Continuing Education

We believe that knowledge is power. The more you know, the better you can be and live. Just like the doctors and staff of Inspired Health Center attend classes and study to build upon our knowledge base and ability to help others, we want our patients to do the same. That is why we offer various classes (educational, encouraging, and fun) to our patients. We do this because it is the best way to learn, have fun, and improve your wellness experience and lifestyle.

Wellness and Hormone Classes

We provide expertise and life long study on health and wellness to any and all listeners. You are more than welcome to attend multiple workshops, but we greatly encourage you to refer your family, friends, co-workers and anyone to our workshops. Our goal is to reach and help as many people as possible. These informative and fun workshops help to dispel myths, provide education and give hope to those with health and wellness problems. Ask our front desk when the class will be held.

Supplement Protocol Classes

We outline and teach various subjects including adrenal fatigue, gastro-intestinal dysfunction, female/male hormone imbalance, metabolism enhancement, workout theory. These classes are for treating patients and their families. They are held at designated times and dates. The atmosphere is fun and informal with the emphasis on patient education to provide the most out of your  Program.

Inspired Health Lifestyle Program

We will help unleash your personal wellness potential by following simple, self-care practices. Today, responsible people of all ages are getting the benefits of stress control they couldn’t even begin to achieve with conventional “sickness care” or outdated lifestyle advice. Indeed, Peak Lifestyle Technology has changed thousands of skeptics into life-long wellness enthusiasts. They finally have concrete, satisfying results to show for their earnest efforts at gaining a greater quality of life.

Traditional Western medicine and its doctors are the finest in the world for dealing with acute care such as the diagnosis and treatment of trauma or short-duration illnesses in need of urgent care. For example, a traumatic car accident, appendicitis, or a broken leg. For such harrowing situations, I want traditional medicine in my corner!

But to stave off chronic problems or diseases, to better control or even reverse disease states and debilitation, and to train people in the art and science of wellness and self-healing, functional medicine is better suited for developing and maintaining a higher quality of life well into one’s senior years.

What is Functional Medicine?

Functional medicine is personally tailored medicine. It deals with primary prevention and underlying causes of chronic disease rather than simply removing or masking symptoms once they arise. Functional medicine emphasizes true healing, treatment of the person rather than a disease, and a partnership of joint responsibility between doctor and patient, with the patient carrying most of the load. It also embraces the most current science in diagnosing early abnormalities that eventually lead to chronic illness.

Functional medicine uses botanicals and other forms of nutritional supplementation rather than pharmaceutical agents that create high levels of stress damage. Under the influence of functional medicine, “old age” is not what it used to be, anti-aging is now a science, and optimized living is the “new normal” for people of every age.

In light of the above points, I view functional medicine as a complement to traditional medicine and not an alternative. Systems of health protection should work together where possible. One approach cannot serve all of “heaven and earth.”

Why Do We Need Functional Medicine?

Chronic disease, as a rule, is slow to develop. Examples are diabetes, cardiovascular damage, hypertension, low thyroid, cancer, mental illness, autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, and back problems. Long-term predictions for such chronic diseases keep rising because the physical, emotional, and mental effects of stress are overwhelming us. This stress comes from poor diet, a toxic environment, drugs, accidents, nervous system impairments, emotional reactions to life, mental overload, lack of exercise, and insufficient sleep. Even falling in love is stressful (eustress)!

Diabetes is quickly becoming an epidemic, so traditional medicine is planning to target “high risk” individuals with ever-more dramatic drug interventions. Researchers, of course, hope to enhance quality of life while Big Pharma hopes to enhance profits. Yet, the physical, emotional, mental, and economic side effects of drug interventions leave us with a sobering message, one having little to do with healing or quality of life. Isn’t it time for a “sanity check”?

Functional medicine works to keep you from becoming a high-risk disease candidate in the first place. The rule is simple: prevent disease states from developing now so there’s nothing to “treat” later. But if you already happen to be riding the risk rollercoaster (typical for people over 30), you can start reversing some or most of the acquired stress damage by enabling your body to heal itself. This is very different from suppressing disease signs or symptoms with drugs, as is done with statins or thyroid medications to make lab measurements look better.

Who Qualifies For This Type of Proactive Approach?

Here’s the catch. People must qualify themselves to follow the prevention approaches of functional medicine and optimized living. Although a prevention or wellness lifestyle is highly rewarding, it is not for the timid. Such a lifestyle requires us to understand how the Big Five Stress Agents mislead us and reduce our collective wellness. The problem is that most people have fallen victim to the harmful mental pattern of hoping rather than (pro)acting. They hope they will somehow fare better than others whom they know are suffering degraded lifestyles. Hope, however, doesn’t have a good track record for preventing chronic disease. But hey, hope is easy!

So, what are some of the harmful mental patterns you may inadvertently hold because of Big Five Stress Agent influences? Here are a few examples. Do any fit you?

• You’ll pop a pill as a quick fix for almost anything to improve your short-term quality of life.
• You think your doctor’s job is to take charge of your health and “fix” you when symptoms arise.
• Your physical activity has decreased with each passing year because you think you’re supposed to slow down as your calendar age rises.
• You want your body to act and recover as it did in your teens and 20’s. Hint: It can’t and won’t without ongoing lifestyle adjustments.