Welcome to a New Approach to Healthcare

What are the steps of our evolutionary healthcare process?

Your initial consultation will consist of sitting down with one of our healthcare professionals and assessing all

• Physical – patient’s current physical fitness, including a state of the art body composition analysis.
• Emotional / Mental – conditions in the patient’s home or work that might contribute to emotional upheaval.
• Spiritual – what is the patient’s belief system?
• Environmental – assess factors including air quality or noise pollution, that could contribute to stress.
• Genetics – family history of high cholesterol, heart disease, cancer, or other conditions that could be hereditary.

Your consultation will aid us in determining consistent patterns that are contributing to, and supporting, known imbalances (manifesting as unwelcome symptoms) and/or may be increasing your risk for future imbalance/symptoms/disease. We will:

• Identify group patterns that clearly point to the source or root cause of the imbalance(s) in health.
• Educate you in regards to the evaluation results and their connection to your current state of health
• Design a health action plan for restoration to optimum health and determine the priority of action steps. These steps might include:
  • Nutrition Therapy
  • Critical nutritional supplements
  • Appropriate testing
  • Manual physical therapy, massage therapy, clinical hypnotherapy, far-infrared sauna therapy, therapeutic skin-care therapy
  • Referral to patient’s conventional healthcare providers for further evaluation, testing, appropriate screening, possible medication therapies.
  • Referral to other therapies outside NGC, as needed.

• Guide/Support/Champion you through the restoration process with professional monitoring, evaluation of on-going response to therapy and re-adjust health action plan, as needed.

Time and again, the result from this process is the evolution of the patient from a previously lesser state of health to a newly transformed optimum state of health. The patient is not only now armed with an improved state of health but also with tools to reduce his/her risk of both acute and chronic illness and other so-called “signs of aging”.

What is Functional Medicine?

The term “functional medicine” was coined in 1993 to describe the medicine of the future. Today, many complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, practitioners use a functional medicine approach that includes the following:

1. Patient uniqueness: Each individual is unique. This uniqueness encompasses voluntary activities, such as decision-making, personality development, and emotional response, and involuntary activities like metabolism of nutrients, cellular processing of information, and communication among the body’s organ systems. Functional medicine professionals realize that all individuals have unique metabolic patterns that affect their health needs and thus, the concept of individuality is central to every aspect of functional medicine, from clinical assessment and diagnosis to treatment. 

2. Patient-centered approach: Functional medicine practitioners use a patient-centered approach. This means that in addition to considering the overall health of the patient, functional medicine practitioners consider the beliefs, attitudes, and motivations, as well as the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of the patient.

3. Preventive care: Optimal health is not just the absence of disease. Even the most minor symptoms can foreshadow more serious conditions later in life. This often happens via the “snowball effect,” in which a “minor” imbalance within the body produces a cascade of biological triggers that can eventually lead to poor health and chronic illness. For this reason, functional medicine focuses on the prevention, instead of just the treatment of, even the most minor imbalances.

Through changes in lifestyle, environment, and nutrition, functional medicine professionals rely on their knowledge of key physiological, genetic, and biochemical processes for establishing an innovative form of total patient wellness amidst the diversity of interests in health care today.