We provide a personalized step-by-step program focused on treating the root causes of complex chronic conditions. We take a personalized approach rather than just suppressing isolated sets of symptoms, partnering with our clients to transform their lives and striving to achieve a stable wellness state through physical and mental health.
What is Functional Medicine
Functional Medicine is an approach to health care that focuses on identifying and addressing root causes of disease.
We consider the whole person rather than just isolated sets of symptoms.
Functional Medicine holds that disease is often caused by the interaction of lifestyle, environment, genetics, and other important factors.
Thus we take into consideration a client’s health history, family medical history, and the factors of their environment and lifestyle. We tailor a personalized treatment focused on solving the root causes of complex chronic diseases.
Functional Medicine offers individualized care based on evolving research in nutritional science, genomics, and epigenetics.
The goal is to use low-risk and effective interventions to positively modify molecular and cellular systems, resulting in a permanent solution that reverses the pathway of disease.
Functional Medicine can involve a number of tests, screenings, treatments, services, such as use of the latest advanced laboratory testing and other diagnostic techniques; vitamins and supplements; lifestyle factors, such as regular exercise, nutritional considerations, stress levels, sleep quality, stress management, and mindfulness.
We currently do not accept insurance or Medicare. However, we may provide you with a receipt for our services, which you may submit to your insurance for reimbursement.
Prior to your initial visit, our office will send you the information needed to securely login in our HIPAA complaint Portal, answer a questionnaire and complete specific forms, that includes a weekly log of your current diet.
As soon as our office receives your information, your initial visit will be scheduled.
Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, or “FDN” uses laboratory assessments to identify malfunctions and underlying conditions that are the root cause of many common health complaints such as chronic pain, fatigue and achy joints.
Diabetes is a disease that interferes with our body’s ability to properly process the food we eat to use as energy. Our pancreas, an organ near the stomach, produces the hormone insulin – a necessary hormone that helps transport glucose from food into our cells – to be used for energy.
A diabetic body makes little to no insulin at all or does not use insulin well. In either case, glucose then stays in our blood stream and cannot reach our cells – causing serious health complications including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, dental diseases, stroke, nerve damage, and lower extremity blood flow and nerve damage issues.
Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.
Diabetic heart disease can be Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), heart failure, and Diabetic Cardiomyopathy. Diabetes by itself puts you at risk for heart disease.
Other risk factors include family history of heart disease, carrying extra weight around the waist.
How can you tell if you have diabetes? Most early symptoms are from higher-than-normal levels of glucose – a kind of sugar – in your blood.
The warning signs can be so mild that you might not notice them at first, which is especially true of type 2 Diabetes.
Some people don’t find out they have it until they get problems from long term damage caused by the disease.
With type 1 Diabetes, the symptoms usually appear more quickly, in a matter of a few days or weeks. They are also much more severe.
A Health Coach is a master of habit change.
Our Health Coach program uses Functional Nutrition which uses food as a pathway to optimal health and wellbeing, and is the medicine you need to fight inflammation, make skin glow, balance hormones, heal the gut, and so much more.
Essence For Wellness coaching offers two programs to teach you how to integrate this philosophy into your life and provide you with the tools you need to achieve greater health, helping you to build health habits that align with how you want to feel every day.
Health and Wellness Coaches help clients make positive and lasting changes to their health.
The coach guides clients through the process of creating a vision for their health and well-being, developing a healthy mindset and healthy habits, and encouraging them every step of the way until they accomplish their goals.
A Wellness Coach is a professional who helps people assess their current physical and emotional state and helps them set goals for what they want to achieve in their overall wellness and health by working with them on plans of action to reach these goals.
Detoxification (detox for short) is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism, including the human body, which is mainly carried out by the liver.
A little science: toxic chemicals abound in the world today – they easily find their way into our body through the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink. We also ingest foreign chemicals when taking medicinal or illicit drugs, or when using alcohol or tobacco. Also, most of all the food system and sugar addiction is making us sick.
Although the body is designed to be self-cleaning and to excrete these toxins, it cannot always handle the overload present in today’s environment. Chemicals not excreted accumulate in our fat cells and cell membranes, becoming internal toxins.
When the body is under stress, it releases those toxic waste products from the fat to circulate in the bloodstream. These toxins can damage the protective intestinal lining, literally corroding the body from the inside out; making it a less effective filter for the good nutrients we might be bringing in.
The more it is damaged, the less effectively it absorbs nutrients, and the more toxins pass into the blood and lymph systems. This is why elimination is so important during a DETOX! We aim to eliminate toxins from the body to avoid toxic overload.
Detox diets are said to eliminate toxins from your body, improve health, and promote weight loss. They often involve the use of laxatives, diuretics, vitamins, minerals, teas, and other foods thought to have detoxing properties.
The term “toxin” in the context of detox diets is loosely defined. It typically includes pollutants, synthetic chemicals, heavy metals, and processed foods — which all negatively affect health.
However, popular detox diets rarely identify the specific toxins they aim to remove or the mechanism by which they supposedly eliminate them.
Withdrawing from caffeine and alcohol isn’t always easy, and you may feel bad withdrawing from some foods as well. This should go away in a few days, and you may decide to do without these things permanently.
Vitamins and Minerals are essential nutrients that the body needs in very small amounts to work properly.
As the name suggests, food supplements are only intended to ‘supplement’ people’s diets and not replace healthy foods.
Nutrition underpins good health, and a considerable body of research has highlighted links between inadequate intakes of vitamins and minerals and poor health.
Combining supplements will not normally interfere with the way they work and in some cases may be beneficial, for example Vitamin C helps iron absorption.
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