Our Specialty is… Poor Health

We specialize in consultations to

(i) give the best,  current, evidence-based, personal, professional advice regarding the use of dietary ingredients, whole food, and state-of-the art information about a large group of agents and substances regarded as dietary supplements (see below for list); 

(ii) evaluate and offer practical and valuable guidance about choices concerning the many aspects of  lifestyle and self-care that impact upon health. There are many components to “lifestyle”. The purpose of this assessment is to optimize nonmedical aspects of things you can do yourself to restore and enhance health and well being;  

(iii)  provide 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. The information provided is solely educational.

We seek solutions for health problems in novel ways, helping people who (a) prefer natural alternatives for health solutions 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 (2006-2010 records). Of course, every situation is different.

Among our varied services, we help find drug-free, natural solutions to health problems 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), 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, glycerites, capsules, OTC hormones, biologicals, receptor sensitizers, receptor agonists and blockers, 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 usually consider for immediate office use, and over 18,000 preparations we can access to help you. To place this in perspective, the average pharmacy contains 400 drugs, there are 1500 in the PDR Monthly Prescribing Guide, and 5000 are usually accessible.

Who may consider health management?

By “management” we do not mean medical management of disease. We are referring to what you can do yourself to assist your level of health. 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.

1. People who continue to experience nagging problems even though they are taking medications and/or nutrients;
2. People who do not understand why they are taking the things they are, or who have doubts;
3. People who take a number of agents, and are concerned about interactions, depletions, and side effects;
4. People seeking a higher level of health to attain peak physical and mental performance;
5. People who have been told “there is nothing wrong with you” after many consultations and tests;
6. People who have been told “there is nothing more that can be done for you.”
7. People who have questions or are confused about their health and seek definite answers and solutions.
8. People who are starting on a new road in life with more personal involvement in their health, and want some direction.

We do not 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.  Whatever your situation, we most likely can enhance your level of health.

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 which health problems are managed not by treating the symptoms, but by balancing the seven basic underlying biological processes that control your health. We seek imbalances in those core processes, and then correct the abnormalities that cause them by giving you the necessary raw material to restore balance, 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, the medicines you take, nutritional supplements, health remedies, and new choices/alternatives you never knew you had.

Our nutritional practice uses 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 medicine 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, health is not simply the absence of formal 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 deliberately 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, prevention, with a wide range of chronic problems, and wants results.

We provide consultations for many types of complaints. We also hear a lot 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. For these “nagging” issues, you should already have seen your personal physician for his/her opinion and treatment first.

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 commentary 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.

What we produce…

1. A full report giving total body fat, water, muscle, bone, visceral fat index, physique rating, resting metabolic rate, and daily metabolic rate;
2. Report of your BMI (body mass index), significance, and path to improvement;
3. Report of probability of nutritional deficiencies and the best of the foods and alternatives to correct them;
4. 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;
5. A comprehensive assessment of your entire health picture;
6. Choices of plans to help restore and maintain optimum health and performance;
7. A chart of all your health tools and plans, with suggestions and agreed upon path to optimum health;
8. 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;
9. Remarkably prompt follow-up and guidance through e-mails, messaging, fax, or phone calls, for questions, references, elaborations…
10. Return visit for comprehensive evaluation of progress, resolution of remaining issues, and further refinements to achieve your final results.