Nutrition and Health Testing

Americans have been eating their way into health
problems for years.
We must realize that most diseases are the result of lifestyle choices. Poor health results from poor choices. Better health results from better choices. You are unique, and your nutritional needs are unique. By understanding what your body needs, you have the power of choosing good health. Where do you get this knowledge?

What's the matter with the food I eat?
Often our lifestyles and habits prevent us from getting the nutrition we need. We eat processed, canned and frozen foods with preservatives, flavor enhancers, artificial coloring and flavoring. These foods were grown in soil depleted of vital nutrients, using harmful pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers.

Transporting from long distances and storage further destroys the nutrient content. By the time you eat this food, most essential ingredients are gone (if they were ever there) and all the toxic chemicals remain. That does not even include genetic and environmental factors that negatively affect your nutritional needs.

Our modern food supply is for profit, not for people.
As you age, you wish to do so with vitality and strength. But many of the problems you will encounter, such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, depression, arthritis, chronic fatigue, menstrual problems, headaches, etc., are often caused by a poor diet. You need to know what makes you unhealthy and now, what will make you healthy.

You need to be able to choose health.
More money is spent on health care (actually disease care) in the United States than any other country. But with all the new drugs, surgeries and treatments, Americans are not much healthier. Studies show we keep getting sicker, fatter, and even dumber. We desperately need to change this pattern.

How do I know what to do?
Most of us know that we should be avoiding sugar, transfats and NutraSweet. But what about wheat, dairy, corn and other common foods? Should you take vitamins and minerals? If so, what? Are you getting enough Vitamin D and Omega 3's. What about herbs? How much water should you drink and is city water really that bad? Do you have allergies to the thingsyou are eating? Hormones, what are they and are they? Good or bad, and do you need them? Are the medications you are on really helping or just covering up nutritional problems?
Dr. Petchauer uses various methods to answer these questions. He uses a computerized symptom survey that analyzes your current health status and determines which systems in your body are unhealthy. Specific laboratory tests are utilized depending upon your unique circumstances. Blood, saliva, hair and urine testing can be used to analyze vitamin, mineral, hormonal, and other imbalances. Also utilized is the new Food Safe IgE allergy test which determines the common foods in your diet that may cause allergic reactions.

Dr. Petchauer has specialized in nutritional research and clinical nutritional evaluations for over 25 years. He has extensive post graduate study in these areas and continues to expand his knowledge by further study.

• Anti-aging Nutritional Factors
• Balancing Female Hormones
• Balancing Female Hormones Naturally: Physiology and Principles
• Balancing Hormones in Menopausal Women: Clinical Applications and Advanced Principles
• Child Nutritional Issues
• Clinical Applications of Cold Laser Therapy
• Clinical Nutrition and Blood Chemistry Analysis
• Clinical Purification and Detoxification
• Diagnosing and Treating Gastrointestinal Diseases
• Drugs that Don't Work and Natural Therapies that Do
• Essentials of Nutritional Therapy
• Functional Blood Chemistry Analysis
• Fundamentals of Laser Therapy
• Health Aging
• Holistic Medicine for the 21st Century
• Interpretation of Salivary Hormones
• Interpretation of Blood Chemistry Results
• Interpretation of Salivary Hormones
• Medical Blood Testing Interpretation
• Minerals and Genetic Expression
• Natural Alternatives to the Top Ten Health Complaints
• Naturopathic Patient Treatment Applications
• New Directions in Therapeutic Nutrition
• Nutrition Response Testing
• Nutritional Management of Thyroid Dysfunction
• Restorative Endocrinology - A Functional Approach to Female Hormones
• Symposium on Diabetes and Hypoglycemia
• Symposium on Toxins, Free Radicals, and Carcinogens:
   Balancing the Inflammatory - Anti-Inflammatory Response
• The Therapeutic Use of Trace Minerals
• The Vitamin Complexes and Alternative Strategies
• Thyroid and Adrenal Testing and Treatment
• Understanding Cholesterol and Therapeutic Options
• Understanding Weight Management and Detoxification

Laser

About Low Level Laser Therapy
Dr. Michael Petchauer is now incorporating a new method known as Low Level Laser Therapy, which is used to treat various conditions. He uses the FDA approved Erchonia Cold Laser which is used by elite professional athletes. The US Olympic Committee enthusiastically endorsed Low Level Laser Therapy in January of 2004. The Cold Laser uses a non-heat producing light laser which is locked at a specific wavelength providing optimal treatment penetrating deep into tissue. The Low Level Laser Method is emerging as the therapeutic modality in the healing arts community.

Low Level Laser Therapy can be used for:

Orthotics

The Foundation of Your Body
Your feet are the foundation of your body. They support you when you stand, walk, or run. They help protect your spine, bones, and soft tissues from damaging stress as you move around. Your feet perform better when all their muscles, arches, and bones are in their ideal, stable positions.

The foot is constructed with three arches which, when properly maintained, give exceptional supportive strength. These three arches form a supporting vault that distributes the weight of the entire body.

If there is compromise of one arch in the foot, the other arches must compensate and are subject to additional stresses, which usually leads to further compromise.

What is A spinal Pelvic Stabilizer?
A Spinal Pelvic Stabilizer is placed in your shoe to help improve your body's balance, posture, and alignment. Stabilizers are the only orthotics designed to support all three arches of the foot. By providing proper support for your feet, Stabilizers help create a balanced foundation for your body. Correcting problems in your feet has amazing benefits that may surprise you! Our Stabilizers can help increase your strength, enhance your athletic performance, and keep you feeling energized - even at the end of the day. Stabilizers are available in many styles and features, depending on your needs and the shoes you wear.

They're Unique - just like you
Custom made from a weight-bearing digital scan of your feet, Foot Levelers' technicians take 16 exact measurements to create your pair of custom made Stabilizers. Your lifestyle, age, weight, activity level, and condition are also considered in their creation.

Why do i need stabilizers?
Contrary to popular belief, many people with foot problems experience little or no pain in their feet. Instead, the pain is transferred to other areas of your body. Your feet are the foundation of your entire body, and having proper posture is the best way to support your body. If you have weakness or unstable positioning in either foot, it can contribute to postural problems throughout the rest of your body. By balancing your feet, Stabilizers help improve your posture, enhance your body's performance and efficiency, reduce pain, and contribute to your total body wellness.

Pain relief could be only two feet away!
Even if your feet don't hurt, they may be a major factor contributing to your health problems. Spinal-pelvic misalignment is the culprit. Pain in various parts of your body may be traced directly to your feet! You may not be as fortunate as you think. A foot problem may be the cause of discomfort or pain in your leg/hip, back, arm/shoulder or even your neck! Custom-made, flexible orthotics, shoethotics®, or Sandalthotics® may be part of the solution to your health problems.

Detoxification Programs

Detoxification can help you to remove toxins that accumulate in your body. We are constantly exposed to toxins; including pollutants, pesticides, and chemicals. Our bodies also produce waste products as a result of normal metabolic function. Although our bodies are designed to eliminate these harmful products, the sheer number that we are exposed to often overwhelms our system.

Toxins can cause a wide range of conditions: stuffy head and allergies, fatigue and difficulty sleeping, gastrointestinal problems, food cravings and weight gain, and even brain fog and loss of mental clarity. Long term toxic loads on the body can cause loss of health and severe disease states. When you consider the following questions, is it any wonder that many people are toxic and if not outright sick, just don't really feel good? Ask yourself:

• Do you eat processed foods?
• Do you eat non-organic fruits and vegetables?
• Do you eat meat and poultry that are not free range?
• Do you consume genetically altered food?
• Do you or have you ever used artificial sweeteners?
• Do you drink soda?
• Do the foods you eat have preservatives, additives, dyes, or sweeteners added?
• Do you eat fast foods or eat out regularly?
• Do you drink coffee or alcohol?
• Do you drink tap (city) water?
  
  

Nutritional Supplements

Vitamins, minerals, food concentrates and herbs are used to boost the nutritional level of the body. They can be used to make-up for deficiencies or to add extra elements to the body to bring about a physiologic change. They are not used to treat disease, but used to help restore and maintain health.

Dr. Petchauer has spent over 25 years investigating and utilizing nutritional supplements from various companies. The products he uses are available only through licensed health care providers and represent the benchmark of excellence in nutritional science and technology. In the field of nutrition, it is important to combine the very best of leading edge science with manufacturing technology to produce progressive and effective nutritional and botanical supplements.

Most of the supplements that are available commercially, including through pharmacies and health food stores, are not whole food supplements. They have been man-made and are not in the same form as is found in food. In fact, almost all companies producing supplements do not manufacture anything, they purchase the ingredients elsewhere. So unless a company truly is a primary manufacturer, the unique claims they make about their products fall short of being accurate.  

X-Ray Facilities
X-Rays are an important part the chiropractic examination. The use of x-rays fall under two main categories for the Gonstead chiropractor: (1) pathology and (2) analysis.

1. Pathology. It is very important for the doctor to know of any diseases or significant abnormalities that are present in your spine. This information helps to determine whether or not you are a candidate for chiropractic care, or if some other type of doctor might also be needed. X-rays assure both the chiropractor and you, that you can safely receive chiropractic care.

2. Analysis. By "seeing" the spine, Dr. Petchauer derives the postural and biomechanical information needed to effectively treat your condition. The x-ray reveals the exact position of the individual spinal bones and how they must be moved back into place.

Most chiropractors take x-rays similar to the way a medical doctor or hospital would; they only x-ray the area where the symptoms are. Gonstead chiropractors are different; they take two pictures of your entire spine, one from the front and one from the side, while you are standing or weight bearing. Your spine does not work in separate sections; it functions as a single entity with all of the moving parts interconnected. To really understand the condition of your spine, it is necessary to see it from top to bottom.

Often a Gonstead chiropractor will treat a patient with a spinal problem in one area that is actually being caused by a problem in another area. A short leg or rotation in the pelvis can twist the entire spine and cause headaches or neck pain.

A full spine x-ray can make the difference between success and failure.

Often patients have concerns about x-rays. They are concerned about either the price or the radiation they are exposed to, or both. Dr Petchauer uses the latest x-ray intensifying screens which significantly lowers the amount of x-ray used and decreases the radiation to the patient. For your additional protection, sensitive film is used to reduce exposure time, collimation narrows the x-ray beam, shielding protects sensitive body parts, and all equipment is regularly inspected.

Dr. Petchauer is very conscience of the fact that x-rays are an expense and always has tried to keep the cost as low as possible for his patients.

X-Rays are essential to your safe and effective treatment.