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Battle the “Winter Fluff”!

Published by on November 9, 2021 | Leave a response

The dreaded holiday season is here, and your pants are still a bit snug (COVID weight is REAL!)… But, at To Your Health and Wellness, LLC. – we can help you maintain your health, weight and overall mood with our wellness services! Do you avoid the parties, put your blinders on while walking through the grocery isles, and hope that those little crumbs you nibbled off your child’s plate didn’t count?

Or maybe you skip meals because, in your best efforts not to eat this or that, you’ve managed to sample a little bit of everything rather than enjoying a simple slice of cake. When your attitude is all about food, that’s where the trouble begins. Your mind keeps cycling through the shouldn’t-haves or must avoids (or ‘I’ve got to make up for that decadent brownie.’). The cycle is vicious! Instead of responding to little hiccups in your diet, find balance throughout the day and listen to your hunger cues.

How can you possibly be enjoying yourself this season when all you can think about is food (and what not to eat)? Food should be eaten and enjoyed.  Feeling guilty for eating a (small) piece of chocolate or cookie doesn’t serve anyone! Limiting food choices doesn’t work!  What works is focusing of choosing a wide variety of healthy, whole foods!

My patients will often hear me say focus on healthy wins, rather than focus on the scale. Even if the scale DOESN’T move…. that’s a WIN!

During Holidays, events and when “dieting”… Many patients avoid certain food groups, like carbs, only to find themselves giving up and raiding the fridge or pantry later!  If you want a treat, THAT IS OK! Enjoy it, don’t gobble it up or eat it in the closet.  Have a bite or taste and enjoy it without punishing yourself! Being mindful is key. Experience the taste, smell, and texture of the food.  Enjoy it, and always leave a little on your plate… even if it’s ONE bite! (forget the clean-plate club we were taught!).  Keep your portions reasonable. If you find yourself wanting to go back for seconds or thirds, find other things to take your mind off of the food like getting a family board game together!

Not everything about this holiday season has to focus on food! Make time with friends and family that doesn’t involve food or cocktails.

Here are some take home tips (So you have some cake and feel good too!):

·        Remember that this is not the last time you’ll get to eat doughnuts, cookies or other treats.  (You don’t have to try them all.) Just because they are there, doesn’t mean you HAVE to have it!

·        Skip the “run of the mill” treats like boxed brownies or store bought cookies. Save your calories for the good stuff you’ll only get once a year like homemade fudge or other treat you truly desire.

·        Allow yourself to enjoy a treat, but do so mindfully.

·        Work treats into your meal plan.

·        Aim to MAINTAIN weight this season and don’t focus on the scale.

·        Dump the idea of banning foods.

·        Embrace the notion of choosing to eat all foods in moderation.

·        Respect your food and your body.

·        Make friends with people and not the buffet table.

·        Take some hikes outside, volunteer in your community or put up holiday decorations with your friends and family

·        Sip on hot low sugar beverages like lemon water with honey or green tea!

Thinking you can’t resist the urge?  Contact our office today at 352-363-1034 to get started with our weight loss plan – a medically guided service to help you lose weight, establish a healthy relationship with food and exercise and live HEALTHY!  We have over 80 easy to follow diet plans that won’t leave you hungry, as well as support and pharmacological interventions to battle the most difficult season for some people! Let us help you get rid of or prevent the “winter fluff”!

Try our weekly B12/fat burning injections that help with energy, weight loss and cravings… Guess what… that sugar you are craving is actually you craving energy!!  We can help with decreasing CRAVINGS AND increasing ENERGY!

Your weight gain, fatigue and cravings could be a hormone issue!  Let us check your hormones and help you fix that broken cog in your “wellness wheel” that is preventing you from living healthy!

Ready to start the new year with a NEW focus on HEALTH? Our Direct Primary Care can help you with access to weight loss, wellness, urgent care and DIRECT access to your provider, when YOU need it!

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Need Headache Help?

Published by on May 14, 2021 | Leave a response

Headaches and migraines are more than painful and inconvenient; they can hamper your productivity and dampen your mood. They literally can stop you in your tracks!  Knowing how to tell the difference between headaches and migraines can help you seek the correct treatment and get relief from your symptoms as quickly as possible.

Head pain, pressure, and throbbing are all common symptoms of headaches, although the location of these symptoms varies depending on the type of headache you have. Most people have had a headache at least once in their life. Often, they can be treated with over the counter medications with good relief, or addressing the cause.

IV Hydration Therapy for Migraines and Headaches

Our IV infusions have the vitamins, electrolytes, antioxidants, and hydrating fluids that your body needs to counteract your symptoms. IV therapy thoroughly hydrates you, restores your levels of electrolytes and vitamins when over the counter medications just aren’t enough.

In addition to these ingredients, we offer additional anti-inflammatory and anti-nausea medication for further relief from your symptoms if you are suffering from a migraine, a more debilitating type of headache.

Headaches

Head pain, pressure, and throbbing are all common symptoms of headaches, although the location of these symptoms varies depending on the type of headache you have. Most people have had a headache at least once in their life.

There are three types of primary headaches, where an illness or other external factor is not the cause of symptoms.

  • Tension headaches: Often described as feeling like a tight band surrounding your head, tension headaches are caused by stress and – you guessed it – tension. Tension headaches can also manifest at the back of your head, in your neck, or even in your shoulders. If you think you might have a tension headache, take a break from what you are doing and try to relax to help ease your tightened muscles.

  • Sinus headaches: Sometimes called ‘allergy headaches’, this type manifests in your sinuses. You may experience pain or pressure behind your eyes, above your eyebrows, at the center of your forehead, or below your eyes. You can often, but not always, identify a sinus headache if these areas are tender when gently pressed. A warm compress can help ease sinus headaches, especially those that come with sinus infections.

  • Cluster headaches: A type of headache that generally manifests in a localized area, such as behind one eye or in a specific part of your head. Cluster headaches often happen in a series, one subsiding only to be replaced by another over a duration of minutes or hours. Some people may experience cluster headaches around the same time every day for a period of month. It is not yet certain what causes cluster headaches.

There are many types of secondary headaches, where an external factor or illness is casing symptoms. These types of headaches are linked to the cause. Below, we’ve listed several of the most common types, but this is not a comprehensive list:

  • Caffeine headaches: As the name suggests, caffeine headaches are directly related to your consumption of caffeine. You can get a caffeine headache either from ingesting too much caffeine or by suddenly stopping regular caffeine consumption. If you’re getting headaches from drinking too much caffeine, consider cutting back how many cups you drink per day. If your headaches stem from going cold turkey on caffeine, consider amending your approach to gradually remove caffeine from your routine.

  • Hypertension headaches: These headaches are caused by hypertension (high blood pressure), where the physical pressure in your veins contributes to your symptoms.

  • Dehydration headaches: This type of headache is caused when you have not ingested enough fluid. Because they do not have enough fluid to function optimally, your cells and veins shrink and pull away from the interior of your skull and can cause a dull or aching pain.

  • Hormone headaches: Some people may experience headaches that are related to changing hormones, especially during menopause, andropause, or pregnancy.

There are many more types of headaches, but these are the most commonly experienced types. Some people may experience episodic headaches, meaning that they happen every once in a while. Others may experience chronic headaches, which happen on a regular basis over an extended period of time.  If you have recurring headaches, our Certified Practitioners can guide you through care, prevention and treatment options.

Migraines

Migraines are a type of headache. Pain, pressure, and throbbing are some of the symptoms that overlap with headaches. Migraines can be thought of as a severe form of headache. This type of headache may last for hours, a couple of days, and potentially weeks for some people. Severe migraines can impact your work, school, and social life by making it challenging – if not impossible – to meet the demands of your schedule.

Migraines are characterized by several symptoms that make them distinct from other types of headaches:

  • Severe pain on one side of your head

  • Sensitivity to light

  • Sensitivity to sound

  • Nausea

  • Vision changes (such as lights or bright spots)

For those that suffer from migraines, learning how to avoid triggers and prevent episodes is key!  Keeping a log and discovering triggers are the first step to controlling them! But sometimes, we know, despite your best efforts, a migraine can occur anyway!  Then what?

The pain, nausea, and sensitivity to light and sound can disable you completely, preventing you from participating in your daily life for days or even weeks at a time. Or, expensive, long ER trips!

Thankfully, there is another option that have provided the answer that so many headache migraine sufferers have been desperately searching for fast, effective relief with IV hydration therapy.

What is IV Hydration Therapy for Migraines and Headaches?

While it is important to properly assess a headache before any treatment to determine if outpatient care is right for you, we may refer you to emergency care under certain conditions.

However, if your symptoms are not new (for you) we can help!

IV hydration therapy, also called migraine IV treatments or migraine IV cocktails, utilizes a combination of vitamins, electrolytes, antioxidants, hydrating fluids, and medication.

Delivered intravenously (via an IV drip), the migraine cocktail can be a highly effective option for counteracting migraine symptoms.  All monitored and certified by our licensed professionals. Either in the comfort of your home or in our quiet calm office… without waiting HOURS!

As your body is rehydrated and rebalanced, you can finally find relief. That is our goal!

Additionally, our migraine IV treatments also feature medications and can be customized to fight nausea and inflammation, so you can be back to feeling like yourself in no time.

IV treatments for migraines are a fast, convenient and cost effective treatment option, and typically take one hour or less to complete! The specific “cocktail” for migraine relief may be uniquely formulated to address your specific triggers and needs. All you’ll need to do is sit back, relax, and await the fast-acting relief the IV therapy can provide!

Not all headaches are migraines, and we have treatment options for other common headaches AND Migraines!!

We’d be glad to help get you back to your life!

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To Your Health and Wellness Lifestyle Intervention Programs (LIPs)

To Your Health and Wellness Lifestyle Intervention Programs (LIPs)

Published by on April 27, 2021 | Leave a response

Let’s face it, knowing what to eat and learning HOW to eat well is most people’s biggest challenge when it comes to changing our health and bodies.  It does not matter if your goal is to lose weight, add muscle or manage a health condition.  Eating is something we ALL enjoy, but eating healthy, for some, is a BIG challenge!

At To Your Health and Wellness, we have individual programs, where we treat food as medicine and get you on the path to wellness with a combination of nutritional guidance, lifestyle/habit coaching and personalized medicine.

Did you know that most people eat the same foods over and over again?  Think about what you eat for breakfast every day.  Most likely, you eat the same two, three or four foods every day, over and over again.  We are creatures of habit!  Unfortunately, in our society, our habits may not be healthy ones.

So, when is it time for a change?  Well, it depends.  For some, it is an event coming up and the desire to “look good”.  For others, it is the realization that we are at “the age” where our “seemingly healthy” friends are dying of preventable diseases like heart attacks or strokes. It may be a health care provider prescribing multiple medications for all your health problems, many to counteract a side effect for the one before.   For others, it may be a new baby, and the desire to lead a healthy, long, active life raising that child.  We all have reasons to desire change.  But to do this you have to learn new habits, which can be difficult!  There is so much out there in terms of “do this, and do that”.  Fad diets, miracle supplements, shakes and programs to “get rid of fat fast”.  It is hard to weed through all the information, know what is legit, healthy, sustainable, and be able to make the CHANGE in your lifestyle to avoid bouncing back to bad habits.

That’s where we come in!  Our Lifestyle Intervention Programs (LIPs) are programs that are designed by a multidisciplinary group of professionals to help make healthier habit and choices, and teach you how to maintain them as a lifestyle!

How it works

Our Certified Nurse Practitioner will sit with you and come up with an action plan.  After a full review of your health history, your current lifestyle, YOUR GOALS and desire to change.  We will review (or obtain for a very low cost) laboratory data and other measurable metrics, such as vital signs, weight and body measurements.  We will discuss your current activity level and your abilities.   We take the time with your current provider, likely, just doesn’t have time for! We obtain these metrics as you’ll hear us often talk about and celebrate with you NON-SCALE wins! Weight is only a part of the big picture, but not our focus here!

We make it easy and convenient

Most nutritional or “diet” programs start off with a stack of flyers, handout and blank spreadsheets to make a food diary.  Food journaling can be a daunting task that takes a lot of time.  It becomes like a giant math problem to find foods that will fit your nutritional needs, that won’t put you over your caloric budget for the day.  Our nutrition program provides recommended meal plans, specifically chosen for you, and grocery lists that are designed by licensed dieticians and doctors.  All of our plans are balanced to meet your personal caloric goals and special needs, from macros to allergies.  Whether you prefer to eat organic, have food allergies, want/need a low sodium plan or are aiming to increase your performance in the gym or as an athlete, we have a program for you!

Since mobile technology has made our lives so much more convenient, people desire immediate access to things anytime, anywhere.  Our LIPs nutritional program sends a personalized meal plan and grocery list right to your phone and email.  This way, you ALWAYS have your “list” ready and with you!  You will know what exactly you should be eating to meet your personal health and fitness, if indicated goals.  You can also access your information at home via any internet service.

Features of our LIPs

Here is a list of some of the features available to you through accessing your customized internet or mobile nutrition program:

·        Personalized mobile & web account

·        Meal plans & grocery lists with you always on your mobile device

·        Ability to log eating and exercise activities

·        Food exchanges to account for your likes/preferences/allergies

·        Ability to add custom foods

·        Ability to track your weight, measurements and vital signs

·        Messaging feature for direct access to your provider’

·        Online recipes and recipe creator

At your first visit, we will talk to your about a wide variety of meal program types that have been designed by dieticians and physicians which have been proven in clinical settings for many common diseases or conditions.

Here are a few options as examples:

·        Low Cholesterol/Low Fat

·        Heart Healthy/lowering your blood pressure

·        Stroke Prevention

·        Stable Blood Sugar

·        Paleo

·        Breast Cancer

·        Bone Health

·        Cancer Smart

·        Low Fat/Weight loss

·        Vegetarian/Vegan

·  Mature Woman/Post menopausal hormone balance

·        Hi or Low Glycemic plans

·        Energy Booster

·        Healthy Aging for men and women

·        Performance, body building

·        On-The-Go for busy/traveling frequently

·        Teen Scene

·        Low carb – American, Fast food, Italian and Mexican fiesta

·        Maternity pre & post natal – including “trying to get pregnant” and PCOS.

·        Organic low carb, low fat

·        Kosher low fat

·        Lactose intolerant

·        Mediterranean

·        High Fiber

·        Healthy Soy

·        Asian Explosion

·        Food allergies

·        Detox and Cleanse

·        Post Bariatric (very low calorie diet) VLCDs

·        Childhood Health and Obesity

What happens next after your action plan?

Your LIPs provider will continue to stay in close contact with you and follow up with you on your agreed time frame.  We will monitor your progress and celebrate “non-scale” victories along the way!  We will be your personal cheerleader and biggest fan because we KNOW you can do this!  We help you with the tools you need to get started and to maintain.  We do have prescription medications to use in some cases, as well as will guide you if you need or desire supplements.

Most of all, we WANT you to succeed, and are always a phone call, text or email away! Call today to start your journey or ask your healthcare provider for a referral to our office! (352)363-1034

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Peptide Therapy Now Available!

Peptide Therapy Now Available!

Published by on April 18, 2021 | Leave a response

At To Your Health and Wellness, LLC we have recently incorporated peptide therapies to our tools to improve health and wellness in our patient’s lives….

Peptide treatment for weight loss has been shown to accelerate the loss of that stubborn belly fat, increasing lean muscle mass and restore energy.  Ipamorelin, CJC 1295 and Semorelin are our go to peptides for weight loss. They are available in injection form.  We also use Ibutamoren, which is an oral peptide for optimum men’s health and to get the most out of your weight training! For most, these foreign terms. But, there is value in understanding what Peptides are and the benefits of peptides like Sermorelin, we’ll break it down for you here!

Let’s start with the basics of what peptides are and then dive into some questions that I often get pertaining to peptides for weight loss and anti-aging.

Peptides are made from amino acids and have many functions in the body. Peptides are chains of amino acids that improve cell signaling in the body. Most act like neurotransmitters, while some act like hormones. Many control and influence how our bodies react to diet and physical exercise.

Like many hormones, (such as testosterone which we have covered in the past) as we age, human growth hormone (HGH) production declines. After age 30, levels drop by over 1% each year. As a result, our bodies begin to show signs of aging, and cease to perform at an optimal level. Exogenous HGH use is not new, however, it has been linked with many unwanted side effects when injecting high doses of HGH.

Because peptides have the ability to boost your body’s own natural growth hormone production,  (rather than the “old way” of injecting HGH directly), they are rapidly replacing “traditional” Human Growth Hormone therapy.

Some “main-stream” medical professionals will call peptide therapy “controversial”… Did you know… Currently, there are currently over 60 FDA approved peptides. In fact, insulin was the first peptide approved in the US! They are just marketed and labeled by pharmaceutical companies as “medicines” and you may not even know what you are actually taking is a peptide!

So, what can peptides do for you?

Peptides have dozens of uses but the most common uses are helping to build muscle and reduce fat, improve energy, improve sexual function and to reduce GI and musculoskeletal inflammation.

 Most commonly, with peptide therapy, patients will report an improvement in:

  • Weight: Sermorelin, Ipamorelin and CJC 1295 can help to achieve and maintain a healthy body weight. When combined with exercise, these peptides can improve lean muscle mass and help your body burn fat more efficiently. Sermorelin is highly effective at helping patients lose weight. These peptides are so effective at inducing weight loss because Human Growth Hormone stimulates the production of Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1). Higher levels of IGF-1 lead to higher levels of metabolism, which make it easier to lose weight more quickly when one controls calories (we’ll help you with that!).  Higher levels of metabolism also provide the body with more energy and endurance for aerobic exercise.

  • Sleep: Peptides can help restore a normal sleep cycle. Abnormal sleep can completely disrupt your life with poor mental function, fatigue, mood changes and abnormal weight gain.

  • Athletic Recovery or Injury: Peptides have been shown to speed up and improve recovery from athletic performance or injury so that you can get back out there faster.

  • Improved Stamina: increased exercise tolerance and less requirement for rest

  • Surgical or injury healing: Peptide therapy has even been shown to improve healing after surgery, especially with surgeries involving bone, ligament, tendon and muscle.

  • Anti-Aging: Peptide therapy can make skin appear firmer or tighter and improve muscle fullness for a more youthful appearance and lifestyle

Basically, the most commonly prescribed peptides we use, are in combinations  and function to naturally boost growth hormone for better CELLULAR recovery.

Other peptide benefits include:

– Increases development of lean muscle growth through the development of new muscle cells

– Reduced body fat through lipolysis (fat breakdown)

– Increased energy, strength, and stamina

– Strengthening of the immune system

– Improved regulation of other hormones

– Improved libido

– Increased natural Human Growth Hormone production

We would be happy to schedule a consultation and help you determine if peptide therapy is the right choice in your health wellness journey!

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