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Clinical "CSI" for Your Body
Metabolic Investigation Reveals Why Good Intentioned Weight Loss Plans Fail
| Source: LaValle Metabolic Institute
CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwire - February 11, 2008) - Don't beat yourself up if your resolution to
lose a few pounds fails. It may not be your fault.
Metabolic expert Jim LaValle says if you've always struggled to lose
weight, then it's a sign that there may be other factors involved that
require more than just the basic nutrition and exercise advice. He says
the body's metabolism plays a much bigger role than most realize and
affects everything from fatigue and weight gain to high blood pressure,
elevated blood sugar and food cravings.
"Most people associate metabolism with the body's ability to burn calories
and maintain a healthy body weight," says LaValle, a board certified
clinical nutritionist and pharmacist. "But actually metabolism refers to
the metabolic pathways that influence your total health."
LaValle says everyone has a unique chemistry makeup, which he refers to as
your "metabolic code," and depending on what that code is determines what
strategies work best for improving your health. He defines metabolism as
the sum total of all the biochemical processes going on in the body, which
create your current and future health profile.
"If you are overweight, depressed, experiencing memory loss or have any
other puzzling health problem, it's usually an indication that your
metabolism is off balance," says LaValle, who founded the LaValle Metabolic
Institute in Cincinnati to provide comprehensive healthcare to individuals
looking to improve a condition they are struggling with and to optimize
current performance. "The metabolism is influenced by a complex web of
factors that affect your health. When we examine a patient's metabolism
it's like going to a crime scene; there are always clues that lead to
reasons why they have been robbed of good health."
Excess caffeine, refined sugars, lack of sleep, stress and your environment
are some of the factors that can influence metabolism. Even medication can
change the metabolism and cause nutrient depletion in the body leading to a
new symptom. LaValle says you must first crack your "metabolic code" to
have success with weight loss goals, regaining energy, managing stress,
sleeping better or even lowering cholesterol.
A personal metabolic assessment entails: evaluating strengths and
weaknesses through a metabolic questionnaire; biofeedback to check organ
balance; traditional laboratory analysis to reveal levels of inflammation,
insulin resistance and hormonal regulation and vitamin D status; an organic
acid urine test to look for the 60 plus markers of metabolic efficiency
including energy production, detoxification, carbohydrate metabolism and
neurotransmitter metabolism; a environmental profile to look at toxins and
check the body's mineral status; neurotransmitting and adrenal hormones to
find underlying causes for depression, anxiety and other spectrum
disorders; and estrogen metabolic test, for women, to determine if estrogen
metabolites are favorable or unfavorably on the metabolism.
LaValle's Metabolic Institute is one of the leading interdisciplinary
clinics in the country. He has over 20 years of experience in clinical
practice, written over a dozen books, teaches at the University of
Cincinnati College of Pharmacy and College of Medicine and educates
physicians, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals worldwide on
metabolic health. LaValle's clinic attracts patients nationwide when
conventional medicine approaches fall short. The initial metabolic
assessment is $300 (some of the lab work may be covered by your health
insurance provider). You can learn more at: http://www.lmihealth.com or
LaValle's book, "Cracking The Metabolic Code," (Basic Health Publications,
2004). His second book on the metabolic code diet will be released later
this year.