The introduction and directory has been extensively updated. All the patient stories are in segment 10. All the videos are under segment 37. I will continue to update this content as new data and scientific information becomes available. This site is an electronic book that is designed to help you live a longer healthier life. I welcome your comments and input. Enroll as a free subscriber to receive updates twice a week
This booklet is for people with heart conditions and related diseases who wish to stay healthy. It tells you what to do and why. Your doctors and your family who are interested in you and your health will find it helpful. Optimal medical treatment (OMT) is used to provide better results compared to usual care. OMT will help you. This site is regularly updated and will become your important resource. Comments and interaction are welcome. Write to us (whbester@gmail.com)
It serves as a readily available resource that helps you know what to do, how it works, and why it is worth your time. It is for patients, families, and those who treat you. It helps get those groups on the same page. Optimal medical treatment is a proven product. You should be able to count on receiving it whether you live in Sarasota or Seattle. We will start with the highest risk and most costly diseases. This whole site will be updated regularly and is intended to be a ongoing resource that you can refer to whenever you like. Please help us understand how we can make this content more valuable to you. Don’t be intimidated by the directory. You can read the booklet as a whole or pick and choose those parts that apply to you.
Directory
Heart Artery Disease
You Can Slow Accelerated Aging and Delay Chronic Disease with a Few Simple Steps
Optimal Medical Treatment Pays Huge Dividends in Heart Artery Disease
Stents Provide No Additional Benefit to Optimal Medical Treatment For Heart Artery Disease
Optimal Medical Treatment for Heart Artery Disease and Heart Attack
High-risk Type 2 Diabetes
Optimal Medical Treatment (OMT) Pays Huge Dividends in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetic Kidney Disease-You Probably Don’t Know You Have It!
How Our Current Healthcare System Fails Patients with Diabetes
High Blood Pressure
How Our Current Healthcare System Fails Patients with High Blood Pressure
The Most Underused Medicine for High Blood Pressure and Related Conditions
Eleven Simple Steps to Blood Pressure Control
Diabetes
Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes Differ in Lower Risk Patients
Too Much Insulin Accelerates Aging and Chronic Disease Development
Critical Videos for Understanding Heart Disease and Related Conditions
Almost All Chronic Diseases and Accelerated Aging Have a Common Origin
Medical Science Has Advanced Just as Fast as Telephone Science
Congestive Heart Failure
Make the Right Way the Easy Way: Optimal Medical Treatment in Type 2 Diabetes
Make the Right Way the Easy Way: Optimal Medical Treatment in High Blood Pressure
Better Care is Less Expensive Care: The COVID Vaccine Example
Update on Aspirin: A Critical Component of Optimal Medical Treatment
Your Perfect Grandchild, Radiation Injury, and the Language of Life
You can have better health at lower cost with little more effort than it takes to brush your teeth. I know that you are bombarded by messages like this all the time but this one is different. These posts will be supported by science, facts, evidence, data, and the truth. Better health depends on a trusted source of information that supports you in preventing and treating chronic disease while slowing aging. I will be your advocate by only putting up information that I have very carefully vetted and that I believe to be true.
There is strong evidence that we can have better health at lower cost.
The United States spends twice as much as other developed countries on healthcare and has a lower life expectancy than most. Singapore has much better life expectancy for one third the cost.
Our own National Academy of Medicine laid out a guidebook to improve our system in 2001. Our system is designed to address acute disease while chronic conditions generate most costs. Our failure to adjust to these realities contributes to increased cost and worse outcomes.
Good to hear from you doctor. I miss seeing you too and I sure miss my dad. I consider you one of the best and well respected doctor's I have ever dealt with. I look forward to reading your information. You're a blessing my friend.
1 reply by William H Bestermann Jr MD
Jan 1Liked by William H Bestermann Jr MD
I am looking forward to learning more and having honest discussions about healthcare and ways to improve my own. I was placed on meds for CHTN and elevated cholesterol about a year ago. I received absolutely no education regarding any of it—meds, lifestyle changes, effects, side effects of medication—zip/nada from the MD who prescribed them.
Not sure if that was because I was a nurse, so he assumed that I would know all about it, or not.
I have since changed providers and done a lot of my own research.
So I have a personal interest in learning about chronic disease mitigation, especially as it relates to HD, CHTN, hypothyroidism, and elevated cholesterol that does not seem to be related to diet.
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