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Halo Health Concierge Doctors offer our patients IV Therapy to benefit and boost nutritional health. Most of our elective IV therapies are administered in our office. Occasionally we are able to administer elective IV therapies at your home or office alongside regularly scheduled medical appointments. Contact our office to inquire.
Amino acids, nutrients, vitamins, and metabolism boosters help optimize your body’s health & performance to aid in:
Improved Metabolism – by pulling fat from storage to use as fuel (lipotropic agent).
Cleansing the Liver – of fat and detoxifying liver tissue.
Stimulating nerve conduction – improving focus and concentration, reducing anxious and depressive symptoms. Used in the treatment of ADHD, bipolar, autism, dementia, and nerve pain.
Raising acetylcholine levels – to keep energy consistent.
Building and repairing tissues – making chemicals and proteins needed by the body, and repairing the immune system.
Increasing androgen receptors – to promote muscle growth.
Destroying homocysteine – in the body can help reduce coronary heart disease and strokes.
Enhancing energy & boosting endurance – in those with low vitamin B & D levels.
General nutritional health – IV therapy can help replenish nutrients, minerals & vitamins essential to health, mood, and skin tone.
Recovering from cold/flu – IV therapy can help boost your immune system to reduce the length and effects of illness.
Recovering from illness/surgery – IV therapy can help patients with chemotherapy, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and dialysis feel better.
Immune system – IV Therapy can strengthen the immune system to fight off pathogens that lead to illness.
Before and after sports competitions – IV therapy helps marathoners, bodybuilders and other athletes perform their best and recover more quickly.
Boosting energy & metabolism – Providing nutrients that are essential for enhancing metabolism.
Hangover relief – IV therapy relieves hangover symptoms.
Addiction recovery – Specialized IV treatments, like NAD+, help reduce cravings and withdrawal symptoms during recovery.
Anti-aging – Specialized IV treatments, like NAD+, may slow aging by boosting cellular health.
GLUTATHIONE
Glutathione improves the health of your cells. It acts in your body:
MIC – METHIONINE | INOSITOL | CHOLINE
Amino acids are the building blocks of your cells that act in your body:
IRON
Iron is needed to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that acts in your body:
VITAMIN D
Vitamin D receptors are found in cells all over the body affecting:
ZINC
Zinc supports your body’s T-cells that occur in various organ systems, tissues and bones:
MAGNESIUM
Magnesium creates cellular energy and boosts energy production to promote activation of enzymes in your cells which help:
L-CARNITINE
L-Carnitine builds stamina playing a crucial role in producing energy by mobilizing fatty acids to aid in:
B COMPLEX – B6& B12
B Complex is active at the cellular level in the function of your brain and nervous system acting:
VITAMIN C
Vitamin C can help your body at a cellular level by:
What is NAD+?
Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide
A coenzyme needed to stay alive. As a “helper” molecule, it binds to other enzymes to facilitate reactions at the molecular level which produce positive outcomes on your health.
How does the amount of NAD+ in my body affect my health?
Low levels of NAD+ are often accompanied by negative health consequences. As you age, your NAD+ supplies decline. Recently, research has shown that NAD+ has positive impacts at a cellular level on the aging process, inflammation, sleep cycles, immunity, oxidative stress, and brain & nerve function.
NAD+ and your body
Why is NAD+ necessary for my body?
The depletion of NAD+ can negatively affect the health and functioning of your body at the cellular level. Here are a few conditions that can suppress levels of NAD+:
NAD+ and Aging
NAD+ levels decline as we age, leading to a decline in the function of cells and organs. As you age, the telomeres in your DNA shorten which increases disease risk. Recent studies show that replenishment of NAD+ slows this process.
NAD+ levels decline with age
Research shows NAD+ levels in the body decline by about 50% by the age of 50. By the age of 80, NAD+ levels are reduced to only 10%. This partially explains the decline in cognitive function and ability to repair cellular damage with aging. Research shows NAD+ levels in brain tissue, hair & skin decrease as you age.
NAD+ & Substance Abuse.
In some patients, NAD+ has been shown to significantly reduce the severity of cravings associated with opiate and alcohol withdrawal as well as reduce the number of relapses.
How to boost NAD+ levels in your Body
You cannot absorb NAD+ from your diet, but there are dietary precursors that do help your body make NAD+. You can increase NAD+ levels in your body by:
Hormone optimization therapy can relieve age-related symptoms that result from the natural loss of hormones due to aging. In addition to restoring quality of life, individuals can feel more youthful and energetic. Often, hormone loss or imbalance is a contributing factor to mood swings, irritability, anxiety, depression, and lack of motivation. Hormone therapy can also improve or slow the signs of physical aging, improve skin radiance & texture, slow hair loss and thinning and improve and slow down memory loss.
Hormone Optimization Therapy is an option for individuals who may have certain symptoms with no other underlying health condition to explain the symptoms:
When it comes to hormones, many people think first of sexual hormones, such as testosterone, progesterone, and estrogen and Halo doctors look first at these important hormones. However, as we age, the body’s ability to produce hormones dramatically decreases, and in addition to low hormone levels, hormones can become out of balance. There are dozens of hormones that are critical to your body’s functioning that helps sustain your cells and organs and contribute to vitality. Hormone optimization therapy helps to counteract the adverse effects of the body’s natural hormonal decline due to aging. When hormones are restored to optimal levels, it helps you feel and look your best and decreases your risk of chronic disease.
When lab results indicate your hormones are out of balance, Halo doctors can help you restore them to more youthful levels, through peptide therapies, IV therapies, and other types of hormone replacement therapies.
Halo’s Physician supervised weight loss combines nutrition counseling, fitness recommendations, peptide therapies and FDA approved weight loss medications when medically indicated. Peptide therapies are often used to help curb hunger & increase fat metabolism. Medications work via different mechanisms, phentermine is an example that works on the brain to reduce hunger, cravings and improve mood and energy. Other drugs work in the gut or periphery with insulin resistance and diabetes. Saxenda, semaglutide, metformin and tirzepatide are examples of these type medications.
We don’t want our patients to lose weight. We want them to lose fat and increase muscle. Increasing muscle increases calorie burning since muscle is the furnace of your body, the more muscle in the body, the more calories are burned. This is why it’s important to increase weight bearing exercise during any weight loss regime. Even small increases amounting to 15 minutes a day of exercise will help. As patients see success and start to feel and look better, usually people are motivated to increase physical activity.
Understanding your body’s composition is important to know how best to create a pathway for weight loss. Halo uses a computerized scale that measures your total percent body fat and visceral fat (located around the intestines and mid-body) which is associated with metabolic syndrome. Muscle weight, bone weight, and water weight are measured, and a baseline is set. As a person loses fat, the amount of fat loss vs the amount of lean body loss is tracked to make sure you are not losing muscle that keeps your metabolism burning calories.
Often weight loss by calorie counting is not successful. The “calorie-in, calorie-out” formula does not account for underlying medical problems such as hormonal imbalances and deficiencies, diabetes, nutritional issues such as leptin resistance, autoimmune diseases, and side effects of medications that affect overall metabolism. Some people have a very slow metabolism due to low lean body mass. Halo takes the time to measure these important indicators prior to beginning any medically supervised weight loss program.
Halo Health Concierge Doctors offer peptide protocols that help your body’s cells perform as they are designed. The selected naturally occurring peptide therapies offered by Halo Health help toward getting and keeping your body in optimal performance and health. When properly administered, peptides communicate with different parts of the body, binding to receptors on the cell surface, potentially enhancing the function of the entire body by signaling messages for cellular optimization.
Fat loss, sleep, muscle building, healing from injury or surgery, reduction of inflammation, and anti-aging are several areas that peptide therapy can significantly improve. Because peptides are mostly naturally occurring in the body, they are well tolerated when administered via injection. We consult with our patients and help you consider whether peptide therapy might help you achieve your personal health and fitness goals and improve one or more conditions that affect your quality of life and sustainment of health and vitality.
They are short strings of amino acids that naturally occur in the body. There are over 7,000 peptides identified that communicate with parts of the body. As we age, our bodies produce less peptides. One example that many are familiar with is collagen peptide, which makes up cartilage, bone and skin. As aging occurs, the body makes less collagen which causes skin to lose elasticity & youthful vibrancy. This results in wrinkles and aged appearance. Loss of collagen also contributes to osteoporosis, brittle nails and muscle loss. Beauty product companies are now offering forms of collagen and other combination absorbable peptides in skin products to help slow the effects of skin aging.
Peptides are injected for optimal absorption and bioavailability. Peptides are smaller and more broken down than proteins and therefore may be easier to absorb, allowing them to entire the bloodstream more quickly via injection, avoiding breakdown in the intestines and stomach. Modified peptides administered orally can avoid breakdown in the intestines and stomach however they cannot be absorbed into the blood due to cells in the intestinal wall that inhibit absorption. Halo administers naturally occurring peptides via injection which cannot avert the breakdown that occurs in the gastrointestinal tract. Proteins are essential in our diet and are comprised of various peptide bonds. During digestion and assimilation of proteins, there are numerous enzymes in the intestines and stomach responsible for the breakdown of peptide bonds. As a result, any medication which contains naturally occurring peptides, cannot avert the
To understand the benefits of cellular health and how it affects aging, it is important to understand the benefits of increased Human Growth Hormone in the body. HGH acts on many tissues throughout the body. In children and adolescents, it stimulates the growth of bone and cartilage, along with many other growth benefits.
Within the body, there are lot of different hormones that react with cells and trigger different biological processes. Often these are peptides, either cyclic versions or straight, linear ones. When a peptide eventually breaks down it just breaks down into amino acids, and amino acids are basically cellular food.
There are many kinds of peptides which work on different areas of the body. Halo Health administers several types of peptide therapies based on each patients goals and condition. Specifically, there are peptides that can increase our own body’s production of GHRH from the hypothalamus, which then naturally releases more of your own human growth hormone.
There are a number of peptides that have been developed to assist the pituitary gland in releasing increased amounts of growth hormones. These amino acids stimulate our pituitary gland to make and excrete more human growth hormone into the bloodstream. The boosts in production can assist in potentially lessening the effects of aging, improving many health conditions related to aging.
There is considerable and robust evidence supporting the remedial effects of increased human growth hormone including several significant benefits such as increased muscle mass, decreased body fat, improved athletic performance and exercise capacity, protection from fractures, a reduced risk of future heart disease and improved brain function. [Peptides & Brain Function]
A number of studies have also demonstrated improvements in psychological well-being, with specific improvements in energy and improved sleep quality (fewer awakenings, increased duration of deep sleep). Enhanced psychological well-being reduces healthcare consumption and the number of sick days an individual experiences overall.
Using executive blood panels, Halo doctors will monitor your labs and order additional tests when indicators suggest metabolic dysfunction. Many treatments are available, such as peptides, nutritional vitamin and mineral supplementation and hormone therapies.
Halo offers in-office IV therapies, cellular blood testing for nutritional deficiencies and toxicities and physician supervised on-going monitoring that helps our patients keep their metabolism optimized.
Halo offers in-office IV therapies, cellular blood testing for nutritional deficiencies and toxicities and physician supervised on-going monitoring that helps our patients keep their metabolism optimized.
Skin Health. Inside and Out. Halo doctors subscribe to the belief that youthful and beautiful skin starts inside at the cellular level of our bodies and extends to the outside. When we are healthy inside, we look good and we feel good. Taking care of the outside of our appearance can be equally important psychologically to how healthy our body is at any point in time.
Halo has established INtegrative Aesthetics, by halo, to deliver a holistic, natural approach to aging and a youthful appearance.
IA-h has been developed by Halo physicians who have researched products and procedures most effective toward allowing your own body to rejuvenate itself. When the IA-h Skin Health Program is used regularly, it can slow, and even reverse signs of aging.
We encourage you to consider a Skin Health Journey with IA-h integrating internal and external treatments that get you looking your best!