Women's Health: a holistic natural approach

A woman's hormones are essential for good health, immunity, and youthfulness. Alternative Health is a natural and gentle treatment protocol designed to treat thyroid, adrenal, and male/female hormone imbalances in order to improve the overall health and restoring hormonal balance. The value of this functional medicine approach is its cost effectiveness and the high rate of patient compliance with treatment for conditions such as:

Low Energy
Anxiety Stress
DepressionInsomnia
High Blood
Pressure Improve Circulation
Headaches
Endometriosis No
Menstruation
Menopause
Hormone ImbalancesPCOS
Infertility Fibromyalgia
Hypo & Hyperthyroidism Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
DiabetesHypoglycemia
Anemia Weight issues/gain

Alternative Health is an integrative, science-based system that treats illness and promotes wellness in a different way from conventional medicine. The approach is to focus first on assessing the biochemically unique aspects of each patient, and to then employ an individually tailored intervention to restore balance to the patient - physiologically, psychologically and structurally.

Alternative Health incorporates salivary hormone analysis from Diagnos-Tech Labs, whole-food supplementation, a purification/detoxification protocol, homeopathic oral hormone therapy, and acupuncture.

In healing, we may feel the need to weigh out all our options and take the best course of action! We may at some point in our lives be faced with a dilemma or a decision to make regarding our health. One thing is for sure, that we will always benefit when our body's own inherent innate intelligence is strengthened. If we give the body the building blocks it needs to strengthen, not only to fight the condition or to reverse the disease process, but to lessen the severity of the side effects of the conventional medicine we do use. These building blocks lie in pure unadulterated highly nutritious food, free of the toxins (pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, heavy metals, and solvents) that tax our bodies. We use food to heal, often times in doses that it would be too difficult to eat that amount and too difficult to get the best source of it. That problem is solved with Whole Food Supplements.

Because we will advise you on the specific vitamins you need so you don't need to spend excess money on something that will not work for you. We will give you that direction. The vitamin business with GNC, Vitamin World, etc is over 2 billion dollars in sales. We would not mind if they were selling quality, but we are quite confident they are only selling quantity. And it always is the consumer who pays for it not just with their money, but with their health.

Do you want to know what your body needs to heal naturally?

Through questions, we can do our best to know what your underlying health issue is. Then we can recommend nutrition in a specific way to address that underlying health issue. We will also tell you why you are being recommended what you will be recommended. We will also tell you how much of the vitamin to take. This is valuable information that I believe the public is not getting from their doctor. The following information is taken directly from the Standard Process Website which is http://www.standardprocess.com.

The Importance of Whole Food Supplements

Nutritional Supplementation: Isolated or Whole Food?

Nutritional supplementation is a common term used frequently when it comes to health and wellness but what does it really mean, and how do you know if you need it or not?

Some people try to get the nutrients missing in their diets by taking traditional vitamin supplements, which are isolated mega doses of a select few nutrients. But individual vitamins or multi-vitamins don't supply the vast assortment of antioxidants and other phytonutrients our bodies need.

As a nation, we eat poor-quality foods that have been stripped of nutrients. We do not consume enough fresh fruits and vegetables. Many of us get our whole grains from instant rice, refined wheat breads, pastas, and cereal. We eat a tremendous amount of prepackaged, pre-made meals. One-quarter of Americans eat at fast food restaurants each day. Americans are overfed and undernourished.

We eat plenty but we are still starving

The foods we eat are not providing our bodies with the nutrition it needs to survive and be healthy. We are starving our bodies and we are sick. We suffer from diabetes, heart attacks, obesity, and the list goes on and on.

There is good news

Given proper nutrition, the human body has an amazing ability to heal itself. If properly fed and given the right nutrients, the human body is designed to repair itself. To do so, we need to eat a healthier diet, exercise, and take high-quality supplements made from whole foods. Whole food supplements supply our bodies with nutrients we are not getting from our diet, all the vitamins, minerals, trace minerals, and phytonutrients that foods possess in a way that nature intended, in a whole food form.

Only whole food supplements complete the nutritional gap

Whole food supplements are made by concentrating foods for use in supplements. When processed correctly, they supply a multitude of the plant's components. Foods provide nutrients that work synergistically. They work together to provide you with optimal nutrition for good health.

Understanding Supplement Labels

There are many different kinds of supplements on the market, and it can be very confusing to determine the true value of a supplement. Understanding the label will help you know if you are taking a quality supplement.

Where do the nutrients come from?

Look at the ingredients on the food label. Do you recognize any of them? Just like any other food label, the nutrients are listed in a particular order and some manufacturers put the source next to the nutrient. In a quality, wholesome product, you will recognize and be able to pronounce most of the ingredients on the label.

What is the importance of whole food ingredients?

Only whole food ingredients can provide you with all the nutrients contained within the food, rather than just isolated components. For example, in a brand B the sixth ingredient is dl-alpha tocopherol acetate. This is not a food ingredient. It is an isolated component of the vitamin E complex. If you were to take a supplement with just dl-alpha tocopherol, you would be missing at least five other important nutrients as well as hundreds of other nutrients that occur within the whole vitamin E complex. These nutrients are only available by consuming natural, whole food forms of vitamin E, such as wheat germ oil, pea vine, green leafy vegetables, nuts, sunflower seeds.

To be effective, don't I need to get at least 100% of the daily value?

We often think that more is better. However, when choosing supplements, quality is far more important than quantity. A small amount of a vitamin in whole food form is far more effective in the human body than a large dose of an isolated vitamin. This is because the isolated form is just a fraction of the whole and is missing important nutrients that the body needs. Taking more of the isolated form will not make up for its deficiencies.

Two Basic Types of Nutritional Supplements - A Comparison

Brand A (whole food supplement)

Whey (milk) protein powder, flax meal powder, brown rice protein powder, calcium citrate, magnesium citrate, buckwheat juice powder, Brussels sprouts (whole plant), kale, choline bitartrate, inositol, barley grass, alfalfa juice powder, soybean lecithin powder, grape (seed) extract (includes Masquelier's® OPC-85; 98% total phenolic compounds; 65% proanthocyanidins), carrot powder, and red wine extract (95% total phenols).

Brand B (isolate-based supplement)

Calcium Carbonate, Magnesium Oxide, Potassium Chloride, Cellulose, Ascorbic Acid, dl-alpha Tocopheryl Acetate, Acacia, Croscarmellose Sodium, Zinc Oxide, Dicalcium Phosphate, Stearic Acid, Dextrin, Titanium Dioxide, Niacinamide, Silicon Dioxide, Hypromellose, Gelatin, Soy Extract, Magnesium Stearate, Calcium Silicate, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Manganese Sulfate, Polyethylene Glycol, Corn Starch, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Mannitol, Cupric Oxide, Resin, Lecithin, Riboflavin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Acetate, Chromium Chloride, Folic Acid, Dextrose, Beta Carotene, FD&C Red #40 Lake, FD&C Blue #2 Lake, Sodium Selenate, Biotin, Phytonadione, Cyanocobalamin, Ergocalciferol.

In Brand A, vitamins and nutrients are derived mainly from recognizable food sources. In Brand B, the vitamins and nutrients are man-made chemical isolates not recognized as food sources.

Internal Disorders

synthetic vitamins are just safer drugs. Many are made from coal tar derivatives, the same stuff that causes throat cancer in tobacco smokers. Like drugs, synthetic vitamins suppress the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and cause the symptoms you experience when the ANS is out of balance. However, neither synthetics nor drugs address the problem's root cause. Synthetic vitamins -- like drugs -- may improve certain conditions for a short time but they can't nourish your body.