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Dr. Margit Winstrom, MD (Texas) specializes in Functional Medicine-- a holistic branch of preventative care focused on finding the underlying root causes of chronic conditions and methodically treating with alterations to lifestyle and diet.
Dr. Winstrom is Bredesen Certified in identifying the mechanisms of neurogenerative diseases.
She practiced for over 25 years as a board certified family physician in Texas before retraining in integrative Functional Medicine. She is five-star rated on Health Grades.
She began a campaign to make sure no one "just has to live with" so called chronic conditions when she realized hypothyroidism compounded her mother-in-law's decline into dementia and then she saw hypothyroidism start impacting her young kids' as well. Our bodies tell us early when something is out of balance. Dr. Winstrom listens.
She sees patients in person in Houston, TX and in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in New York City and nationwide by phone.
"My family has been seeing Dr. Winstrom for 30 years.
She listens and gives you the time you need. She has wonderful compassion. She asks all the right questions. She does not push pills. She leaves no stone unturned in her quest to keep me healthy. She is on top of the latest information, answers all my questions, and provides me with new ideas and resources to meet my health needs."
- Shannon B.
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How She Got Into Functional Brain Health
How She Got Into Functional Brain Health
Dr. Winstrom enjoyed a lively intellectual partnership with neurologist thought leader, Dr. William Riley, her husband for almost 40 years.
But her own focus on brain health emerged as she & her husband cared for her quick-witted globe traveling mother-in-law during the decline into fatal dementia. Dr. Winstrom realized an underlying thyroid issue-- likely caused by diet-- had never been properly treated. Although doctors had dismissed it as a "typical chronic condition," hypothyroidism had likely been responsible for decades of poor quality of life: low energy that put her in a wheelchair, brain fog, and a self-sense that she was just "lazy and crazy." What's worse, hypothyroidism probably compounded the process that finally broke the sharp mind of this delightfully creative woman.
Then, Dr. Winstrom saw her kids displaying the same inherited thyroid patterns and the drag it put on their young lives.
She voraciously deepened her attention to the impacts of so called "primary care issues" on long term brain health. She was shocked by the impacts traditional primary care dismisses as untreatable or treatable with the sole option of taking pharmaceutical drugs every day for life.
She was also shocked by the increased incidence of chronic disease. The modern world lures us into lifestyle and diet choices that wear on our bodies and, in turn, slows down our minds.
When so called "chronic conditions" are not investigated and treated properly, they can not only erode quality of life for decades, they often exacerbate other conditions.
Dr. Winstrom believes the oath doctors take demands a reset of focus in the primary care field. Treatment only when a condition becomes acute enough to have collateral damage to other body systems is causing collateral damage to our society.
Dr. Winstrom and her colleagues in Functional Medicine are on a mission to change the face of primary care. She's part of a sea change to stop health problems before they start, catch them early, and retrain fellow doctors from just doling our pills to understanding how diet and lifestyle impact health.
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