Busy But Fit with Brandee Waite
Week of August 23, 2025
Tales from the Outdoor Adventure Medical Tent: Brandee Waite, MD shares humorous and harrowing medical tent stories from the world of outdoor adventure: a 7-day, 150-mile trekking/running race across the desert in Egypt, mountains in Nepal, Australian outback, glaciers of Antarctica and other extreme locations. Includes many pictures of scenic, majestic sites.
Tired and Busy But Fit: Hacks for Health and Physical Function After 40: Want to exercise but don’t have the time? Have time to exercise but hard to motivate yourself to do a workout? Wonder why your body is changing in mid-life? Dr. Brandee shares exercise hacks and strategies while explaining the science behind how your body changes as you age.
An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away in 2025: Eating and Exercising Your Way out of Medical Problems: Wondering how to use food and exercise as medicine? Hoping to extend your “healthspan” not just your lifespan? Many common medical conditions can be reduced, reversed or avoided all together with evidence-based eating and exercise strategies. Brandee Waite, MD shares medical studies on the exciting and emerging science of food and exercise as medicine.
Ask Me Anything about Sports Medicine, Joint Health and Lifestyle Medicine: Far from a dry science lecture, audience participation drives the fun as Dr. Brandee Waite, physician and professor, allows you to pick her brain to incorporate your inquiries into the fabric of the session. Triple-board certified in Sports Medicine, Neuro Rehabilitation and Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Brandee will give a short introduction to Sports Medicine and anatomy before digging into both standard and cutting edge treatments for joint and muscle problems.
Brandee L. Waite, M.D., is a sports medicine physician who strives to keep her patients active. She has been a medical director for over 20 marathons and ultra-marathons over the past 15 years. With a dynamic personality, Dr. Waite has a passion for educating her patients, other physicians and the public about relevant sports medicine topics. She has served as a team physician for the U.S. national track and field program, the Sacramento Kings (NBA) as well as the Sacramento Ballet and now works with professional soccer and Division I NCAA teams. Dr. Waite currently sees patients and teaches medical students and residents at the University of California, Davis. Her educational pedigree is impressive, having received her medical training at Stanford, UC San Francisco and Johns Hopkins. However, she credits her pre-medical years as a fitness instructor at Rancho La Puerta in the 1990’s with shaping the inclusion of sports and fitness into her medical practice.