The Importance of Optimal Nutrition

Your food choices each day affect your health and how you feel today, tomorrow and in the future. Optimal nutrition is vital for your body and all of its systems to function properly and to heal itself. Unfortunately, unhealthy eating habits have contributed to the obesity epidemic in the United States: about one-third of U.S. adults (33.8%) are obese and approximately 17% (or 12.5 million) of children and adolescents aged 2-19 years are obese. Even for people at a healthy weight, a poor diet is associated with major health risks that can cause illness and death that includes heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis and certain types of cancers. Due to the fast paced world we live in, many consumers feel it is easier to visit fast food chains than to shop and cook. Our bodies were not created to run off processed foods and this new diet of convenience is posing a serious threat to our health.

Evaluating Optimal Nutrition

When optimizing nutrition there are four tests that our doctors utilize to personalize a nutrition and diet plan specifically for you. These tests include: the Genetic and Comprehensive Organix Test to learn how your genes are affecting the way your body is processing the food and nutrition you are consuming; the Food Sensitivity Panel to determine which specific foods are compromising your immune system; and the Wellness Panel to evaluate how your diet and nutrition has affected your body to this point (such as the liver, kidneys and hormone function). These are the main tests when optimizing nutrition from a wellness point of view. There are other tests such as a Stool Analysis, Micronutrient Test, Methylation and many others that help our doctors maximize nutrition for specific cases. These are determined during a proper examination.

Implementing Optimal Nutrition

When implementing lifestyle change in nutrition and diet, our doctors start with whole foods first. They do this by taking you through a 30-day program based on a healthy organic whole foods diet that consists of a variety of fruits, veggies, organic hormone free meats, nuts/seeds and eggs, along with basic nutrition that includes Vitamin D, Fish Oils and Probiotics. After 30 days our doctors implement support nutrition, if needed, based off laboratory findings.