Functional & Nutritional Medicine

The Metabolic Syndrome
The medical journal Diabetes Care in 2004 stated, “Individuals in the upper normal-weight and slightly overweight BMI range (i.e. BMI of 24-27) have a relatively high prevalence and are at increased risk of having the metabolic syndrome. Therefore, screening in individuals with normal or slightly elevated BMI is important in the prevention of [...]

Lifestyle Treatment for Metabolic Syndrome
The Metabolic Syndrome consists of having any 3 out of these 5 criteria:

elevated blood sugar greater than 100 mg/dl),
blood pressure >130/85),
triglycerides >150 mg/dl),
waist circumference over 40 inches for men and 35 inches for women measured at the level of the belly button
low LDL below 40 mg/dl for men [...]

The FDA has just approved the first new weight loss drug in 13 years called Belviq (lorcaserin). This is essentially a “new and improved” version of Fen-Phen pulled by the FDA in 1997 due to heart valve problems. On the same day this week of the new drug’s approval, a recommendation against using diet [...]

Does your weight loss plan prevent you from loosing muscle as you lose weight? Did you know that muscle loss begins around age 40? After age 50, there is an average half-pound muscle loss and a 1-lb. fat gain per year. This means that for the average person by age 70, they will have lost [...]

Could weight loss problems be in the gut? Not fat cells, but excess amounts of the wrong kind of intestinal bacteria. Compelling medical research indicates that with changes in the surface structure of intestinal cells, the normally harmless gut bacteria tend to over flourish and expand in number. This causes inflammation in the gut which [...]