Diet and Nutrition
Lifestyle decisions, including what, when, and how much we eat, play a vital role in the quality and duration of our lives. LifeScape has combined its passion for prevention with its expertise in the complex science of nutrition to offer several specialized nutritional programs, assessments, and products aimed at helping you achieve a healthy, balanced diet. Below is a sample of the services and products we offer. To schedule an initial consultation or learn more, please contact our Nutrition Coordinator, Kim Vitellaro, at 480-860-5500 extension 110.
Nutritional Programs:
Whole Health, Ideal Weight Program
LifeScape shuns the latest fad diets, fitness crazes, and advertiser-driven body images. Rather, we focus on complex lifestyle choices that affect Whole Health for a Whole Life. Through a 12-week, individualized program, we help patients identify their optimal body mass and fitness level and develop the physiological, psychological, and social tools to achieve and maintain those benchmarks. Our patients, whether individuals, couples, or families, meet regularly with a LifeScape physician, nutrition specialist, fitness coach, and clinical psychologist. Together as a team, we work to restore metabolism, improve overall conditioning and fitness parameters, and set patients on the path towards achieving and maintaining their optimal body.
First Line Therapy
First Line Therapy is a nutritional and weight management program geared specifically to those individuals with metabolic syndrome, central obesity, diabetes, or hypertension or at high risk for heart disease. It is a non-medication program designed to optimize blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, central body fat, weight, and triglycerides, increase energy and fitness levels, improve mood, concentration, and sleep patterns, and revive metabolism.
"Am I Hungry?”
“Am I Hungry?” is a group program focused on developing powerful, internal tools for eating and exercising intuitively and achieving freedom from food obsession, bingeing, yo-yo dieting, and other dysfunctional behaviors.
Individual Consultation with a Registered Dietician
Chrissy Barth, RD, CFT, RYT, founder and president of Live Breathe Nutrition, is available to work one-on-one with LifeScape patients.
Nutritional Assessments:
SpectraCell Functional Intracellular Nutrient Analysis
Although most individuals can benefit from nutritional evaluation, traditional testing is highly inaccuracy. A new technology developed by SpectraCell, however, provides far more reliable testing permitting LifeScape providers to more accurately evaluate vitamin, mineral, antioxidant, and essential fatty acid deficiencies and precisely target nutritional interventions.
Neuroscience Neurotransmitter Testing
Brain chemicals, known as hormones and neurotransmitters, control many of the body’s functions. These chemicals can become depleted or unbalanced due to diet, stress, exposure to toxins, and genetics. This can result in excessive stress, mood disorders, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, focusing, or remembering, sleep difficulty, headaches, fatigue, low energy, weight gain, and food cravings. Utilizing a non-invasive lab test developed by NeuroScience, a world leader in neurotransmitter assessment, LifeScape physicians can measure 13 different neurotransmitters and 11 different hormones. Then, through a course of individualized Targeted Amino Acid Therapy, correct imbalances in a carefully controlled sequence—offering relief to significant proportion of patients.
Immuno Laboratories Delayed Food Allergy Testing
Identification of IgG delayed food allergies (as opposed to the standard IgE immediate food allergies) has been life changing for hundreds of LifeScape patients. Those with chronic sinus or ear infections, asthma, anxiety, chronic fatigue, migraine headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis, or eczema can often benefit significantly by eliminating certain foods from their diet. Utilizing a simple blood test, LifeScape providers can now identify intolerances to 115 foods as well as Candida yeast and systematically modify patients’ diets to moderate and often eliminate many chronic conditions.
Nutritional Supplements:
The powerful role nutrition plays in health is becoming increasingly clear. Unfortunately, the vitamin and supplement industries operate with surprisingly little oversight. Manufacture and marketing are largely unregulated. If you use an over-the-counter vitamin, mineral, or other nutritional supplement, there is a good chance that the label inaccurately reflects the product’s contents, you are not receiving the intended health benefit, or you are causing yourself harm. LifeScape has evaluated thousands of vitamins and supplements to find those produced with strong quality controls and that offer the best value. Product lines we carry and recommend include:
- VitalRemedyMD – general multivitamins, calcium, joint formula, antioxidants, lipid-lowering supplements, and Statin-Guard protection from statin drug-induced nutrient depletion
- NeuroScience – amino acid supplements for targeted repletion of neurotransmitters
- Metagenics – wide variety of high quality supplements
- Envita – naturopathic supplements for a variety of preventive and medical indications
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