Renae Mayer, MD, PhD

Renae Mayer, MD, PhD

LifeStyle Medicine Inc.
Tulsa, Oklahoma

About: Renae L. Mayer, M.D. is a board-certified internist who practiced benign hematology and provided integrative medical care in Tulsa cancer practices for nearly 15 years. During this time, she became passionate about helping patients find answers to chronic and complex medical problems. After completing undergraduate degrees in biology and psychology, Dr. Mayer pursued graduate work in the Pharmacology Department of ORU School of Medicine. Her Master’s degree research was in the area of enkephalins and endorphins while her PhD research investigated the interaction between the endocrine, immune and central nervous systems in patients with depression. She received her medical degree from Oklahoma University. Later, she served as chief resident during her Internal Medicine residency. She subsequently trained to be an acupuncturist at Harvard University in Boston.

Dr. Mayer opened LifeStyle Medicine, Inc. with a desire to practice medicine differently. She is active in clinical research and focused therefore on evidence-based medicine. The fact they she is turning toward integrative approaches to healthcare shows that there is ample scientific proof to support their use.

In Traditional Medicine, we are taught how to treat symptoms and disease after the fact. The typical medical school curriculum offers very little teaching to doctors on how to help keep their patients healthy. Medical Wellness, on the other hand, is dedicated to keeping the human body healthy and functioning optimally.  In other words, it focuses on preventing symptoms and disease before they can even get started

• How well is your body turning the food you eat into energy?
• How well is your liver detoxifying the world you are exposed to on a daily basis?
• Are GI bacteria doing what they are supposed to and keeping you strong and healthy or has bad bacteria or yeast taken over?
• Is the stress you are exposed to in your daily life being adequately dealt with or have chronically elevated stress hormones left you at risk for obesity, heart disease and diabetes?

These are just a few of the questions a Metabolic Medicine work-up will answer.  Everything offered or recommended at Lifestyle Medicine is evidenced-based. Meaning there are scientific studies to back up all recommendations.  “If it has not been studied, then I don’t include it in my recommendations,” says Dr. Mayer.