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Wellness Doctors vs. Sick-Care Doctors
The providers in the field of wellness aren’t seeing sick patients every day. They aren’t trying to turn and burn patients, and they’re consistently in this field for the same reason: To offer their patients a higher quality of life through holistic care. Specifically, providers working in hormone replacement therapy have proven to be truly wellness driven.
Is Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy Safe
Do patients at New Leaf Wellness ever wonder if their PCP takes hormones, or if they have ever considered it? At New Leaf, our providers trust Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy completely. Our hormones (pellets, creams, orals) come from New Leaf Specialty Compounding Pharmacy, which they are committed to providing safe, effective compounding treatments.
In fact, many of our providers are also a patient of New Leaf Wellness. To us, that just seems right. New Leaf’s founding Medical Director, Dr. Robert Sieman (https://newleafcenters.com/women/our-providers/dr/), saw just how powerful hormone replacement therapy can be, and decided to bring that power to his community.
Our Natural Hormone Therapy is incredibly powerful in combating the tell-tale symptoms of aging. The reason so many of us begin to feel old as we age is a decline in hormone production. Hormones control our bodily functions and mental well-being. Hormone replacement therapy gives us back our youth, literally.
“New Leaf should be renamed the fountain of youth! My wife and I started testosterone treatments at 71 and that sent us on our second honeymoon that was better than our first, 50 years ago!”
– New Leaf Wellness Hormone Patient
A Better Way to Age
We’re honored and privileged to be entrusted with our patient’s wellness; we want to help you live your best life! Contact us today to discuss treatment options and whether you may be a good candidate for hormone replacement therapy.
What are you waiting for? Contact us for your Free Consultation Today!
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Weight Loss In 2023
Tirzepatide and Semaglutide can offer weight loss in 2023, through weekly injections. However, as many scramble to obtain these medications, the supply chain has made this difficult. Semaglutide and Tirzepatide have three main mechanisms of action.
- They enhance the growth of beta cells in the pancreas, which are sites of insulin production. This means your body has improved control over blood sugar or decreased insulin resistance.
- Compounded Tirzepatide and Semaglutide markedly delay gastric emptying. The delay in gastric emptying can reduce appetite.
- Finally, both medications improve control of eating and reduce food cravings. The last mechanism is what many people appreciate the most, feeling less compulsion to eat or not eating as much.
What is the difference between Semaglutide and Tirzepatide?
Tirzepatide is a dual glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide–GLP-1 receptor agonist. This means this medication works on two different receptors, GIP and GLP-1. The GIP receptors are activated to improve insulin sensitivity, insulin secretion, satiety (feeling full), and fat burn (lipolysis). Simultaneously, the GLP-1 receptors are stimulated to decrease glucagon secretion, slow gastric emptying, and decrease appetite. Concurrent action on both GIP and GLP-1 produces weight loss, lowered cholesterol, and reduced cardiovascular risk for patients.
The dosing for compounded Tirzepatide starts at 2.5mg per week and increases based on the patient’s response. Thus dose increases with Tirzepatide are less frequent, once every 4-6 weeks on average. Semaglutide dosing starts at 0.25mg per week and increases weekly, based on the patients’ response. Both medications aim not to achieve the maximum dose but to have controlled, monitored, and safe weight loss with minimal side effects.
Based on clinical trials, patients using Tirzepatide or Semaglutide may experience:
- Substantial A1C reductions
- Increased weight loss
- Improvements in cardiometabolic measures
- Improved triglycerides levels
- Reduced appetite
- Decreased blood pressure
- Improved insulin sensitivity
What are you waiting for? Contact us for your Free Consultation Today!
Semaglutide Weight Loss Program
Well, here we are again. Brand new year which means a new chapter in our book. And yet again, another New Year’s resolution to lose weight. It’s exhausting! You have tried all the diets, pills, and weight loss programs costing you hundreds of dollars to see little to no results. You see the posts on social media, the lectures from your doctor about the health risks associated with your weight, and even family and friends nagging you. As if you really want to have this extra weight to carry around. But what if this is the last time you write the weight loss chapter in your book of life? Semaglutide Weight Loss Program is a new program that is FDA-approved for weight loss and could be your answer to sustainable weight loss. It is a prescribed medication, and the results are based on biology.
Semaglutide Weight Loss Program
With the Semaglutide Weight Loss program, you can lose weight at home or with the help of our licensed medical professionals. After your initial consultation, you can talk to your medical professional virtually or go into the clinic for injections, weight checks, and advice. This program is designed to help you lose weight in a healthy and sustainable way.
The prescriber and medical team titrate the dose as needed to maximize patient weight loss. In a trial that measured outcomes at 20 weeks, most participants reached the full dose and saw weight loss as dosages increased.
It is important to note that weight loss takes time. You will see the best results when using Semaglutide with a healthy diet and exercise plan. Semaglutide is one of the FDA-approved medications to help with blood sugar control and lower the risks of cardiovascular problems in people with type 2 diabetes and heart issues.
Semaglutide is safe and effective when used as prescribed. You may not qualify for the medication if you have a family history of certain thyroid cancers.
You start the dosage at the lowest dose, and the medication is injected subcutaneously into the belly every week. Your dose will be increased every 4 weeks until you reach a safe and effective maximum.
While You Are In The Semaglutide Program, You Will Want To:
- Limit your sugar intake
- Increase your water consumption
- Inform your doctor of any new medications while taking Semaglutide
What are you waiting for?
Contact us for your Free Consultation Today!
VIRTUAL HEALTH EVENT
DR. ROBERT SIEMAN VIRTUAL HEALTH EVENT
January 31, 20223 • 6:00 – 7:00 pm (CST)
Please join us for the first-ever Dr. Robert Sieman Virtual Health Event at New Leaf Wellness. Dr. Sieman had an incredible passion for overall wellness for everyone and we want to honor this! Use the form below to register for this Virtual Health Event on January 31st from 6 to 7 pm (CST) to receive the link to join from the comfort of your home! We will also send you a reminder so you don’t miss this incredible event!
Let New Leaf Wellness help support you in your journey for a healthier lifestyle as you deserve to feel confident, strong, and healthy. Dr. Robert Sieman was our Founding Medical Director guiding New Leaf Wellness for over 10 years and we will continue to follow his lead! Dr. Sieman was also instrumental in the addition of New Leaf Specialty Compounding Pharmacy, NLRX Nutrition, and JENLAB Diagnostics so we can provide quality care for all aspects of our patients. Our guest Hostess will be Loretta Sieman as she continues to support what her husband provided for years, dedicated patient care.
We want you to know how important you are to us – You are our mission! Our commitment is to heal, comfort, and support everyone we serve. We want to be your specialty healthcare partner throughout life. To convey this we will be gifting everyone who attends New Leaf Wellness bucks!*
MORE SPECIAL OFFERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED!
*Must meet with a consultant to confirm eligibility!
menopause, Tictoc, BioTe
SUPPORT = SUCCESS
REACH YOUR GOALS WITH A HEALTH COACH
Tis the season when the calendar is telling us it is almost time for “New Year New Me”…Ugh! Not this again! Counting calories? Reducing carbs? Trying fad diets? All of the above? I don’t know how to do that; it all sounds overwhelming and exhausting, and I want to quit before I even begin, BUT I want this to be the year that I get back to the me that I used to be, the me that I will feel like myself again. Sound familiar?
What you may need this year that makes it different from all of the years previously is support. That support is in the form of a little expert advice from a health coach.
What is a Health Coach? A health coach will guide you and help implement small changes in your lifestyle to help you be successful. They will hold you accountable to reach your goals. And best of all they will be your own personal cheerleader along the way!
Here are 10 reasons why you need a health coach.
- Accountability – According to Forbes, nearly 80% of people who make a New Year’s resolution give up by the first week of February.1 It is human nature to fail. It allows us to reevaluate or rethink how we do things. As we get ready to make our New Year New You resolution to lose excess weight and improve our overall health, why not turn to a trained professional to help you finally reach this goal and feel good about yourself? A health coach can teach you small daily changes that will build up to a lifetime of good health.
- Expertise – A health coach is trained to help you with identifying what changes to make and support you to improve your overall health. They will help you identify the smallest changes to make the most impact on your overall life, such as identifying the cause of your cravings, deciphering what is healthy, resetting priorities, and practicing self-care. A health coach can help you make the easiest changes that will be the most impactful on your health.
- Relief – If the people around you are at an unhealthy weight, you might be hanging around people who are simply unaware of what good nutrition is. A health coach can help you navigate the world of nutrition and help you decipher what truly is healthy and how to implement those choices to improve your health one day at a time. Not only will you be given directions, but you will also get individualized attention on what impacts your health and encouragement along the journey to living a healthier life!
- Time Management – We all use the same excuse of “I don’t have time”, as we all have busy schedules. This is in fact a myth; we all make time for what is important to us, and let’s face it, you and your health should be important to you. A health coach will empower you to work on time management and find ways to practice self-care to improve your health.
- Reflection – As you move forward in your health journey, you may stumble when experiencing resistance, or feel some push-back as you develop new habits, and sticking to them is going to be difficult. This could even happen subconsciously. A health coach will help you work through these challenging feelings and emotions, and help you overcome these barriers along the way. Having that sounding board to reflect on as you trudge through this journey to a better you will help create more self-awareness along the way.
- Support – Having a support team during the journey will help you stay on track and committed to your progress toward your goal. Support from a health coach increases your ability to reach your goal, your self-confidence, and your security. Having support in your life while making the journey to an overall healthy life will happen more smoothly and successfully. And let’s be honest we are all tired of repeating this New Year New You attempt every year!
- Confidence – That dreaded number on the scale is usually everyone’s go-to in measuring success with weight loss, but there is so much more than just pounds! And let’s be honest when that number doesn’t go down our self-image and self-esteem take a huge hit! Working with a health coach on the right numbers to track will improve your self-image and confidence. For instance drinking 64 oz of water, exercising 30 minutes five times a week, etc are all great non-scale victories. Plus these non-scale victories will be far more rewarding than a number on the scale.
- Positive Change – Have you ever heard of the snowball effect? It’s where one change will trickle down into the next, and so on and so forth. That is the idea behind implementing small positive changes. You let each positive change snowball into the next to reach the end goal of a healthier, sustainable life. Build yourself up, remember your self-worth, and focus on the positives. Most importantly remember to celebrate when you succeed at making each change!
- Realistic Goals – Resolutions address a symptom, not the underlying problem. Much like diets, they are short-lived fixes. This is why so many people have the same resolutions year after year. Our health coach recommends SMART goals. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound! It’s best to start small and make one change at a time!
- Lasting Change – Deciding to take this journey is a lifestyle change. What better way to be successful than learning the tools to maintain this change? We recommend sharing this lifestyle change with friends and family. At New Leaf Wellness your health is our GOAL!
Ready to get started? Email healthcoach@newleafcenters.com to attend the Metabolic Healing Dietary Lifestyle Plan Zoom Support Group on Tuesday nights starting at 5:00pm CST.
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THIS HOLIDAY SEASON…GIVE THE GIFT TO YOURSELF!
YOU’RE A SMART & BUSY PERSON…
a Mother, a Father, a Daughter, a Son a Co-worker!
On the outside, it looks like you’ve got it all together but on the inside, it’s a different story.
You’re exhausted.
Your life has been taken over by work.
You’re no longer present for the people you love,
And it feels like life is passing you by.
You know there has to be more than this,
but you have no idea what to do about it.
If you keep going like this, you’ll hit a breaking point.
You’ll either burn out or burn down what you’ve worked so hard to build.
There IS another way.
WE CAN HELP!
Our patients come to us often having tried to ignore this nagging feeling for far too long. They’ve changed jobs, gotten promotions, worked harder, met with life coaches, done wine therapy, talk therapy, shop therapy, taken anxiety medicine, sleeping pills, even done yoga and read self-help books…yet none of it worked long-term.
The reason none of those things work is that they don’t get to the root cause of why men and women seem to burn out.
If you don’t get to the underlying cause, then you’ll never find a lasting solution.
There IS another way.
We work with our patients to heal the underlying causes of burnout for good…and we give you the support necessary to have a fulfilling and meaningful life!
COULD IT BE YOUR HORMONES?
DEPRESSION…MEMORY…FOCUSING
Is it ADD…or could your hormones just be out of whack?
Are you feeling down and worried that you might have depression? Do you have memory problems or trouble focusing and are worried that you might have ADD? Are you gaining weight and don’t know why? It could be your hormones!
Hormones are chemical messengers produced in the body that control and regulate the activity of certain cells or organs. Neurohormones have an important impact on the brain. The human body produces hundreds of hormones, but the following four of them have a very direct influence on brain health/mental health:
- Thyroid—energy regulation
- Estrogen—mood modulator
- Progesterone—nature’s anti-anxiety hormone
- Testosterone—motivation, mood, sexuality, strength
NEUROHORMONES AND THE BRAIN
Communication between the brain and hormones goes both ways. The brain sends out signals that instruct your body’s glands to produce and release hormones, and hormones from within the body send messages back to the brain that influences its activity.
When hormones are healthy, you tend to feel vibrant and energetic. When the hormones that affect your brain neurohormones are off, you are off. You may experience symptoms that change the way you think, feel, and act in negative ways. It also makes you more vulnerable to conditions like anxiety, depression, and even psychosis. If nobody checks your hormone levels, you will never know the root cause of your issues. And if your hormones are the problem, no amount of psychiatric medications will get you right.
THYROID: THE MOOD AND ENERGY REGULATOR
The thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland located in your lower neck that plays a powerful role in keeping your brain and body healthy. This gland regulates how your body uses energy, and it also has a strong impact on the brain because it controls the production of many neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, serotonin, and GABA. Problems occur when thyroid dysfunction causes the gland to produce too little hormone (hypothyroidism) or too much hormone (hyperthyroidism).
Hypothyroidism: Brain SPECT scans of people with hypothyroidism show overall decreased brain activity, which often leads to depression, cognitive impairment, anxiety, and brain fog.
Hyperthyroidism: An overactive thyroid produces too much hormone, making everything in your body work too fast. It can feel like you’re in hyper-drive—you feel jittery and edgy, as though you’ve had way too much caffeine.
COMMON SYMPTOMS OF THYROID DYSFUNCTION
Hypothyroidism
- Fatigue
- Difficulty concentrating
- Memory problems
- Depression
- Attentional problems
- Psychosis
Hyperthyroidism
- Sleeplessness, restlessness
- Anxiety
- Irritability
- Racing thoughts
- Difficulty concentrating
- Memory problems
- Depression
- Mania
- Psychosis
Putting the Pieces Together
Does everyone know hormones affect everything we do?
The answer to this question is unfortunately (sigh) still no.
When we are young, it is the abundance and perfectly tuned balance of hormones that makes us vital, wrinkle-free, sexually active and quick to recover from colds and flu. Hormones keep us fertile, and our joints limber and well- lubricated. It is our hormones that help us think well, remember where we put our keys and relate to others in intimate, connected ways.
As we age, hormones begin to fade, though exposure to toxins, eating badly processed foods, leading sedentary lives and not getting enough sleep also play their parts.
We can reverse or at a minimum stall the ravages of aging with hormone support. There are many types of hormones that work together to create the puzzle that becomes our lives and the more pieces (hormones) of the puzzle we put together in proper balance and in the right formulations, the more likely we are to age in a healthy, vibrant and beautiful way.
The best hormones to use are the bioidentical ones and that is what New Leaf Wellness uses. They are prescription medications estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, thyroid and adrenal support, and they are pharmaceutically made to look identical to the hormones our own bodies make when we are young and healthy.
With the proper hormones, prescribed by doctors who are trained and experienced in how to use them and when to use them safely and effectively, we spend less money on health care, on going from doctor to doctor and test to test with no hope of improvement in sight.
With hormones in balance we don’t need yo-yo dieting. Our bodies stay at their optimal weight, and exercise is pleasant with results we can be proud of. With hormones we find ourselves getting sleep again and feeling refreshed in the morning.
Hormones are safe and they protect us from diseases of aging. They protect our bones from osteoporosis and our hearts and brains from deterioration.
Yes, it may sound like hormones are the fountain of youth, but all you have to do is ask and look at those who take them and compare them to their peers who don’t.
When I see patients for the first time I ask: If you didn’t know how old you are, how old would you think you are?
The answer from people on hormones is always 20 years younger. From those who don’t take hormones, it’s always at least 20 years older. menopause, Tictoc, BioTe
Which would you like to be?
Intermittent Fasting Could Prolong Your Life
Fasting is mainly considered to be a weight loss management technique or one of the tools to normalize your diet. However, intermittent fasting could prolong your life–eat less, live longer. Let’s take a look at the 3 benefits of fasting and their effects on our longevity:
1. Cleans up dead cells
Recent research on intermittent fasting has shown that fasting can actually increase the process of dead cell removal in the body, called autophagy. This essentially means that after the damaged cells are broken down, there’s room for new ones, which help with various bodily functions, increasing longevity and potentially preventing the risk of cancers or other age-related diseases.
2. Lowers oxidative stress with alternate-day fasting
When there’s an imbalance in free radicals and antioxidants in the body, our cells, proteins, and DNA can be damaged. According to research, when consuming less unhealthy foods and replacing them with healthy calories, the antioxidant uric acid increases, therefore reducing the harmful effects of oxidative stress and potentially prolonging our lifespan.
3. Reduces the risk for age-related diseases
Reduced risk of Type-2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases, lowered cholesterol levels, incorporated exercise, and many others could fall into the list of benefits of intermittent fasting. It’s not simply saying that everything gets better with a consistently nutritious diet and an active lifestyle. We’re talking science here!
Benefits You May Receive From Fasting…
Fasting partners well with Semaglutide. The good thing with Semaglutide is that it will always keep your hunger at bay and your cravings in line. You might be worried about how much weight you might gain after eating all the delicious foods that you are possibly going to come across during the upcoming holidays. The solution for all this is taking Semaglutide because it will ensure that you feel full and do not have to keep snacking all the time.
Schedule a FREE consultation to learn more about Fasting and Supplements that can aid your journey.
WE’RE HERE TO HELP!
