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Nutrition Intervention

Did You Know?

According to NCBI, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome between January 2022 and February 2023 was 63.3%. Men were more likely to have the syndrome than women, with 52.5% of men and 47.5% of women having it. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome also increased with age, from 6.7% for people aged 20–29 to 43.5% for people aged 60–69 and 42.0% for people aged 70 and older.

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that occur together, increasing your risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes. These conditions include increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, and abnormal cholesterol or triglyceride levels.

Diet

Physical Activity

Restorative Sleep

Positive Mindset

Medical and pharmaceutical interventions have done little to control metabolic disease syndrome. However, reliable medical research suggests that lifestyle intervention and behavioral coaching strategies may succeed in the management, prevention, and possible reversal of metabolic disease syndrome.

Wellness Academy USA Nutrition Intervention Program – is designed to improve or change a nutrition-related problems such as malnutrition, over-nutrition and metabolic disease syndromes. Our program utilizes comprehensive health screenings, blood chemistry analysis, toxic metal testing, ongoing remote biomarker monitoring, micro/macronutrient analysis, as well as behavioral & motivational interviewing coaching to drive lifestyle change.

Wellness Academy USA Nutrition Intervention Program is designed to stabilize blood sugar, improve bone, brain and gut-microbiome health. We use organic whole food-based minerals, exceptional omega-3 fatty acids to mitigate the degeneration from arthritis, and the use of microcirculation techniques to improve health at a cellular level.

Wellness Academy USA Nutrition Intervention utilizes motivational interviewing, behavior coaching, and personal training to drive lifestyle change remotely and in-person.

Understanding the Paradox of Insulin Resistance

Insulin resistance has proven to be one of the biggest problems in treating patients with metabolic disease syndrome. Insulin is an essential hormone produced by the body. It affects many aspects of your health such as metabolism, weight gain, aging, and brain wellness.

Insulin also enables the transfer of glucose present in the blood into your cells. This provides cells with the energy they need to operate. Insulin resistance is a phenomenon where the glucose in your blood is unable to enter cells, despite normal or high levels of insulin present.

Unhealthy eating habits, unbalanced diets, lack of physical activity, sleep, and stress can affect the performance of insulin and cause an increase in glucose levels.
The excess glucose ends up getting stored as fat which leads to weight gain, pre-diabetes, Type II Diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and is a risk factor for cognitive loss. People with insulin resistance are also more prone to stress, anxiety, food cravings, fatigue, brain fog, and insomnia.

Metabolic syndrome is also known as insulin resistance syndrome. It’s common in the United States, affecting about one in three adults. Many of the signs associated with metabolic syndrome are caused by lifestyle factors, such as diet, activity, and sleep, but genetic factors may also play a role.

Insulin resistance has proven to be one of the Insulin also enables the transfer of glucose present in the blood into your cells. This provides cells with the energy they need to operate. Insulin resistance is a phenomenon where the glucose in your blood is unable to enter cells, despite normal or high levels of insulin present.

Unhealthy eating habits, unbalanced diets, lack of physical activity, sleep, and stress can affect the performance of insulin and cause an increase in glucose levels. The excess glucose ends up getting stored as fat which leads to weight gain, pre-diabetes, Type II Diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and is a risk factor for cognitive loss. People with insulin resistance are also more prone to stress, anxiety, food cravings, fatigue, brain fog, and insomnia.

Metabolic syndrome is also known as insulin resistance syndrome. It's common in the United States, affecting about one in three adults. Many of the signs associated with metabolic syndrome are caused by lifestyle factors, such as diet, activity, and sleep, but genetic factors may also play a role.

That's Where We Come In!

Wellness Academy USA Nutrition Intervention Program – services cater to the diverse needs of an aging population and utilizes nutrition intervention and personal training for weight management, chronic metabolic disease prevention, cardiorespiratory conditioning, improve musculoskeletal strength, restorative sleep practices, and daily motivation to foster a positive mindset.

How Does It Work?

Wellness Academy USA Lifestyle Wellness Program is based on 4 simple pathways – diet, physical activity, a restorative sleep plan, and proven strategies to improve positive mindset and brain wellness.

We employ complementary strategies to measure and improve health outcomes – including shopping for organic whole foods, recipes, intermittent fasting protocols, daily physical activity such as gate speed walking, whole body functional & adaptive exercises, a sustainable sleep plan, and techniques to improve a positive mindset.

Our goal is to help our clients/patients manage and potentially reverse insulin resistance. The long-term use of our evidence-based wellness protocols have been proven to reduce your reliance on medications with a medical doctor’s oversight.

Our protocols are designed to help with weight loss, improved metabolism, immune system strength, lowering blood sugar, balancing blood pressure, reducing insulin resistance, and creating a healthier gut microbiome. These protocols focus on reducing inflammation and increasing microcirculation, which addresses a wide range of potential health issues.

We also provide meal plans, and recipes for the entire family and great healthy lunch plans for children.

Some Fast Facts About Diabetes

Total

38.4 Million people

have diabetes (11.6% of the U.S. population)

Diagnosed

29.7 Million people

million people, including 29.4 million adults

Undiagnosed

8.7 Million people

(22.8% of adults with diabetes are undiagnosed)

Some Pre-Diabetes Facts

Total

97.6 Million people

aged 18 years or older have prediabetes (38.0% of the adult U.S. population) 65 years or older

Prediabetes

27.2 Million people

aged 65 years or older (48.8%) have prediabetes

Partners and Associations

Wellness Academy USA works to research the genesis of disease globally, and advocate for better public health and self-care. This is especially true in terms of reducing communicable diseases, synthetic chemicals in food, toxic metals, pesticides, the inhumane treatment of animals, food insecurity, childhood trauma, and homelessness.

Our advocacy projects include speaking up for laws that promote smoke-free indoor air, seatbelts, helmets homeless sheltering, and clean city sidewalks. Overall, we seek to spread the word about ways to improve health outcomes through our evidence-based pathways: diet, physical activity, restorative sleep and a positive mindset- all of which leads to improved brain and overall wellness.

Measuring Biometric Data

Quantifying Results

Wellness Academy USA uses a HIPAA-compliment Lifestyle Management System that allows the patient/client to login and track personalized biometric and daily nutrition micronutrient data through an app, which also including the ability to monitor and store steps, weight/BMI, blood pressure, blood sugar, sleep data. Devices compatible with the App are the Apple Watch, Fitbit, Garmin, and Google Fit – all of which can sync and upload biometric data for review by physicians and health & wellness coaches to measure and quantify improved health outcomes.

Lifestyle Management System

Wellness Academy USA utilizes a lifestyle wellness App that is easy to download, connects to wearable devices, and smart scale technology to track steps, weight/BMI, blood pressure, heart rate, blood sugar, and other biometric data. Our lifestyle wellness App ensures we are able to securely communicate and accurately evaluate each of our client’s progress, and to quantify their health improvement.

We recognize the significance of proper communication and collaboration in making lasting lifestyle change. The lifestyle wellness App provides a secure, HIPPA-compliant space for patients/clients, coaches, and physicians to directly message one another.

This continuity of care helps reshape the client’s lifestyle and maximize their quality of life, health outcomes and stress free happiness.

Culinary Wellness

Chronic metabolic disease syndromes are characterized by an imbalance in blood sugar, fatty liver, altered lipids, high blood pressure, and obesity. Genetic constituents; high fat and high-energy dietary habits; a sedentary lifestyle; sleep deprivation; prenatal nutrition (malnutrition); and stress, are all major contributing factors to pre-diabetes and Type II Diabetes.

Wellness Academy USA Nutrition Intervention Program is design to mediate, and in many cases, reverse chronic metabolic disease syndromes. We use data from anthropological studies of modern-day hunter-gatherer-forager populations (i.e. Tsimané); Blue Zone regions from around the world with high concentration of centenarians; clinical studies that support the Mediterranean diet; and additional clinical studies such as the Adventist Health Study 2, to create the healthiest evidence-based meals and physical activity plans.

Our meals plans & recipes improve the gut microbiome by increasing prebiotic healthy bacteria to boost disease prevention and brain wellness. A substantial body of research confirms the important role the gut microbiota plays in preventing, and possible reversing chronic metabolic disease, including arthritis, bone loss, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, obesity, and diseases of the mind.

Wellness Academy USA Healthy Plate

Plant Fats, Vegetables/Root Vegetables, Fruits, Fungi, Nuts & Seeds.

Healthy Oils: olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil – NO trans fat, No salt

Vegetables/Root Vegetables: lentils, beans, bulbs, squash, herbs; basil, dill, parsley. rosemary, chives, lemon grass, spices turmeric, ginger. cinnamon, garlic, peppers.

Whole Fruits: all colors, eat the whole fruit, not juice – acid, subacid, sweet and melon fruits.

Fungi – Mushrooms: shiitake, oyster, white button, portabello, cremini, maitake, button, hedgehog, morel, porcini, lobester, enoki.

Nuts & Seeds: cashews. pecans, walnuts, almonds, brazil nuts, pumpkin, flax, chia, hemp seeds, sunflower, (NO Peanuts).

Hydration, Pseudo Seed Grains, Plant Milks, Grass-Fed/Greek Yogurt, Proteins/Fats

Hydration/Water/Fluids: glacier, iceberg, spring water, green tea. coconut water, mineral water – NO soda, No vitamin water, No structured water, NO concentrated juice.

Non-Gluten Grains: oats, quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat.

Plant Milks & Yogurt: pea, oat, coconut, rice, almond, cashew milks, organic grass-fed/Greek yogurt.

Proteins: deep sea water fish salmon, mackerel, yellow tail, albacore tune, sardines, organic eggs, grass-fed bison, wild quail. turkey, geese. duck, grass-fed yogurt/kifer, avocado, chickpeas, lentils, green peas, beans, dark chocolate, nuts, seeds, olives, olive oil, coconut, coconut oil, tofu, (all organic certified, or wild caught).

The Inspiration Behind Meal Plans

Wellness Academy USA uses data from anthropological studies, blue zones, the Mediterranean diet and other clinical nutrition studies to design pathways to guide, empower and drive lifestyle change to improve manmade syndromes – arthritis, heart disease, type II diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and diseases of the mind – by emphasizing a return to a more ancient pre-Neolithic organic diet, and a more physically active lifestyle that enables our ancient genome to thrive.

We measure and quantify our program through the following biomarkers/biometrics: 1) total cholesterol; 2) triglycerides; 3) HDL/LDL ratio; 4) blood sugar AIC levels; 5) weight/BMI/waist circumference risk; 6) blood pressure; 7) waist-to-hip ratio; 8) an increase in physical activity levels, tracking steps, with gate speed daily (8k-10K steps daily; 9) sustained high-quality sleep (7-8 hours); and 10) positive mindset (stress reduction & mindfulness assessments, via happiness index).

These goals are feasible, safe, and effective for reducing the risk of chronic metabolic disease. They are achievable through a variety of modalities, including digitally-based intervention and behavioral strategies using board-certified health & wellness coaching with medical oversight.

Calorie And Macronutrient Breakdown

Nature Got it Right

Wellness Academy USA embraces telehealth technology that increases access for metabolic disease prevention and management with your dedicated board-certified health & wellness coach. Telehealth has played a pivotal role in improving the delivery and education of self-care, which enhances the quality of treatment plans for all participants who suffer from chronic metabolic disease syndrome.

Wellness Academy USA is a fun and easy to follow personalized lifestyle wellness program that uses one-on-one health & wellness coaching, nutritional intervention, and functional & adaptive personal training to guide participants through what we call “The Transition.”

We are educators at our core, guiding lifestyle change by educating our participants to consume affordable, high-quality, organic whole foods, to increase daily physical activities, better quality restorative sleep, and techniques to improve one’s positive mindset (including stress reduction). This all leads to sustainable weight loss, increased microcirculation, stabilization of blood sugar, and improved brain wellness.

Call for a complimentary personalized 30-minute “strategy session” with one of our board-certified health & wellness coaches to start improving your health and self-care today!

Testimonial

“Gerald’s personal coaching and daily texts asking what I was eating, how I was exercising etc. was amazing. I had not exercised in over a year and now walk 3-5 miles a day and have been able to maintain a weight loss of 30 Lbs. Gerald’s approach made selection easy because I had choices and he made it interesting!

My life and health was changed by this new, healthy approach to eating and living and I owe it all to Gerald and his personalized approach to weight management and healthy living.”

Nutrition Intervention

Did You Know?

Diet

Physical Activity

Restorative Sleep

Positive Mindset

Understanding the Paradox of Insulin Resistance

That's Where We Come In!

How Does It Work?

Some Fast Facts About Diabetes

Total

38.4

Million people

Diagnosed

29.7

Million people

Undiagnosed

8.7

Million people

Some Pre-Diabetes Facts

Total

97.6

Million people

Prediabetes

27.2

Million people

Partners and Associations

Measuring Biometric Data

Quantifying Results

Lifestyle Management System

Culinary Wellness

Wellness Academy USA Healthy Plate

Plant Fats, Vegetables/Root Vegetables, Fruits, Fungi, Nuts & Seeds.

Hydration, Pseudo Seed Grains, Plant Milks, Grass-Fed/Greek Yogurt, Proteins/Fats

The Inspiration Behind Meal Plans

Calorie And Macronutrient Breakdown

Detox

BreakFast

Lunch

Dinner

Herbs

Snacks

Dessert

Hydration

Nature Got it Right

Testimonial

Ms. D.R., Nurse Practitioner