute care) whenever you have a new health problem or worry. 

If you enroll in a medical weight-loss program or need another type of support, like mental health care, you’ll come in for regular follow-up visits. The practice designs a personalized wellness plan that you can incorporate into your daily life. 

Preventive care is a way to hack your health and take control. Book your first visit online or call N-of-1 Medicine today.