First Line Therapy and Medical Food Programs

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), chronic diseases are the leading causes of death and disability in the U.S. These illnesses are responsible for 7 of every 10 deaths and consume 78% of all health care expenditures. Many of these conditions are caused by unhealthy lifestyles. Changing and managing these choices are essential to restoring health and vitality.

FirstLine Therapy (FLT) is a comprehensive program that will provide you with the knowledge you need to make healthy lifestyle choices. Through one on one counseling and education, this program will help you incorporate an individualized dietary and exercise plan along with nutritional supplementation and stress mangement.

"Inadequate intakes of specific nutrients may produce more than one disease, may produce diseases by more than one mechanism, and require several years for the consequent morbidity to be sufficiently evident to be clinically recognizable as disease.

- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 78, No.5,912-919, November 2003

Some Lifestyle-Related Chronic Health Problems are:

• Elevated Cholesterol
• Elevated Blood Pressure
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Overweight/Obesity
• Type 2 Diabetes
• Insulin Resistance or Metabolic Syndrome
• Osteoporosis
• Osteoarthritis
• Conditions Related to Aging