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Stress
Sleep
Neurotransmitter Imbalances
Thyroid Fatigue
Sex Hormone Imbalances
Insulin Resistance
Gut Dysbiosis
Toxic Burden

Stress: Humans are equipped to experience short bouts of stress, not chronic stress. Chronic stress creates a constant surge of cortisol, our stress hormone, which blocks the ability to lose fat, breaks down muscle, and slows your metabolism.

Sleep: Chronic sleep deprivation increases cortisol, appetite, and sugar cravings, and decreases insulin sensitivity. Sleep deprivation also increases ghrelin, the body's hunger hormone, and decreases leptin, the body's satiety hormone. This leads to overeating and weight gain.

Neurotransmitter Imbalances: Imbalances lead to sleep problems and sugar cravings. Certain neurotransmitters affect hunger and satiety centers in the brain. Assessing your neurotransmitters through a urine test, and using targeted amino acid therapy to balance them will help you to reduce cravings and reward behaviors.

Thyroid Fatigue: Thyroid issues affect your body's ability to build muscle and burn calories. The thyroid is involved with regulating your metabolism. Since Iodine is the major part of the thyroid hormones, an iodine-loading urine test will be done to ensure that your body has a sufficient amount of iodine.

Sex Hormone Imbalances: Imbalances promote fat storage and insulin resistance. Imbalances also affect the body's ability to build muscle and burn fat.

Insulin Resistance: Blocks fat burning and increases fat storage around the abdomen, as well as inflammation. Insulin resistance lowers serotonin, leading to depressed moods and sugar cravings.

Gut Dysbiosis: Gut bacteria create false fat around the abdomen due to cellular fluid retention, stores calories as fat, and increases food cravings.

Toxic Burden: Overloads the liver with toxins and slows your metabolism, as well as decreasing the absorption of nutrients.

More than 60 percent of US adults are overweight and 25 percent are considered obese. One in four children are overweight, causing an increased risk of chronic illness.