We are proud to offer Metagenics® brand nutritional supplements and First Line Therapy® (FLT) to our patients.
First Line Therapy® was created by Metagenics® to address the nutritional and lifestyle deficiencies that can lead to long-term health problems or exacerbate current complaints. The National Institutes for Health (NIH) advocates dietary and lifestyle intervention as the most imminent and cost-effective method to control the growing epidemic of diet and lifestyle related illness in this country due to inadequate nutritional and poor lifestyle habits.
The type II diabetes epidemic is just one example of a disease state that is completely avoidable if addressed early. factors such as lean body mass, exercise and maintaining a healthy body weight are paramount issues to those at risk for developing non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.
The FLT program consists of a progressive, nutritionally based lifestyle interventional system that spans 12 weeks. Each program is based on individual health and lifestyle related factors, age, physical condition, body weight and activity levels. The FLT program provides all of the additional supplementation necessary, along with clinically proven dietary modification to achieve your individual optimal health status.
There is also a safe nutritional detoxification program available and implemented concurrent with the FLT program for those who have had high or prolonged exposure to toxic chemicals, environmental pollutants or are in a drug or alcohol rehabilitation program.
A few of the diet related and preventable illnesses that the NIH advocates dietary and lifestyle modifications as a first line of therapy for and that are included in this plan are:
Alzheimer's Disease
Arthritis
Cancer
Diabetes (Type II)
Insulin Resistance/Metabolic Syndrome
Heart Disease
Osteoporosis
Stroke
Of course genetics and factors that are still poorly understood play an important role in health and the advent of disease. We cannot control our inherited predisposition to certain illnesses, but we can control the dietary and lifestyle influences of these potential disease states.
Simply put, you are what you eat (also think and do). A lifetime of healthy eating habits, exercise, adequate sleep and appropriate supplementation is widely known to promote a better quality of life and ward off illness and disease. Statistics prove that these claims are true and common sense tells us that this is the path that we were meant to follow throughout our lives.
A lifetime of poor eating habits, a sedentary lifestyle, inadequate sleep, stressful and hectic schedules and occupations are the path that leads us to become a statistic and not reach our full human potential.
Our purpose is to provide our patients with safe, sensible nutritional therapies that are based in peer-reviewed research and dietetic clinical guidelines.