Live Longer. Live Better.
Personalized physician-led care focused on metabolic health, disease prevention, healthy aging and lifelong vitality.
Your Health Is Telling a Story
Maybe your labs are beginning to change. Maybe you’re more tired than you used to be, your weight has crept up, or you just don’t feel quite like yourself.
Maybe you already feel well and want to stay that way for as long as possible.
Foundation Health MD helps you understand how your labs, medical history, symptoms, habits, and goals fit together. Then we use evidence-based lifestyle medicine to help you feel better, lower your disease risk, improve underlying medical conditions, and pursue remission when possible.
You Got Your Results Back.
Now What?
Your cholesterol is “high”. Your blood sugar keeps going up. Your blood pressure is “uncontrolled”.
Maybe you were told, “Let’s keep an eye on it.”
But what does that actually mean?
An A1c, cholesterol level, blood pressure reading, or number on the scale can be useful. But it becomes much more useful when we look at it alongside your sleep, food, movement, stress, medications, family history, symptoms, and the changes happening over time.
The goal is not to chase every number. It is to understand the pattern.
And once you understand the pattern, it becomes much easier to decide what to do next.
We Have a Health Problem.
3 in 4
U.S. adults live with at least one common chronic health condition.*
2 in 5
U.S. adults have prediabetes, and about 8 in 10 do not know they have it.*
90%
of U.S. health care spending is for people with chronic or mental health conditions.*
We spend an enormous amount treating illness, yet chronic disease remains part of everyday life for millions of people.
Good medical care matters. So does looking earlier and deeper at the parts of health we can change.
*Sources: CDC and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The Good News? A Lot Can Change.
Your health is not fixed.
Blood pressure and blood sugar can both be reduced. Fitness and strength can improve. Sleep can be more restorative. Cholesterol and other markers of metabolic health can change for the better.
For some people, even established chronic disease can improve in a meaningful way.
Type 2 diabetes, for example, can go into remission with sufficiently intensive treatment, including lifestyle change.
Lifestyle medicine is not just about staying healthy when nothing is wrong.
It can help prevent disease, treat disease, and in some cases reverse disease.
The goal is to find out what can change for you and focus our effort there.
Change What You Can and Protect the Years Ahead.
Treat What’s There
Prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, excess weight, poor fitness, and other health concerns all have components that can improve.
We look at what may be driving the problem and where lifestyle change is most likely to help.
Feel Better
Health is about more than avoiding a diagnosis.
Better sleep, more energy, greater strength, improved fitness, and feeling more capable in your daily life matter right now.
Stay Healthier Longer
We cannot control everything about our future health.
Genetics, age, environment, and chance all matter.
But our daily choices matter and can have a profound impact.
The goal is not simply more years of life.
It is more healthy, active, vibrant years.
Your Everyday Choices Are Powerful Medicine.
Food
Eat in a way that supports your health and fits your life.
Stress
Learn healthier ways to respond to the pressures that are part of life.
Movement
Build fitness, strength, mobility, and a body that keeps working for you.
Connection
Build and protect the relationships and community that help us thrive.
Sleep
Give your body and brain the time they need to recover.
Risky Substances
Reduce the things that quietly work against your health.
Lifestyle medicine focuses on six parts of life that can have a major effect on health.
You do not need to change everything at once.
We look for the few changes most likely to make the biggest impact.
No Hype. No Magic Fixes.
There has never been more health information at our fingertips, and it has never been harder to know what to believe.
Diets. Supplements. Wearables. Cold plunges. Hormones. Peptides. Longevity tests. New devices and medications.
Some can be useful. Some are promising. Some are marketing.
We look at what the research actually shows, how strong the evidence is, the possible benefits and risks, the cost, and whether it makes sense for you.
Then we put it into plain English.
You deserve to understand the difference between what is proven, what is promising, and what is mostly hype.
So, Where Do We Start?
We Start With You.
1. Understand
We review your medical history, labs, symptoms, medications, habits, risks, and goals to get a clear picture of where you are today.
2. Connect the Dots
We look for patterns and help you understand how the different parts of your health fit together, including what deserves your attention and what may matter less than you think.
3. Make a Plan
You leave with clear priorities and practical next steps built around your health and your life.
Not a giant list of everything you could possibly change.
A plan focused on what matters most.
Healthcare With Time to Ask Better Questions.
Some of the most important health questions do not fit neatly into a rushed office visit.
Why is your A1c rising? What does high cholesterol really mean? Why are you tired? How much does your sleep matter? Should you worry about that lab result? Is that supplement worth taking?
And perhaps the biggest question:
What can you do today that may change where your health is headed five, ten, or twenty years from now?
Those questions deserve time.
Foundation Health MD was created to give you that time paired with physician-level guidance to better understand your health, make sense of the evidence, and decide what comes next.
Meet Joshua Schulist, MD
Board-Certified - Family Medicine
Board-Certified - Lifestyle Medicine
After years of practicing traditional primary care, I became increasingly interested in the lifestyle factors that drive many chronic diseases.
Foundation Health MD was created to give patients the time, education, and personalized support needed to understand their health, identify meaningful opportunities for change, and build lasting health.
My mission is simple:
Help people live longer, healthier, more vibrant lives.
What patients have said about Dr. Schulist
Start With Where You Are.
You may want to understand a lab result. You may be trying to improve a chronic health condition. Or you may simply want to build a stronger foundation for the years ahead.
The starting point is the same: understand your health, identify what can change, and focus on what matters most.
Feel better now. Stay capable longer. Live more vibrantly. Give yourself the best chance for many healthy years ahead.