Often when people answer this question, they come up will all kinds of excuse as to why they don’t feel so good.
• I’m tired, but I didn’t sleep well.
• I feel pretty good, except for my back.
• I’m worn out, but I’m just stressed at work.

Sound familiar? Well, you know what they say about excuses right?
Why do we feel the need to make excuses about how we feel? Would it be so wrong to admit that we feel lousy? Unrested? Unhealthy? Unsatisfied? Why must feel always deny our true feeling and cover up for our poor health? Is it because we know, deep down, that we should feel better? Is it because it’s been so long since we’ve felt good?
What happened along the way? How did we get to the point where it takes six snoozes and a couple cups of coffee to get up in the morning?

Remember the good old days when you where full of energy and free of aches, pains, and poor health.
This is your chance to regain your health!

We have found that Americans almost universally do not get enough nutrients in their body and at the same time have way too many toxins in their body. Using the BioImpedance Analyzer we are able to quickly and easily measure your nutritional status. After reviewing your personal health history and the results of any other tests that we feel are important, we can provide you with a plan to help restore your health and feel good again by giving your body the specific nutrients that YOUR BODY needs.

Research has shown that body composition is directly related to health. A normal balance of body fat is associated with good health and longevity. Excess fat in relation to lean body mass, known as altered body composition, can greatly increase your risks to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and more. BIA fosters early detection of an improper balance in your body composition, which allows for earlier intervention and prevention.

BIA provides a measurement of fluid and body mass that can be a critical assessment tool for your current state of health.

BIA also measures your progress as you improve your health. Improving your BIA measurement, or maintaining a healthy BIA measurement, can help keep your body functioning properly for healthy aging. Your BIA results can help guide us in creating a personalized dietary plan, including nutritional supplements when appropriate, and exercise to help you maintain optimal health and wellbeing for a lifetime.

In a matter of a few minutes the BIA provides us with very accurate measurements of your:

1. Phase Angle: Reflects cell membrane integrity and overall cellular health. Cell membrane is made of cholesterol and omega 3 fatty acids.

2. Intracellular Water (ICW): Increases in ICW indicate improved nutrition status and improved overall health

3. Extracellular Water (ECW): Increases in ECW indicates toxicity, inflammation, acidity, infection, and/or mineral imbalance.

4. Fat Mass: Excess levels are associated with all major degenerative diseases. Fat stores toxins, converts healthy hormones to toxic hormones and opposes insulin.

5. Lean Body Mass (LDM): Optimum levels are associated with healthy aging, vitality, and better resilience against stressors.

Pricing:

60 minute (specific area) $85
90 minute (full session) $115
120 minute $135

$10 off first full session for new clients (90 or 120 minute sessions only)

Testimonials:

I honestly can’t say enough on how much Heather has helped me with the her Thai yoga massage. My very first session I came in not being able to walk very well and my lower back was very strained. My neck was also very tight, my calves felt like a rock and I had extremely sore muscles from doing an intense workout the day prior. I really didn’t think much could help me when my body was in this much strain. Boy, was I completely and utterly wrong!!! My first session with Heather was 2 hours and I can say it was one of the best 2 hours of my life! I have never felt my body release so much strain and stress in this short amount of time in my life. She stretched my limbs, massaged my achy muscles and did pressure point therapy on all those exact spots that really needed the attention the most. She does all the work as my body is put into yoga-like stretches. My mind went into a relaxing meditation as she did her magic. About an hour in the session, by body felt warm, flexible and relaxed. My muscles released that horrible tightness I was feeling all day and my neck could turn with ease. After the 2nd hour, I was a believer, Thai Yoga massage is exactly what my body has been searching for! Since then, I have done many more sessions and my body is finally getting so much better.

I have been going to massage therapists for years and I saw them very regularly since my occupation is very physical and I am always feeling the need to get those aches and pains worked out so I can get up the next day. When I received massages, I got a quick release of pain and for a few days my body felt a bit better but then after about 5 days, I was back in the same spot I was prior and needed that release of pain again. This got extremely expensive and I felt as though I was putting a band-aid on the situation instead of really fixing the deep problems I was having with my lower back and neck. I was extremely frustrated and just couldn’t figure out how to deal with this problem, and I was almost to the point of taking pain medications daily, which I really didn’t want to do, I am only 27!

I now no longer have to see a massage therapist, since I have been seeing Heather, there just isn’t the need anymore. With her type of therapy, my body can feel young again and rejuvenated. She has changed my body from being very weak, strained and sensitive to a very strong, reliable and pain free body. I see her once a week for 2 hours, and I can’t remember the last time I was thinking about my back aching or my neck being tight, that just doesn’t happen anymore. All of those thoughts are in the past!

It’s those little things like walking my dog every day now since my body has gotten so much better where in the past, I just couldn’t bear to walk that long every day. It’s the times where I go to the gym and I can actually spend a good hour there on the treadmill and do squats and lunges without my back and legs giving out. I use to have my massage therapists on speed dial, but now I just have my regular weekly session with heather, and I can live a much more normal and pain free life. I finally feel my age once and for all!

I am so grateful and thankful I found Heather, for what she has done for my mind, body and soul. Heather is very attentive to all of my physical needs. She is so friendly and comfortable to be around, and I look forward every week to our session. It’s a time I can just let my mind at ease and feel my body getting so much stronger and better. She has made a huge difference in my life and would recommend her to anyone!

Sarah S.

I cannot be more pleased with my whole experience of Thai Yoga Bodywork. I didn’t know what Thai Yoga Massage was when I first saw Heather and now I’m completely sold! Heather is incredibly talented in terms of manipulating the body into different yoga poses. It is not only relaxing, but also a great stretch to the entire body. Heather truly has a healing gift! I noticed that in the days after the massage that my energy level was very high. My body felt more balanced and open than it was in weeks. I feel very grounded and focused, and can’t wait to dive deeper. I would highly recommend Heather to anyone who wants to give a pure gift to themselves.

Amanda W.

I have recently spent more time in drugs stores than I would like helping my sister on her journey through (and hopefully to the other side of) cancer. Rite Aid, CVS and Walgreens all had large diabetes sections offering support for a “diabetes lifestyle”—glucose monitors, lancets, blood pressure cuffs, medications, supplements and pharmacy magazines heavily supported by pharmaceutical advertising. Patients are encouraged to get their eye check ups, monitor their blood pressure, track their blood sugars, have foot exams and see their doctor’s regularly for better management of their blood sugars—all apparently sensible advice for diabetics.

But what if type 2 diabetes could be completely reversed? What if it wasn’t, as we believe, an inexorable, progressive disease that has to be better “managed” by our health care system with better drugs, surgery and coordination of care? What if intensive lifestyle and dietary changes could completely reverse diabetes?

A ground breaking new study in Diabetologia proved that, indeed, type 2 diabetes can be reversed through diet changes, and, the study showed, this can happen quickly: in 1 to 8 weeks. That turns our perspective on diabetes upside down. Diabetes is not a one-way street.
If we have a known cure, a proven way to reverse this disease, shouldn’t we be focused on implementing programs to scale this cure?
We used to believe that once cells in your pancreas that make insulin (beta cells) poop out there was no reviving them and your only hope was more medication or insulin. We now know that is not so.

Continuing misconceptions about what causes diabetes and our unwillingness to embrace methods know to reverse it have lead to a catastrophic increase in the illness. Today one in four Americans over 60 years old has type 2 diabetes. By 2020, one in two Americans will have pre-diabetes or diabetes. Tragically, physicians will miss the diagnosis for ninety percent with pre-diabetes or diabetes. (Below I tell you exactly what tests to ask your doctor to perform and how to interpret them).

From 1983 to 2008, world-wide diabetes incidence has increased 7 fold from 35 to 240 million. Remarkably, in just the last 3 years from 2008 to 2011, we have added another 110 million to the diabetes roll call. And increasingly small children as young as eight are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (formerly called adult onset diabetes). They are having strokes at 15 years old and needing cardiac bypasses at 25 year old. The economic burden of caring for these people with pre-diabetes and diabetes will be $3.5 trillion over 10 years.
If we have a known cure, a proven way to reverse this disease, shouldn’t we be focused on implementing programs to scale this cure? Unfortunately despite this extraordinary new research, the findings will likely be pushed aside in favor of the latest greatest pill or surgical technique because behavior and lifestyle change is “hard.” In fact, with the right conditions and support, lifestyle diet and lifestyle change is very achievable.

What did research show?

Reversing Diabetes: Can it Be Done in a Week?

The study, entitled Reversal of type 2 diabetes: normalization of beta cell function in association with decrease pancreas and liver triglycerides, was exquisitely done. The bottom line: A dramatic diet change (protein shake, low glycemic load, plant-based low-calorie diet but no exercise) in diabetics reversed most features of diabetes within one week and all features by eight weeks. That’s right, diabetes was reversed in one week. That’s more powerful than any drug known to modern science.

We know from gastric bypass patients that with rapid changes in diet right after surgery, within just a few days, without significant weight loss, diabetes goes away—fatty livers heal, cholesterol levels plummet. Some theorized it was because of changes in the stomach hormones related to the gastric surgery. Others, including the researchers of this new study surmised that maybe it was just the drastic change in diet. So they went about studying just the diet change without surgery.

They studied 11 people with diabetes and compared them to a control group. Through very sophisticated techniques including MRI imaging, they measured their blood sugar and insulin responses, cholesterol levels and fat in the pancreas and liver (some of the hallmarks of diabetes) before and after diet changes at 1, 4 and 8 weeks.

What they found was revolutionary. The beta cells—the pancreas’ insulin producing cells—woke up, and the fat deposits in the pancreas and liver went away. Blood sugars normalized in just one week, triglycerides dropped in half in one week and reduced 10-fold in eight weeks. The body’s cells became more insulin sensitive and essentially, in just 8 weeks, all evidence of diabetes was gone and the diabetic patients looked just like the normal controls on all the testing.

While this may be surprising to most, it is something I see regularly in my medical practice. With focused, strategic, scientifically based nutritional intervention, combined with exercise, stress management and sugar and insulin balancing nutritional supplements, many of my patients completely reverse their diabetes. And the side effects—more energy, better sleep, improved sexual function and weight loss—are all good.

What most don’t realize is that pre-diabetes and diabetes exist on a continuum and both dramatically increase the risk of heart attacks, stroke, cancer, infertility, sexual dysfunction, depression and dementia. You don’t have to get diabetes to be at risk for all those problems. That is why it is so important to get your doctor to diagnose pre-diabetes early and implement an intensive lifestyle program to help you reserve it.

You may be at risk if you have extra belly fat, have a family history of diabetes, gestational diabetes, are in at risk ethnic group (Asian, Hispanic, African American, Native American, Middle Eastern), have high triglycerides (> 150 mg/dl) or a low HDL (< 50 mg/dl) or have high blood pressure.

If any of these apply to you or you have other cause for concern, here is what to do.

How to Reverse Your Diabetes

First, get your doctor to test the following:
1. A 75-gram glucose tolerance test measuring BOTH glucose and insulin fasting and 1 and 2 hours later. Your fasting blood sugar should be less than 100 mg/dl and your 1 and 2 hour sugar levels should be less than 130 mg/dl. Your fasting insulin should be less than 10, and your 1 and 2 hour levels should be less than 35.
2. Triglycerides should be less than 150 mg/dl and HDL (good cholesterol) should be over 50 mg/dl, and the triglyceride to HDL ratio should be less than 4. These ranges are meaningful only if you are on no medication.
3. Newer cholesterol tests measure the size of your cholesterol particles and is very effective in diagnosing problems with pre-diabetes early. In fact, this is the only cholesterol test we should be performing.
And here’s the program I use for my patients to reverse diabetes:
1. Eat a low glycemic load, high fiber, plant-based diet of vegetables, beans, nuts, limited whole grains, fruit and lean animal protein
2. Vigorous exercise (fast walking, running, biking, etc.) 30 minutes 4-5 times a week and strength training 20 minutes 3 times a week
3. Take a good multivitamin, fish oil, vitamin D and blood sugar and insulin balancing nutrients (including chromium and alpha lipoic acid)
Remember, pre-diabetes and diabetes is not a one way street and the solution is not at the bottom of a pill bottle or the end of an insulin syringe, it is at the end of your fork and in the shoes on your feet!

To your good health,
Mark Hyman, MD

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