Functional & Nutritional Medicine

The Metabolic Syndrome consists of having any 3 out of these 5 criteria: elevated blood sugar (>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) and low LDL (<40 mg/dl  for men , <50 mg/dl for [...]

Belly Fat and Weight Loss
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In this video on belly fat and weight loss, Dr. Oz covers many of the basic ideas we incorporate in our FirstLine Therapy lifestyle program for reducing risk for heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and weight loss. One of [...]

If you are looking for help with weight loss you may come across advertisements for “medical weight loss” or “medically  supervised weight loss”. If the website does not list the doctors name and background you might want to continue looking. If the website focuses on hormones and/or injections or diet pills promising quick results you [...]

“How Can i lose Weight?” Apparently this search term is popular on Google but I would like to reframe the question. Why not ask instead, “How can I be as healthy as possible for myself and my family?” Media messages and cultural pressure focus on an ideal body shape, especially for women. A current commercial [...]

<h2>Diet and Weight Loss</h2>
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 [...]