Functional & Nutritional Medicine

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Treatment for Metabolic Syndrome, a condition that may lead to heart disease and diabetes, can be simple and inexpensive or complicated and expensive. Metabolic syndrome is defined by five criteria, having any three of these criteria qualifies for the diagnosis:

elevated blood sugar (>100 mg/dl),
blood pressure (>130/85),
triglycerides (>150 mg/dl),
waist circumference (over 40 inches for men and [...]

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Decrease Risk of Diabetes
In this video Mark Hyman M.D. of the Institute of Functional Medicine, reviews some easy common sense steps to decrease risk of diabetes and pre-diabetes. Did you know that rye bread contains special fibers that decrease blood sugar? So rye bread can be thought of as a “medical food” to help people [...]

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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 [...]

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Many medical studies over the past decade recommend the Mediterranean diet for Metabolic Syndrome. The most authentic version of the Mediterranean Diet originally came from the island of Crete. It consists of beans and other legumes, nuts and seeds, vegetables and fruits, limited dairy such as low fat cottage cheese, yogurt, ricotta and mozzarella cheese, [...]