Livewell Clinic - August 2018

Livewell Clinic - August 2018

AUGUST 2018 LEDGER THE HEART OF HORMONAL HEALTH THE 13375 University Avenue, Suite 100, Clive, IA 50325|www.thelivewellclinic.com|515.279.9900 HOW FUNCT IONAL MED ICI NE CREAT ES A FOUNDAT ION FOR SUCCES S

T his month, I’d like to talk about the link between your overall health, hormonal health, and sexual well-being. While I’mnot going to get into the nitty-gritty of how the whole systemworks, I think it’s important to clear up some commonmisconceptions that have arisen in the modern age of hormone clinics and bad-advice overload. Whether you’re a man or a woman, your hormones are central to your overall well-being. I can’t count the number of patients who have come into our clinic with some sort of hormonal issue. It’s common for my female patients to tell me that they’ve been diagnosed with early menopause, their libido is at an all-time low, they’re feeling crankier and more fatigued than ever, and to top it all off, they’ve been gaining a ton of weight. Withmen, they’ll often admit that they’ve also been gaining weight, having issues getting an erection, balding, and are suffering from persistent depression. Both parties often come to me straight from a hormone clinic after a battery of treatments that did nothing to solve their problem—or, unfortunately, made it even worse. While I don’t think hormone replacement is necessarily a bad thing, the approach suffers from the same issues as the rest of the conventional medical paradigm: It looks to alleviate the symptoms of the problem rather than address it at the source. If a patient comes in who is going into early menopause, they assume that they can simply fix it by flooding their body with extra hormones. Sometimes, this will work, but without a foundation of overall health, this approach will put extra stress on the body and increase its overall toxicity. The patient gets trapped in a vicious cycle, with nowhere to go but down.

body’s “air filter” is clogged up with dust and mold, your body has to work twice as hard to function. Your hormones are being affected by this overall level of toxicity. Your body continues to fill up withmuck that further hinders your well-being, and at a certain point, it simply won’t work anymore—your body is just left with the scant resources it has at its disposal. This results in low estrogen or testosterone production and all the nasty issues this can cause. If you throwmore hormones at the problemwithout addressing overall health, nothing is going to happen— inmuch the same way that blasting clean air through a dirty air filter isn’t going to make your vacuumwork again. Instead, it’s vital to set your body up for success at the most basic level. With good habits and robust nutrition, your body can create the healthy hormones it needs to keep itself running the way it’s supposed to. Sometimes, all it takes is a simple two-week detox to completely transform your hormonal health, without the intense, invasive interventions recommended in conventional medicine.

The fact is, you need to set up a solid foundation before you build a nice house. Or, to look at it another way, you can think of your body like a vacuum. If your

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When Lynn Heuss first came into the Livewell Clinic, she was suffering from persistent aches and pains and occasional, uncharacteristic bouts of anxiety. “I’ve never been a big proponent of using medication to address any of those concerns,” she says, “because it always seemed like it was more of a symptom-based — not a cause-based — kind of approach. When I went to an information meeting at Livewell and learned about their proactive approach to health, I was sold!" “It was very empowering to feel excited to have control over my health,” she says, “rather than simply waiting for some sort of malady to crop up and then react to it.” At the time, she’d been doing a lot of her own research into “alternative” and functional medicine, and though her traditional health care provider was interested in other approaches, Lynn felt limited by what they could offer her. “I like having everything available and having health care providers who are more focused on how to help me take the best care of myself, and not simply taking a ‘one size fits all’ approach,” she says. From day one with Dr. Zac, she experienced a huge paradigm shift and began to understand the inner workings of her body — and more importantly, how to become healthy from the inside out. “The most important things I’ve gotten are the knowledge and belief that I play the biggest role in my health and well- being, and that my health care professionals are there to support me. I know my body, mind, and spirit are getting healthier — sometimes even when I don’t always feel like it — because of my test results and because of how I am able to handle stress and make decisions to prioritize self-care for long-term benefits, rather than being convinced to compromise. I’m sleeping better, I’m comfortable with my weight, my anxiety is being addressed, and I have absolutely no major health issues.” We’re thrilled to have been part of Lynn’s journey toward lasting overall health, and we’re grateful she decided to seek out our services. It’s patients like her that keep us doing what we’re doing, firm in our belief that by building a foundation for overall health, we can transform lives for the better.

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At the Livewell Clinic, we’re dedicated to guiding our patients toward long-term, total health and well-being. But that goes beyond eating right and exercising—you need to ensure that your hormones are in balance as well. If your estrogen or testosterone are out of whack, totally toxified, or simply not doing what they’re supposed to, it’ll be difficult to make any lasting changes. Not only will addressing your hormone health provide a strong foundation to build on, it’ll help you find sexual well-being, feel more confident, and possibly even help iron out infertility issues.

body build testosterone and fight off erectile dysfunction and other low-T issues. Hormone Protect , by Xymogen, is another alternative for promoting healthy estrogenmetabolism.

Meanwhile, our DHEA tablets fromOrthoMolecular Products are designed to regulate your body’s cortisol production while optimizing its absorption and assimilation at every step. This can help with chronic fatigue and stress as you age. To top it all off, we’ve got three liquid supplements fromApex Energetics. Resvero-XL will support your immune and gastrointestinal systems, fostering healthy metabolism and thus hormone production. Nitric Balance will ensure you maintain critical nitric acid levels in your bloodstream, a key factor in proper blood flow (especially during exercise) and your sexual health. Finally, there’s the trusty Turmero-XL , which uses turmeric as a base to strengthen your immune system and your liver’s detoxification abilities, leading to healthier, detoxified hormones!

That’s why this month, we’re offering a wide slate of supplements at 15 percent off , all geared toward hormone health.

First is our Metabolic Assist Dail y, a dietary supplement that, among other things, contains broccoli seed extract, which is an excellent tool for detoxifying your hormones and aiding in your body’s breakdown of estrogen. Then, there are three infusions fromWeed Botanical Co. The first two, FemBalance 1&2 , contain everything natural you need to balance out estrogen in your body. For men, there’s Male Virility , which will help your

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