NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT - Optimum Health Telehealth: Wellness Resource

Nutritional Assessments Vital for Optimum Health

Nutritional assessments are vital for optimum health. An accurate nutritional assessment can guide you to your optimum health status much in the way directions, a map, or GPS will guide you to your desired destination when you arrive in a new city. We take the guesswork out of it and steer you directly to your optimum health status!

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Appointments are done using Teams, which eliminates the need to come to our office.

Developing Our Nutritional Assessment

To develop the nutritional assessment used at Optimum Health, we cross-referenced two schools of thought. We cross-referenced what the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine presented in their syllabi for biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy courses with alternative health’s understanding of symptoms associated with nutritional deficiencies. This meant comparing the medical understanding of the body with symptoms understood by alternative health. Any understanding of alternative health that did not conform to the syllabi was dismissed as unreliable and possibly without factual basis. Next, we added all agreements between both schools of thought to the nutritional assessment.

An exceptional understanding of the human body resulted from the above approach. For example, traditional health has established as fact that the heart uses calcium as a part of its conduction system. On the other hand, alternative health considers irregular heartbeats a symptom of calcium deficiency. This is an agreement between the two schools of thought.

Over the course of five years, we made major adjustments to the nutritional assessment. Then, we copyrighted the process. Finally, we continue to make minor adjustments to incorporate new discoveries.

Performing the Nutritional Assessment

The nutritional assessment answers are reviewed with each client for accuracy. Then, we carefully explain the areas of nutritional deficiency. Next, we make dietary and supplementation suggestions to address all nutritional deficiencies. Finally, we pay special attention to protein deficiencies, as protein is a key nutrient for healing.

Symptom-Based Nutritional Assessments

We have studied the symptoms of nutritional deficiencies in our clients for over 20 years. The resulting comprehensive, copyrighted list of symptoms and their severity is extremely useful for detecting even the slightest nutritional deficiency. We help you understand why it makes more sense to give the body the nutrients it is asking for rather than the harmful medicines often recommended. Look at the following examples:

**Symptom-Based Nutritional Assessment Table**
	NUTRIENT BEING ASKED FOR	MEDICINE RECOMMENDED
Trouble Sleeping at Night	Calcium The bones absorb a lot of calcium while you sleep, as this is the best time to rebuild bones while you are not using them for movement. When the bones absorb the calcium from your blood, your blood levels can drop too low to keep the melatonin flowing at high enough levels to make you have restful sleep. Therefore, when you have trouble sleeping, your body may be asking for more calcium at night. Make sure you choose effective sources of lecithin and calcium.	Sleeping Pills This does not address the problem of insufficient calcium to keep melatonin levels flowing and strengthen the bones. So, eventually, you may develop low bone density and get diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis.
Excessive Sadness	B Vitamins The B vitamins are your happy vitamins. They help keep you energized and loving life. Without enough of them or with an improper balance of them, you may become saddened and sluggish or fatigued. A physician may even diagnose you with depression. However, you may also have problems with your hair falling out, your menstrual cycle lasting longer than 3 days, and much more. Why? Because these are B vitamin deficiency symptoms as well. Make sure you choose effective B vitamin sources.	Anti-Depressants This does not address the problem of too little B vitamins, so the many other symptoms of a B vitamin deficiency do not get addressed. It would be more advantageous to take a single pill that addresses all the symptoms!
Joint Stiffness	Lecithin Lecithin is an oil your body uses to lubricate joints and reduce inflammation that leads to stiffness. Make sure you choose effective lecithin sources. Various Minerals Many minerals are needed to keep the joints flexible and the joint tissues pliable. Curcumin Curcumin is a part of the root called turmeric. It has natural anti-inflammatory properties that can eliminate stiffness and its associated pain. Cartilage Cartilage is found at the tip of a chicken leg or in between any spinal column joints, such as turkey necks or ox tails. Your body will use cartilage to rebuild the tips of bones, preventing and/or healing bone-on-bone damage.	Pain Killers, Steroids These do not address the true problem in the joint. Therefore, you continue to use the joint because you do not feel the pain. Finally, you destroy it to the point of a physician recommending surgery without ever affording your body the opportunity to have all the nutrients needed to heal itself.

Nutrients Assessed During Nutritional Assessment

We assess the status of your protein, vitamin C, B vitamins, Vitamin E, calcium, magnesium, iron, and water levels. These substances are extremely important for healing and optimum health.

We also assess the things that can make your nutritional needs skyrocket, such as stress, toxins, and constipation. Finally, we consider the things that can decrease the availability of your nutrients such as digestive issues and the possibility of heavy metal toxicity. We put everything together for you in what we call a Recipe for Health. The Recipe for Health lists all the steps needed to help your body fully recover to its optimum health status.

The Results of the Nutritional Assessment

As a result, people scheduled for pacemakers had their calcium deficiency corrected. We were surprised when their physicians stated that they “No longer needed pacemakers.” Clients with diabetic neuropathy began to feel cotton rubbed across their skin. Also, clients with allergies became free of them. Finally, we came to expect beautiful healing when the nutritional assessment results were followed. Now, nearly three decades later, our clients continue to get awesome results.

Implementing Your Recipe for Health

We help you implement your Recipe for Health. During this time, the goal will be to help you rewire your system and eliminate harmful toxins that impede healing. Rewiring your system with supplements will allow your body to begin asking for water and healthier foods. For example, the rewiring will cause your body to ask for foods that don’t trigger excessive insulin release. This will cause your body to leave fat storage mode. In turn, your body will decrease and/or stop craving sugar-producing foods.

Keep in mind that each person is different. Therefore, each person will reach each stage of this process at the time that is right for the individual person.

…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 Hour Nutritional Assessment $250

…………………………………………………………………………… All follow-up appointments are billed at $250/hr