Therapies

Functional Nutrition takes in the whole picture then breaks it apart to help you achieve optimal health.

By considering your environment, diet, stress, genetics, among other things we are able to help you find a healthy balance in all levels of your life.

One of your symptoms may be fatigue. This can be linked to many chronic illnesses or perhaps just simply not getting enough restful sleep at night.

What good would it be to send you home with sleeping pills if the fatigue was actually linked to a thyroid malfunction?

Taking into account your life and body as a whole contributes to a more accurate diagnosis and treatment.

By using functional medicine, a scientifically based method of medicine, to treat chronic illness you are on your way to complete balance and health for both your mind and your body.

Welcome to the Optimal Living Institute- Zerona Fat Loss Laser and Detoxification Division!

How much time, effort, energy and money have you spent on trying to lose weight and get healthy?

We know that many of you are swimming in frustration. Some of you are trying to do it on your own, while others have tried expensive programs with little to no results. Some have even reached your goals but then fell back into old patterns quickly and lost all that you worked so hard for.

The practitioners at the Optimal Living Institute have worked hard to utilize cutting edge science, develop systems, bring on technology and then provide the education to not only understand how your body works, but to also maintain lasting results.

Dr. Sarah has 20 years of functional nutritional and clinical detoxification training that she utilizes along with cutting edge Zerona Fat Loss laser technology to create customized, efficient programs designed to optimize weight loss and detoxification.

How Does Our Program Work?

At the Optimal Living Institute, your practitioner will take a detailed health history, evaluate your health goals, and create a customized treatment program including personalized nutrition, lifestyle coaching, and Zerona Fat Loss laser technology.

If you are struggling with more advanced metabolic weight loss concerns, the practitioners will recommend appropriate scientific testing such as blood panels, laboratory testing, or any additional diagnostic support to get you your best results.

What is Zerona?

Welcome to Zerona Z6 – the clinically-proven new treatment that painlessly reduces inches and removes stubborn body fat. Zerona Z6 revolutionizes body contouring in a safe, effective treatment. There are no needles, no incisions and no recovery time needed.

How is Zerona different from Coolsculpting or Liposuction?

Zerona is a pain free, cost effective, natural fat loss laser with no side effects or downtime. The Zerona technology will drop an average of 3.5 inches off of the waist, hips and thighs in 10-12 sessions.

Treatments such as Cool-Sculpting and Liposuction generally cause significant discomfort, toxicity, and are invasive and costly. They can have significant side effects such as neuralgia, bruising, adema, blistering, infection and are generally unhealthy for your organ systems.

Some even cause irreversible damage and uneven fat distribution if lifestyle is not maintained diligently after treatment.

How Do I Start My Program?

The Optimal Living Institute will schedule your initial consultation which includes healthy history, before measurements and pictures, dietary and lifestyle coaching, and your first Zerona session. Your program will include multiple Zerona sessions and regular check-ins to monitor your progress. We offer several customized pathways designed to help you obtain your optimal weight loss goals.

Call today to schedule!

Promotes Healing

• Through the important energy force of infrared light, the white blood cell count rises. Why is that good? Because more white blood cells mean greater immunity. Greater immunity means greater health and a better quality of life.
• Provides a powerful boost in blood circulation. Like a cleansing flood, the fresh oxygen washes away stagnant toxic impurities along with your weary emotions and feelings.

Weight Loss

Burns up to 600 or more calories in just one 30-minute session. Deep penetrating far infrared heat melts subcutaneous fat at 40c-104f, thus shaking loose the embedded toxins, acids, and gasses, and allowing them to be directly expelled out of the body through heavy perspiration.

Skin Improvement

Excellent for increasing blood circulation to the skin, which is essential for beautiful, youthful, glowing skin.

• You will notice a new “inner glow” as the skin becomes free of accumulated dirt and dry skin cells, due to the deep cleansing of impurities by the sauna.
• Improves the conditions of acne, eczema, psoriasis, burns, and any skin lesions and cuts.
• Open wounds heal quicker with reduced scarring.
• Removes roughness, leaving skin baby smooth and soft.
• Firms and improves skin tone and elasticity.

Acne

Infrared Lasers versus Infrared LuxSauna or Infrared Lamp

“Infrared saunas are becoming a very popular method to treat acne – particularly very resistant cases. They seem to work by shrinking the sebaceous glands, and you get relatively quick results.” ~ Jeffey Dover, MD, Boston, ELLE Magazine March 2004

Three to four infrared sauna treatments appear to open pores that have been malfunctioning for years, forcing out clogging cosmetics, loosening dry outer skin, and healing acne and scars, WITHOUT PAIN.

Sunburn

According to the Clayton’s Electrotherapy, 9th Edition, infrared radiation is the only antidote to excessive ultraviolet radiation.

Scars on Skin

Scars fully formed may be gradually softened. Burns and other wounds or incisions may heal with significantly reduced scarring.

Cellulite

Cellulite is a gel-like substance made up of fat, water and wastes, which are trapped in pockets below the skin. An infrared sauna can assist in eliminating this condition, as profuse sweating helps clear this form of unwanted debris from the body. European beauty specialists confirm that a sauna will greatly speed any anti-cellulite program. Due to at least twice the depth of heat penetration into cellulite, combined with up to 10 times the level of heating in these tissues, an infrared sauna is FAR more effective than any conventional sauna.

Pain Relief

Effective for arthritis, back pain, muscle spasms, headache, etc.

Injuries

Radiant heat helps with sprains, strains, arthritis, muscle spasm and pain.

If you are an athlete, an infrared sauna is all good news. It allows oxygen debt to be repaid more quickly. This leads to quicker healing and greatly improved repair of sprains and muscle pain.

Relaxation & Enjoyment

Remove stress in the comfortable, warm temperature. Half an hour per day of relaxation renders amazing long-term health benefits.

SCIENTIFIC STUDIES

Over the last 25 years, Japanese and Chinese researchers and clinicians have completed extensive research on infrared medical treatments and report many amazing discoveries. In Japan, there is an “infrared society” composed of medical doctors and physical therapists dedicated to further infrared research. Their findings support the health benefits of infrared therapy as a method of healing.

** Far-Infrared Sauna therapy is available ONLY at our Coeur d’ Alene location.

Welcome to the Optimal Living Institute- Colon Hydrotherapy Division.

The importance of gut health is one of the most underrated aspects of overall wellbeing.

You don’t have to be struggling with diarrhea, gas, bloating, and constipation to have severe dysfunction occurring in the digestive tract. You could be presenting with fatigue, mood disorders, skin conditions, headaches, weight gain, or even autoimmune disorders.

According to recent surveys, 70 million Americans suffer from bowel problems. 74% of Americans are living with digestive issues, and 4 out of 5 women suffer from continuous constipation from their youth onward.

In fact, most people are carrying 5 to 20 pounds of toxic waste inside of their digestive tract! For whatever reason, whether it is poor diet, stress, or an excess of environmental toxins, sometimes our bodies’ natural processes need assistance.

Hippocrates said it best when he said that, “all disease begins in the gut”. Colon Hydrotherapy supports gut health by assisting in the removal of old waste that gets built up in the colon over time. Removing old waste allows an environment where “good” gut bacteria can flourish and healing can occur.

Colon Hydrotherapy is a safe, gentle infusion of filtered water into the colon. The waste is softened and loosened, resulting in evacuation through natural peristalsis. Waste will be evacuated through a disposable tube and speculum.

The introduction of water and natural evacuation will be repeated several times during the session. The FDA registered device used is designed to cleanse the entire length of the colon.

Colon hydrotherapy cleanses the walls of the colon and encourages the restoration of the colon’s natural tone, which creates an environment for good bacteria to thrive and promotes balance.

Approximately 70% of the immune system and 75% of all your neurotransmitters and produced in the gut. Having a healthy gut means balanced hormones, balanced weight, better moods, and an overall healthier system.

Each appointment lasts about 45 minutes but one should allow an hour for each visit. Our therapist will take a personalized health history at your first appointment. Most patients average 6 to 12 visits depending upon severity of health conditions.

Your colon hydrotherapist will design a personalized program and work closely with you to achieve optimal results. Call Optimal Living Institute today and get started on a new you! Health and Happiness

Nutritional Healing

Your body needs proper nutrients in order to heal itself. Eating processed foods and too few real “whole foods” creates deficiencies of these necessary building blocks. As these gaps in proper diet increase, symptoms of body dysfunction develop. The Optimal Living Institute utilizes an advanced analytical muscle testing technique to communicate with your body. This process helps determine the symptom’s cause, the support the body needs, and the best products and precise amounts your body requires to heal itself.

Nutrition Response Testing

Our analysis is done by testing the body’s neurological reflexes and acupuncture points. Each neurological reflex represents a specific organ, tissue, or function. The acupuncture points are selected from the ancient Chinese system of acupuncture. By testing these reflexes and responses, we have a system to determine exactly what deficiencies you have and what your body needs.

We monitor your body at each visit in order to identify what the body needs and how well we are meeting that need. This system has proven to be extremely accurate clinically and allows us to predict, with certainty, what is needed and wanted by the body to get you to the next stage of improved health.

Accessing the Clinical Nutrition Reflexes

The Clinical Nutrition doctor contacts specific points and reflexes with their hand. With their other hand, they test the muscle strength of your extended arm, for example. If the reflex being contacted is active, the nervous system will respond by reducing energy to the extended arm, and the arm will weaken and drop. These responses can be analyzed and can signify internal body function. Through this, the doctor is able to find underlying dysfunctions that could be adversely affecting your health.

What Exactly is Designed Clinical Nutrition?

Designed Clinical Nutrition is exactly that: designed – specially prepared based on a specific plan; clinical – pertaining to the results gotten in clinical use or actual practice on thousands of patients over many years; nutrition – real food, designed by nature to enable the body to repair itself and grow healthfully.

Designed Clinical Nutrition is whole food in a tablet, capsule or powder, concentrated in a vacuum, cold-process system that preserves all of the active enzymes and vital components that make it work as intended. These real food supplements have been designed to match the needs of your body, as determined by the results found on your individual Nutrition Response Testing analysis. Through Designed Clinical Nutrition we are able to address deficiencies and determine the underlying causes of chronic symptoms that affect your everyday life which may be due to your personal eating habits and routines and is likely also due to the lack of quality in foods commercially available in grocery stores or restaurants today.

Designed Clinical Nutrition is often misconceived as “over-the-counter” vitamins. In reality, our plans are based on whole food while most “over-the-counter” vitamins are engineered chemical fractions of vitamin structures. For example, carrots are high in Vitamin A Complex. A complex is something made of many different parts that work together. Synthetic Vitamin A does not contain the whole Vitamin A Complex found in nature. If a vitamin is not derived from whole food, it can often make you more deficient and nutritionally out-of-balance because it does not contain all of the co-factors found in nature that make the vitamin work. This typically creates additional health problems and chronic symptoms.

Getting Started!

STEP ONE: Initial Consultation

• Complete a detailed Health Nutrition History (the more we know about your lifestyle and health the better we can serve you)
• Meet with your Clinician to discuss health history and “next steps” to begin customizing a program for you
• Blood work, urine test, and/or saliva test may be requested at this time (results from these tests may indicate areas of your body that need nutritional support)
• Your Clinician will also discuss the use of Nutrition Response Testing which compliments/validates the previous tests *Please allow about 2 hours for your initial exam

STEP TWO: Report of Findings

• Receive your specific plan that addresses your individual needs based on test results
• Layout steps to complete your program
• This is designed to be an affordable and manageable program

STEP THREE: Follow Up Appointments

• 20 Minute Appointments
• Nutrition Response Testing to determine progress and results of nutritional changes
• Possible modifications to your Nutrition Plan may be made based on your results
• Appointments will be scheduled 2 – 8 weeks apart depending on body response and healing

  Now you know the complete 1-2-3 package:

• What we do
• How and why we do it
• What you need to do to have the potential of restoring your health and staying healthy

It is Possible to Restore Your Health!

What could be more natural? What could be more correct? Each cell, tissue, and organ in your body is in the process of replacing itself every day, month, and year. The health of each organ is dependent on making the correct nutrients available to upgrade or to maintain the health of the body at a cellular level. Designed Clinical Nutrition provides the right basic materials. Nutrition Response Testing tells you when and what to use to bring about the desired results.

ARP stands for Accelerated Recovery Performance.
ARP is a technology that uses patented bioelectrical current simultaneously with an active range of motion and other exercise techniques to speed up the body’s natural ability to heal.

WHEN DO WE USE ARP?

Treatment of all muscle related injuries

• Relaxation of muscle spasms,
• Prevention and retardation of disuse atrophy,
• Increase of local blood circulation,
• Muscle re-education,
• Maintaining and increasing range of motion.

Post-surgical Rehabilitation

ARP protocols can also be specifically used with the ARP to accelerate muscle rehabilitation of the following:

• Shoulder • Elbow • Wrist • Hip • Knee • Ankle • Foot • Cervical and Lumbar spine

HOW DOES THE ARP WORK?

The body is driven and controlled by electricity and when injured, it develops a type of “short-circuit” in its electrical system. Using the ARP technology, we can locate the actual origin of that short-circuit (often not where you think it would be) and rapidly repair it. By utilizing ARP Wave technologies, we correct how the body communicates with the brain to repair itself.

BENEFITS OF THE ARP

• Rapid identification, treatment and permanent elimination of pain
• Accelerated Recovery – typically 1/3 the time versus conventional (and often non-permanent) treatments
• Improved Performance and Injury Prevention by strengthening weakened muscles

The ARP Trainer has been directly involved in the winning teams of championships such as the 2007 Super Bowl, 2007 European Hockey, 2007 Grand Prix of Volleyball, 2006 Stanley Cup, and 2006 World Bowl.

“Now I have returned to full activities. I am intensively engaged in everything I ever did previously, including playing the piano intensively, and the pain is effectively gone.” ~ Anonymous from San Rafael, CA
For more information please visit arpwave.com.

Total Reflexology or Trigger point Therapy, is the science of human muscle pain and stress reduction.

Total Reflexology, as practiced at The Optimal Living Institute, is a system of bodywork and Holistic Health Practices that bring about results in greater flexibility and pain reduction.

Some conditions that respond well to Total Reflexology are:

• Back Pain
• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Sciatica
• Lower Back Problems
• Achilles Tendon Tightness
• Whiplash
• Repetitive Stress Injury
• Muscle Tightness
• Neck and Shoulder Injury
• Foot, Knee and Ankle Problems
• Headaches
• Athletic and Sports Injury
• Fibromyalgia
• Chiropractic Support
• Muscle Spasms