Josh will apply many various assessments and lab tests to first identify all major sources of pain and dysfunction (musculoskeletal, hormonal, visceral, and emotional) and then use the principles of corrective high performance exercise kinesiology, nutrition & lifestyle coaching, and other holsitic tools within your path to increased health and vitality. By taking a holistic approach to health and vitality, Josh will not only educate you, but empower you towards your wellness goals. "You are what you think, having become what you thought!" Buddha

More and more today, when you are watching TV or reading the newspaper, there is always some new fad diet on the market. Have you ever noticed though that as a society we continue to be overweight? As humans, each one of has a different genetic makeup, which is called your biochemical individuality. "One Man's food is another man's poison" Lucretius. What you choose to eat can dramatically influence how you interpret life, how you feel each day, what types of pain that you have, and how rapidly you age. If you are constantly overworked, stressed, fatigued, in pain (body, mind, and spirit), and/or overweight then you could be feeding your body poison each and everyday. Foundation principles in order to lead a healthier life that will be assessed and addressed are:

• Metabolic Typing (discovers individuals macro-nutrient ratios: carbs to proteins to fats)
• Comprehensive Health Appraisal (discovers imbalances in the body’s systems: muscular, hormonal, limbic)
• Lifestyle Evaluation (discovers what external stressors a client has and how it is effecting their bodies systems, i.e. stress stimulates sympathetic nervous system=poor digestion among other things)
• Physiological Load and Daily Readiness Assessments (discovers amount of stress in musculoskeletal, hormonal, and limbic systems and what strategies will reduce and bring about a healthy balance)
• Food and Sleep Diary (establishing eating habits, food intolerances, and discovering circadian rhythms)
• Digestive Health (processed foods, sugar, flour and dehydration, i.e. is your digestive system healthy or do you have a fungal or parasitic infection?)
• If needed: toxic home/office checklist, gluten, candida questionnairre, neurotransmitter questionnairre, food intolerances and heavy metal toxicity
• Healthy history and Welcome Packet/Contract

Other Tests:

• Hormones (Adrenal Stress Profiles, Sex Hormones, etc)
• Metabolism (Liver Function, Oxidative Stress, Digestion, etc)
• Gastrointestinal Testing (Parasites, H. pylori, Candida, etc)
• Immunology (Food Allergies, Parasites, Toxic Exposure, etc)
• Blood Chemistry (Standard and Esoteric Markers)
• Done through Biohealth Diagnostics (www.biohealthinfo.com), Metametrix (www.metametrix.com) and Diagnos-Tech (www.diagnostechs.com) labs.
• Click here for article and PDF resources on parasitic, adrenal and other sress related disorders!

All nutritional, lifestyle, personal-professional-spiritual coaching can be done long distance via the phone and internet. Please call or refer to our packages on the resources page to learn more about how this wonderful program works!

• Your are what you eat and when you eat
• Get to bed by 10 and rise no earlier than 6 a.m. (physical repair is between 10pm-2am and mental repair is between 2am-6am)
• Drink ½ your body weight in ounces of water per day
• If it wasn’t here 10,000 years ago, don’t eat it
• If it has a shelf life than it is a nonfood and should not be eaten (it takes more energy for you to metabolize and assimilate a nonfood than that food actually provides you with)
• If it is white, don't eat it (salt, sugar, flour, pasteurized milk)
• If it is clear, don't eat it (jello's, juice, etc). Bacteria grows around it and most clear fluids are sugar water.
• If you are not eating for your metabolic type, it is like putting unleaded gas in a diesel engine
• If you can't eat it, don't wear it!
• Stay away from or eating food from microwaves! (www.rense.com/general70/microwaved.htm)
• Listen to one of the pioneers in Functional Medicine, Dr. Timmins, talk about a variety of health issues and how to combat them. Click here!

The way you feel each and every day, is a reflection of how you take care of yourself. The food that you put into your body is what you are made up of, as well as what is going to energize you throughout the day. Improving ones nutrition through metabolic typing will ultimately lead to a life of increased energy, being able to maintain your ideal weight, conquering indigestion, bloating, and allergies, increasing the vitality of your immune system, prevention of disease, increased metal focus, and ultimately improving your entire lifestyle. “Seek not to treat the disease that has the person, but to heal the person that has the disease.”
Paul Chek