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About Optimal Health by Dr. Aneela Aneela Mahmud, MD, is an internal medicine physician (also known as an internist) and founder of Optimal Health by Dr. Aneela. At her practice in Phoenix, Arizona, she works closely with patients to create individualized plans to help optimize their health and lifestyle. At her practice, Dr. Mahmud diagnoses and treats a wide range of conditions, including chronic diseases like diabetes. She also cares for patients with mental health conditions and helps people with complex autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and related disorders such as chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. Dr. Mahmud completed medical school at Khyber Medical School in Peshawar, Pakistan. After graduating, she moved to the United States and completed her internal medicine residency at Southern Illinois University in Springfield, Illinois. She then completed a fellowship in infectious diseases and a post-doctoral fellowship in clinical microbiology. Before opening up her practice, Dr. Mahmud worked as a primary care doctor but found limitations to a strictly pharmaceutical approach. She is passionate about her patient's whole health, mind, body, and soul. Instead of a one-size-fits-all, cookie-cutter approach, she keeps the individual patient in mind. Dr. Mahmud sees lifestyle medicine as the future to truly improve the health of individuals in the U.S. She has a background in Eastern and Western medical approaches and sees that many modern-day ailments can be improved by taking an Eastern philosophical approach to living, including honoring daily and seasonal rhythms and having a healthy outlook on everyday challenges and stresses. She believes in the Daoist philosophical approach of moving with life and not against it. Dr. Mahmud also believes that body movement is essential to balance and restore chi. She is a medical chi gong practitioner and offers classes. Dr. Mahmud is also obtaining further training in homeopathy due to her passion for helping patients live in harmony with themselves and the forces of nature. Outside of her practice, she enjoys good music and practices playing the harmonium and devotional music. She also enjoys reading about psychology and religious philosophy. Dr. Mahmud is committed in her path to evolve her understanding of herself in relation to the world. She is also dedicated to helping people find their own unique way to live healthy lives outside of the confusion and chaos of the world.

Business Hours:
M-Tu 8am-6pm, W-Su Closed

Categories:
Alternative Medicine,Holistic Health Practitioners,Family - General Practice Physicians - Surgeons,Health - Medicine

Services:
Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, Hypothyroidism, Iv Nutrition And Injection Therapy, Autoimmune Diseases, Chinese Medicine, Depression And Anxiety

Specialties:
General Practitioner, Holistic And Integrative Medicine, Integrative And Internal Medicine Physician