Proper Nutrition is Essential for Health 

Proper nutrition is an essential part of personal wellness and self care that helps to maintain health, prevent disease, and restore health in the face of disease.

• The balance of nutrition is unique to the individual and can vary dramatically with age, race, gender, lifestyle, or state of health or ill health.

• Nutritional deficiencies are common in chronic and degenerative disease, and after trauma injury or surgery. (See Video).

• Any symptom can be made worse and sometimes caused if nutrition is insufficient to support and maintain health. The common symptom in every disease is the loss of health, but this is the one symptom medical professionals often fail to specifically address.

• Medications cannot correct for nutritional deficiencies, and long term use of medications can cause side effects that are often treated with more drugs. With improved nutrition and health, medications can often be decreased or discontinued.

• Nutrition consultation and assessment identifies areas of nutritional weakness that can negatively impact health, and provides information on how to strengthen these areas of weakness. With improved nutrition and health, medications can often be decreased or discontinued.

Consultation and Assessment

• Nutrition consultation and assessment identifies areas of nutritional weakness that can negatively impact health, and provides information on how to strengthen these areas of weakness. With improved nutrition and health, medications can often be decreased or discontinued.
  
  
• See Consultation-Assessment Facts for more information.

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Nutritional Consultations and Counseling Are Covered by Many Health Plans

• John W. Cartmell is an in-network provider for Premera Blue Cross, Regence, Cigna, Aetna, Whole Health Network, and First Choice Health, including Corvel, and Group Health Options, Alliant plans, and Medicare Part B. Other health plans may also provide benefits for nutritional services. 
  
  

• Ask your insurance provider if your plan will cover nutrition counseling services for conditions like Diabetes, Heart Disease, High Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure, IBS, Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Constipation, Diarrhea,  Acid Reflux (GERD), Food Allergies and Sensitivities, Yeast Infections, Nausea, Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Cancer, and other chronic or degenerative disorders.

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To Schedule a Nutrition Consultation and Assessment

 Contact: John W. Cartmell

 Download: Client Information Form

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John W. Cartmell, MS, has been a Licensed Massage Practitioner in Washington State since 1985, and a Certified Nutritionist since 2004, receiving a Master of Science degree in Nutrition Research from Bastyr University of Natural Medicine in Kenmore, WA. His master's thesis was on "Nutrition in Fibromyalgia".

As a Certified Nutritionist, he specializes in clinical nutrition, helping to address the specific nutritional needs of clients with obesity, diabetes, digestion problems, acid reflux (GERD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease), cancer, memory problems, insomnia, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, allergies, arthritis, autoimmune disorders, heart disease, hypertension, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), age-related degenerative disease or other chronic conditions of ill health.

He has published papers and letters on health and nutrition in several professional journals. His book, “Fibromyalgia, a Nutritional Approach to Prevention, Treatment and Cure”, was published in  2008. He is a frequent public speaker on nutrition and health.

   Member of Rotary Club of Redmond Rousers

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