Heart Health Consultation
Cardiologists are experts in diagnosing various forms of cardiovascular disease and providing medications and surgical treatments. Often, people seek us out because they want more then generalized recommendations regarding good nutrition. Cardiologists and dieticians are trained in the basics such as eat a low fat diet and exercise appropriately for your heart condition and rehabilitation. Our experience and focus allows us to go further in these ways:
- Your Personalized Fitness Program: Exercise is not just exercise. We will develop your personalized lifestyle and exercise plan.
- Promote Healthy Weight: Specific nutritional laboratory tests and an electrical bioimpedance body composition analysis helps us determine how your unique cardiovascular experience has, and may affect, your nutritional needs. Knowing your metabolic rate (how you burn calories), your body percentage of muscle, water and fat are essential for maximizing your Optimal Cardiovascular Health Plan.
- Improve Energy: Cardiovascular disease often results in reduced overall energy. Our Heart Health Consultation is a balanced plan that optimizes your nutritional and lifestyle needs (see our patent-pending, Blood Detective Program).
- Reduce Side-Effects of Various Medications: Certain nutrients and foods can affect how your medications work for better and for worse. For example, if you are taking a statin medication (to lower your cholesterol) you should probably also take a nutrient called, CoQ10. However, if you are taking a statin you should probably not take niacin (vitamin B3 or lipoic acid). Let us help you correctly balance your overall diet and nutritional supplements safely and effectively.
- Improve Quality of Life.
If you think you've had "every test there is", and that "you've seen the very best doctors", think Integrated Medicine & Nutrition! Please know that we are happy to coordinate your care with your cardiologist and other health care provider(s).
