NESP^TM Nutrition and Weight Loss Program for Pain Relief

Countless research studies have shown links between poor nutrition exacerbating chronic pain of any origin. Often correcting nutritional deficits and using supplements as medicine can significantly reduce or eliminate pain and decrease or eliminate the need for expensive prescription drugs for pain, muscle spasm and insomnia. In addition, obesity adds significant weight to already injured body parts like, knees, hips and the spine. Research has shown that during walking the knees, hips and ankles bear 3 to 5 times a person’s body weight. This means for every pound a person is overweight translates into 3-5 extra pounds onto each hip, knee and ankle. It is easy to see how weight loss can reduce pain and reduce or even eliminate the need for prescription NSAIDS and painkillers.

How do you determine if a patient is significantly overweight? Old-fashion weight charts are obsolete. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The body mass index (BMI) should be used. The BMI equals a person's weight in pounds divided by their height in inches squared, multiplied by 704.5. Overweight is defined as a BMI of 27.3 percent or more for women and 27.8 or more for men. Obesity is defined as a BMI of 30 or more. A BMI of 30 is approximately equivalent to 30 pounds overweight.

The NESP™ program utilizes nutrition and weight loss as medicine. This is accomplished by:

• Comprehensive initial consultation with treating physician

• Comprehensive initial consultation with the Nutritionist under the supervision of the treating physician

• Correcting specific nutritional deficiencies that have a direct link to worsening pain. This is accomplished by correct diagnosis (utilizing traditional blood work and FIA and SPECTROX* blood work and the Secretor test**) and dietary changes along with nutritional supplementation

• Blood-type diet determination and implementation

• Customized home exercise program

• Weekly weight and BMI measurements to track progress and make adjustments

• Weekly follow up visits with Nutritionist

• Blood work is taken every 3 weeks until the end of the program to track progress

Benefits

• Systematically and permanently reduce the patient’s body weight which in turn reduces the stress on already weakened injured body parts

• Track and document patient’s progress and end result through traditional and non-traditional blood work, weight loss and improved BMI.

• Reduce or eliminate prescription painkillers and other collateral medications the patient takes for pain and muscle spasm

• Integrate program into the patient’s overall medical care. This in turn will speed the patient’s progress and push to achieve maximum medical improvement (MMI) as efficiently and quickly as possible

• Minimize loss work time

• Help to reduce or eliminate degree of permanent disability

• Overall reduction in cost to the insurance carrier from reduced dependence on expensive prescriptions drugs and reduced TTD and PD

Length of the program

This depends on the targeted amount of weight loss. Safe weight loss (that is targeting fat and not lean mass or water weight) can be achieved at 2-4 pounds lost per week. Therefore if a patient needs to lose 30 pounds or improve their BMI (usually less than 25) it would require approximately 10-15 weeks. There is a 6-week minimum required for the program. The length of the program and the estimated costs of the program are determined and submitted to the carrier prior to the patient starting the program.

Cost

The program is all-inclusive; meaning that the global fee pays for all consults, blood work, nutritional supplements and secretor tests.

Weeks 1-4                                           $1895
Week 5 and thereafter                          $395 per week

* FIA and SPECTROX: FIA (Functional Intracellular Analysis) is a blood panel that measures the biochemical function of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and antioxidants. In addition, it calculates the level of antioxidant activity in the blood. This is critical since low levels of antioxidant activity are directly related to pain or the exacerbation of pain.

**Secretor test: is a test on saliva that determines if a patient is a “secretor or non-secretor” Everyone has Lewis antigens on their blood cells. Your “type” is Lewis A, Lewis B or Lewis non-A, non-B.

People with Lewis B antigens on their blood cells are considered “secretors” and they are better protected from disease and less susceptible to pain syndromes (or at least have less pain from the same pain problems that a “non-secretor” has). Secretors also have higher levels of Immunoglobulin A (boost immune system) and their particular major blood antigens (A, B, O, etc.) are expressed on ALL their secretions (saliva, urine, etc.) not just their blood cells, again giving that patient added protection from disease, inflammation and pain.

People that have Lewis antigen A or non-A, non-B are “non-secretors” and don’t have the aforementioned advantages. Blood-type dieting can help non-secretors react more like secretors and for chronic pain patients this can significantly decrease inflammation in joints and other parts of the body and directly reduce and in some cases eliminate a patient’s pain.

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