About Plantimize and Your Blood Sugar Balance Coach

 
You and Plantimize ...

If you are trying to get a hold of your blood sugar balance with a whole-food,plant-based diet, or at least starting to head in that direction, I can help.

Let's start here (does anything following apply?):

You may be here because ...

• You're concerned about your blood sugar — maybe it runs high in your family, or your diet has you worried.

• You've been told you're prediabetic, or you've been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and you want to explore what a whole food, plant-based approach can do.

• Perhaps you realize, or maybe even have been advised by your healthcare provider, that your overall health and blood sugar levels will benefit by losing weight.

• Maybe you have multiple concerns that include your blood sugar, blood pressure, and or cholesterol levels, and maybe have even been told one or all of those things are getting high and that you need to do some lifestyle changes to combat them.

• Possibly on top of your concerns you also feel like you're tired too much of the time and just don't feel like you're as full of energy as you think you should be, and want to change this.

• Or you might feel "okay", but are concerned about your long term health and want to give your body the best opportunity to be healthy and more energetic – so you can pursue all that you enjoy and want to discover.

• And maybe you've heard that a plant-based diet is a key way to impact your blood sugar balance, along with all of these noted issues.

• Or possibly you're already into pursuing a plant-based diet but are struggling with knowing whether or not you're getting enough nutrients, and if your body is responding well enough to this new approach to your health.

Did any of those click for you ...

If one of the above, or a combination, is happening with you right now, you're in the right place.

Plantimize is becoming a focused resource for blood sugar balance through whole-food, plant-based nutrition — whether you're just getting concerned, navigating prediabetes, or managing type 2 diabetes. The educational content, resources, and coaching support here are designed to inform and encourage you, and provide paths forward, all in complement to your primary health care relationship. 

At plantimize.com going and being plant-based is a journey as much as it is a practice, as the body of growing scientific findings is always informing the way forward.

So, as the practice and journey continue, plantimize.com is here to help you in making informed, and even tasty : ) choices, so that your health can be more and more in grasp, leading not only to possibly greater quality of life in the immediate, but ongoing, and possibly leading to greater longevity as well.

Your plant-based health coach, and host...

Robert Curtis 

Robert is a graduate of Cleveland Chiropractic College having previously earned his bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences from the New York Institute of Technology. 

In his professional career he served over two decades as the sole chiropractor for a multi-specialty primary care medical group in Los Angeles, All Care Medical Group, of then Verity Health Care, through early 2017, wherein his primary focus was on neuromusculosketetal conditions.

During his time of practice, a large portion of his patients often had accompanying varying degrees of blood sugar management challenges — very common in urban southern California — that gave him an up front view of the impact of diabetes and related complications, and created a heightened awareness of this issue and in how he approached designing care plans for them that coordinated with their medical care.

Additionally, over the course of his position there he also served as a Qualified Medical Evaluator for the state of California, and near the end of his stint in the multi-specialty practice, he became a Certified Medical Examiner for the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. D.O.T.).

The role of Qualified Medical Evaluator involved the evaluation of injured workers and rendering assessment on their ability to continue working, and in what capacity, and that interest lead into further study and credentialing as a Certified Medical Examiner for the U.S. D.O.T. to evaluate commercial drivers fitness for driving.

Though he barely began in the role of medical examiner for the D.O.T., he gravitated towards the portion of the training in the area of being tasked with counseling drivers on their health management, that in particular focused quite extensively on diabetes, being that it was such a prevalent condition many drivers had.

Here in his studies he saw an avenue outside of direct practice that would afford him the time and opportunity to provide what he was often frustrated with in being unable to adequately do in day to day practice, provide thorough, unrushed, lifestyle guidance for which so many was a large or even complete root of all their health issues.

Seeing the impact diet and lifestyle had on patients' health, and his own health, and the transformative effect of him becoming educated and going on a whole-food, plant-based diet, he became drawn to a mission of sharing the plant-based message, and ultimately landed on focusing in on blood sugar issues as it was such a glaring linchpin to health.

Along the way, and as he moved on from that direct clinical practice, he became a Certified Health Coach and Fitness Nutrition and Behavior Change Specialist with the American Council on Exercise (A.C.E.), including taking their Diabetes Prevention training. And adding to that, completing the Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate Program through eCornell.

All further strengthening his orientation into plant-based nutrition for blood sugar balancing, to help people transform their health and thus their lives.

Robert notes...

I love to listen and have the conversations that focus on what’s working now and or what worked before to get progress in your life, and in helping to garner these strengths into what you could envision to further your health.

In particular, I'm passionate about helping people navigate blood sugar challenges — from initial concern through prediabetes and type 2 diabetes — using the power of whole-food, plant-based nutrition.

All of this by aiding you in the crafting of better actions and habits for making changes sustainable in your daily life, with an orientation towards a plant-based approach.

And no judgement here if you're a meat eater.  Every step in a plant-based direction has shown to be correlated to improved health, so my focus is to help you in going down that road, and in going all the way, if you wish – in conjunction with your primary health care provider's support.

Having worked in a multi-specialty medical practice for years in central Los Angeles I got to see the all too many manifestations of lifestyle interrelated illnesses in the forms of diabetes, kidney disease, high blood pressure, strokes and even cancer, along with numerous neurological, muscle and joint issues that to a large, and possibly in many instances, a complete part, were likely preventable simply by eating in a much healthier way.

Looking at this closely for years and its accompanying needless suffering, and my then own declining health from the Standard American Diet (aptly noted as S.A.D.), motivated me more and more to study deeper and spread the word about lifestyle being the baseline counter to this as I began to benefit from the changes myself.

In particular with a whole-food, plant-based approach, as the science has shown it to be a prime starting point, adding in exercise and stress management, along with growing connection with our fellow beings.

Accordingly, I have pursued this whole-food, plant-based eating way since 2012, having reaped tremendous gains in my health including largely resolving an irritable bowel condition, frequent anxiety, high cholesterol, and the then coming onset of diabetes, hypertension, and related reduced circulation.

As I continue on this journey it's my honor and privilege to be of service in helping you to go down this path, aiming to optimize your health.

So nice to have you stop by, anytime : )