"Personalized nutrition was the key to regaining my health!"

Advanced Nutritional Therapy:

The foundation of natural medicine lies in nutrition. "Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food!" The food you ingest fuels your body and can profoundly affect your longevity and performance. Individualizing the specific foods your body needs gives you the best foundation for energy and proper nutrition, which can dramatically improve your quality of life.

Much of the medicine at Avante is accompanied by advanced education in nutrition, so our clients are empowered with the knowledge of their body's nutritional needs. Avante offers individualized nutritional counseling, and excellent cooking classes where clients develop an effective and extensive understanding of their best nutritional path in order to reach optimal health and peak performance.

Food Allergies/Sensitivities:

For many, food allergies/sensitivities make it difficult to attain optimal health. Sometimes food allergies are obvious with an external reaction after a certain food is ingested. Other times, food sensitivities are hidden due to a significant delayed response after ingesting the aggravating food, but, once treated, optimal health can return quickly and performance and well-being can be restored.

At Avante we offer many options for testing and treating food allergy/sensitivity symptoms. A simple blood test ordered by your provider, is the most common form of attaining a list of allergen sensitivities, which can also include testing for common environmental allergens such as molds, trees, dusts, etc.

Many of our patients have experienced dramatic improvement in their health and wellness after determining and treating their food allergy/sensitivities.

Metabolic Typing:

Each of us is unique in our metabolic biochemistry. We each have different needs for the type and quantity of nutrients to maintain health. Some foods are unhealthy for everyone. These include processed, refined carbohydrates with white flour and white sugar, as well as bad fats. But within the realm of whole foods, certain foods are healthy for some, but not for others. This depends upon your metabolic type.

Over the last fifty years, researchers have identified different metabolic systems within individuals, based on the scientific work of Dr. Roger Williams and Dr. George Watson. More recently, William Wolcott and Harold Krystal have provided trained clinicians with methods of personalized metabolic nutrition testing for those interested in uncovering their biochemical individuality.

Metabolic nutrition typing is a state-of-the-art methodology for determining whether a person is better suited to a more vegetarian-oriented diet or perhaps will thrive on a diet higher in animal fats and proteins. Metabolic typing can also direct a person in choosing which vegetables, fruits, and carbohydrate sources are ideal for his or her body.

Correcting imbalances through proper nutrition can enhance health on many levels. Achieving and maintaining ideal body weight, improved digestion, greater energy levels, and reversal of chronic illness patterns are all areas that have been impacted by individuals following their appropriate metabolic diet.

Metabolic typing can be more successful than conventional nutritional approaches for enhancing health because it addresses our individual differences. When it comes to nutrition, one size definitely does not fit all!