Downtown Chicago Weight Loss Clinic

What is the Functional Medicine Approach to Weight Loss

YOU CAN LOSE WEIGHT AND HAVE IT COVERED BY YOUR INSURANCE.
Functional Medicine is covered by most insurance plans.

If you made your goal to get rid of your stubborn pounds, and are struggling, our functional medicine approach can help you
Find the Perfect Diet


Finding the perfect diet for you is one of the main steps toward your weight loss goal. All the toxic and inflammatory foods should be removed from the diet plan. Numerous studies have shown that exercise and activity on a regular basis, helps people lose weight. It is said to ultimately promote healthy weight and assists in maintaining the weight required by the body. However, studies now show that inflammatory foods may disrupt your hormones and lead to putting on extra weight even with trying to eat healthy and getting in exercise.

We might recommend adding “good” proteins to your diet, avoiding processed food, limiting white sugar, and avoid liquid calories. Also, to avoid refined carbs, drink green tea and adopt a lot of other ways to reduce weight. However, we do approach each individual differently to accomplish your weight loss goals. This is because each persons hormones, metabolism,  and body composition is different. It’s possible that the only problem with your weight gain is you have a slower metabolism. Slow metabolism may lead you to accumulate fat for a long. It never breaks it down instantly that ultimately increases your weight. We offer a slow and steady, approach through functional medicine that helps speed up your metabolism and help you achieve your weight loss goal (Bland, et al, 2018). 

Burn fat to lose weight through workouts



Let’s have a look at some of the basic things that you need to lose weight.

High-intensity exercise
High-intensity exercises that are easy on the joints are good when you want to  increase hormones that help with weight loss. We may help set up your cardio program routine, as a way to maximize your heart rate, and increase the hormone that helps with weight loss.

High-intensity cardio not only helps you lose weight but also increases your capacity for aerobic respiration which ultimately is healthful for you. For instance, a human with a 15-pound weight, around 68 kilograms, after running for 30 minutes at 6 mph burns about 340 calories. If they walk at 3.5mph, 136 calories also are burned. Isn’t it fascinating to know how to lose 10 pounds? Doing cardio and cutting back on carbs one approach (Higgins, et al, 2016).

While doing high-intensity cardio, does work from some people.  It can have some risk factors too.

Such as:
Overuse injuries
Overtraining
Burnout
Medically irregular rhythms

We help you build a healthy diet program and take charge of what is on your food chart. Helping  you set up a daily food approach to balance your hormones, reduce your inflammation, help you gain energy, and lose weight.

We look into your sleep patterns, and see if that is a problem leading to weight gain, and if so we look at approaches to help you with this.
We help you:
Stay motivated in your workout routine and enjoy your exercises.
Stay happy and smile more; relive your mind and keep yourself fresh enough.
Following an overall healthy lifestyle according to functional medicine helps you stay fit and lose weight fast.

What most people do not realize is that functional medicine is cover by most insurances.

weight loss covered by insurance

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American Back Center offers a Functional Medicine Approach to weight loss THAT IS LIKELY FULLY COVERED BY YOUR INSURANCE.

References
Bland, J. S. (2018). The natural roots of functional medicine. Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal, 17(1), 12.

Higgins, J. P., & Higgins, C. L. (2016). Prescribing exercise to help your patients lose weight. Cleve Clin J Med, 83(2), 141-50.