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Doctor Supervised Weight Loss

YOU’VE TRIED EVERY
DIET PROGRAM OUT THERE,
AND THEN SOME.
YOU’VE LOST WEIGHT
AND FELT GOOD;
THEN, YOU GAINED IT ALL BACK
- PLUS SOME

Experience weight loss with a degree of difference…..

We’ve done it!
So can you.

 Medically Supervised   Weight Loss

Lose the weight. Never find it again.

We strongly believe that there is no "quick-fix", or a one-size-fits-all solution to weight loss. Each client is treated as an individual with a customized weight loss program; so no matter if your goal is to lose weight for cosmetic reasons or if you have health problems due to obesity, we can help you lose the weight and keep it off. Come see our difference, and the difference medically supervised weight loss can make.

Personalized Medically Supervised Weight Loss Programs

We offer comprehensive medical weight loss programs that are customized to your needs and goals. Each program is designed to help you safely and effectively lose the weight, and most important keep it off – come see our difference; we are unlike any commercial weight loss program out there.

1. Low Calorie Diet (LCD) Program

On this program you will be prescribed high quality medically balanced meal replacements. These nutritionally complete formulas allow us to accomplish 3 things:

1. Monitor exactly how much you are consuming in a given day
2. Provide you with the right amount of nutrition to enter into a fat burning state, while allowing you to maintain optimum health.
3. Help safely break and change your current unhealthy eating patterns

Additionally, the program includes one-on-one comprehensive lifestyle education as well as exercise and counseling to help you lose weight, improve your health, and develop new skills/habits necessary to manage your weight in the future.

2. Modified Calorie Diet Program

On this program you will be prescribed one (1) regular nutritiously balanced meal per day, and replace the rest of your meals with high quality medically balanced meal replacements.

A comprehensive one-on-one lifestyle education program, and exercise and counseling to help you lose weight, improve your health, and develop new skills/habits necessary to sustain your weight loss is also included.

3. Prescription Diet Program

On this program you will be prescribed an appetite suppressant medication to help curb your appetite and help you feel satisfied more quickly. Our doctors, will work with you one-on-one to determine appropriate dosage, as well as help you learn how to eat nutritiously balanced meals to help you burn fat.

And as with all of our programs, you will also receive one-on-one comprehensive lifestyle education as well as exercise and counseling to help you lose the weight, and most importantly keep it off.

Weight Loss with a Degree of Difference.

You’ve tried every diet program out there, and then some. You’ve lost weight and felt good; then, you gained it all back - plus some. When your body loses weight, it goes through numerous physiological and metabolic changes. Medically monitoring and addressing these changes as they occur, helps the body safely and successfully lose weight and keep it off.

In-Depth Medical Evaluation

Before a customized medically monitored weight loss program is created for you, you will undergo an in-depth medical evaluation. Our doctors, will perform the following:

1. A review of your overall health history
2. A review of all of the Medications and supplements that you may be taking to determine if they are preventing you from losing weight.
3. Conduct a comprehensive blood test to check for insulin resistance, thyroid function, and other factors.
4. A physical exam to check overall health.

Using this information, our doctor will create a program that will help you safely and effectively lose weight, and most importantly, keep it off.

Sound Medical Analysis

Our doctors will analyze various factors, including your basal metabolic rate (BMR) and your body’s composition of water, muscle, and fat to accurately predict the minimum amount of weight you will be able to safely lose over a specific period of time.

Safe and Effective Weight Loss

If we diet incorrectly, our body’s natural tendency is to burn muscle before it burns fat. This is why you gain back the weight after stopping a diet – muscle is instrumental in the fat burning process, and why improper dieting can be so unsafe.

Medically supervised weight loss is different. Our medical team will consistently monitor your body composition and will adjust your program accordingly. We will make sure that you are burning fat and not muscle. This monitoring will allow you to have an easier time keeping the weight off in the future.

Behavior Modification and One-on-One Support

Our doctors will work with you on a one-on-one basis to help you see the reason behind why your current nutritional habits are unhealthy and how they have affected you in the past. We will help you learn small modifications you can make to live a healthier lifestyle, and to help you maintain the weight loss you achieve. We are here for you every step of the way.


LipoTropic (Vitamin B12) Injections

Lipotropic nutrients are a class of agents that play important roles in the body's use of fat. These compounds enhance liver and gallbladder's role by decreasing fat deposits and speeding up metabolism of fat and its removal. A credible bariatric physician who has used it successfully for his patients over the past 30 years has perfected the natural ingredients of this formula.

Who are Lipotropic B12 Injections for?

Our doctors, now use this special formula for individuals who are "stuck" in their weight loss attempts and need that extra boost to achieve their goal weight. It can be effective in enhancing an additional 1 pound per week to your current program.

This injection has also been gratefully used for individuals who want to maintain their weight, or prevent re-gain of their lost weight.



hCG - Human Choriogonadotropin

hCG (Human Choriogonadotropin) is a hormone present in both men and women. It is produced in great amounts in the placenta of pregnant females to aid in the control of vital metabolic functions. In non-pregnant persons, and males, on-going research is suggesting that hCG similarly increases metabolism similar to a pregnant female by helping the body release calories stored in fat.

History of hCG Use For Weight Loss

The use of hCG for the medical managment of obesity is based on the extensive research completed in 1954 by world-renowed physician Dr. A.T.W. Simeons.

Dr. Simeons studied extensively and found that in addition to a specific diet, hCG can help safely speed up weight loss. hCG is believed to break down your abnormal body fat, causing you to lose inches. At the same time, it protects your body's good fat and muscle from depleting. That means that you can go on a low calorie food plan and lose weight without the typical problems such as muscle loss and sagging skin.

hCG is approved for treatments other than that for weight managment, and is therefore used Off-Label. Extensive research is on-going around the world with favorable findings.

Benefits of hCG during Weight Loss

On-going research is showing that hCG combined with a Medically Supervised Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD) can help:

* Increase loss of Fat during weight loss
* Decrease Irritability & weakness during weight loss
* Improvement in Sleep

Get your hCG Weight Loss Questions Answered

hCG is administered via injection. Give us a call at 03-78808486 to schedule a consultation. To watch a video presentation on hCG click here.

The Importance if Vitamin D, probably the most important vitamin in our body....

What is Vitamin D?

Vitamin D is important for good overall health and strong and healthy bones. It’s also an important factor in making sure your muscles, heart, lungs and brain work well and that your body can fight infection.

Your body can make its own vitamin D from sunlight. You can also get vitamin D from supplements and a very small amount comes from a few foods you eat.

The vitamin D that you get in your skin from sunlight, and the vitamin D from supplements, has to be changed by your body a number of times before it can be used. Once it’s ready, your body uses it to manage the amount of calcium in your blood, bones and gut and to help cells all over your body to communicate properly.

What does vitamin D do?

Vitamins are chemicals that are needed by your body for good health. They are vital for everyone and ensure that your body works well, is able to fight illness and heal well.

The link between vitamin D and strong healthy bones was made many years ago when doctors realized that sunlight, which allows you to produce vitamin D, or taking cod liver oil, which contains vitamin D, helped to prevent a bone condition called rickets in children. Today, vitamin D is seen as a vital part of good health and it’s important not just for the health of your bones. Recent research is now showing that vitamin D may be important in preventing and treating a number of serious long term health problems.

Getting the right amount of vitamin D doesn’t depend on the foods you eat! Instead, getting the right amount depends on sun exposure and if you take a supplement with the right amount.

Vitamin D isn’t like most other vitamins. Your body can make its own vitamin D when you expose your skin to sunlight. But your body can’t make other vitamins. You need to get other vitamins from the foods you eat. For example, you need to get vitamin C from fruits and vegetables.

Also what makes vitamin D unique compared to other vitamins, is that when  your body gets its vitamin D, it turns vitamin D into a hormone. This hormone is sometimes called “activated vitamin D” or “calcitriol.”

Getting the right amount of vitamin D doesn’t depend on the foods you eat. To get enough vitamin D you need to expose your skin to sunlight regularly and you may also need to take supplements. This makes getting the right amount a little more complex compared to other vitamins and minerals.

Vitamin D is very important for strong bones. Calcium and phosphorus are essential for developing the structure and strength of your bones, and you need vitamin D to absorb these minerals. Even if you eat foods that contain a lot of calcium and phosphorus, without enough vitamin D, you can’t absorb them into your body. Vitamin D is important for general good health, and researchers now are discovering that vitamin D may be important for many other reasons outside of good bone health. Some of the functions of the body that vitamin D helps with include:

Immune system, which helps you to fight infection

Muscle function

Cardiovascular function, for a healthy heart and circulation

Respiratory system –for healthy lungs and airways

Brain development

Anti-cancer effects

Doctors are still working to fully understand how vitamin D works within your body and how it affects your overall health.

If your body doesn’t get enough vitamin D to keep it healthy, this is called vitamin D deficiency. Severe vitamin D deficiency can sometimes cause a condition called rickets in children and a condition called osteomalacia in adults. Both of these conditions cause soft, thin, and brittle bones.

A lack of vitamin D has also been linked to some other conditions such as cancer, asthma, type-II diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, Alzheimer’s and autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s and type-I diabetes.

Your body gets vitamin D mainly from sunlight, though very small amounts can also be found in a few foods. You can also get vitamin D by taking supplements.

How does Vitamin D work?

Vitamin D manages calcium in your blood, bones and gut and helps cells all over your body to communicate properly.

Vitamin D mainly comes from your skin when it is exposed to sunlight. After that, your body goes through a number of chemical processes to change it so that your body can use it.

When your skin is exposed to the sun, it produces vitamin D and sends it to your liver. If you take supplements or eat foods that contain vitamin D, your gut also sends the vitamin D to your liver. From here, your liver changes it to a substance called 25(OH)D. When your doctor talks about your vitamin D levels, he means the amount of 25(OH)D you have in your blood.

This chemical is sent all over your body where different tissues, including your kidney, turn it into activated vitamin D. This activated vitamin D is now ready to perform its duties. From here, it gets a little complicated, but you can think of activated vitamin D working in two ways:

Manages calcium in your blood, bones and gut

Helps cells all over your body to communicate properly

As you can see, vitamin D goes a long way from its original form from the skin, supplement or food. But without vitamin D, your body can’t perform at its best.

References

Vitamin D, Third Edition by Feldman D, Pike JW, Adams JS. Elsevier Academic Press, 2011.

Vitamin D Deficiency, Are You At Risk?

Vague symptoms such as tiredness, general aches and pains may be due to Vitamin D deficiency....Are you deficient in Vitamin D?  

Am I deficient in vitamin D?

For a number of reasons, many people aren’t getting enough vitamin D to stay healthy. This is called vitamin D deficiency. You may not get enough vitamin D if:

You don’t get enough sunlight. Your body is usually able to get all the vitamin D it needs if you regularly expose enough bare skin to the sun. However, many people don’t get enough sunlight because they spend a lot of time inside and because they use sunscreen. It’s also difficult for some people to get enough vitamin D from the sun during the winter.

You don’t take supplements. It’s very difficult to get enough vitamin D from the foods you eat alone.

Your body needs more vitamin D than usual, for example if you’re obese or pregnant.

Are certain people more likely to have vitamin D deficiency?

There are some groups of people that are more likely to have vitamin D deficiency. The following people are more likely to be lacking in vitamin D:

People with darker skin. The darker your skin the more sun you need to get the same amount of vitamin D as a fair-skinned person. For this reason, if you’re Black, you’re much more likely to have vitamin D deficiency that someone who is White.

People who spend a lot of time indoors during the day. For example, if you’re housebound, work nights or are in hospital for a long time.

People who cover their skin all of the time. For example, if you wear sunscreen or if your skin is covered with clothes.

People that live in the North of the United States or Canada. This is because there are fewer hours of overhead sunlight the further away you are from the equator.

Older people have thinner skin than younger people and this may mean that they can’t produce as much vitamin D.

Infants that are breastfed and aren’t given a vitamin D supplement. If you’re feeding your baby on breast milk alone, and you don’t give your baby a vitamin D supplement or take a supplement yourself, your baby is more likely to be deficient in vitamin D.

Pregnant women.

People who are very overweight (obese).

What are the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency?

Some people may not have any symptoms of vitamin D deficiency and still be deficient.

The symptoms of vitamin D deficiency are sometimes vague and can include tiredness and general aches and pains. Some people may not have any symptoms at all.

If you have a severe vitamin D deficiency you may have pain in your bones and weakness, which may mean you have difficulty getting around. You may also have frequent infections. However, not everyone gets these symptoms.

If you think you may have vitamin D deficiency, you should see your physician, or have a blood test to check your vitamin D levels.

How do I know if I’m deficient in vitamin D?

The way doctors measure if you’re deficient in vitamin D is by testing your 25(OH)D level, but most doctors just call this a vitamin D test. Getting this blood test is the only accurate way to know if you’re deficient or not. 

Already tested and want to know what your results mean? 

How can I get more vitamin D?

There are two ways to get more vitamin D: by exposing your bare skin to the sun or by taking vitamin D supplements. 

References

Holick MF. Vitamin D and Health: Evolution, Biologic Functions, and Recommended Dietary Intakes of Vitamin D. In Vitamin D: Physiology, Molecular Biology and Clinical Applications by Holick MF. Humana Press, 2010.

Plum LA and Deluca HF. The Functional Metabolism and Molecular Biology of Vitamin D Action. In Vitamin D: Physiology, Molecular Biology and Clinical Applications by Holick MF. Humana Press, 2010.

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