The AMAO Wellness Center Philosophy
We understand that you are a whole person; you always have been (no matter what you may have been told). Most of the people who seek us are experiencing the symptoms of a body out of balance. Our job isn’t to ‘fix’ you. Most people aren’t broken. Our job is to help guide you in the process of restoring balance, thus preventing the body from becoming ‘broken’ later in the form of heart attacks, strokes, cancer or osteoporotic fractures. Each of these conditions and their warning signs develop as a result of various imbalances which manifest in the mid to late stages as inflammation, pain, arthritis, weight gain, GI upset and acid reflux, migraines, depressed mood, anxiety, insomnia…you name it, most likely we’ve seen and addressed it with success. We approach each client and family we serve with the utmost care, diligence and respect. Our hope is that each client will learn how to allow the body to heal itself by nurturing the inherent wisdom of the body’s design and by properly supporting the natural processes at work within all of us.
The AMAO Method
At AMAO Wellness Center, we utilize functional medicine to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients. Our approach combines the best evidence based research of the last 60 years and the experience of the world’s best clinicians and practitioners in the healing arts.
We all know that symptoms don’t arise from a deficiency of pharmaceutical agents, so why on earth would anyone think it wise to use prescription medications as the first choice for resolving any physical symptom. We typically do not use pharmaceutical agents as the initial choice for treatment. However, if necessary, we will use medications as a tool for helping to resolve targeted pathologies.
The Key to Your Healing is You!
You are your own expert! Some of you just don’t know it yet, and then many of our clients do and are looking for a trusted partner with whom to walk the path to wellness. We simply guide you through a systematic process to find enlightenment and help you to resolve any major imbalance that may be present. Therefore, we greatly value the time we spend with you. We listen to your entire story and help you understand how your life and your circumstances influence your health and wellbeing. We love working with people of all backgrounds, to help you define and accomplish the goals you have for your health and for your life.
We Believe in Sustainable Wellness
At AMAO Wellness Center, our goal is to help you achieve and maintain wellness. We use the most comprehensive methods to evaluate your unique requirements. We consider your physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual needs in order for you to achieve and experience optimal health. We assess your physical condition, nutritional status, stress-burden, toxic load, and your metabolic and hormone status. Those findings are combined with your own goals and desires to create a Wellness Blueprint for your optimal living. We believe that your plan should be practical, doable and most of all produce results. We never aim to over-supplement anyone, or burden you with overly detailed, time-consuming regimens for diet or workouts. We, and our trusted affiliates, are committed to walking with you step by step as you gradually incorporate your new healthful habits into your daily routine.
With the consistent application of your Wellness Blueprint, you will be able to improve and maintain your health over time. For those looking to leave a legacy of health for your family, the AMAO Wellness Blueprint is a perfect tool for teaching your children healthy habits in a sensible and tangible way. Rest assured, your AMAO Wellness Blueprint will be as dynamic as you are. Nothing is ever set in stone. Instead, we help you to see for yourself how certain changes over time can positively impact your wellbeing. Ultimately, it’s you that makes the healing happen, we just show you how.
We Are Proactive
We live in a toxic, stressed out, overburdened nation and world. This on-the-go lifestyle directly impacts our health and perpetuates disease processes if we are not careful to take a proactive approach. We’ve observed that most of what people consume as ‘food’ on a daily basis, we wouldn’t even be considered food to us at all! In order to avoid the many ailments that ensue from being poorly nourished, we arm our clients with education. We teach you practical ways of keeping yourself and your family healthy and adequately nourished. As an educated and aware consumer, you will be able to shop defensively and to guard your mind from the constant barrage of misleading advertisements. We believe that the health of our community and world is at stake, and we want to make sure that you are able to make sustainable choices that create and promote wellness.
There is Really Only One Cause of Disease: Imbalance!
There are many factors that can cause the body to have an imbalance, thus putting you on a path to disease. Some of those factors, mentioned before like hormone or nutritional deficiencies, In general, we would like to believe that the more severe or dramatic an imbalance, the worse a symptom or disease process will be. Yet we know that the human body is an amazingly dynamic system, and at times, even the tiniest changes can cause to massive effects on ones health. We specialize in identifying where your imbalances lie. Let’s face it, we are all different, and that’s part of the beauty of life. Because of that fact, no two clients ever have the exact same protocol. This is not a cookie-cutter clinic, and although there is a time and place for that type of care, it is not what we do at AMAO Wellness Center. We consider how your specific genetic profile, environment, nutritional status, fitness status, mental, emotional and spiritual connectivity contribute to and affect your health. We can help you to find the right balance for your life, so that you can pursue and accomplish anything you desire in life.
We Find The Root Causes Of Disease
At AMAO Wellness Center, we don’t do patchwork medicine. Most Western physician are trained to give your collection of symptoms a name and then suppress those symptoms with pharmaceutical agents. Although many pharmaceuticals can alleviate particular symptoms, these chemical compounds often generate toxic metabolites that only contribute to further imbalances. Instead of a heavy emphasis on prescribing, we use scientific methods repeatedly proven by research in the medical literature over the last 6 decades to seek out and address specific imbalances that are the root causes of diseases.
Once we identify the underlying cause, we equip you, the client, with the tools and resources necessary to restore and maintain balance within your body.
We Value the Qualities that Make You Uniquely Human
Inside of all of us is the awareness that we are somehow all connected, even if we are separated by time or space. What I do (or don’t do) affects you, and likewise everything you do affects me. We all have a contribution to make to humanity. At AMAO Wellness Center, we dare to consider how our work with our clients and with our community can help us all to be more fulfilled.
So often in our work, we observe how a lack of attention to ones relationships can be extremely detrimental to ones health and wellbeing. Together we consider how each one of us can positively affect others just by moving closer to our own true purpose in life. We contemplate how cultivating respect and compassion for the people in our communities can enhance our overall enjoyment of life. It is our pleasure to help our clients brainstorm creative ways to integrate the joy of connection and community into their lives.