We offer comprehensive health-renewal programs that will restore your vitality and revitalize your body, mind and spirit. Take a moment to browse this page, or for more in depth information you can click on the blog link that will lead you to an information packed article on each subject, designed to help you make informed choices.

On this page:

Detoxification
Digestive System Renewal
Adrenal the Thyroid Recovery
Neurotransmitter Rebalancing Program
Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement
Ayurveda and Anti-Aging
Cardio-Metabolic Rejuvenation Program
Weight Loss
Allergy Elimination
Emotional Healing and Personal Empowerment Program
Energy Medicine Renewal

Mood affecting neurotransmitters are:

• Acetylcholine: Regulates voluntary movement, sleep, memory, and learning. Too much acetylcholine is present in depression , and too little is present in patients with dementia.
• Serotonin: Helps to regulate appetite, sleep, impulsive behavior, aggression, and mood. Too little serotonin is present in cases of depression and anxiety  disorder, in particular obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
• Dopamine: Regulate learning, focus and movement. Excessive levels of dopamine are present in patients with schizophrenia ; too little dopamine is associated with depression, as well as the tremors exhibited by patients with Parkinson's disease.
• Epinephrine (adrenaline): Regulates glucose metabolism and energy levels; low levels are linked to depression.
• Norepinephrine (noradrenalin): Regulates appetite and alertness; low levels are found in patients with depression, while excessive norepinephrine has been found in patients with schizophrenia.
• GABA (gamma-amino butyric acid): GABA is known to inhibit anxiety and excitation. Too little GABA is associated with anxiety disorders.
• Endorphins: These are the "happy" neurotransmitters that promote feelings of contentment and pleasure; they are also involved in pain relief.

Causes of neurotransmitter imbalance:

The usual culprits we know as the standard American diet (SAD) and poor stress coping habits are most often responsible for neurotransmitter imbalances. Since neurotransmitters are made from amino acids, which come from protein, it is vital to have a good dietary intake of clean protein, vitamins and minerals. In addition, medications, drugs and alcohol, hormone imbalances, genetics, and heavy metal toxicity can all play a role in neurotransmitter depletion.

Diagnosis of neurotransmitter imbalance:

Western medicine uses prescription medications to treat most of the issues listed above. Many times multiple medication “cocktails” are used. Please watch the documentary “The Medicated Child” to see that this happens with children as well as with adults. There is no western laboratory testing that will show neurotransmitter levels so they can be treated directly, so medications are “tried” one at a time until finally patients feel so frustrated that they are willing to live with feeling numb and with the many side effects these medications usually come with. However there is neurotransmitter testing available which provides a simple tool for determining the precise cause of the symptoms by pinpointing exactly which neurotransmitters are out of balance. This testing is from the functional medicine world and requires a blood or urine sample that is often times covered by insurance plans, making them very affordable.

Neurotransmitter testing gets to the cause of the condition which frees medical providers from having to throw medications at an issue until one of them finally works. With this kind of diagnostic precision medications are many times not even necessary. Natural supplements, dietary changes, exercise plans, stress reduction interventions and behavioral or hypnotherapy might be all that is necessary to come back into balance and have the quality of life you have always desired.

 

Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Program

Feel younger, more vital and look younger than your years by getting your hormones back on track!

Functional Endocrinology is a term that I have come to love. It means that there is no hormone producing organ or gland in the body that operates in isolation. It means they all work together in the context of the environment the body and mind are functioning in. Anyone who doesn’t address the thyroid, the adrenals, stress reduction, weight management, nutrition, medications AND the reproductive system in a talk about bio identical hormone therapy isn’t giving you the whole picture.

Hormone imbalance is ALWAYS related to stress. 5 people having the same experience will react differently to the same stressor. There is a test for stress. It’s a cortisol saliva test that will identify how your body is responding to how you are doing in any given day. Stress promotes aging, oxidizes DNA, and  it is linked with almost all causes of death. In western medicine we wait for it to create disease, then we treat the symptoms of the disease. Stress makes us crave carbs, snap at our kids, drink cups and cups of coffee, and then have to use alcohol to calm down at the end of the day. If you go on a vacation, your life is still waiting for you when you get back. This is the cause of hormone imbalance.

*Many medical providers are not properly trained. There has been over dosing of bio-identical hormone therapy for the past few years that many of us then have to clean up when our patients come to us in a bigger mess than when they started. Large doses of any hormone will make you feel great for about 6 months, but then it will store in your fat tissue and begin to be released randomly. I have hundreds of clients who come to me in this state and I have to begin by detoxing them and then re-starting.

For more detailed information about hormones please visit Keesha's blog: Adrenal Recovery Part I, II, III, IV, V and Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy Part I, II, III, IV, and V.

• Detoxification
• State of the art testing
• Bio-identical Hormone Replacement with all natural hormones
• Stress reduction techniques
• Adrenal and thyroid recovery
• Nutritional counseling

Ayurvedic and Anti-Aging Program

According to Ayurveda, everyone is born with a unique combination of the five elements (space, air, fire, water, and Earth); these are called doshas (or your constitution). Your birth constitution is known as your Prakruti in Sanskrit. Your Vikruti becomes imbalanced throughout your life due to your diet, patterns of exercise, lifestyle, time of day, time of life, environment and climate, relationships and your emotional processing of them, and many other variables. Your Vikruti changes often and can be brought back into harmony to more closely match your Prakruti through lifestyle modifications and herbs. One of the most effective ways of bringing balance to your life is to alter your diet to match the needs of your unique constitution. Ayurveda considers the tastes and qualities of foods and what effects these have on the doshas. The best way to find out your body type is through pulse diagnosis by a qualified practitioner. Keesha Ewers, ARNP has a Master’s degree in Ayurvedic medicine and is an expert at pulse diagnosis. To get an idea about each of the body types you can also take our dosha quiz.

Knowing your body type and how to keep it in balance will keep you healthy and feeling years less than your chronological age year round. Ayurveda is a 10,000 year old body of knowledge that leads to empowerment and self-realization. You will learn how to exercise, eat, sleep, reduce your stress, and go through seasonal and life changes with grace and ease. The modalities common to Ayurveda that are utilized at Fern Life Center are:

• Detoxification
• Massage
• Steam
• Shirodhara
• Nutritional counseling
• Nutritional herbs and supplements
• Colon hydrotherapy
• Pancha Karma
• Meditation
• Pranayama
• Self-massage
• Holisitic skin care to match your body type (Fern Simples)
• yoga

Ayurveda is Eastern wisdom that can help with hard to treat issues like auto-immune diseases, infertility, aging, weight, digestive issues, heart disease, diabetes, skin disorders, pain, joint inflammation, depression, anxiety and much more.

For more in-depth information about Ayurveda please read Keesha's articles: Cleansing Summer Pitta, The Miracle of Pancha Karma,  Cultivating Contentment, Aging Well with Ayurveda,  Inflammed Skin...How Ayurveda Can Help, Managing Your Kapha, An Ayurvedic Approach to Treating Parasites,  Manage the Summer Heat, An Integrative Approach to Treating Asthma and Lung Disorders, How Ayurveda can Help with Virility Issues.

Cardio-Metabolic Rejuvenation Program

The past century has seen dramatic advances in medical science. Over that time Western societies have realized significant improvements in life expectancy and quality of life. Numerous infectious diseases have been identified and are no longer a major threat to most countries. However, in the past few decades those advances have slowed and even reversed in some populations. The recent emergence of metabolic-related chronic disease patterns is on the verge of overwhelming a medical model that was designed to manage acute and infectious disease processes. Perhaps the past century has not been as kind to our health as we once thought.

The advances over this century have been accompanied by many negative health trends. Increased caloric intake, especially of refined and processes foods, has led to population that is over-fed and under-nourished. Sedentary lifestyles resulting from less physical labor have reduced population fitness while increasing obesity. Changes in working patterns, sleep and social demands have added unprecedented demands on the body’s stress response mechanisms, leading to adrenal fatigue and hormone imbalances. Environmental toxins have also placed a heavy burden on our detoxification pathways, leading to an array of sensitivities, allergies and syndromes unknown to previous generations. We have now learned that these factors are interrelated and synergistic, producing negative health outcomes much earlier in this generation than ever before.

We can no longer assess risks for individual diseases while ignoring the complex relationships between chronic disease patterns. This is best evidenced by the emergence of the term “cardio-metabolic risk”, which encompasses the risk relationship between the classic definitions of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Under this new umbrella and its related terms (Metabolic syndrome, Syndrome X, Insulin Resistant Syndrome), the integrative clinician of today is taught to understand the disease process rather than simply its manifestations.

Cardio-Metabolic Risk is evaluated at Fern Life Center through:

• Diagnostic laboratory testing
• Body evaluation measurements
• Vital Signs
• Consideration of the history, family history and lifestyle risk factors

Treatment includes:

• Supplement protocols that include the treatment of pre-diabetes, diabetes, high cholesterol, congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, and weight.
• Lifestyle intervention education
• Dietary and nutritional counseling
• Stress reduction techniques

Many people come to see Keesha to get off of the damaging statins, anti-hypertensives, and diabetes medications they are on. Keesha NEVER stops prescription medications without first correcting the underlying imbalance and treating the root cause of the illness that made these medications necessary in the first place. Please do not take yourself off of medications to go onto herbs or supplements you read about in magazines or hear about in the media. This process must be done gradually and under the guidance of medical professionals trained in integrative medicine.

Weight Loss Program

Say goodbye to your last diet! Fern Life Center’s Ideal Protein Plan will reverse the hormone imbalance that is causing you to keep your weight on.

There is one driving factor that contributes, above all else, to the epidemic of obesity (or as Dr. Mark Hyman puts it, diabesity) and other chronic illnesses we see today. By addressing this one problem you may reverse many of your health problems, even if you don’t do anything else. Conventional medicine isn’t monitoring this problem and now our population’s girth size has grown collectively over the last 30 years. We cannot continue to treat the symptoms of obesity, or diabesity, we must treat the underlying cause…which is insulin resistance.

Insulin resistance is only one warning sign from the body that the whole endocrine system, or hormone regulatory system, is out of balance. What are some ways to know if you have insulin resistance?

• Are you working out and not losing weight?
• Do you have mood swings and food cravings?
• Do you have thyroid issues or symptoms of estrogen dominance (refer to my other blogs on these subjects)?
• Is your waist size larger than it should be?
• Do you look down and see your belly?
• Do you or have you gotten hypoglycemic before meals?
• Do you have high blood pressure and or high cholesterol?

If this problem goes unchecked, it can lead to diabetes.

Come in today and find out how to lose weight, normalize your hormones, detox, and learn to keep your weight off…in one program that is less expensive than all of the current weight loss programs out there today. For more information, see our blogs related to weight loss: Obesity and Insulin Resistance, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Detox and Renew, Adrenal Fatigue.

Allergy Elimination Without Needles Program

After spending several years treating patients for a variety of inflammatory diseases, we began to see a correlation with digestion and inflammation. Once an offending food or substance was eliminated from the diet, the skin, joint, behavioral, digestive, or hormonal issue would disappear. The question then arose, “Does a person who is responding poorly to something like gluten then have to avoid it FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES?” The answer was sometimes yes. This seemed like a rather severe life sentence for many, so we began searching for a way to completely cure some of these allergies. We discovered NAET. There has been remarkable success at Fern Life Center in the removal of allergies using this very simple technique of reorganizing the body’s neurological pathways and letting the body know it no longer needs to rally an immune response.

So what is NAET?

Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique, also known as NAET®, is a non-invasive, drug free, natural solution for the elimination of allergies of all types and intensities using a blend of selective energy balancing, testing and treatment procedures from acupressure, allopathy, chiropractic, nutritional, and kinesiological disciplines of medicine. One allergen is treated at a time. If you are not severely immune deficient, you may need just one treatment to desensitize one allergen. A person with mild to moderate amount of allergies may take about 15-20 office visits to desensitize 15-20 food and environmental allergens. Basic essential nutrients are treated during the first few visits. Chemicals, environmental allergens, vaccinations, immunizations, etc. are treated after completing about ten basic essential nutrients. NAET® can successfully eliminate adverse reactions to egg, milk, peanuts, penicillin, aspirin, mushrooms, shellfish, latex, grass, ragweed, flowers, perfume, animal dander, animal epithelial, make-up, chemicals, cigarette smoke, pathogens, heat, cold, and other environmental agents. It may take several office visits to desensitize a severe allergen.

*Please read, Say Goodbye to Allergies or Say Goodbye to Illness by Devi Nambudripad if you are making an appointment for NAET treatments so you fully understand the process. Both books are available for purchase at Fern Life Center.

For more in-depth information read Keesha's articles: Is What You are Eating Making You Sick?, 10 Ways To Eliminate Allergies, Vitamin D Deficiency,  Asperger's Syndrome.

Emotional Healing and Personal Empowerment Program

All stress begins with personal perceptions of life situations, events and memories. Studies have shown that at least 85% of all health problems have an emotional root cause that begins with unhealthy ways of dealing with life stressors. Keesha is a certified hypnotherapist, an enneagram practitioner, and is finishing her doctorate work in clinical sexology. She uses many tools in counseling and helping her patients recover from addictions, depression, anxiety, situational crisis, communication issues, and sexual issues.

Energy Medicine Renewal Program

Keesha Ewers ARNP is also a Reiki Master, a medical intuitive, a trained shaman, a certified Angel Therapist Practitioner (ATP), and a yoga teacher. She has traveled extensively, studying the healing traditions of the world with masters from many traditions. She brings this energy to each of her patients. She and her husband, Ajayan Borys, offer classes for deepening spiritual awareness and opening to the understanding of the Self.

Keesha works with energy medicine on many levels to help her clients move along the path from suffering to self-compassion and compassion for others. She works with her patients wherever they are on their own spiritual and emotional path and helps guide them at a pace they set for themselves.

She will work one to one in person or on the phone with:

• Medical intuition.
• Energy healing.
• Developing your own psychic intuition.
• Grief and recovery from the loss of a loved one.
• Angel and Psychic readings.
• The enneagram.

She also offers classes on:

• Reiki training to Karuna Master level.
• Connecting to your Angels.
• Developing your own psychic intuition.
• Connecting with your Goddess nature.

Keesha and her husband work with individuals or couples on releasing blocks to optimal sexual health. They are both Tantric students and teachers.

For more information about Reiki see Keesha's blog: The Power of Healing is in Your Hands

Please note that these services are not covered by insurance

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