Our patient-centered weight management approach is focused on helping patients achieve weight loss goals and maintain a healthy weight. Because each person’s body and relationship with food are unique, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to weight management. Our medical weight loss and management program is an evidence-based, state-of-the-art, medically supervised body fat reduction program individualized to each patient.
Our patients have experienced excellent results with our successful weight management program that utilizes nutritional consultation along with Cornerstone Wellness MD supplements.
Benefits of Reaching a Healthy Weight
Losing those extra pounds and achieving your healthy weight goal can help you live a longer, healthier, more productive life. Carrying excess weight creates strain on the body, keeping your body’s systems from optimal performance. Here are eight reasons why now is the perfect time to start your weight loss journey.
1. Reduce risk of chronic diseases
Obesity is linked to many chronic conditions, including:
- Type 2 Diabetes
- High Blood Pressure
- Certain cancers
- Sleep apnea
- Osteoarthritis
- Gallbladder disease
- Stroke
2. A healthy heart
Shedding excess weight can reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases.
3. Reduced risk of cancer
Being overweight has been shown to increase your risk for certain types of cancer, including colon, breast, and prostate cancer.
4. Stronger bones and joints
Maintaining a healthy weight can reduce joint pain and improve mobility.
5. Better Sleep
Achieving a healthy weight can improve your sleep quality and quantity.
6. Increased Energy
Surplus weight can make you feel tired and sluggish. Shedding those added pounds can help to improve your mood and boost your energy levels.
7. Improved mental health
Maintaining a healthy weight can help reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression.
8. Immune System Boost
Achieving your healthy weight goal can give your immune system a boost, reducing the risk of illness.
Healthy Weight Loss
The River Bend Medical Associates Wellness Program includes a full nutrition and preventative wellness program centered around cutting-edge individualized technologies that will help optimize your health, reduce your medication load, achieve and maintain a healthy weight, improve your quality of life, and help prevent disease. River Bend Medical Associates has partnered with Cornerstone Wellness MD for the past 15 years, providing education, nutrition, and prevention to all our clients.
- Obesity is the only chronic disease that clinicians usually treat acutely
- Significant and rapid weight loss typically results in muscle catabolism and lower BMR
- Lower BMR always results in eventual regain of weight, fat, co-morbidities, and frustration.
- Instead of weight loss, we need to concentrate on fat loss with muscle/BMR maintenance
- Intake of protein at one gram per pound of lean body mass preserves muscle and BMR
- Essential to accurately and frequently monitor lean body mass and body fat
Weight Loss vs. Fat Loss & Muscle Maintenance
- Weight loss drugs effectively induce anorexia, resulting in muscle and BMR decrement
- All weight loss drugs cause tachyphylaxis due to membrane receptor downregulation
- Protein and MCTs as appetite suppressants never cause tachyphylaxis
- Patients need evidence-based tools for decades-long results, which Cornerstone delivers
Healthy weight loss without shots is possible! While GLP-1s are an effective tool for weight loss, they don’t come without side effects, and they’re not appropriate for everyone. But you can still achieve your weight loss goals.
At River Bend Medical Associates, our wellness team is passionate about providing evidence-based therapies that help patients improve their overall well-being. We achieve this through a “Core to Floor” philosophy, which focuses on nutrition and therapies that provide muscle strengthening and fat reduction for key areas of the body. We provide services in a clean, confidential, and relaxing atmosphere, always focusing on quality of care as well as convenience. Our team is here to assist you in meeting your goals and provide you with an exceptional experience. Call (916)502-6105 for your Wellness Program appointment today.