What Do We Actually Do?

Visiting our office…

We take a careful health history, system by system. Searching for the factors behind the development of your presenting problems, what modified them, and its natural history, we gain insight into your individual constitution.

We analyze your responses to past and current nutrients and supplements for quality issues, and medications for interactions in great detail.  Dietary, nutritional, and environmental history is emphasized, as are social and relationship histories and emotional/stress factors.  We look for mind-body connections in the development of your illness(es).

• Together with bioscientific knowledge of the problem, we construct a framework of the fundamental processes that brought about your problems. Functional changes within and  between organs (improper signaling), the contribution of such things as inflammation, oxidation (biological rusting), allergy, immune system status, glycation (due to sugar), deficiencies, interactions, and depletions of nutrients, hormonal imbalance (glandular sluggishness), toxicity, digestive malfunction (dysbiosis), organ malfunction, food sensitivity, harmful effects of stress, cancer risk, consequences of impure water and air, and balances between parts of the (autonomic) nervous system are the types of processes we consider. We think in terms of biomarkers for inflammation, clotting (thrombogenicity), tissue (heart, brain, kidney) injury, cell mutation, oxidative stress, and risk. This assessment is made in terms of providing support for those systems, and promoting healthy transition.  We blend old and new concepts in visualizing the factors pertinent to your health problems.
• Metabolic typing
  Your nutritional status is evaluated. This includes an assessment of all dietary needs–vitamins and supplements, but particularly phytonutrients that are not ordinarily classified in these categories.
• With your input, our next step is formulation of goals, and the actions required by the various nutrients, herbs, formulas and other preparations at our disposal to allow you to regain your health and wellness.
• We then present you with the possibilities, the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches about how supplements can help you. You actively and fully participate in the decision of what path to take to restore optimum health. At every step, we consider depletions, and potential interactions of  foods, prescription drugs, herbs, and/or supplements.
• We assist in choosing the products with potential to help you. This is an important step, for there are many preparations available to achieve a particular purpose, each differing in contents, quality, purity, concentrations of ingredients, procedures used in making the product, particle size, shape and form, inactive ingredients, and other factors related to chemistry, such as acidity. Low quality supplements usually do not contain what they state they have, are not be available to the body, or are not be absorbed, due to low bioavailability. There is just no sense in using an inferior product for any health-related matter. There is also the question of delivery of the product, its taste, etc.  All these are considered and personalized for you when we see you.
• We then monitor your progress through telephone, e-mail, and office visit contact.  Follow-up visits are just as a necessary when using alternative methods as they are in conventional medicine, since adjustments may be needed.
• Your nutritional status must be monitored, since each person is different in their responses. We are results-oriented, and want you to be well in as short a period as possible.

In conclusion, we help you find natural alternative to support your health and promote wellness. We function as scientists performing health consultations and wellness management. Because of the value we place in providing evidence-based education, we are also biomedical informacists. We artfully blend modern, cutting-edge methods of evaluation and management with natural, ancient, and traditional methods.  We use a paradigm that is founded on a rational balance of tradition, science, and respect for Nature’s accomplishments in the total realm of the universe.

In biology, which includes the human body, rarely does one single mechanism control a function or outcome. Rather, there are multiple, interrelated forces that control a function, a system of checks and balances.

In health science,  blocking a specific enzyme to stop a chemical reaction that is “causative” may produce a desired result. Even there, different agents may act at different steps along a problem pathway. When several forces that control a function are attacked, the results are likely to be much more effective.

For this reason, our approach is multimechanistic, modifying several different levels simultaneously. The value of adding directed dietary products, changing nutritional intake, and other lifestyle adjustments together is likely to be more effective than making adjustments in just one alone. In a recent Policy Statement On Healthcare Reform, Its implementation, and Future Innovations, May 28, 2009: National Conference of Pharmaceutical Organizations; 2009, one of the main recommendations was that “behaviors that promote health and wellness should be encouraged.”

For these many reasons, we like to say, if you seek improved health but are not getting results, see us.

Goals

Our programs are designed to support and help you achieve these goals:

• Strengthen the immune system
• Restore energy and reduce fatigue
• Decrease inflammation
• Improve endurance and performance
• Insure mental sharpness and memory
• Reverse chronic disease processes
• Promote recovery from illness and surgery
• Normalize body weight and keep it there
• Relieve muscle and joint pain
• Prevent degeneration of body systems
• Eliminate toxins from the body
• Slow processes which lead to aging
• Balance relationships between the glands
• Relieve depression and moodiness
• Increase amount of restoring, quality sleep
• Restore sex drive and potency
• Minimize allergic processes and symptoms
• Strengthen bones, teeth, nails and hair
• Maximize feelings of well-being and vitality

The purpose of all this is to enable you to enjoy life more, be less stressed and more productive, a better companion to your loved ones and friends, and be happy.

Examples of what we do

The following examples will give an idea how we approach helping people.

A 33 year-old young woman came because of abdominal cramps and gas, which had not improved despite conventional treatment. She believed there was an herbal solution to her difficulties. Eighteen months before, she had been exposed to Giardia, a parasite that lives in the intestine.  Although she completed two courses of therapy, she still was suffering and the parasite had not been eradicated. We some extensive nonprescription changes in a formal schedule, but in addition we believed her children and husband were also infected with the parasite, and that they had been re-infecting her repeatedly.  This possibility had been overlooked.  She was referred back to her pediatrician, tests were done on her children, and the parasite was identified in their stool.  After the entire family, including the dog, was treated, improvement followed.

A retired flight engineer suffered with a rash and high blood sugar, and preferred a natural way of handling his health problems. He was taking high doses of diabetes medication, and did not want to progress to using insulin injections.  He also had a rash which he was told was due to an immune problem. We used unique, novel, but effective techniques to improve a number of health habits. 

After three weeks, he noted general improvements in well-being, began to be independent, reported he was stronger, and able to enjoy his life instead of fearing it.  

A middle-aged man reported a history of heart attack, diabetes, prostate trouble, insomnia, and being overweight…

 He was already taking some supplements, and these were adjusted to better suit his needs. His diet record over several months was reviewed, and suggestions were made on a weekly basis to improve the quality and amount of food eaten. Over the course of 5 months, he lost 30 pounds, his blood sugar and cholesterol values were down, and an index of his body’s inflammation was low. He felt more energetic, in better spirits, and went on to expand his business electronically, giving himself more time to enjoy life.

A young schoolteacher had disabling pain in her abdomen, and was treated twice, without success, for stomach infection with H. pylori by her physicians. She also tested positive for “Candida” at an alternative practitioner’s office.  Her diet and supplements were changed drastically, and in four months.  She was greatly relieved and went on to work on improving her health even more.

A woman sought assistance with her elevation in cholesterol and triglycerides, having been told she had high blood pressure and atherosclerosis of her carotid artery. She could not tolerate statin drugs, having suffered muscle pain each time she tried. An alternate prescription drug was suggested, later prescribed by her PCP, and a nutritional/lifestyle, natural program was designed to help her. One year later, she felt more confident and physically stronger. Although we simply provided support, it just happened that a repeat evaluation at her cardiologist’s office showed remarkable improvement in her lipids, and the progression of her atherosclerosis had stopped. She wrote “I have to admit I was very surprised at the numbers. It hasn’t been that low in a long time.” Her cardiologist was also pleased.

Why You Should See Us

• We apply scientific and biological principles to nutrition and natural healing
• Evidence-based, effective, professional services, with heavy doses of common sense
• Down to earth consultations in language you can understand and apply
• Affordable
• We individually tailor and target nutritional and alternative healing to your complaints and needs
• We have the clinical background to fully understand and use the information available from your experiences with conventional medicine, putting it all together to help you
• Advanced and state-of-the-art protocols
• Attentive, thorough follow-up
• Specialty nutritional, herbal, homeopathic, and unique remedies of unparalleled quality and purity
• We become your health advocate and coach, to raise and balance your level of health in all respects
• Extensive educational materials, fact sheets, and research references available for clients
• If you are not achieving results with your present health care program, call us.

Additional questions and answers

What diseases do you “treat”?
We do not “treat” diseases, figuratively or literally — only people with health issues. The people we see and help have a wide range of health issues, and frequently are quite complex. For the most part, they have already been “diagnosed” by others, and have had numerous blood tests, special studies, x-rays, scans, and procedures.

We specialize in those who wish to get well now and be healthy in the future.  Generally, the most successful quality in those people is a readiness to invest some time and effort into achieving optimum health, a condition beyond the absence of disease, associated with happiness, peak performance physically, clean, crisp, thinking, an excellent memory, a high problem solving ability, and longevity.

We help the vast majority of health problems, and the potential list is long, so you can assume we will handle yours. However, if you have a special concern or wish to verify that yours is one we do consider and address, please contact us. To manage some problems comprehensively, we may refer you to affiliates for testing, or other practitioners for their opinions and expertise.

SPECIAL INFORMATION

For information about cancer and oncology nutrition, whole body metabolism and weight, special diets, and exercise prescriptions, please request our separate informative special materials available via telephone,  fax, or email.