Category: Nutrition
Nutritional Medicine – The Lipodissolve Clinic Blog
Toni Bark, MD, has been practicing nutritional and classical homeopathic medicine in the Chicago area since the early 1990s. She graces the list of “Top Doctors” in Chicago Magazine for 2005. As an early pioneer in the study of bio-identical hormone, she has lectured on their role in women’s healthcare to the public and professionals. She was also medical director for one of the very first integrative medical centers and created an integrative medical department at Good Shepherd Hospital, in Barrington Illinois.
Dr. Bark and her collegues devise individual nutritional protocols based upon metabolic analysis of each patient. Dr. Bark looks at blood type, hormonal assesments, and insulin resistance to assist her in her nutritional and hormonal prescriptions.
For more details on these tests, go to disease-reversal.com
Dr. Bark believes that in addition to performing Lipodissolve or Mesotherapy, the whole patient must be assesed and examined for better long-term results.
Click here for more details on Dr. Bark’s philosophy.
Glowing Beautiful Skin – The Lipodissolve Clinic Blog
One often hears how healthy someone looks. What prompts people to say that someone looks healthy?
Most often, it is subtle cues such as texture of skin, even skin tone with a mild glow and bright eyes. Many of these features are interpreted unconsciously to be equivalent with health, vigor and youth.
Proper skin care and true health promote this glow and great skin texture.
poor nutrition with lack of exercise can take away from good skin tone and glow.
Many patients walk in to my Chicago area office complaining of dull looking skin and poor skin texture. In addition to possible fillers, many are in need of nutrients on and in their skin
A great skin nutrient delivery system are micro-dermal needles. This creates deep penetration of nutrients and a wonderful response of increased blood and therefore oxygen to the skin, bathing the firbroblasts in nutrients and improving the skin texture.
How do you know if you are getting all the nutrients you need? How do you know if you are absorbing all the nutrients you take in?
The gold standard is an intracellular level of vitamins, minerals, co-factors and anti-oxidants. This can be performed from a blood test. If Levels are low but you believe yourself to be obtaining ample amounts, digestive issues can be at play.
Beauty is not only skin deep, health factors into looks and how someone fells about them self. Next time you’re thinking of going to a botox factory clinic, think again and come to a clinic where you health and beauty needs are met inside and out.
All Calories Are Not Created Equal – The Lipodissolve Clinic Blog
Many patients come to my Evanston office expecting me to perform repeated sessions of lipodissolve for their weight problem. I won’t and I don’t. Lipodissolve is a localized fat loss procedure, not a weight loss procedure and is inappropriate as a treatment for obesity.
The exceptions are that I will treat a buffalo hump, double chin, or droopy jowls on an obese person, I just won’t treat the body.
In these instances, I have the patient return for a one to two hour medical and nutritional evaluation. I examine closely the patients behaviors around food and choices. For patients with eating addiction, I recommend attending overeaters anonymous (OA). for patients making bad choices, I teach them how to reduce insulin levels.
Historically, we were all told that in order to lose weight, calories in had to be less than calories expended. and vice versa. now we know that not all calories are created equal.
When we eat something that turns to glucose quickly, we produce insulin. and if we don’t utilize the glucose, we create storage fat via the insulin. the more carbs we eat, the more insulin we need. over time we become resistant to insulin and keep requiring more to deal with our glucose. This process creates more and more storage fat, or triglycerides.
If we eat half an avocado vs half of a bagel, we have no insulin stimulation although we’ve eaten the same amount of calories that the bagel might have. Over time, when we make smart choices, we become less insulin resistant, or more insulin sensitive. This enables us to feel more stable, less starved prior to meals and our triglyceride production is greatly reduced.
So remember, it’s not the calories that ruin us, but our hormonal response to the calories.
