# About

Trent Tennyson, MD — emergency medicine physician turned longevity specialist. Why TMD Health exists and how the practice approaches your health.

**From reactive care to proactive health strategy**

## Medicine shouldn't begin when something goes wrong

TMD Health was founded on one question: how do we identify physiologic decline earlier, intervene intelligently, and help people maintain strength, resilience, performance, and independence over time?

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**The physician**

## Trent Tennyson, MD

Dr. Tennyson spent more than a decade practicing emergency medicine across Level I trauma centers, community hospitals, flight medicine, and tactical medicine. The work was built around treating illness and injury at their most acute.

Over time, his focus increasingly shifted upstream: What can we measure years earlier? Which risks can meaningfully be changed? And how can medicine help people preserve not only health, but the physical capacity to live well as they age?

TMD Health grew from those questions — a physician-led practice combining traditional medical evaluation with objective measures of physiology, fitness, body composition, and performance to build individualized, evidence-based health strategies.

### Trent Tennyson, MD

![Dr. Trent Tennyson, founder of TMD Health](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/7yi5boyj/production/c49c7c6ebf0629a166cd506c23d1d79ab84e4aa3-1600x2191.jpg?w=1600&fm=webp&q=80&auto=format)

_Founder · Physician_

#### Training & Experience

- University of Colorado Boulder — Biology
- University of Connecticut — MS, Genetics
- Albany Medical College — MD
- UPMC — Emergency Medicine Residency
- Board Certified — Emergency Medicine
- Former STAT MedEvac Flight Physician
- Former Pittsburgh EMS / Tactical Medicine

#### Current Clinical Focus

- Preventive medicine
- Cardiometabolic risk
- Exercise physiology & CPET
- Strength and physical performance
- Nutrition & lifestyle medicine
- Longitudinal health optimization

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**How we approach your health**

Use objective data when it can meaningfully improve understanding or decision-making.

1. **Value-centric** — Understand your health beliefs, life goals and vision, and motivations for change.
2. **Measure with purpose** — Not “nothing is wrong, see you next year” — and not “let's order 150 biomarkers, start 14 supplements and 6 medications” either.
3. **Interpret in context** — A laboratory value, fitness metric, or imaging result means little in isolation. Your history, physiology, goals, and preferences matter.
4. **Prioritize what matters** — More testing and more intervention are not inherently better. The goal is to identify the actions most likely to meaningfully improve your health.

**Talk to the practice**

## The first conversation is free

Fifteen minutes with the practice to talk goals, questions, and fit.

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