Dr. Andrew S. Lenhardt (www.drlenhardt.com) is a long time family physician who has evolved his practice to functional medicine thus addressing the underlying causes of disease. Dr. Lenhardt considers each person’s lifestyle, nutritional status, genetic variation, hormones levels, and a myriad of other factors to identify the optimal treatment based on an individual’s unique characteristics and priorities.

Like many other healthcare organizations, he has been searching for tools that can educate and empower patients to take a more active role in managing their chronic illnesses and improve their wellness. Enter Personal Remedies, a local start-up focused on technology-based individualized dietary guidance for patients with chronic illness.

Personal Remedies cognitive system identifies the most helpful dietary and lifestyle choices based on available science, taking into account an individual’s illnesses, allergies, medications, dietary preferences and other health issues. It also offers the largest collection of mobile apps for chronic illnesses in the market. Personal Remedies team will work with Dr. Lenhardt and other professionals at Well Life Medical to improve its knowledgebase and capabilities to best support their mission in delivering optimum health to their patients.

Well Life is a pioneer in providing an integrated model for health care. Their unique characteristic is to adopt a more holistic approach; address the root cause of imbalance in a patient’s mind, body and spirit; and personalize the wellness care of each individual. The dedicated professionals and specialists at Well Life provide primary care as well as extensive holistic services including acupuncture, acutonics, Ayurveda, massage therapy, nutrition, reflexology and Reiki. Well Life (www.welllifemedical.org) is based in Peabody, MA in the metro Boston area.