We specialize in health restoration, improvement, and optimization… through a broad-based, multi-faceted protocol to improve your health and enable you to achieve optimum wellness. In other words, we find non-drug solutions for your health concerns intended to provide you with relief, in a way that offers many advantages.
Quite simply, we help your body restore itself biochemically to be functionally tuned, balanced, and energetic, so you feel more alive, vital, and ready for success. Optimum health enables you to concentrate on pleasant activities and being happy.
In short, to do this we
CLEAN-REPAIR-BALANCE-RESTORE-REBUILD-OPTIMIZE-EDUCATE,
all to empower you with the path to permanent wellness.
The long version of saying this is more complicated…
We do this, in part, by emphasizing alternatives mentioned below, which are designed to facilitate and maintain cellular health, promote and aid function of cell membranes and membrane permeability, support proper functioning of many enzyme (biochemical) reactions, assist in growth (cell division), control and participate in system signaling, act as spark plugs in energy production, function as barriers to protect against degeneration, become part of cofactors, function as essential components of DNA and RNA, provide antioxidant protection from damaging free radicals, support specific cell metabolism and physiological functions, serve as building blocks for hormones, promote a healthy, full matrix which hinders aging, vitalize those processes that are not up to par, act as catalysts for health, help to encourage blood flow, provide structural nutrients that aid in repair, facilitate healing, and overall, balance and stabilize body fluids—the internal terrain or “milieu intérieur.”
We are experts in the science, art, and ongoing research in natural healing and in health renewal. By healing, we mean the process of recovery, repair, reintegration, and a return to wholeness. By renewal, we mean restoration to freshness, vigor, and perfection.
Many people say our approach is refreshingly different: first, we are evidence-based and much more scientific; second, our familiarity with conventional (“allopathic”) medicine allows us to be impressively more effective in helping you achieve your goals; third, we are thoroughly modern and state-of-the-art, bringing natural, alternative approaches right up to 2011.
What is the basis for our approach? (Please also see What Do We Actually Do?)
We are concerned with the functional relationships between messenger molecules within cells, between cells, and how the individual tissues and organs of the body “speak” to each other. Most people think of this as a balance, or harmony, between parts of the body. Some of the components of this are illustrated below. While most body disturbances have a dominant “cause”, most involve many organs and systems. In general, it is best to correct all the causes that contribute for maximum effectiveness.
Because of these complex interrelationships, when people ask “how do you do what you do,” it is virtually impossible to answer without a long dissertation about how the body functions. Similarly for “what is the basis?” or “what do you rely on? The answers to these questions would take textbooks and cannot really be answered in a sentence. What we can tell you is that it is scientifically-based and designed to produce results, ie, make you feel the difference! For further information, please click on the tab above “OUR SERVICES” and the first several categories on the drop-down menu. Also be sure to read “What People Say” by click on the tab: ”Our Qualifications” above as well.
What else do we do for you?
(i) We give superb, up-to-date, evidence-based, personal, naturopathic advice regarding the use of dietary ingredients and whole food. And also, state of the art information about a large group of agents and substances regarded as dietary supplements (see below for list).
(ii) We provide valuable professional, practical specific, and essential guidance about choices concerning the many aspects of lifestyle and self-care that impact upon health. There are many components to “lifestyle”. Our purpose is to optimize nonmedical aspects of things you can do to restore and enhance health and well being.
(iii) We furnish information, both verbal face-to-face, and written, that will assist you in finding ways to solve your health issues, and take it from its scientific basis to things you can do that are practical, effective, and useful. As part of our responsibility in rendering such advice, we are extremely concerned with food/herb/nutrition/drug interactions, depletions, and other effects.
(iv) We have an extraordinary understanding of conventional medicine because of past experience in research, clinics, and through books and professional articles we have written. This gives us a unique advantage in assisting you. It enables us to provide you with a deep, panoramic view of your health issues, focusing on the causes and solutions.
“Time after time we have rushed back to nature’s cupboard for (solutions) to illnesses…” (United Nations, as it declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity)
Who finds our services uniquely beneficial?
The Vitruvian Man: Balance and symmetry in health can produce extraordinary results from several core principles.
We seek novel approaches to ill health, helping people who (a) prefer natural alternatives because they are intolerant, allergic, or do not wish to take prescription drugs; (b) continue to suffer with poor health; (c) wish to protect or lower risk for particular health issues using lifestyle changes; (d) want to attain a higher level of health and functioning by achieving optimum health—beyond the absence of illness; (e) have had unsatisfactory experiences in the past, and seek a synthesized approach to their health. We are known for customization and fusion of refreshingly innovative, powerful, and sophisticated nutritional and other methods that produce results. Our track record is good: a considerable number of the people who follow our suggestions are pleased with the approach in relation to what they came for (2005-2010 records). Of course, every situation is different.
Some of our tools…
Among our varied services, we help find drug-free, natural, alternatives for health support using nutrition, vitamins, minerals, supplements, amino acids, non-prescription biologicals, special formulas, herbs (American, Chinese, Ayurvedic, Indian, African, Tibetan, Island, South Pacific), natural extracts (liquid, solid, fermented, distilled, centrifuged, and/or purified), glycerites and tinctures, receptor sensitizers, bio-energizers, molecular mimics, homeopathic remedies, anti-oxidants and botanical anti-inflammatories, vitamin-like natural biochemicals, physical substances, organic food/substrate molecules, nutraceuticals, functional foods, derivatives of naturally-occurring minerals, capsules, OTC hormones, biologicals, receptor sensitizers, receptor agonists and blockers, metabolic modulators, anti-mitotic agents, “special meals”, teas, salves, essential oils, syrups, elixirs, suppositories, unique preparations, lifestyle modification, exercise, meditation, guided imagery, breathing training, wellness coaching, and other methods. There are over 800 powerful remedies we consider immediately to help you available in the office to help you, and over 29,000 preparations we can access to support your health and promote wellness. All fall under the purview of the DSHEA Act. (Contrast this with about 400 drugs in the average pharmacy, 1500 in the PDR Monthly Prescribing Guide, and 5000 accessible.)
Our dedication and commitment to natural healing with quality alternatives you can believe in, its components and tools, involves several different services.
We have three missions: service, education, and research. Our service, for which you need to come in, helps restore your health. Our health information (bioinformatics) provides you with up to date and useful guidance and advice so you are an active participant. Our research seeks to better understand the basics of illness based upon the fundamental sciences of natural healing: biochemistry, physiology, nutrition, and the botanical and physical sciences.
What do we do for you after your immediate health goals are achieved?
It can all be summed up very simply: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We provide both the path and the means to follow that path.
Who may consider health management?
By “management” we do not mean medical management of disease. We are referring to health management, for what you eat and do affects how you think, act, feel, and thrive—in the main, your personal choices. We are referring to what you can do yourself to assist your level of health, and what we do to help you get there.
- People who continue to experience nagging problems even though they are taking medications and/or nutrients from other sources;
- People who do not understand why they are taking the things they are, or who have doubts;
- People who take a number of agents, and are concerned about interactions, depletions, and side effects;
- People seeking a higher level of health to attain peak physical and mental performance;
- People who have been told “there is nothing wrong with you” after many consultations and tests;
- People who have been told “there is nothing more that can be done for you.”
- People who have questions or are confused about their health and seek a different answer or solution.
- People who are starting on a new road in life with more personal involvement in their health, and want some direction.
We do not just “diagnose” disease.
Rather, we evaluate the entire person’s habits, the individual, and take action to relieve their health problems in innovative and noninvasive ways. We analyze the whole health picture through a directed protocol, and provide a definite plan to adjust one’s non-medical profile to restore, renew, and maintain health and happiness in people’s lives. In our analysis, we consider the possible functional relationships between nutrients, lifestyle, and organ systems, and look for the fundamental defects causing health problems. The Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, American Diabetes Association, American Medical Association, American Heart Association, American Society of Nutrition, American Dietetic Association, divisions of the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention have all acknowledged that diet and nutrition, lifestyle, stress, activity level, and other habits are strong weapons against disease, and help prevent up to 80% of all chronic illnesses that plague and kill Americans daily. Because of this traditional and universal agreement in the value of such support, whatever your situation, we most likely can enhance your level of health. The kind you can feel.
Plainly put, what we seek in you is lifelong health and vitality, rooted in the newly popular fields of naturopathy embodied by functional biology. In this model, health problems are handled not by treating the symptoms, but by balancing the seven basic underlying biological processes that control your health. We identify imbalances in those core processes, and then help rebalance them by giving you the necessary raw material to do so, in a sense allowing your body’s natural wisdom to heal.
We also provide you with highly-researched, practical information to guide you in your choice of: the foods you eat, nutritional supplements, health remedies, and new alternatives you never knew you had. We empower you with what you need to pave new directions in wellness. Third-party research and journalistic reviews are also provided on general health topics.
Our nutritional practices use mainstream nutritional techniques with alternative ones blended in—“integrative nutrition”, if you will. This has also been call pharmaconutrition, or targeted pharmacological nutraceutical intervention. Although some people use the term “alternative”, in most respects it is inaccurate. Rather than “alternative”, we believe this area is really a selectively neglected area of basic medical research that accidentally resulted from the way health care has evolved in this country, certainly not by design or planning. Indeed, the voluminous research that underpins evidence-based “targeted nutrition” fills the basic science journals in medical school physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, nutrition, immunology, oncology, and subspecialty journals. Indeed, it is as basic as is physiology.
We use only the finest quality, pure, pharmaceutical-grade preparations, and methods backed by science. Upon request, references to the basic science and clinical literature about any recommendation we make will be provided.
To us and to you, health is not simply the absence of disease…
Health is a state beyond the absence of illness, and most times we go even further, seeking to achieve optimum health in our clients, mentally, physically, and spiritually. This means peak mental clarity and thinking, strength, endurance, ideal body weight and composition, high self-esteem, self-image, confidence, and happiness.
Almost without exception our clients have had conventional medical treatment, and we include that experience in our evaluation. The details of your health history and possibilities are reviewed during a long personal visit. After our intake, the research on the latest alternative options is presented to you and discussed. We take your input seriously; work with you as an individual, with respect and empathy, to solve your health problem. Your program is always individualized, since it has to work for you. In other words, we are health enhancement consultants.
Typically the person who visits us seeks a natural, holistic approach to health and prevention, with a wide range of chronic problems, and wants results.
We address a wide spectrum of health issues. But we also hear about the unresolved nagging ones, such as fatigue, lack of energy, not feeling up to par, foggy thinking, vague discomfort, disability, infirmity, poor sleep, restlessness, increase or decrease in weight, moodiness, depression, confusion, indecisiveness, lack of strength or endurance, poor concentration, memory or focus, misery, indifference, weight gain, and lack of progress or dissatisfaction with their present health program, concern about menopause, aging-and more.
Most people who visit us are pleased with the fresh approach we offer, and they are delighted with the unique choices and pathways they can select and follow to restore their health, enjoying steady improvement day after day, with virtually no side effects. We are thorough, attentive, detailed, and effective in providing health solutions. Our consultations are in down-to-Earth language you can understand, and our protocols are evidence-based and state-of-the-art.
Please read more about our principles and philosophy by clicking on the first tab above. Then read more about what we do by clicking on the second, and also what people say about their experience with us. Additional health information can be found in other areas. Enjoy our collection of links with an array of tools and resources, and check our section on current health headlines and issues frequently. Best of all, call for an appointment and experience first-hand why our clients are so glad they came. We provide first-class, boutique service, and take the time to get results.
There may be several pathways to wellness, but we know the fastest road.
What we produce…
- A full report giving total body fat, water, muscle, bone, visceral fat index, physique rating, resting metabolic rate, and daily metabolic rate;
- Report of your BMI (body mass index), significance, and path to improvement;
- Report of probability of nutritional deficiencies and the best of the foods and alternatives to correct them;
- A functional analysis of how your body systems relate to each other, and the fundamental defects responsible for health problems; with a discussion you appreciate;
- A comprehensive assessment of your entire health picture;
- Choices of plans to help restore and maintain optimum health and performance;
- A chart of all your health tools and plans, with suggestions and agreed upon path to optimum health;
- Health advocacy in coordinating any allopathic and natural approaches, eliminating possible interactions, depletions, side effects, and unwanted results; meaningful reviews of records with regard to same;
- Remarkably prompt follow-up and guidance through e-mails, messaging, fax, or phone calls, for questions, references, elaborations…
- Return visit for comprehensive evaluation of progress, resolution of remaining issues, and further refinements to achieve your final results.
Hippocrates (460 BC-377 BC), the Father of Medicine, said: Nature is the [true] curer of disease…
What we do in this office is help nature, according to Hippocrates. You are cordially invited to browse further under the tab, OUR SERVICES. There is a very complete discussion, under WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES? which presents various views and different ways of looking at health optimization, health support, and health care.
