Functional & Nutritional Medicine

Have you heard people say “I’m tired of being on a diet”? When I hear this I say if you are not on a diet  then what are you on? If you think about it for a second, all of us are always on a diet even if we are not eating anything which would [...]

Many people including doctors don’t believe that people can keep weight off for the long term. A 20 year study has proven this to be wrong. Conducted through Brown University Medical School, the researchers have collected information from 10,000 people who have lost at least 30 pounds  and kept it off for one year to [...]

Recently, a local bariatric surgeon was quoted on the front page of the Arizona Daily Star saying, “no one can diet forever”. Later in the article he said his patients will be on a post surgical diet (presumably forever). Aside from this obvious contradiction, medical research does not support his first statement. This is exemplified [...]

Remember the old commercials: “it’s a breath mint, no it’s a candy mint” or “it tastes great, no it’s less filling”. These were false arguments because both statements are true. The same goes for our FirstLine Therapy program because it’s both a weight reduction program and a disease reduction program. Leading health organizations and medical [...]

Some medical weight loss clinics offer vitamin B-12 injections as part of their weight loss programs promising quick weight loss. However there are no credible medical studies that vitamin B-12 in any form, including vitamin B-12 injections, improves weight loss. Vitamin B-12 is a water-soluble B complex vitamin found naturally in a variety of foods, [...]