Daniel VanHamersveld, MD

I obtained my medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1976 and did all of my post-graduate training there as well, including residency and a Cardiology Fellowship.

I have been in practice in Sacramento, California since 1981, previously doing interventional Cardiology, and I am now with a group in private practice called Sacramento Heart, which is a multispecialty Cardiology practice, and I am doing clinical Cardiology with a strong emphasis on prevention.

I became interested in functional medicine a few years ago, as I sought to learn more about how to be truly healthy, rather than just to be prepared to treat the various cardiovascular disease once they began to appear. Despite the longstanding emphasis on cholesterol as being undesirable and the supposed benefits of high carbohydrate and low-fat diets, I saw the epidemic of obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes developing throughout the medical literature and all around me in my practice.

My prevention has been completely wrong and that avoiding starches, sugars, and wheat/gluten and using healthy fats is a much healthier approach to long-term health and that avoiding inflammation in all of its forms should be the goal.

Going forward, I hope to continue to learn as much as possible about maintaining optimal health and helping my patients to resume healthier lives and to avoid many of the chronic diseases that were previously considered to be inevitable.