Complimentary Medicine

Cosmetic Acupuncture

If you want to look your best, revitalized and full of life, then Cosmetic acupuncture is for you. Cosmetic acupuncture utilizes an ancient needling technique that brings increased Qi and blood flow. The practitioner uses point selections on the body to complete the balancing of energy. This results in an overall rejuvenation effect of body, mind and spirit.

Many factors contribute to the visible signs of aging including sun damage, smoking, stress, diet and lifestyle. This anti-aging treatment affects your overall health in a positive way.

Benefits:

• Tightness of the abdominal area and loss of inches
• Improvement in the fine lines of the face and a diminishing effect on deeper wrinkles
• Moisturized, softer skin and a more even skin tone
• Improved muscle tone and firmer jaw line
• Reduction in puffiness due to improved metabolism
• Reduction or elimination of rosacea and acne
• Enhanced energy
• Better sense of well being
• Improved digestion
• Decrease in postural and back pain issues
• Increased libido
• Reduction in conditions such as insomnia, hot flashes, depression, mild anxiety and digestive symptoms

FirstLine Therapy Can Help You Regain Health

FirstLine Therapy (FLT) is a specialized therapeutic lifestyle change program unlike any other. The FLT system targets the underlying causes of chronic illnesses by incorporating a sensible eating plan, exercise, nutritional supplementation, and stress management. In fact the following key characteristics are unique to the FLT program:

• FLT is not just a weight loss program
  Most programs are focused on weight while FLT is best used as a first line treatment for common, chronic health problems (e.g. high cholesterol, insulin resistance, unhealthy body composition).
• The FLT eating plan is different
  Most programs are focused on low fat diets while FLT emphasizes the importance of a low-glycemic eating plan that is consistent with current research.
• FLT incorporates medical foods and nutritional supplements
  The appropriate use of medical foods and supplements enhances program effectiveness and shortens the time it takes for you to achieve risk reduction goals.
• FLT has been demonstrated to be effective in human clinical studies
  Most programs lack clinical evidence of effectiveness.

Getting Started – A Matter of Fat
 
In order to measure your progress, you first need to know your current health status. A variety of health assessments may be performed, including a quick, non-invasive measurement of your body fat and lean muscle mass.

Excess body fat can greatly increase your health risks. But a higher ratio of muscle increases your metabolism and is associated with a lower incidence of illness. Improving your muscle-to-fat ratio is perhaps the most powerful tool in controlling the aging process and restoring vitality. And that's what FirstLine Therapy is all about.

Colon Hydrotherapy

The Colon is 5 1/2 feet long and contains the largest concentration of bacteria in the body.  They provide assistance with the absorption of folic acid, B vitamins and vitamin K from foods.  In a healthy colon, lactobacillus and acidophilus are the dominant 'good' strains of bacteria that greatly outnumber the disease producing 'bad' strains of bacteria.  Waste matter allowed to stagnate within the colon alters the proportion of 'good' bacteria to 'bad' bacteria and the potential for disease can exist.  These 'bad' bacteria decompose and produce toxins.  We build an over-abundance of yeast, we become constipated, we reduce our ability to absorb healthy water and nutirents, we lose concentration and cognitive thinking.  When the toxins are absorbed into circulation they contribute to the production of disease and illness elsewhere in the body.

A healthy colon produces at least two full bowel movements per day and notes a transistion time of 8 hours to 23 hours from stomach to rectum.  It is responsible for a large portion of your daily life-force.  Fifty percent of your immune system, fifty percent of your detoxification mechanism, and ninety-five percent of your brain-balancing seratonin is created and stored in the gut.  If the gut is not working properly, neither are you!

Colon Hydrotherapy is the removal of waste from the large intestine without the use of chemicals, laxatives or synthetic drugs.  Since the colon is the largest evacuation method for the body waste and toxins, it is vital to keep this 'sewer system' in the best working order.

Years of exposure to cell damaging artificial sweeteners, refined sugars, hydrogenated fats, fast foods, food preservatives, food colorings, irradiated food products, hormones, antibiotics, steroids and refined carbohydrates render our digestive system ineffective at best.  Although our society is becoming more aware of the dangers of processed foods, simply correcting our eating habits is not enough.  We must go into the body with fiber, herbs, natural vitamins and minerals to aid the body in repairing the damage that has occurred over the past years.  We must also work to rid the colon of fecal matter, impactions and mucoid plaque that accumulate as a result of the unhealthy consumption.  As these things collect within the intestines and adhere to the lining, they prevent the absorption and proper synthesis of ey nutrients needed to sustain life.  The key to life is the renewal and regeneration of cells within the human body.  Slow and sluggish systems simply age us faster.

The Colonic begins when a client enters a private room for and interview, a demonstration and instruction on how to prepare for the colon hydrotherapy session.

The therapist leaves the room so the client can undress from the waist down, get situated on the hydrotherapy unit and insert the disposable rectal tube.  Once situated, the client will cover themselves up and page the therapist.

Once the therapist returns, further instruction is given and the session begins.  Warm, filtered, purified, gravity-fed water is introduced into the colon and the cleansing begins.  As the water is introduced into the colon, a slight pressure sensation or mild cramping will be felt at the area of the sigmoid colon.  At that time, the client will simply bear down as if they were having a normal bowel movement.  Water and waste matter is evacuated into the basin of the hydrotherapy unit and smell is withdrown through a vent fan located on the drainpipe.  The cycling of water into the colon and waste matter evacuation will occur for 30 to 45 minutes in each session.  The total amount of water used in a session is approximately 4 to 6 gallons. 

The Treatment Regimen suggested is Session 1 followed within 24 hours by Session 2.  Wait 5-7 days for Session 3 followed within 24 hours by Session 4.  Wait 5-7 days for Session 5.  Wait 5-7 days for Session 6.  This regimen is set up to work with the body's own toxin release instinct.  The number of treatment cycles needed is determined by the individual level of toxicity.

Contraindications that will restrict the use of the colon hydrotherapy unit are abdominal hernia, abdominal surgery, abnormal distension, acute liver failure, anemia, aneurysm, carcinoma of the colon, cardiac conditions, Crohns disease, colitis, dialysis patients, Diverticulosis, Diverticulitis, fissures and fistulas, hemorrhaging, hemorrhoidectomy, intestinal perforations, Lupus, pregnancy, rectal or colon surgery, renal insufficiencies, medications which thin the intestinal walls.  Always make the hydrotherapist aware of hemorrhoids, internal and external, the use of laxatives, timing of menstral cycle or diarrhea.