Our Approach to Achieving Wellness
Florida Weight Loss and Wellness Clinic provides a medically sound, personalized approach to help patients achieve health goals by integrating traditional, complementary, alternative, lifestyle, and obesity medicine.
Our doctor, certified in obesity, lifestyle, and integrative medicine, combines these specialties to help patients reverse illness and lead healthier lives. She offers monthly medical coaching, treating patients as partners in their journey.
We do not charge costly membership fees or resell medications at high prices. Most care is covered by insurance.
Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle Medicine uses evidence-based therapeutic approaches to prevent, treat, and often reverse lifestyle-related chronic diseases. This medical specialty emphasizes scientifically validated, holistic strategies focusing on nutrition, exercise, and mental health. It is effective in treating obesity, diabetes, pre-diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart disease, and depression.
Principles of Lifestyle Medicine
All factors that influence health, wellness, and disease are taken into consideration, including mind, spirit, and community, as well as the body.
Appropriate use of both conventional and complementary methods facilitates the body's innate healing response.
Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive should be used whenever possible.
Integrative medicine neither rejects conventional medicine nor accepts complementary therapies uncritically.
Good medicine is based in good science. It is inquiry-driven and open to new paradigms.
Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and the prevention of illness are paramount.
Practitioners of integrative medicine should exemplify its principles and commit themselves to self-exploration and self-development.
Obesity Medicine
Obesity medicine is a medical specialty that focuses on helping people manage obesity and related health issues. Obesity medicine physicians are trained to consider a variety of factors that contribute to obesity, including genetics, environment, and lifestyle
What Does an Obesity Medicine Physician Do?
Perform a comprehensive evaluation of a patient's medical history, lifestyle, and weight-related concerns
Create a personalized treatment plan that may include lifestyle changes, medication, or referrals to bariatric surgery
Help patients achieve their weight and health goals
What Approaches Does Obesity Medicine Use?
Behavioral interventions, such as intuitive eating
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Nutritional counseling
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Exercise programs
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Weight loss education
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FDA-approved anti-obesity medications
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Regular monitoring
Integrative Medicine
Integrative medicine combines conventional medical practices with complementary strategies to enhance health and wellness. It relies on science and evidence, prioritizing prevention and health promotion without dismissing or uncritically accepting either approach.
Patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process.
All factors that influence health, wellness, and disease are taken into consideration, including mind, spirit, and community, as well as the body.
Appropriate use of both conventional and complementary methods facilitates the body's innate healing response.
Effective interventions that are natural and less invasive should be used whenever possible.
Integrative medicine neither rejects conventional medicine nor accepts complementary therapies uncritically.
Good medicine is based in good science. It is inquiry-driven and open to new paradigms.
Alongside the concept of treatment, the broader concepts of health promotion and the prevention of illness are paramount.
Practitioners of integrative medicine should exemplify its principles and commit themselves to self-exploration and self-development.
Learn More
Call our office and set up a consultation today. We require the first visit to be in person. However, we offer telemedicine or in-person follow-up appointments.
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