Treatment Approaches

How we help reverse your chronic conditions

Most of our cliens, who come to us from all around the world, have the similar complaints. They have exhausted the efforts of their primary care physician, have been to numerous specialists, tried and failed on multiple medication/supplement protocols, and have tried every new gimmick only to still be chronically suffering. A typical client seeks our care because they personally know someone who has been through a similar journey of failures but has found success here. This is because we have a distinctive, comprehensive approach, and we do things quite differently here at the Genomic Wellness Group. Our goal is to create “normal” physiology, not to merely manage or negate symptoms. This is a breath of fresh air for those who have run out of options.

The Genomic Wellness Group uses a Functional Lifestyle Medicine protocol developed over 17 years to ensure the greatest clinical success in the least amount of time.

Let us help you create a lifestyle and diet that is consistent with life and longevity without gimmicks and fads!” – Dr. Patrick Garrett

Take a look at our treatment approaches:

Lifestyle Medicine
Functional Medicine
Nutrigenomics
Clinical Nutrition
Detoxification
Proteogenomics
Molecular Mimicry
Hormonal Restoration
Transformational Health Coaching

How we help using Lifestyle Medicine

Lifestyle medicine is a comprehensive approach to optimize the processes that benefit our physiology and wellbeing through diet, physical activity, sleep, stress management and, equally importantly, avoiding chronic exposure to dietary and environmental factors that interfere with our wellbeing. While most physicians appreciate that the majority of chronic conditions are preventable and reversible through lifestyle changes, very few are trained or will spend the quality time necessary to help a client create new healthy habits.

The core of the Functional Lifestyle Medicine protocol is based upon modifying our lifestyle and diet to ensure a dramatic reduction in costly treatment or management for better clinical success.

How we help using Functional Medicine

Functional medicine is a unique approach to help determine the root causes of chronic illness and to help restore normal health, while understanding that each client and situation is unique. This is a individualized, client-centered, science-based approach that empowers the client, rather than the typical symptom-based approach of westernized medicine.

The core of the Functional Lifestyle Medicine protocol is based on functional medicine clinical perspectives to ensure a dramatic reduction in costly treatment or management for better clinical success.

How we help using Nutrigenomics

The Genomic Wellness Group uses nutritional genomics to address the clinical relationship between your DNA, genes, and epigenetics in relation to your diet and health outcomes. The great debate over nature versus nurture is determined by the underlying presence of genes within your← DNA which are modified by your diet, your environment, and your stress. Since most of your cells are completely renewed in seven years, 100% of your entire body is from the food that you have eaten during that time. At our core, humans← are biochemistry that eats biochemistry that supports our biochemistry. The food that you eat either helps or harms your genetics. Either way, we have a choice.

Our Functional Lifestyle Medicine protocol addresses food and its relationship to your DNA, genes, and epigenetics.

Genomics

Genomics is a branch of biology that deals with DNA, genetics, and epigenetics. Each of the 100 trillion cells in your body contains six foot of DNA which contains up to 25,000 genes. These genes regulate everything from our eye color to our metabolism. Some genes like height or hair color are static genes while other genes can be turned on and off which can greatly determine our health outcomes. These switches are controlled through diet and lifestyle and their regulation is called epigenetics. The Genomic Wellness Group can tailor treatments based on your genetic profile to ensure greater efficacy.

How we help using Clinical Nutrition

Everything in the body is nutrition based. Every cell, hormone, neurotransmitter and organ was created from the nutrients in our food. Based on this fact, research shows that diet can either cause disease or reverse disease. Rather than addressing our diet in meaningful and sustainable ways, most clinics resort to over-supplementing clients on expensive herbs and vitamins. At the Genomic Wellness Group, we start with clinical nutrition in our diet to reduce the dependency on chronic supplement management.

The core of the Functional Lifestyle Medicine protocol is based on clinical nutrition to ensure a dramatic reduction in costly treatment or management for better clinical success.

How we help using Detoxification

Detoxification begins by identifying the things that you eat, drink, breathe, wear, and rub on your skin which chronically interfere with your physiology and biochemistry. Rather than perpetually poisoning yourself with coal tar derivatives and spending a fortune on supplements and devices to help your body detoxify itself, an important part of the Functional Lifestyle Medicine protocol is to teach clients how to identify the most common toxins and how to avoid them in the home and diet. Additionally, we can look at genetic pathways for detoxification, as well as laboratory values to ensure that the liver and kidneys are functionally optimally.

How we help using Proteogenomics

Proteogenomics is the process of RNA that translates our DNA into very specific proteins that regulate everything that happens in our cells. Some of these proteins can even turn on and turn off specific genes. In the most simple terms, proteogenomics describes the study of how information about the DNA in a cell relates to the proteins made by other cells. It is a revolutionary process that allows very specific medications and supplements to be tailored to alter functions in desirable therapeutic ways.

How we help using Molecular Mimicry

The Genomic Wellness Group acknowledges the concept of T-cell dysregulation and molecular mimicry as a unique and very successful approach to helping reverse chronic autoimmune conditions ranging from eczema to Crohn’s Disease. While there is a variety of mechanisms which lead to the end process of autoimmune disease, molecular mimicry is a well-established process by which infections initiate and/or exacerbate these diseases.

Your lifestyle and diet can lead to a suppression of the “neighborhood watch” cells within your immune system. These T-cells, when suppressed, can misidentify a foreign antigen, such as a virus or bacteria, confusing the foreign antigen with similar looking antigens from specific foods and/or self-tissue. This mistake leads to memory cells making you vulnerable to autoimmune conditions. Our Functional Lifestyle Medicine protocol not only addresses the short-term symptoms but also the long-term reversal of the autoimmune condition.

This is well established in research but rarely applied in clinical practice. Our clinic has nearly 20 years of successfully helping clients use this process to reverse their autoimmune conditions.

How we help using Hormonal Restoration

The Functional Lifestyle Medicine protocol helps clients restore normal hormonal balance rather than prescribing bio-identical hormone replacement. It is important to understand that from birth to death, you have the ability to make all the hormones that you require for health and happiness. Most clients don’t realize that if you take hormones, even bio-identical ones, you down-regulate your own production, making your symptoms worse over time. The Genomic Wellness Group helps restore normal hormone function through the deliberate process of teaching neuroplasticity and hormonal resiliency. While this is a unique approach to westernized medicine, it is just a normal lifestyle in other countries that are naturally healthier, happier and hormonally balanced. We teach clients to stop exhausting their hormones rather than just adding more hormones.

How we help using Transformational Health Coaching

The ultimate goal of the Genomic Wellness Group is to create a diet and lifestyle that is consistent with life and longevity which requires the creation of new habits. Research shows that it takes at least 8 weeks (66 days) before new behaviors become automatic. The most consistent research shows that it takes 26 visits to create the strongest adherence to the new habits. This is why the Functional Lifestyle Medicine protocol is designed to ensure longevity of change. Our transformational health coaches will work with you over the year to help you through the entire change, and help you up again if you fall. The Genomic Wellness Group also employs the dialectical behavior approach which ensure that there is no failure as we move from challenge to challenge.