First Line Therapy (FLT)
Please print out the following forms, fill them out and bring completed forms to your fist FLT appointment.
Please print out the following forms, fill them out and bring completed forms to your follow-up FLT appointment.
Provides individualized recommendations for lifestyle modifications including:
- Diet
- Exercise
- Stress reduction
FirstLine Therapy® is a Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (TLC) program that can enhance your health and prevent disease. It can help you address a wide range of health conditions as well as other lifestyle related health concerns and symptoms. These include:
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Chronic disorders/pain
- Heart disease
- Stroke
- Diabetes
- Arthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Overweight/Obesity
- High cholesterol
- High blood pressure
- Alzheimer's disease
- Fatigue
- Hormone imbalance
- Stress-related symptoms
- Poor memory or lack of mental clarity
- And many others
What Makes the FirstLine Therapy Program Different?
- It's not just a weight loss program
- While most programs are focused on weight, FLT is a comprehensive TLC program, best used as a first line treatment for common, chronic health problems. The FLT program is the perfect prescription for conditions such as obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, insulin resistance, and many others. It works because it addresses the underlying causes of these conditions, such as unhealthy body composition (lean mass to fat mass ratio), insulin resistance, hormone imbalance, inflammation, and other physiological issues.
- The FLT dietary plan is different
- FLT uses a low-glycemic-load diet that is consistent with current research. New research has shown that low-glycemic diets are more effective than lowfat diets in treating obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes. Patients report less hunger, more energy, and higher compliance with the FLT diet than with commonly recommended lowfat diets.
- FLT incorporates medical foods and nutraceuticals
- Medical foods are designed to address the unique nutritional needs of patients with specific health problems. Nutraceuticals provide targeted nutritional support for specific functions, such as supporting insulin sensitivity, managing blood lipids, slowing glucose uptake, etc. Their appropriate use can improve patient compliance, enhance program effectiveness, and shorten the time it takes to achieve risk reduction goals.
- FLT has been demonstrated to be effective in controlled clinical trials
- Most other diets have not.
THE DIET
Focuses on teaching people that they need to eat and eat frequently. The focus is on the right kind of foods, the right kind of fat, the right kind of carbohydrates. The diet is designed to stabilize blood sugar and energy levels.
FLT uses a low-glycemic diet consistent with current research, which shows it to be more effective than lowfat diets in treating obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, and type II diabetes.
SUPPLEMENTS- Designed to address unique needs of individuals with specific health problems
- Supports specific functions such as: insulin sensitivity, managing blood lipids, slowing glucose uptake, etc.
BIA (Bioimpedance Analyzer)
At your initial visit and every 2-4 weeks you will be given a BIA (Bioimpedance analyzer) reading, which will assess the following:
- Resistance (R)
- Reactance (X)
- Phase Angle (?)
- Body Capacitance (C)
- Fat-Free Mass (FFM)
- Body Cell Mass (BCM)
- Extracellular Mass (ECM)
- Fat Mass (FM)
- ECM/BCM
- Body Mass Index (BMI)
- Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
- Total Body Water (TBW)
- Intracellular Water (ICW)
- Extracellular Water (ECW)
- TBW/Fat-Free Mass
- TBW/Total Weight
Sample (click here)
Your practitioner will go over your BIA reading with you in more detail. This information gives the practitioner a better idea on how the patient is progressing.
The FirstLine Therapy Difference-It Works
There are four key reasons that make FirstLine Therapy� (FLT) different than conventional lifestyle programs:
1. FLT is about more than just weight loss.- FLT can help you lose unhealthy fat while retaining healthy, lean muscle.
- FLT integrates body composition testing (fat & lean tissue ratios)-because being thin doesn't necessarily mean you're healthy.
- An imbalance in body composition (gaining too much fat or losing too much muscle) can lead to serious health problems such as high blood pressure, altered cholesterol levels, etc.
- Loss of muscle results in loss of ability to burn calories, which makes it much more difficult to maintain weight loss over time.
- FLT focuses on lifestyle factors that are the underlying cause of many health problems.
- Most diets focus on NOT eating-not eating fat, not eating carbs, or just plain not eating much of anything. With most diets, success is based primarily on will power.
- The FLT eating plan emphasizes the need to eat, and to eat frequently.
- The focus is on eating THE RIGHT KIND OF FOODS-the right kind of fat, the right kind of carbohydrates, and the right kind of protein-all in the right portion size.
- FLT incorporates a low-glycemic-index eating plan based on the latest scientific research that will help you maintain stable blood sugar and energy levels.
- According to recent studies, low-glycemic diets are more effective than lowfat diets in treating obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes.
- People report less hunger and more energy, making it much easier to stick with the program.
- Using appropriate medical foods and dietary supplements as part of this program can improve the effectiveness of the program for you and help you achieve your health goals.
- Medical foods are designed to address the unique nutritional needs of patients with specific health concerns.
- Dietary supplements provide targeted nutritional support for specific functions, such as healthy blood cholesterol or blood sugar levels, joint function and mobility, or healthy hormone metabolism.
- Most other diets have not.
12 WEEK FirstLine Therapy PROGRAM COST
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Visits |
BIA Test |
Supplements |
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Baseline |
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Week 1 |
2 hr - $250 |
BIA - $30 |
$25 |
$305 |
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Week 2 |
45 min - $75 |
BIA - $30 |
$98 |
$203 |
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Week 3 |
45 min - $75 |
BIA - $30 |
$105 |
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Week 4 |
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Week 5 |
45 min - $75 |
BIA - $30 |
$53 |
$158 |
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Week 6 |
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Week 7 |
45 min - $75 |
BIA - $30 |
$105 |
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Week 8 |
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Week 9 |
45 min - $75 |
BIA - $30 |
$53 |
$158 |
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Week 10 |
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Week 11 |
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Week 12 |
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| Week 13 | 45 min - $75 | BIA - $30 | $105 | |
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Charges ($) |
$700 |
$210 |
$229 |
$1139 |
Payment Plans Are Available Upon Request.
FirstLine Therapy® is about making choices every day that will enable you to achieve a long, full, and healthy life.