You are what you eat and most Americans eat garbage. Most Americans are over-weight and under nourished. If this is the case how could anyone expect for their body to heal normally when you have a chronic injury.

Not only will having the right nutrients in your body decrease your pain, it will also help in all other parts of your body as well such as: slowing the aging process, decreasing your risk of a heart attack, stroke or getting cancer.

With nutrition and a healthy life style I like to think of it as growing plants in a garden. In your garden you will need plants, good quality soil and fertilizer to make your plants grow and thrive. Each of those serves a vital role in the plants ability to grow, but not one is more important than the other.

Think of the plants as having a complete balanced healthy diet; this is the most important part of what you put in your body. The soil is vital to the plant as well and this will be the same as proper nutritional supplements; supplements only ‘supplement’ a healthy diet, it will never replace it. The fertilizer is the icing on the cake, it is what makes the garden really flourish; this is what balanced hormones will do to your body. Teenagers grow like weeds, because they have a lot of hormones flowing through them and having proper balanced levels of hormones is equally important in your body as well. Obviously not at the same levels but higher balanced levels are good for most people.

There are some people who may think getting your all of your nutrients from your food is easy, but it’s not. In 1936 the senate document 264 stated that 95% of Americans were deficient in at least one major mineral for proper body function. If they were having that much of an issue in 1936, then today it is much, much worse. One article stated that it would take approximately two dozen apples today to equal one apple in the 1920’s with respect to certain mineral content. Processed food today will also leach your body of healthy minerals as well.

This is why supplementing your diet is very important. However, supplementing with pharmaceutical grade supplements is what you need to do. Over the counter (OTC) vitamins that you can pick up without a prescription or out of a doctor’s office will only be “Food Grade” which means it’s only 10% pure. Pharmaceutical grade is 99% pure, because it has to be manufactured to a different standard. Regular vitamins are also not regulated by any industry, and thus use poor ingredients and make a poor product. Name brand ones that you see like centrum, one a day, etc, spend all their money on marketing and very little on product development or ingredients. Pharmaceutical grade vitamins and herbs are regulated and contain the best ingredients and make a higher quality product because of the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and FDA regulation. They will also spend extra on third party testing to make sure they deliver what’s on the label.

Why is this important? Well, first of all you want to make sure you get what you paid for. Second, the product is made of purer ingredients and will be more biologically available in your system.

Why are hormones important? Well, without them you be dead. They are responsible for many vital functions and as you age, eat processed foods and put under stress your body will be depleted of them. Hormones have had negative press because of the cancer scare, but that was only with synthetic hormones. Our office will use plant and herb based “bio-identical” hormones that have the same natural structure as the ones in your body. This is very safe and has little negative effect, especially if administered by a physician.

With pain relief things can be as simple as just decreasing inflammation and it can get very complex with issues such as: acid reflux, auto-immune disorders, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, heavy metal toxicity, insomnia, IBS, thyroid problems, etc.

With all cases we run through a system of checks and balances where we start with:

1. Patient questionnaire that can be found in our “patient forms” section called the “health questionnaire.” This saves us about an hour in the office and thus reduces your office visit fee.
2. A whole body nutritional scan on a piece of equipment. This will test you to see which products are more bio-available. It will also test for different nutritional deficiencies.
3. A review of any recent lab work (blood or hormone). We use the functional medicine model for evaluating your health problems. This uses different ranges than conventional medicine. In conventional medicine, your doctor will wait until you get diabetes before beginning treatment. In the functional medicine model, it begins once you’re out of the optimal range. We also look for specific patterns in the test and inform the patient what options they have using: diet, exercise, nutricuticals and herbs.
4. Muscle response testing/Applied Kinesiology: This is another method of assessing what kind of nutrition the body needs. It is based on energy medicine and it is definitely considered “out of the box” care. By integrating forms of Western, Eastern and Holistic methods in the evaluation process we can get a clearer picture of what is going on in the body.

Fix the cause, not the symptom.

We don’t just rely on symptoms nor do we only use lab tests. Lab tests are great, but can add up over time and who wants to get a blood test every 15 to 30 days to evaluate your progress.

This process sounds expensive, but this full evaluation will only cost approximately $100 for this complete evaluation.

Here is a more detailed explanation of muscle response testing:

Hundreds of miles of nerves carry electrical energy and connect with every organ, gland, muscle and tissue. There are approximately 75 known reflex areas on the skin which represent various organs, glands and bone structures. When the body becomes ill there is an interruption of nerve energy to these reflexes. The reflex, when tested, will act similar to a circuit breaker under an overload.

To test a bio-electrical reflex, the Muscle Response Testing or Applied Kinesiology practitioner will use the subject’s arm muscle (or any other muscle) as a “circuit” indicator. When the practitioner’s fingertip comes near or touches a healthy reflex, the arm muscle will remain very strong. Nerve energy is flowing freely. The practitioner will not be able to push the person’s arm down without exerting significant force.

If the deltoid muscle spontaneously fails, and the practitioner can easily push the subject’s arm down, a “hot circuit breaker” has been located. The bio-electrical nerve energy has been interrupted. There is either an excess or deficiency of electrical nerve impulses flowing to the test muscle. Using this bio-feedback information, the practitioner will know if the problem is structural, physical or nutritional.

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