About George Martinez, MD
I'm Dr. George Martinez and I have continuously served the Anderson Mill Community and the immediate Hwy 183 / RR 620 area since 1984, longer than any other currently practicing Primary Care Physician in the area. I'm a 1976 graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio in 1980, and I trained at Brackenridge Hospital right here in Austin, Texas from 1980 – 1983. I began my career working in the Emergency Room and in 1985 started my private practice board certified in Family Medicine. I am currently enrolled at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine working toward a Masters Degree in Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine. I am also enrolled in The Metabolic Medical Institute which is educationally partnered with The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, working toward a Fellowship in Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine. These are on-going, multi-year educational activities.
I have practiced conventional, traditional Family Practice & Primary Care for 30 years, but my professional life began a significant transition in the fall of 2006 when a family member was battling Metastatic Melanoma and her doctors had little more to offer her. She had excellent insurance and the “best” medical care offered by the physicians and staff of that famous cancer treatment hospital in Houston, Texas that you have undoubtedly heard of.
Her husband, my cousin, and I talked by phone every Wednesday and Sunday nights for 3 years to discuss our alternative treatment strategies. You see, we began treating her with vitamins, minerals, natural oils, antioxidants and Ayurvedic and Chinese herbal remedies and other nutritional options and any other available & possible natural or alternative treatment we could research or think of. We juiced red grapes and apples and broccholi and we gave her blue green algae, medium chain triglycerides, and on and on and on.
Metastatic lesions in her body began getting smaller. And then they started disappearing on MRI scans, and I was amazed. Her doctors in Houston were also amazed and they told us to keep doing what we were doing because obviously, something was working ... and it was working better than the traditional treatment protocols that they had to offer at that particular stage of her disease process. She enjoyed 3 more years of good quality life and family birthdays and hollidays and vacation travels before she lost her battle in the fall of 2009.
I knew I had to learn more about natural treatments and health preserving, out-of-the box options and strategies. And, in early 2010 I began counseling my patients on vitamins, minerals, amino acids, antioxidants, and herbal supplements, and I began recommending them for various health issues. Then, in 2011 I turned my attention to bio-identical hormones and I became a member of The American Academy of Anti-Aging & Regenerative Medicine and I have continued to learn and treat my patients with these strategies. And now, I am also enrolled in the associated educational programs noted above because I am convinced that this is the health care model of the future, and I am convinced that this "transitional model of health care" is absolutely correct. For example, we usually think of illness in terms of organsystems such as thinking of the High Blood Pressure Patient in terms of the heart and arteries. But now I think of these patients in terms of Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Cell Physiology and Pathophysiology because I know that if I can get the cells of the body working better, the patient will get better.
I still practice traditional medicine, but my focus is to bridge the troubled waters between Conventional Medical Practice and the future of Metabolic Medicine. I consider this to be the essence of Preventive Medicine.
I now limit my practice to adult patients with an emphasis on the early detection, prevention, treatment, and reversal of age related, chronic degenerative disorders. I also see younger patients on an individual, pre-approved basis. and so here at … The Austin Clinic … I call this style of practice “Personalized Adult Medicine”.
Practice Locations
Dr. George Martinez may be affiliated with:
- Department Of Veteran Affairs (Ctvhcs) in Temple, TX 76504
- Ctxvhcs in Temple, TX 76504
- Central Texas Veterans Health Care System in Temple, TX 76504
- Central Texas Veteran's Health Care System in Temple, TX 76504
- Temple Vamc in Temple, TX 76504
- Temple Vamc Pharmacy in Temple, TX 76504
Education
George Martinez, MD earned a degree of a Doctor of Medicine.
Licenses
George Martinez, MD has been registered with the National Provider Identifier database since August 19, 2006, and his NPI number is 1841304318.
Book an Appointment
To schedule an appointment with Dr. George Martinez, please call (254) 743-0177.