Draelos Metabolic Center - Edmond Oklahoma's Top Weight Loss, Diabetes and Thyroid Center
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The Draelos Metabolic Center, serving Edmond and Oklahoma City is your premier Oklahoma Medical Center specializing in all endocrine issues, particularly in weight loss programs and long-term weight management.
Dr. Matthew Draelos and his highly trained team of healthcare professionals have devised comprehensive, physician-guided weight management strategies designed to help you achieve and maintain your goal weight. We underistand that weight management is a highly personal issue, and, often, drenched in emotional issues as well. We address the full range of issues affecting you and your weight.
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A natural approach to rapid weight loss
People ask each January, “What’s really the best way to lose weight and keep it off?” Experts will tell you that any diet that helps you lose unhealthy pounds and keep them off is the best diet for you, but that answer is not specific enough for many.
For two years, the weight loss specialists at Draelos Metabolic Center have worked to develop an easy-to-follow weight loss program that produces rapid results while also better safeguarding one’s health. We call it Easy Start. We do not use hCG. Instead, we base our program on a diet plan scientifically proven to be more effective in weight loss.
“We have seen great success with this program. Many participants lose up to 25 pounds their very first month with Easy Start*,” said Karon Potter, R.D., L.D.
Patrick Fuller has lost 63 pounds in seven months, which is 20 percent of his starting weight and an average of nine pounds lost each month, on the Easy Start plan at Draelos Metabolic Center.*
“The program gave me the tools and also the accountability I needed to be successful,” Fuller said.
The Easy Start program begins with two meal replacement shakes plus a lean and green meal each day and two daily snacks. The lean/green meal and the snacks are “normal” food purchased from the grocery store or ordered from the menus of restaurants. Even fast food restaurants offer selections that can be considered lean and green when you learn how to make the proper choices. The Easy Start meal replacement shakes are a medical food. That’s a classification of foods specially formulated to be used as part of a health improvement program under the supervision of a physician and selected for each individual based upon current health status and potential health risks.
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The Draelos Metabolic Center in Edmond, OK is your premier Oklahoma Medical Center specializing in all endocrine issues, particularly in weight loss and long-term weight management.
Dr. Matthew Draelos and his highly trained medical staff have devised comprehensive, physician-guided weight management strategies designed to help you achieve and maintain your goal weight. We understand that weight management is a highly personal issue, and, often, drenched in emotional issues as well. We address the full range of issues affecting you and your weight.
Although the specific issues affecting weight vary from person to person, we have worked with thousands of patients; and through that work, have found there are four core issues that affect almost everyone. These include: daily motivation and behavioral modification, proper nutrition, regular exercise and medications.
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At the Draelos Metabolic Center we offer customized programs to help you achieve and maintain a normal body weight. We recognize that weight loss is not easy and requires work on your part. Our team of healthcare professionals and staff are here to individualize a plan just for you and to guide you to success with cutting-edge information, tools, technology and emotional support.
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During your initial 1- to 2-hour appointment you will be fully evaluated for any medical conditions and medications that may be negatively affecting your weight. Your initial consultation will include:
- A thorough physical exam and health history review.
- A Body Impedance Analysis (BIA) to determine your specific fat, muscle and water weight.
- Measurement of your Resting Energy Expenditure (REE) by Indirect Calorimetry. This determines your body’s energy, metabolism and caloric needs, based on an evaluation of your oxygen consumption.
- An EKG.
- Laboratory testing, including a Basic Metabolic Panel (BMP), Complete Blood Count (CBC), Thyroid Stimulating Hormone,T-4 Free, Lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides), Serum Insulin, Vitamin B-12, Vitamin D, Testosterone (men), C-Reactive Protein (CRP) and Urinalysis.
- Development of your initial weight loss plan.
All testing components are critical to helping us determine the best weight-loss plan for you. If ordered individually, these tests would cost more than $700. Your initial appointment at Draelos Metabolic Center is less than half of that, only $300.
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The Limited Initial Visit is available only to current* medical patients of Draelos Metabolic Center who wish to begin a weight loss program. Since you are already established in our clinic several of the components of the initial weight loss visit may have been completed or may be justified under your insurance coverage. The Limited Initial Visit will include any of the components of the initial weight loss visit that have not been completed in your regular medical care. The price of the Limited Initial Visit is $150.
*Patients who are currently under the care of a provider at Draelos Metabolic Center for a medical condition and who are compliant with medical follow up care qualify for the Limited Initial Visit.
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Weight Loss: All Pounds Are Not Created Equal
With weight loss, most of us talk about losing pounds, but what we really need to lose is pounds of fat. We may actually want to aim to pack on a little muscle weight at the same time. That means the scale doesn’t always reflect the changes you are making in your body through diet and exercise. Enter Body Impedance Analysis (BIA).
Body Impedance Analysis (also known as Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis) is an important tool for weight loss specialists and those trying to lose weight, said Dr. Matthew Draelos, board certified in metabolism, endocrinology and diabetes.
"Whenever I do an initial evaluation of a patient, the body impedance analysis is always included. That’s because we need to know where we are to know where we are going with any weight loss plan. In addition, we aren’t just focused on pounds lost when working with weight loss patients. We want to be sure that dieters are losing fat, not muscle. BIA helps us do that," Draelos said.
The BIA equipment looks a bit like an electronic scale. You stand on the device hold onto handles at the top and it does the rest.
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What is EASY START?
This program was designed exclusively by our weight loss specialists at Draelos Metabolic Center to help jump-start your weight loss success and help you acheive better health.
 Like the HCG weight loss programs, the EASY START Weight Loss Program is designed to help you achieve rapid weight loss. But with EASY START, there are no injections of hormones.
Instead, you’ll enjoy an easy-to-follow plan that helps manage the challenges of starting a weight loss program and produces dramatic results in rapid fashion.
EASY START takes the guess work out of what to eat and when for weight loss success. It’s simple and it works! Many lose up to 25 pounds their very first month with EASY START*.
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Easy Start Weight Loss
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With weight loss, most of us talk about losing pounds, but what we really need to lose is pounds of fat. We may actually want to aim to pack on a little muscle weight at the same time. That means the scale doesn’t always reflect the changes you are making in your body through diet and exercise. Enter Body Impedance Analysis (BIA).
Body Impedance Analysis (also known as Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis) is an important tool for weight loss specialists and those trying to lose weight, said Dr. Matthew Draelos, board certified in metabolism, endocrinology and diabetes.
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 Here’s the bad news: Overweight and obese teen-agers have greater chances of dying from heart disease as they age.
But the good news is that this risk can be eliminated if they lose weight as adults.
A team of researchers at Harvard Medical School tracked the health of almost 19,000 men for more than half a century. They obtained their data from Harvard students who had received a routine medical exam from 1916 to 1950. In the 1960’s, these men were again asked about their height, weight, lifestyle habits and medical issues. At the time of this second survey, the men were an average of 46 years old.
Recently, the researchers pulled death records from the men in this original study and found that more than 11 percent of them had died from heart disease. They concluded that being heavy both as a teen and throughout middle age increased the risk of dying from heart disease. Overweight men were 25 percent more likely to die of heart disease and obese men were 60 percent more likely.
However, a number of men in the study were overweight or obese in the original measurements, but had decreased their weight by the second time surveyed. Interestingly, these men who were at a healthy weight during middle age did not have any increased risk for heart disease even though they had been overweight or obese when they were younger.
“The number of years being fat isn't as important as being overweight at middle age," said Stephen Kritchevsky, a researcher at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. They found that even losing weight in your 50s and 60s can ease future risks of heart disease.
At Draelos Metabolic Center, we have seen many of our patients who have lost weight reap the positive health benefits of lower blood pressure, better diabetes control and more.
As we begin a New Year, what better time to focus on making important changes for your health. Don’t focus on the past, but on taking steps now to ensure a healthier future, especially with our Easy Start Weight Loss program.
For more health tips and to learn more about the various weight loss plans available at our Oklahoma Metabolic Center.
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