When I was leaving Los Angeles, a man at the gym kept asking me if I’d found good doctors where I’ve moved.

 

I told him that wasn’t a concern to me.

 

Yet he kept asking me.

 

I realize he spends a lot of time going to his team of doctors, as he referred to them.

 

He was concerned that I find my medical team.

 

When I was in school studying nutrition, he would ask me many questions about the numbers on his continuous glucose monitor.

 

He’s a type 2 diabetic.

 

I finally suggested he become a practice client, and he did.

 

He’s on a daily regimen of 8 medications for cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease.

 

These are chronic conditions caused by poor food and lifestyle choices.

 

It seemed like every week or two, he was at a doctor’s appointment and loved to give me an update at the gym.

 

I appreciated that as a practice client, he was eager to understand how his food choices impacted his blood sugar.

 

When we first started working together, his blood sugar had wild highs and lows.

 

His doctor told him to eat dried fruit to pick himself up out of the blood sugar lows.

 

I told him that was terrible advice, as dried fruit is really concentrated sugar. 

 

I suggested we get curious about what was causing the high blood sugar, which then led to the low blood sugar.

 

Over our 12 weeks together, he understood how his food choices impacted his blood sugar.

 

He learned to build balanced meals, and before long, his continuous glucose monitor showed more time in range and fewer swings.

 

No one on his medical team ever spent a minute discussing nutrition with him.

 

He also didn’t understand the correlation between his type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

 

Heart disease is a cardiometabolic disease.

 

Yet he’s seeing different doctors for the heart disease and the type 2 diabetes.

 

Yet they’re connected.

 

What I often see with clients is disease management.

 

More doctors.

 

More appointments.

 

More prescriptions.

 

No education on how the body works or how to take care of yourself.

 

No empowerment.

 

Clients who are stuck on a hamster wheel in a sickcare system.

 

We have a health crisis in this country.

 

My concern is that it will quickly turn into a financial crisis.

 

Sixty percent of American adults have at least one chronic disease.

 

Forty percent of American adults have at least two or more chronic diseases.

 

More than 40% of school-aged children and adolescents in the U.S. have at least one chronic health condition.

 

Only 20% of young adults in America qualify to serve in our military.

 

Let that sink in.

 

The number one reason they don’t qualify is due to obesity and medical conditions.

 

We have more drugs, supplements, and vaccines than ever, and yet we’re sicker than we’ve ever been.

 

One-third of FDA-approved drugs have safety issues that lead to recalls.

 

The third leading cause of death in this country is from pharmaceutical drugs.

 

72% of doctors’ office visits include prescription drug therapy.

 

One billion drugs were provided or prescribed.

 

We spend a whopping $4.9 trillion dollars a year on healthcare and are the sickest we’ve ever been.

 

We’ve divided the body up into 103 medical specialties, and we’re more chronically ill than ever.

 

We have more psychiatric drugs and therapists than ever, and yet we’re more anxious and depressed than ever.

 

We have more ways to communicate, and yet we’re lonelier and more isolated than ever.

 

We have more physical therapy care than ever, and yet people have more joint pain and back surgery than ever before.  

 

Back pain is an $86 billion dollar industry.

 

We have massive grocery stores with an abundance of food, and yet 70% of what we eat is ultra processed food like substances.

 

The diet industry is $70 billion dollar a year industry, and yet we have the highest rates of obesity with over 90% of our citizens either pre-diabetic or type 2 diabetic.  

 

We’re overfed and under nourished.

 

We’ve been taught to hide from the sun, spending as much time indoors as a maximum security prisoner.  

 

We slather ourselves in toxic sunscreen and hide from the sun, and have more skin cancer than ever before.

 

We have a health insurance industry that tightly controls the medical care you receive and makes a profit of $25 billion dollars a year.

 

The average individual spends $8951 a year in premiums.

 

The average family spends $25,572 a year in premiums.

 

Approximately 41% of Americans have debt due to medical or dental bills.

 

66.5% of bankruptcies in the US were caused directly by medical expenses.

 

The majority of those who file for bankruptcy due to medical issues actually have health insurance. 

 

A Harvard study found that 72% of medical bankruptcy filers were insured, indicating that many insurance plans offer inadequate coverage for catastrophic health events.

 

You do not have to be part of these statistics.

 

With statistics like this, you need more than a medical team.

 

What my client is experiencing is managed sick care, not health care.

 

Heath comes from the food you eat, the water you drink, the health of your gut microbiome, the quality of your sleep, your stress levels, and your blood sugar balance.

 

Health is not found by taking a bunch of prescriptions or supplements.

   

I would love to offer you time on my calendar to have a conversation.

 

Just like I showed my practice client how to make small adjustments to his breakfast to end his wild blood sugar swings, I’d love to help you connect the dots of your own health.

 

I can help you cut through the noise and confusion to create a simple plan tailored to you so you can have my energy, ditch the brain fog, lose weight, and gain food freedom.

 

Your health is your most precious asset.

 

It’s worth investing in.

 

My client said at the end of our time together:

 

"The main goal was to reduce my highs and lows of my glucose numbers. Clearly, the plan is working with much improvement in my numbers. I am still working on fine tuning my eating habits. It's been straightforward on what I need to do.  I am eating more regularly within the context of my goals.  The plan seems solid and continue to follow the regimen."