Medicine for people seeking holistic choices

I've decided to be happy, because it is good for my health.

- Voltaire

Beyond Weight Loss

Beginning mid-January 2010 we are pleased to offer a coherent 8-hour workshop to help you achieve substantial reduction in illness precursors. This workshop will be offered monthly in various venues in North Carolina.The workshop builds on up-to-date lifestyle medicine science to teach you the array of choices—food, nutritional supplementation, rest, exercise, stress management—that will reduce your health risk factors, improve your body composition, mood and energy, and help you move into the life you want to live.

The workshop will:

• Recommend specific biochemical blood tests the results of which should be brought to the seminar. These key metabolic markers will be used to assess your specific risks for chronic and acute illness/disease. Instruction will be provided on how to obtain these tests if you do not have a primary care provider who will order them or if they have not already been done in the last 6 months.
• Assess your body composition using a Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis Instrument and other body measurements. You will be instructed on interpreting this information and using it to both assess your risks and measure your progress. Body weight alone is a poor measure of your risks and progress.
• Assess your specific stress response type and develop specific techniques and supplements to modify them.
• Demonstrate how exercise and diet are not sufficient when undertaken alone and are unlikely to lead to lasting alterations in your risks for serious illness.
• Provide you with the latest scientific information regarding core physiological mechanisms in the development of, and natural products and techniques to treat 

• Elevated Blood cholesterol 
• Elevated Blood Pressure
• Elevated Blood Sugar
• Insulin resistance
• Insomnia
• Mood disorders
• Digestive Disorders
• Sleep Apnea
• Many degenerative and inflammatory diseases

•  Help you to define your most important health related goals and develop a system to track your response to the program you will design for yourself as a result of this workshop.
• You will leave the workshop with a comprehensive plan that includes a modified Mediterranean Diet, specific supplement recommendations, a stress response modification plan and specific goals for an exercise program. The plan will include options for how to find and maintain a relationship with a coach to help you keep to your plans
• If you are already on medication for cholesterol, hypertension, mood or sleep disorders you will be provided with information on how to safely and responsibly lower and then discontinue these medications (or CPAP in the case of sleep apnea) as you lower your risk factors naturally through lifestyle modification – the techniques now recommended by most specialty medical societies.

Workshop schedule is as follows:

January 16 - Saturday (closed)

February 13 - Saturday

March 20 - Saturday

April 23 - Friday

May 18 - Tuesday

June 19 - Saturday

Cost of workshop and required labs:   $325

 To learn more about these workshops, click:  Put me on Your ‘Beyond Weight Loss’ Workshop Mailing List.

To register for the workshop go to the following website, create an account, go to “Online Shopping” and search for Workshop or Workshop plus labs. You will be able to securely purchase either option with your credit card. Additional information including location and specific instructions on how to prepare for the workshop will be sent to you after we receive your registration. http://www.michaelsharpmd.meta-ehealth.com/