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ABOUT CASCADIA MEDICAL

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Kristen Novey, PA-C

I can see diabetes coming years before it is clinically diagnosed.

 

There are so many missed opportunities to intervene, and weight gain tops that list. It is a taboo subject that most healthcare providers would rather leave untouched. But I’ve found that when you can offer someone a legitimate option for weight loss, most people are not just willing, but eager, to talk about their weight loss goals. This tells me that you haven’t failed you, but rather we, your medical providers, have failed you. This changes now, and it starts with me.

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I have been an internal medicine physician associate for years, quickly specializing in diabetes management early into my career. As my passion for metabolic health grew, so did my interest in learning how to not only treat diabetes, but how to prevent it, in addition to other metabolic health issues (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and insulin resistance, to name a few). After many years working with patients with diabetes to bring down their blood sugar and lose weight, I have discovered a powerful combination of treatment strategies that dramatically improve metabolic health, with the added bonus of weight loss. 

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And the best part is that you do not have to have diabetes for these strategies to work for you, too.

THERE IS ANOTHER WAY,
AND I CAN WALK YOU THROUGH IT.

Diabetes is one of the final stops at the end of the metabolic health continuum, but it is not inevitable. Before diabetes happens, there is prediabetes. Before there is prediabetes, there is insulin resistance. And for many, before there is insulin resistance, there is obesity or overweight.

 

But what if we could intervene here, at the obesity or overweight stage, before all of those other health complications have set in? What if we could reduce the extra weight before it leads to high blood pressure? High cholesterol? Shortness of breath walking up the stairs? Sleep apnea? Bad knees and a bad back?

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This is my specialty. Improving metabolic health and reversing course from these all-too-common health conditions. By coupling the most effective anti-obesity medications with sound medical nutrition evidence, you can lose the extra weight and gain optimal wellness. It can be done, and I would love to help you get there.

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There is a reason past strategies have failed you that has nothing to do with willpower and everything to do with your biological playing field.

 

If you are struggling with:

  • being overweight

  • obesity

  • food cravings

  • tired of calorie counting

  • tired of the eat-less-move-more mentality

  • tired of expensive pre-packaged health foods

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