RYEZ Health

At RYEZ Regenerative Healthspan, we help you play stronger, recover faster, and live longer through physician-led regenerative and wellness care.

Founded by Dr. Eric Zabat, a board-certified Sports Medicine and Family Medicine physician with 25+ years

04/23/2026

A great night at with , and helping launch the Rustin Women’s High School Golf Program.

Excited to build something special—this program will thrive with the support of our community.

We’ll need all the support we can get, and I’m grateful to be involved and happy to help.

04/16/2026

I don't tell patients to stay active and then go home and sit on the couch.

This is what my lunch break looks like.

Grip strength. Pulling capacity. Shoulder mobility. I track these in my patients because they reveal more about aging than most of the numbers we measure.

If you're still moving, protect it. If you stopped, you can start again.
— Dr. Z

04/14/2026

Kirk Parsley posted something last week I keep coming back to. Not because it surprised me. Because I've been watching this exact thing play out for 25 years.

The math he laid out: A lab bills $1,800. Insurance pays $600. You owe $900. The cash price was $600 the whole time.

Nobody told you. That's not a glitch. That's how the system was designed.

Insurance companies pay a percentage of what gets billed. They won't tell you what that percentage is. So labs and providers bill three to four times what they expect to recover. Whatever the insurer doesn't cover lands on the patient. Most doctors' offices run two or three people whose only job is chasing those reimbursements. Coding, appealing, rebilling.

I've watched physicians try to answer a patient's simple question. "How much does this cost?" And genuinely not know. Not because they didn't care. Because the system made it impossible to find out.

I built RYEZ Health the way I built it because I didn't want to practice inside that architecture. Longer visits. Direct access. Prices I can actually give you before you decide.

Some of what I do is priced directly. Shockwave therapy. PRP. Parts of the metabolic work. Not as a workaround. Because the insurance model was never going to serve those treatments honestly. And telling patients otherwise wasn't something I was willing to do.

Most of my patients use insurance for what it was actually built to cover. This isn't a complaint. It's a statement about what medicine should feel like.

You should be able to ask your doctor how much something costs.

Your doctor should be able to answer.

Dr. Z | Newtown Square, PA

04/07/2026

One of the things I committed to when I started RYEZ Health was staying ahead of the science. Not just following it.

Last week I sat down with a group of physicians for a full session on GLP-1 therapies and where obesity medicine is heading. The research is moving fast. Patients asking about Mounjaro and Wegovy deserve a physician who actually understands the mechanism, not just the brand name.

What I took away: the data on GLP-1s is stronger than most physicians realize. The nuance around who actually benefits, and how to manage it alongside musculoskeletal and metabolic care, is the kind of thing you only get in a room with people doing the work.

Grateful to Eli Lilly for putting that room together.

— Dr. Z
📍 RYEZ Health — Newtown Square, PA
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04/01/2026

Most people think obesity is a willpower problem.

It isn't

When I map it out on the board, this is what I show patients: obesity drives down leptin, suppresses testosterone through multiple pathways, and triggers chronic inflammation that feeds back into metabolic dysfunction. Not separate issues. The same loop running in multiple directions at once.

That's why "eat less, move more" fails. Not because patients aren't trying. Because the advice doesn't touch the physiology.

Treat the hormonal environment, insulin resistance, testosterone suppression, the inflammatory pathways, and the body starts responding. That's the difference between managing a number and actually changing what's driving it.

It changes how I treat every patient.

— Dr. Z
📍 RYEZ Health — Newtown Square, PA
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03/26/2026

Opening Day x Throwback Thursday

There’s something different about Opening Day.

It brings you back.

Back to the early days—
Before the brand.
Before the clinic.
Before RYEZ.

This was me in training, working alongside the medical staff for the Cincinnati Reds organization.

Inside the training room.
Long days. Early mornings.
Learning what high-level performance really looks like—up close.

This is where it clicked for me:

Health isn’t just about treating injuries.
It’s about building systems—movement, recovery, metabolism, longevity.

The best athletes don’t wait until something breaks.
They stay ahead of it.

That mindset stuck.

And it’s exactly what I’ve built RYEZ around today.

Grateful for those early reps.
Grateful for the people who taught me the standard.
Still building—just at a different level now.

Happy Opening Day ⚾️

— Doc Z

03/20/2026

Most of my knee arthritis patients have already done everything the standard process recommends.

They got the scan. Saw the specialist. Had the injection. Felt better for a few months.

Then the pain came back.

Knee pain often increases not because of what the cartilage looks like, but because of what the muscles around it are doing. When those muscles lose strength, they stop absorbing load. The joint takes pressure it was not designed to handle alone. Joint support drops. Load tolerance drops.

Imaging finds structural changes.
It does not find what stopped protecting the structure.

Injections reduce inflammation and provide real relief. They have a place. I use them when they are the right tool. But they address the pain signal. They do not rebuild the capacity that was supposed to protect the joint in the first place.

When the strength deficit is not addressed, the joint returns to the same conditions that caused the problem. The pain returns. Not because the injection failed. Because only part of the problem was treated.

Strength makes results last.
Function matters more than images.

A thorough evaluation looks at how the knee loads and moves under real conditions, not only at what the scan shows.

If your treatment plan was built around imaging alone, there may be more to assess.

📍 RYEZ Health, Newtown Square, PA

03/19/2026

You exercise. You watch what you eat. You're not someone who ignores your health.

So why does your body feel like it's working against you at 48, or 52, or 55?

I want to talk about something that doesn't come up in most annual physicals — and I think it should.

After 40, the body begins losing skeletal muscle at a rate most people never hear about. Up to 8% of mass every decade. Strength declining 2 to 5 times faster than that. And here's what stops most of my patients cold when I tell them: none of this shows up on your standard labs.

No grip strength assessment. No body composition analysis. No evaluation of the system that — according to a study of nearly 140,000 people across 17 countries — predicts your risk of dying more accurately than blood pressure does.

I'm not sharing this to alarm you. I'm sharing it because I think you deserve to know that fatigue, unexplained weight changes, joint pain, and slower recovery are not random. They're connected. They're measurable. And in many cases, they're addressable — if someone is actually looking for the right things.

This is what I was trained for. I'm board-certified in Sports Medicine, Obesity Medicine, and Family Medicine — because the person dealing with all three of those symptoms at once doesn't need three different referrals. They need one physician who sees the whole picture.

Swipe through the slides above. And if this resonates with someone you know, feel free to share it.

📍 RYEZ Health — Newtown Square, PA
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03/13/2026

Chris has been sending patients my way for years.

A chiropractor with that much experience knows exactly what to look for in a physician. He's seen the ones who rush. The ones who order imaging before they even finish the exam. The ones who don't explain anything.

When he says I care at a level not seen with other providers — I don't take that lightly. Because he would know.

Patient education. Time. Honest assessment. That's not a differentiator. It's just how medicine should work.

Grateful for you, Chris. And for every patient you've trusted me with.
— Dr. Z 📍 RYEZ Health — Newtown Square, PA

03/12/2026

Most people don't know what to expect when I mention shockwave therapy.

You come in, we've already done the evaluation. I know which tendon, how chronic, what stage. The treatment area is identified before the device is ever turned on.

The applicator delivers focused acoustic pulses directly to the tissue. You'll feel pressure and some discomfort, especially over the most affected area. That’s expected. We’re working on tissue that’s been struggling for a while.

Each session takes about 15 minutes. Most patients need three to five sessions, spaced about a week apart. Improvement builds gradually as the tissue responds and begins to remodel.

There's no injection. No downtime. Most patients walk out and go about their day.

What I tell everyone: this isn’t a quick fix. It’s a structured intervention. But for the right conditions, such as chronic Achilles, plantar fascia, patellar tendon, or elbow tendinopathy, the results can benoticeable and long-lasting.

— Dr. Z 📍 RYEZ Health — Newtown Square, PA

03/06/2026

Most people walk into a doctor's office hoping for something simple.
Someone who listens. Someone who explains what they are seeing. Someone whose recommendations come from experience.

Trust is not something a physician can claim. It is something patients decide for themselves over time.

I appreciate Doug taking the time to share this.

Eric Zabat, MD
Board-Certified Sports Medicine & Obesity Medicine
RYEZ Health — Newtown Square, PA

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4675A West Chester Pike
Newtown Square, PA
19073

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http://www.ryezhealth.com/

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