Dr. Brad Jacobs,
MD, MPH, ABOIM
Board-Certified, Internal Medicine & Integrative Medicine
A career spent asking for the evidence
Board certifications
- Internal Medicine
- Integrative Medicine - American Board of Integrative Medicine (ABOIM), governed by the American Board of Physician Specialties
Education & training
- MD - Stanford University School of Medicine
- MPH, Epidemiology & Biostatistics - University of California, Berkeley
- Internal Medicine Residency - University of California, San Francisco
- General Medicine Research Fellowship - University of California, San Francisco
Appointments & leadership
- Founding Medical Director and Endowed Professor - UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
- Past Chairman of the Board - Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine
- Founder - BlueWave Medicine, San Francisco
"Traditional healthcare doesn't practice prevention. It practices early disease detection. Those are not the same thing."Dr. Brad Jacobs, MD, MPH, ABOIM
Published, peer-reviewed, and on the record
Dr. Jacobs has spent his career testing what works - and publishing what doesn't.
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The ACP Evidence-Based Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Integrative Medicine, 5th Edition
What this means for how EverSpan Life works
Evidence before enthusiasm
Dr. Jacobs co-authored the American College of Physicians evidence guide to complementary and alternative therapies, graded with the same system the World Health Organization and Cochrane use. He has also published trials showing that some of the best-selling supplements in America performed no better than placebo. That standard shapes how your care team decides what belongs in your plan - and what comes out of it.
Remote care, held to clinical standards
In 2005 Dr. Jacobs led one of the first randomized controlled trials conducted entirely online: 391 participants across 45 states, recruited, consented, randomized and measured at a distance. Rigorous care delivered remotely is not new territory for him. He helped prove it was possible.
Two decades inside the system
As founding medical director of UCSF's Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Jacobs built a proactive practice inside a major academic medical center. He knows precisely where a reimbursement-driven model stops paying attention. That is where an EverSpan Life membership begins.
A conversation with Dr. Jacobs
Precision integrative medicine. I look at the whole person and the whole dataset, then I go where the evidence leads - whether that points to a prescription, a change in how someone sleeps, or telling them plainly that no supplement is going to fix a life they haven't changed.
Fasting insulin. Testosterone trajectory over time, not a single reading. Triglyceride-to-HDL ratio. High-sensitivity CRP. Sleep quality. Heart rate variability. VO2 max. None of these is exotic. Almost none of them is routinely ordered because the reimbursement model is built to detect disease that has already arrived, not to watch the direction someone is heading.
In 2005 my colleagues and I ran a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of kava and valerian - two of the best-selling supplements in the country - with 391 participants across 45 states. Neither performed better than placebo. Published research tells you what tends to be true across a population. It can't tell you what's true for you. That's the whole argument for measuring first and deciding second, with someone qualified reading the results alongside you.
I run a concierge practice in San Francisco. Most people will never walk through that door - not because the medicine is complicated, but because of geography and cost. The biology doesn't care where you live or what you earn. The opportunity to catch something early is the same. Access never has been. EverSpan Life is built to close that gap, and I'd rather help build the thing that reaches people than keep seeing the few who can reach me.
"Health is not only the absence of disease. It is about vitality, well-being, finding joy and achieving your full potential."
- Dr. Brad JacobsProactive health, managed.
An ongoing clinical relationship with a licensed care team, actively managing your health.