Yes there is. In our office, we use a body impedance analysis machine which will give you your basal metabolic rate. This is the number of calories that you will burn in a day going about your daily business but it does not include extra dedicated exercise time. Depending on the amount of exercise that you perform, we can enter this into the machine or manually calculate the extra calories that your exercise is burning. However, it does give us a much more precise way to see what the optimal number of calories for your body is.

The type of food sensitivity testing that I find most helpful is doing an IgG food sensitivity panel. We usually test about 150 different foods and spices and rank their reaction in the body as high, moderate or low. This is not the type of reaction where you would get hives or anaphylaxis or difficulty breathing from eating a food such as peanuts, this is very different. It is a reaction in the body where the body is not tolerating that food but you are not having an acute reaction to it. Often it is due to a poor or unhealthy gut and we work very hard to really repair the gut barrier, replace anything that is missing in the gut such as probiotics, digestive enzymes and this can be helpful to alter your sensitivity to certain foods, but the IgG panel I find to be most helpful to find what you are sensitive to that you may not realize as we often crave the foods that we are sensitive to.

Absolutely. You can absolutely lower your blood pressure by utilizing a healthy diet. In fact, there are many natural substances that can lower blood pressure in addition to a healthy diet. Even something such as four stalks of celery per day can lower blood pressure, fish oil lowers blood pressure, Hawthorn Berry lowers blood pressure. There are many natural substances that lower blood pressure in addition with a healthy diet that can help you avoid the need for any pharmaceutical treatment.

There are foods that have some benefit to reduce anxiety such as tryptophan found as we have all heard in turkey which is why we get so sleepy after a Thanksgiving dinner, but this can be very relaxing obviously and you can incorporate it into your diet in different ways. I more commonly rely on simple supplements which allow you to get a little higher dose and a more specific action to fight anxiety. I especially like supplements such as L-Theanine, GABA, 5-HTP; these can be very helpful natural antianxiety supplements that you can incorporate into your regimen in a variety of doses.