Weight, Metabolic & Cardiovascular Health

The goal is to achieve weight loss, maintain it, and live an enjoyable life without ongoing dieting. Creating that sustainability involves a change in physiology and behaviour.

Dieting alone has a high failure rate. Incorporating regular physical activity is crucial. Stress management is another vital factor, as stress affects biochemistry and behavior, potentially leading to emotional eating or unusual eating patterns.

Metabolism varies among individuals and can be changed. If you’re a person who has a slower metabolism, that needs to be acknowledged, and it needs to be changed.The goal is to speed it up. Through physical activity, we increase our metabolism and create larger muscle mass.

Certain individuals may be frustrated from trying to lose weight and think there’s a thyroid problem. Perhaps they’ve been to the doctor ran superficial testing for thyroid but didn’t find anything. However, the patient is still convinced that there’s a hormonal problem. They could be experiencing acne or hair loss, irregular menstrual cycles, heavy or crampy periods, extreme PMS, and PMDD symptoms. Here, we delve a little more deeply into your thyroid and hormones and do more extensive testing.

Diet and exercise are the two big movers. The problem for many people is that certain foods are driving up inflammation and adding to their hunger signals. Removing the most inflammatory foods sometimes helps—dairy, gluten, carbs, and sugar. There is a food sensitivity or food allergy test that can be done to see what foods exactly might be driving up inflammation.

Signs of inflammation include joint pain or muscle weakness, headaches, sinus problems, skin rashes, anything to do with digestion, bloating, gas, constipation and diarrhea.