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What Makes FirstLine Therapy® Different?
FirstLine Therapy® is a "therapeutic lifestyle program" designed to attack the underlying cause of many common health problems, and therefore improve health. When your underlying cellular health is better, your energy levels are higher, your body metabolizes fat better, you lose unhealthy fat easier, your mental function is better you sleep better...you just feel better all over.
FirstLine Therapy® works because it integrates:
- A smart, easy-to-follow meal plan.
- Added nutritional support to supply energy and conveniently increase nutrient intake while reducing calorie intake,
- A moderate amount of physical activity.
- Professional monitoring to individualize the program for each patient, track progress, and ensure success.
FirstLine Therapy® is unique because it:
- Has been demonstrated safe and effective in controlled clinical trials.
- Uses an easy-to-follow meal plan based on glycemic index-not a difficult diet based on will power and starving yourself.
- Supports healthy energy production
- Promotes fat loss-not muscle loss
- Supports healthy insulin and blood sugar balance
- Uses a therapeutic medical food proven in clinical trials to increase muscle while decreasing body fat.
- Helps improve health now and reduce risk of serious health problems later.
The FirstLine Therapy® Difference - It Works!
There are four key reasons that make FirstLine Therapy®: (FLT) different than conventional lifestyle programs:
1. FLT is about more than just weight loss.
- FLT can help you lose unhealthy fat while retaining healthy, lean muscle.
- FLT integrates body composition testing (fat & lean tissue ratios), because being thin doesn't necessarily mean you're healthy.
- An imbalance in body composition (gaining too much fat or losing too much muscle) can lead to serious health problems such as high blood pressure, altered cholesterol levels, etc.
- Loss of muscle results in loss of ability to burn calories, which makes it much more difficult to maintain weight loss over time.
- FLT focuses on lifestyle factors that are the underlying cause of many health problems.
2. The FLT eating plan is different.
- Most diets focus on NOT eating-not eating fat, not eating carbs, or just plain not eating much of anything. With most diets, success is based primarily on will power.
- The FLT eating plan emphasizes the need to eat, and to eat frequently.
- The focus is on eating THE RIGHT KIND OF FOODS-the right kind of fat, the right kind of carbohydrates, and the right kind of protein-all in the right portion size.
- FLT incorporates a low-glycemic-index eating plan based on the latest scientific research that will help you maintain stable blood sugar and energy levels.
- According to recent studies, low-glycemic diets are more effective than lowfat diets in treating obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes.
- People report less hunger and more energy, making it much easier to stick with the program.
3. FLT incorporates medical foods and dietary supplements.
- Using appropriate medical foods and dietary supplements as part of this program can improve the effectiveness of the program for you and help you achieve your health goals.
- Medical foods are designed to address the unique nutritional needs of patients with specific health concerns.
- Dietary supplements provide targeted nutritional support for specific functions, such as healthy blood cholesterol or blood sugar levels, joint function and mobility, or healthy hormone metabolism.
4. FLT has been demonstrated to be effective in controlled clinical trials.
- Most other diets have not.
The FMRC developed and tested the low-glycemic-load dietary plans utilized in FLT programs. This research clinic continues to monitor the success of individual patients on the FLT program in an environment similar to that of a private clinic.
Health Conditions
Your healthcare practitioner may personalize your FirstLine Therapy (FLT) program or other lifestyle program based on your individual health concerns. Your practitioner may also recommend a medical food program to address one or more of the following specific concerns:
Each program includes a specific, clinically designed dietary plan to maximize effectiveness of the nutritional support and is designed to fit the way you live: tasty recipes, portable and delicious nutritional support, simple exercise, and reliable outcomes.