Dr. Jason Wibbenmeyer

12/13/2025

🎄 New blog post out now!
[…] maybe what you actually need this holiday season isn’t another thing at all. Maybe what you really crave is space, clarity, peace, and ease — Qualities that allow you to enter 2026 as a healthier, happier, calmer version of yourself—without adding a single new item to your already crowded life.

The holidays have a way of convincing us that what we need is more. More gifts, more tasks, more events, more things to manage and store. But if you pause long enough to listen beneath the noise, you might notice a different truth whispering back: maybe what you actually need this holiday season isn...

12/12/2025

Two things can be true — antibiotics can save lives and antibiotics can increase your risk of disease. Work with a doctor that understands both 🤌🏼

12/02/2025

If your health goals include better body composition, fat loss, more energy and balanced hormones, then understanding how you can leverage your nutrition to burn more calories will provide a simple, science-backed and underrated approach.

11/08/2025

📣 New Article! 📣
Have you ever felt like you’re constantly living in fight-or-flight mode? You might find yourself on high alert, emotionally reactive, anxious, overwhelmed, or simply getting through each day by putting out one fire at a time. If this sounds familiar, it could be a red flag for […]

Have you ever felt like you’re constantly living in fight-or-flight mode? You might find yourself on high alert, emotionally reactive, anxious, overwhelmed, or simply getting through each day by putting out one fire at a time. If this sounds familiar, it could be a red flag for something deeper .....

11/07/2025

Two things can be true. There is no need to choose sides.

Often, I hear and see people creating conflict and division — pinning functional medicine and traditional medicine against each other.

Traditional medicine is lifesaving.
It offers fantastic sick care.
It diagnoses.
It treats acute danger.

Functional medicine is life changing.
It asks why.
It explores the body systems as a whole.
It understands the unity of lifestyle, genetics and environmental impacts on your health.
It uses proactive diagnostic labs to get a clear picture.
It empowers the long-term relationship between you and your health.

Both have strengths. Both have limitations.
They are not competitors.
They are counterparts.
Two different tools for two different jobs.

When you understand which tool to use and the right time to use them, you step into clarity, confidence, and true healing. And when you understand what you’re going to get from both, that’s freedom.

Both traditional medicine and functional medicine are rooted in science.
Both are valuable. Both have purpose.
They simply serve different roles in your healing journey.

And when we stop treating them as fighters, we return to the original intention of being a doctor:
- to put the patient first,
- to teach with clarity,
- to support healing,
- and to do no harm.
Together, we do better. Together, we serve the whole person.

✌🏼🫶🏼🤌🏼

10/14/2025

Your cholesterol could look “perfect” yet you could still be at high risk for a heart attack. That’s the danger of relying on outdated lipid panels from 1972.

ApoB and Lp(a) tell the story your cholesterol can’t.

Most doctors don’t test them — but the few who do? They’re helping patients prevent what others only treat.

I order these two markers on most of my patients which allows me to better help them with preventative measures and determine if protective traditional care referral is necessary.

These two biomarkers are simple to test, inexpensive, and far more predictive of cardiovascular risk than your regular lipid panel.

We can’t prevent what we don’t measure. As I always say, the heart attack at 70 started at age 30, but it was just undetected.

10/03/2025

For more information and free resources to support your health, and to take advantage of discounted infrared sauna packages, visit my website drwibbenmeyer.com

09/02/2025

Longevity focuses on extending your healthspan — the number of quality years lived in good health — rather than just extending the total lifespan — number of years you live. This progressive approach aims to identify and address the root causes of aging rapidly to prevent decline and maintain vitality and function.

Many people say they want to live a long healthy life of quality years, and not just a long life where their faculties and abilities are impaired. We have more power over this than we’ve been led to believe. Not everything is genetic. Not everything is determined by your parents and grandparents. Not everything is out of your control.

In order to maximize the physical, cognitive and emotional aspects of well-being throughout life, we want to tighten the gap of healthspan and lifespan. This requires us to shift the paradigm towards proactive medicine.

We can reduce one of the biggest disrupters of longevity and cellular decline — chronic inflammation — by making some easy changes in what we eat and how we prepare food. We have more power over inflammation, aging and its impact on our health that we’ve been led to believe.

3 ways to reduce oxidative stress and inflammation in your food:
- Create an acidic marinade: use apple cider vinegar with olive oil, lemon juice, herbs and spices such as ginger, turmeric and black pepper. Marinade the meat for at least 60 minutes before cooking, which reduces Advanced Glycation End-products AGEs (inflammation / oxidation) by 65%.

- Smoke Point: Use proper cooking oils based on the level of heat being used. This reduces oxidation of the cooking oil, which can turn a healthy good fat into a pro-inflammatory fat. Low heat 320° - 380°F use coconut oil. Medium heat 325° - 400°F use extra virgin olive oil. High heat 400° - 520°F use refined avocado oil.

- Low and Slow Cooking: Cooking for shorter periods at lower temps reduces AGE production vs quick searing and frying which increases inflammation byproducts by 100-fold according to the NIH.

It’s not always about what you eat, but it’s also about how you prepare what you eat. Leave a 🙌🏼 if this helped you rethink healthy eating.

08/29/2025

Who is this goon showing a “what I eat in day post.” Hi, it’s me 👋🏼. Let me explain…

I am not showing my average day to paint a picture that I am perfect (psst… I’m not!). I love my pizza, a good burger and fries, and some fresh chocolate chip cookies here and there. But are those part of my daily diet? Nope. Did they used to be? Heck to the yes. But I had to transform my relationship with food so I could break the cycle of where I was headed in my health — (It wasn’t good).

On a daily basis with my patients, I discuss all things lifestyle — everything between movement and exercise, mindset and stress regulation, sleep routines and of course, nutrition and food. With nutrition, I explain how personalizing it is essential for uncovering pitfalls that got them where they are as well as leading them to where they want to go in their health journey.

Patients often ask me, “What do you eat?” I think they ask this for guidance, for a better understanding of what’s possible, and to see what it really looks like in order to fuel appropriately. Recently, a patient was struggling to nail down her nutrition… she asked me to run through my average day. Her eyes lit up in awe and inspiration. Then I said this one thing that was exactly what she needed to hear…

“I do this because I have to AND want to. What other option do I have?”

She laughed and said, “Well when you put it that way.”

She has since then made massive strides in her relationship with food.

And THAT’S the power of lifestyle medicine.

08/25/2025

The 4 best proven tips to help with Seasonal Affective Disorder.

New Blog Post!

Are you someone who experiences Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and therefore want the long summer days to last forever? As we anticipate the days growing shorter and the air turning crisper, it’s not uncommon to feel an energy dip, your mood fade, and your sleep become less refreshing. For many...

08/12/2025

Running comprehensive labs is essential these days if you want to feel better and prevent disease. Our bodies are complex, we are exposed to so many stressors and sources of inflammation in our day, and the basic – and I mean super basic – blood labs being run at your PCP’s annual “wellness” appointment is not cutting it. [Click link to read more]

Do you find yourself snapping at loved ones more often, feeling perpetually irritable, or overwhelmed by a constant sense of burnout? Maybe you're exhausted and can't seem to shake the fatigue, no matter how much rest you get. If this sounds all too familiar, you're not imagining things—your mood ...

07/30/2025

Are you unknowingly letting your old stress response drive your decisions?

Here’s the deal… I just got finished working out where I often do my best thinking and reflecting. The gym was busy and my work out didn’t go smoothly or as planned. I had to do a lot of pivoting, adjusting and adapting — it felt chaotic and annoying. I caught myself getting flustered and ready to just say, “well, I guess I just should just end early.” But I caught myself and realized that my old stress response was presenting itself — hello old friend 👋🏼.

That familiar urge to run away, to escape discomfort, to throw in the towel when things feel chaotic — that’s not me now, that’s a default from an older version of me. A version that associated resistance with failure instead of growth.

So I took a breath, reset, and kept going. Not because it was perfect, but because I refuse to let outdated stress patterns make decisions for my present self.

Here’s your reminder:

Your nervous system might be trying to protect you in the only way it knows how — but it’s your job to remind it that you’re safe now — rewire its new neurological pathway. You’ve grown. You’ve got tools. You are not that same person.

Let’s stop letting our old stress response navigate your every move. Acknowledge it, thank it for trying to help, then change course with your new way of living.

Your power lives in the pause — that moment of awareness before reaction.
That’s where change begins. Capeesh? 🤌🏼