Dayton Magazine 2015 December 2015/ January 2016 Issue

Dr. Rob Kominiarek AGE MANAGEMENT Renue Health

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s a triathlete, Dr. Rob Kominiarek is constantly trying to optimize and improve his performance. Now Kominiarek’s patients can get his guidance and expertise to optimize and improve their own health.

“It was a natural fit for me because I was always trying to optimize myself,” says Kominiarek, a board-certified Fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians with advanced certification in Age Management Medicine and BioIdentical Hormone Replacement Therapy.

“It slowly started to morph into this agemanagement medical practice that I now have where it’s all about disease prevention and optimizing your health—not taking care of it after the fact.”

But Kominiarek doesn’t prevent disease and optimize his patients’ health with a broad, generic brush. Instead of treating everyone the same, he uses the precision health care model to treat everyone on an individual basis.

Kominiarek says precision health care looks at the individual’s unique genetic makeup. That’s possible because all the genes that make up the human genome were mapped in 2003, which “has led to this rapid change in medicine,” he says.

“We really are our own individual unique snowflakes.”

By analyzing a patient’s genes Kominiarek can see how those genes affect a patient’s body, including how they predispose them to certain diseases, diabetes, heart attacks, strokes and cancers, he says.

“I can tell you what you’re at risk for and what we need to change in your lifestyle, what we need to change in your nutrition, what we need to change medication-wise, or supplement-wise, to optimize your health so that your health span lasts your lifespan,” says Kominiarek.

His No. 1 prescription for optimal health

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is nutrition and exercise. “The most powerful prescription a physician can give a patient is for regular, meaningful exercise that includes strength training and aerobic training,” he says. “And the next is nutrition—eating healthful on a regular basis.

Those two things are so powerful.”

But because each individual is so unique, what is eating healthy for one person is not healthy for someone else. “What a lot of people don’t understand is that food can be a toxin,” says Kominiarek. “And so

what’s healthy for one individual can be a poison for someone else.”

Fruits and vegetables may be healthy for most people, but Kominiarek says one of his patients tested positive for an allergy to green beans while another patient was discovered to have an allergy to blueberries. Those foods, however, are not the typical allergy culprits. “The big offenders are gluten, soy, corn, tomatoes and then dairy,” says Kominiarek.

— ERIC SPANGLER