About Us
Thank you for choosing PrimalMed for your health and wellness consulting needs.
At PrimalMed, we want to work with you and collaborate with you to help you find YOUR PrimalMed Prescription®.
Ted & Ellen Metzger, PrimalMed Co-Founders
Letter From The PrimalMed Co-Founders
The PrimalMed team consists of a board-certified MD and RD, with over 30 years of experience in the medical and nutrition fields.
We have witnessed over the last several years, an increasing frequency of ‘unwellness’ in our population. Despite best efforts, some of our conventional medical and nutritional advice has not served us well. As a nation, many of us are sicker than ever before. Rather than relying on older traditional dogma, we need to look at the new and emerging data, that will allow us to achieve improved metabolic markers and metabolic health. Our current focus is now on merging Primal and Ancestral Principles with Modern Science and the field of Personalized and Precision Medical and Nutritional Epigenetics.
Your PrimalMed Prescription® looks at the functional pillars - nutrition and movement, stress mitigation, and sleep optimization, in helping you become the best version of yourself.
The PrimalMed Team
Ted Metzger MD & Ellen Metzger MS, RD
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Meet The Team
TED S. METZGER, MD
CO-FOUNDER
TMetzger@primalmed.com
As a Physician and Radiologist, I image and diagnose with increasing frequency, fatty liver, carotid and coronary artery disease, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. I also image the medical complications and manifestations of obesity and diabetes. The increasing incidence of these diseases especially in a younger population, is truly a modern epidemic.
After witnessing the recent demise of my parents to chronic neurodegenerative disease and autoimmune disease, I was compelled to do a deep exploration into the root causes of the chronic diseases of our current lifestyle.
This has motivated me to take a pause, ‘go back to school’ and study metabolic and nutritional strategies through an ancestral and evolutionary lens that will help us improve our health...and age with a robust vitality, rather than managing chronic illness.
Bachelor of Arts - University of Pennsylvania
Board Certified Physician - SUNY Downstate, New York
Board Certified Radiologist - Rush Presbyterian - St. Lukes, Chicago
Fellowship trained in Cross Sectional Body Imaging - University of Pennsylvania
Certified Primal Health Coach, studied with Mark Sisson
Certified Kion Health Coach, studied with Ben Greenfield
Certified Ketomastery Specialist, studied with Ryan Lowery, PhD
Currently studying Medical and Nutritional Epigenetics - Apeiron Academy
ELLEN S. METZGER, RD
CO-FOUNDER
EMetzger@primalmed.com
As a Registered Dietitian – Nutritionist, I have worked as a Clinical Dietitian in NYC, as well as an Eating Disorder Specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago. I ran Corporate Wellness Programs before launching my private practice in CT, Nutrition and Wellness Consulting, LLC.. Over the years, I have witnessed a surge in chronic disease. Our diets have become highly processed, inflammatory and nutrient depleted, yet we have focused on symptom management, and the ‘underlying cause’ or the ‘why’ is not often addressed.
I was led on a path to look at our healthcare through a different lens, a more integrative and functional medicine approach – uncovering the root cause of disease and looking at the body as an interconnected and complex system. Food is information – either promoting health or disease.
Bachelor of Science - SUNY Binghamton
Masters of Science in Clinical Nutrition - New York University
Certified MRT/LEAP Therapist - Food Sensitivity Testing
Certified - Integrative & Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy (IFMNT)
Certified - Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy (IFNA)
School of Applied Functional Medicine (SAFM)
Awarded 10 Best Natural Nutmeg Magazine ‘Nutrition/RD in the CT Holistic Community’
All consultations are virtual via telephone or video, and considered NON medical advice. Discussions are not Medical Diagnosis or Treatment, but rather falls into the category of “consulting and coaching.”
