Integrative medicine addresses the complex interplay that diet, hormones, food intolerances, stress, emotions and environmental toxins have on getting to and maintaining a healthy weight.
If you have tried to lose weight in the past, but are unable to find a sustainable solution, a functional approach can help you identify the underlying root causes which contributed to weight gain in the first place. Integrative modalities will target these triggers, and restore balance to the hormonal, emotional, and dietary systems so that you can increase metabolic flexibility and fat loss.
CentreSpringMD weight loss options include approaches like:
- Food sensitivity testing and gut health analysis
- Health and nutrition coaching
- Premier InBody Testing
- Physical Condition evaluation
- Detoxification function and optimization
- Lab testing and history
Let’s find out how CentreSpringMD can help create your individualized weight loss plan. Keep reading to learn more, or contact us now to get started.
Food, Nutrition, and Lifestyle for Weight Loss
Health coaching
Health coaches know that having knowledge about healthy habits doesn’t mean you can successfully put them into practice. Health coaches are agents of change, and specialize in behavior change techniques that help you work toward your goal in a way that suits your lifestyle.
Plus, health coaches create greater accessibility to personalized healthcare by working directly with patients to develop solutions that work for you and the demands of your life.
Nutrition counseling
Not sure which foods best support your body and your unique biochemistry? Wondering if you should follow the keto diet or maybe go plant-based? Our team understands that your nutrition is paramount to helping you lose weight and keep it off.
By prioritizing nutrient dense, satisfying foods and adequate protein, nutrition counseling provides you with the solid foundation to restore balance to your health.
More Nutrition Options to Ignite Metabolism
Super-B Shots
Designed to boost your metabolism using choline and inositol, which target fatty liver and fat metabolism, along with B vitamins for a supercharge. Learn more here.
L-Carnitine
The amino acid L-carnitine is naturally produced in the body to help produce energy. The supplement L-carnitine supports normal metabolic flexibility and the healthy use of fat for fuel while maintaining lean muscle (1).
Check out L-carnitine in CentreSprindMD’s exclusive weight loss drip.
Food Sensitivity Testing and Gut Function Analysis
Food sensitivities and inflammation within the gut can interfere with nutrient absorption and the gut microbiome often resulting in weight gain.
A functional doctor will help you identify underlying dietary triggers so you know which foods are right for your digestive system, and which could be causing you problems.
A gut function analysis can also identify nutrient absorption issues or underlying infections such as SIBO or Candida overgrowth, reducing your body’s ability to digest and absorb nutrients and food.
A gut function analysis measures 5 biomarkers of gut health, including:
- Malabsorption
- Inflammation
- Dysbiosis
- Metabolic imbalance
- Infection
Is your gut standing in the way of healthy weight loss? Contact CentreSpringMD for gut function analysis and food sensitivity testing.
Weight Loss Peptides
Ozempic, Mounjaro, and other semaglutide drugs have seen a dramatic rise in popularity recently, as these medication have helped many people lose weight and reduce risk for developing chronic metabolic conditions like type 2 diabetes.
Semaglutide medications work primarily by improving insulin sensitivity, which is how well your cells take up glucose into cells after eating foods. This is important because when your body isn’t able to take up glucose as efficiently, it can lead to weight gain.
Ozempic works by binding to the GLP-1 receptor, which stimulates insulin production in response to meals and helps with glucose uptake into cells. While this drug is effective at improving insulin resistance, one noticeable effect is weight loss.
Weight loss peptides may be a helpful tool for some people, but it’s important to talk to your provider about the benefits and risks of using medications to help with weight loss.
Curious about Ozempic, Mounjaro, or Wegovy? Contact a patient care coordinator.
Hormonal Weight Gain
Is Insulin the ‘Fat Storage Hormone’?
Recent research suggests that one major cause of weight gain is not an imbalance of calories in vs. calories out, but rather a disruption in hormones, especially the hormone insulin (2). Insulin helps your body use glucose for energy, which comes from carbohydrates in your diet.
Due to various factors like stress, obesity, or a high-carbohydrate diet, your body can become more insulin resistant over time, which promotes fat storage (2). The less efficiently your body uses insulin, the higher risk you have for developing conditions like type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Studies suggest that by limiting carbohydrates you can minimize insulin, therefore instead of accumulating fat, your body starts mobilizing it, and synthesizing ketones out of it to use as fuel.
Metagenics Glucose Control supports a healthy response to insulin, promoting normal blood sugar levels and the healthful use of body fat for fuel.
Other Hormonal Imbalances
Other hormones contribute to body composition and weight as well, like DHEA and testosterone, which regulate the rate at which you burn (or store) fat (3). Your functional doctor may also test your hormone levels to ensure healthy endocrine function, and this applies to both men’s and women’s hormone levels.
Are you middle aged or beyond? Struggling with low energy, weight gain, mood swings, or fertility troubles? Test your hormone levels and get on the path to better balance today.
Environmental Toxins and ‘Obesogens‘
Is there such a thing as toxins that cause weight gain? Research suggests that yes, to the extent that scientists call these compounds which promote weight gain obesogens (4).
Obesogens are compounds that alter lipid metabolism and fat storage, affect metabolism, and disrupt appetite or energy balance to promote the accumulation of fat and obesity (5).
They include endocrine disruptors like parabens and phthalates, but also toxins that are almost ubiquitous in our food, water, and air. If your exposure to environmental toxins is high, your natural detoxification pathways may need extra support.
Orthomolecular Core Restore is a comprehensive 7- or 14-day diet, lifestyle and nutrient program designed to reduce toxic burden and support Phase I and II liver detoxification function.
Integrative Medicine + Weight Loss
Getting to a healthy weight doesn’t have to be a discouraging or frustrating process. Even though losing weight can seem complex, you can bypass methods not suited to your body by consulting directly with an integrative physician.
Treatments that achieve real, sustainable weight loss need to be as dynamic and individualized as patients themselves, and integrative medicine can help you accomplish your goals.
Learn more about the CentreSpringMD approach to weight loss. If you’re ready to get started with an integrative team, contact our office now.
Resources
- https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1113/jphysiol.2010.201343
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5487935/
- https://www.hormone.org/your-health-and-hormones/glands-and-hormones-a-to-z/hormones/dehydroepiandrosterone-dhea
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279464/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5359373/
