Weight Management and Whole-Body Wellness
Advanced Wellness takes a personalized, whole-body approach to weight management, helping patients address the underlying factors that can make losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight challenging. Through functional nutrition coaching, personalized lab testing, and complementary wellness services, we help you better understand your body and develop sustainable habits that support long-term health.
Understanding Weight Gain & Weight Management Challenges
Weight gain is not always as simple as eating more or exercising less. Hormonal fluctuations, changes in metabolism, nutritional deficiencies, chronic stress, poor sleep, and lifestyle habits can all influence how your body stores fat and regulates weight. For women especially, changes associated with pregnancy, perimenopause, and menopause can make maintaining a healthy weight increasingly difficult.
Persistent or unexplained weight gain may also be accompanied by fatigue, increased joint discomfort, reduced mobility, changes in appetite, and difficulty losing weight despite consistent diet and exercise efforts. Understanding what's contributing to these changes is an important first step toward finding a sustainable solution.
At Advanced Wellness, we look beyond the number on the scale to help identify opportunities to improve your overall health, balance your nutritional needs, and support your weight management goals.
Weight Management Solutions
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Functional Nutrition Coaching
Nutrition plays an important role in maintaining a healthy weight, supporting metabolism, and balancing blood sugar. Our one-on-one functional nutrition coaching, led by Registered Dietitian Lauren Blake, takes a personalized approach to understanding your dietary habits, nutritional needs, and individual health goals.
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Personalized Lab Testing
Sometimes, the key to understanding weight gain lies beneath the surface. Advanced Wellness offers personalized lab testing to provide additional insight into factors that may influence weight management, including hormone levels, thyroid function, and gut health.
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Nutritional Supplements
Getting the right nutrients can help support metabolism, energy levels, and overall health. Advanced Wellness offers professional-grade supplements from trusted brands, including Thorne, Pure Encapsulations, Standard Process, and OrthoMolecular.
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Infrared Sauna
Infrared sauna therapy offers a relaxing addition to a comprehensive wellness routine. By using infrared heat to warm the body, sauna sessions promote circulation, encourage relaxation, and may temporarily increase calorie expenditure. Regular sessions can complement healthy lifestyle habits while supporting cardiovascular health, recovery, and overall well-being.
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Acupuncture
Acupuncture can be a helpful addition to your weight management journey by supporting stress reduction, relaxation, and overall wellness. By stimulating specific points throughout the body, acupuncture may help address factors such as stress, sleep disturbances, and digestive discomfort that can make healthy lifestyle changes more challenging.
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Classes & Events
Advanced Wellness classes and events offer opportunities to learn practical strategies for healthier eating, movement, and stress management while building healthy habits and connecting with a community that supports your long-term weight management goals.
FAQs
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Eating healthy is important, but weight changes can be influenced by more than diet alone. Hormonal changes, stress, poor sleep, certain medications, changes in metabolism, and underlying health factors can all play a role. A personalized approach can help identify potential barriers and determine what adjustments may support your goals.
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Yes. Hormonal changes can affect appetite, metabolism, energy levels, and how the body stores fat. Changes associated with perimenopause, menopause, thyroid function, and other hormonal shifts may make weight management more challenging. Understanding these factors can help guide a more personalized approach.
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Functional nutrition looks at the bigger picture of your health, including eating habits, lifestyle, digestion, energy levels, and potential nutritional imbalances. Working with a registered dietitian can help you develop a practical nutrition plan based on your needs, health history, and goals rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all diet.
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Depending on your symptoms and health history, testing may help provide a clearer picture of factors that influence weight management. Advanced Wellness offers DUTCH Hormone Testing to assess hormone levels and metabolism, as well as Gut Microbiome Testing to evaluate the balance of bacteria and fungi in your digestive system. We can help determine which tests may be appropriate and review the results with you to guide personalized recommendations.
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Results vary based on your starting point, health goals, lifestyle, and consistency with your plan. Some people notice improvements in energy, digestion, or daily habits within a few weeks, while changes in weight and body composition may take longer. Functional nutrition coaching at Advanced Wellness includes ongoing guidance and support to help you build sustainable habits and adjust your plan as your needs evolve.
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