Chicago Direct Primary Care
Chicago Direct Primary Care is a direct-pay practice on West North Avenue, run by Muhammad Raza Aftab, MD, DABOM, board-certified in internal medicine and obesity medicine. Its Medicine 3.0 programme splits the year into four preventive visits covering heart, metabolic, cognitive, sexual and sleep health. VO₂ max, DEXA, resting metabolic rate and a glucose monitor are included yearly in the Prevention Pro plan.
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Muhammad Raza Aftab MD, DABOM
Published as a board-certified, Internal Medicine-trained physician who completed an additional board-certification in Obesity Medicine, and as recognized by the American Board of Obesity Medicine.
Published qualificationsStates he completed medical schooling at Punjab Medical College on a full scholarship, immigrated to the United States in 2016, completed Internal Medicine residency at Ascension Health Saint Joseph Hospital in Chicago, and then worked as an attending hospitalist at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park.
Care at Chicago Direct Primary Care
What people come here for, the kinds of care Chicago Direct Primary Care offers, and its specific tests and services.
What people come here for
Kinds of care
Tests and services
- Continuous glucose monitoring
- Tracks blood sugar response to food, sleep and stress in real time.
- DEXA scan
- Measures bone density, lean mass and visceral fat precisely.
- Full-body MRI
- Scans the whole body for tumors and abnormalities before symptoms.
- GLP-1 weight loss program
- Physician-supervised semaglutide/tirzepatide with monitoring.
- Genetic & genomic testing
- Reads DNA for inherited risk and drug response.
- Health & nutrition coaching
- Ongoing behavior, nutrition and training guidance.
- IV vitamin therapy
- Vitamin and fluid infusions marketed for energy and recovery.
- Immunizations & travel medicine
- Vaccines, boosters and travel-health prescriptions.
- Longevity membership
- Ongoing physician care with labs, reviews and a plan, billed annually/monthly.
- Metabolic rate testing
- Measures calories your body actually burns at rest.
- Multi-cancer early detection blood test
- Screens one blood draw for signals of 50+ cancers.
- Telehealth visits
- Care delivered by video with home lab draws.
- VO₂ max testing
- Measures cardiorespiratory fitness, the strongest exercise predictor of longevity.
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Practical information
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