• Cardiac Health

    At OWIFM we take your health seriously.  We provide leading edge analysis of your cardiac health concerns. These three factors assess your cardiac status and cardiac risk: Blood tests that go beyond the usual limited lipid panel to assess cholesterol and inflammation.  Coronary Artery Calcium Score (AKA “CAC Score”). This is a CT scan of Continue Reading

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  • Walck to Wellness

    Individual wellness strategies for you. You’ve heard it before, a  million times…”I have to eat better”… “I have to go on a diet”.  What does  that mean anyway?  Which diet makes sense?  Can you really spend your life “on a diet”? In the Walck to Wellness, a nutrition plan catered to your  individual needs is given Continue Reading

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  • Nutrition and Exceptional Care

    You are what you eat… what are you becoming? Are you taking the correct dose of micro-nutrients to optimize your biochemical processes? Are you taking the right kind of micro-nutrients to optimize your biochemical processes? A broad swath of measurements from your blood answers these critical questions: Tests for Vitamin levels: – Vitamins are the Continue Reading

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  • Hormones

    Optimizing hormone status for resilience, health and vitality

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  • Integrative Family Medicine

    We address all problems typical in a Family Practice office.   The difference is that we are always asking the questions: Where did this come from? How can we correct this from a nutritional or stress perspective rather than just offer a prescription? Is it Hormonal? Females: Menopause, PMS,  Estrogen Dominance, Cancer risk, Incontinence. Males: Andropause, Prostate, Erectile Continue Reading

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Cardiac Health

At OWIFM we take your health seriously.  We provide leading edge analysis of your cardiac health concerns.

These three factors assess your cardiac status and cardiac risk:

  1. Blood tests that go beyond the usual limited lipid panel to assess cholesterol and inflammation. 
  2. Coronary Artery Calcium Score (AKA “CAC Score”).

This is a CT scan of your heart, measuring the amount of calcium (or hardening of hard plaque)  in your coronary arteries. This test tells you right now whether you have the Disease of Atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries in the vessels of your heart (total cholesterol does not give this information) and your potential risk for heart attack or stroke.

This procedure is scheduled through an outside third party and is not covered by Insurance.  Cost approx. $100.

  1. Carotid Intimal Scan by Ultrasound. This is an Ultrasound test that actually measures the layer of inflammation in your carotid arteries.  If this area is thickened with soft plaque, you are on your way to hardening. This test predicts your potential risk for stroke.  

This procedure is performed in our Office and billed to Insurance.

 

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