Alternative and Integrative Weight Loss Program

Our Approach to Weight Loss

Our alternative and integrative weight loss program allows you to get to the root cause of your weight gain so that you can obtain and maintain a healthy body weight, naturally.

Your Weight Loss Journey

Does it feel like you are fighting a losing battle when it comes to weight loss? Everyone knows that to maintain a healthy body weight, it is important to exercise, eat right, and get a good night’s sleep. However, what if you are already doing these things, but it is still impossible to shed those extra pounds with any weight loss program?

Optimize Thyroid Function

The thyroid gland regulates your metabolism and energy production. With low thyroid function, or hypothyroidism, your metabolism slows down, and you don’t generate as much heat or use as many calories, and you burn less energy, even when you are resting. You are less likely to burn fat for energy. Excess fluid retention can often be attributed to the poor circulation caused by hypothyroidism, as well.

Watch as Dr. Hotze explains how your thyroid gland affects weight loss:

Treat Candida / Yeast Overgrowth

It is also possible that yeast or Candida might be at the root of your weight gain. Take a close look at your eating habits – do you still eat lots of simple carbs, sugar and fast food? We have a solution to help.

Yeast is a fungus that lives and overgrows in your intestines causing an imbalance in the normal bacteria of the colon so that you get less normal healthy bacteria, and more yeast. Bloating and weight gain are common with yeast overgrowth.

Our Yeast Treatment

Yeast feeds on sugar, so it is important to eliminate sugar and simple carbs that convert quickly to sugar in your body. To get rid of yeast, it is essential that you starve the yeast, kill the yeast, and replace the normal bacteria in the colon, which is Lactobacillus Acidophilus.

At the Hotze Health & Wellness Center, we recommend a yeast-free eating program, or Candida diet, which is a yeast-free, sugar-free, grain-free eating program that eliminates dietary sources of yeast and other fungi, vinegar and fermented products, and sugar and simple carbohydrates that provide nourishment to yeast.

Many of our guests, we call our patients “guests,” have had great success with weight loss on our Candida diet.