Proper Nutrition is Essential for Health 

In these times of increased health care costs and economic uncertainty it's more important than ever to take personal responsibility for one's health and well-being. Proper nutrition is a foundation for health and an essential part of health care and self-care for maintaining health, preventing disease, and restoring health in the face of disease. 

• The balance of nutrition is unique to the individual and can vary significantly depending on age, race, gender, lifestyle, medications, and state of health or ill health.

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

• The common symptom in every disease is the loss of health, and this is the one symptom doctors often fail to specifically treat.

• Any symptom can be made worse if the nutrition is insufficient to support health or healing. Medications can't correct for nutritional deficiencies, and long term use of medications can increase the risk of side effects which are often treated with more drugs. By improving nutrition and health, medications can often be decreased or even 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 to improve overall nutrition and wellness.
  
  
• 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 Aetna, Alliant health plans, ASURIS Northwest Health, CIGNA, First Choice Health, Group Health Options, KPS Health Plans, Medicare and Medicare Supplement/Advantage Plans, Premera Blue Cross, Regence, and Whole Health Network. Other health plans may also provide benefits for medical nutritional counseling. 
  
  

• Ask your health insurer if your benefits include Medical Nutritional Therapy or Counseling for conditions like Acid Reflux (GERD), Arthritis, Bloating, Cancer, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Pain, Constipation, Crohn’s Disease, Diabetes, Diarrhea, Digestive Problems, Eating Disorders, Fibromyalgia, Food Allergies or Sensitivities, Heart Disease, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, IBS, Loss of Appetite, Nausea, Obesity, Ulcerative Colitis, Yeast Infections, or other chronic or degenerative disorders.

• See Consultation-Assessment Facts for more information.

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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 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 acid reflux (GERD), allergies, arthritis, Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), autism, autoimmune disorders, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), depression, diabetes, digestion problems, fibromyalgia, heart disease, high cholesterol, hypertension, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis), insomnia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), memory problems, obesity, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), age-related degenerative disease, and 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 (see Public Speaking).

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