D.R.E.S.S. for Health Success®

Together We Decide How To Best Implement The Plan (D.R.E.S.S. for Health Success®)

I say together for two reasons. As mentioned previously, the symptoms and the lab results are largely irrelevant without the clients lifestyle to help connect the dots. Without that information, an effective plan would be merely dumb luck. Also, having gone over the lab results with you I have gained additional insight into how you think and how you may respond to a given therapy or protocol.

The solution to combatting Metabolic Chaos is not to suppress function (i.e. pharmaceuticals/drugs) or perform invasive procedures (i.e. surgery, chemo, radiation, etc.) because an offending tissue or gland won’t behave the way the doctor wishes. The true solution to building health and physical performance and sustaining it lies in addressing the environment you live in and the lifestyle choices made within that environment. After all, it is everything your body/mind has experienced and been exposed to that have led you exactly to the point you are today. While some factors, especially environmental are outside your control, you do have incredible influence over the body’s natural defensive mechanism protecting from those environmental factors. 

Functional Diagnostic Nutrition has a powerful weapon at its disposal called the D.R.E.S.S. for Health Success® Lifestyle Grounding Program which stands for:

        • Diet - Eating real food raised/grown the way nature intended and appropriate for you metabolism (Metabolic Type®)

        • Rest - Sleeping is vital as your body performs most of its healing and recovery while you are sleeping. Acquiring proper amounts and quality of sleep and rest is vital

        • Exercise - Movement stimulates health and healing. As harmful as a sedentary lifestyle is, over-exercising can be equally if not more harmful. Move with intention and purpose on a daily basis in ways appropriate for your skills, abilities and needs.

        • Stress Reduction - Exposure to stress levels beyond your body’s ability to defend against will contribute to Metabolic Chaos®. We strive to eliminate or greatly reduce as many stressors as possible. Stress can be physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, environmental, nutritional, biochemical, etc., in origin.

        • Supplementation - The intelligent use of supplementation to support and assist metabolic function is key to starting and sustaining the healing and repair processes. At the same time, supplementation will not make up for, or compensate for, poor lifestyle choices especially dietary choices. The better your Diet, Rest, Exercise and Stress Reduction execution is, the more effective the supplements will be.

The DRESS program is a foundational guide that can evolve with you as you heal and prosper. Once learned and understood, the principles can guide you successfully for the remainder of your life.