Genetic Expression
Your genes are the basic instructions for how you build, regulate, and maintain your body. These instructions determine how your body responds to food, exercise, stress, and toxins.
The key to making the biggest difference in your health is to understand the way your unique genes interact with the many pathways in your body.
This is complex science.
At Optimal Body Lab, we understand how to make sense of your body’s complicated instructions to help you optimize your health. Through Dr. Steve’s Total Body Evaluation we evaluate your unique genetic information to identify the three pathways where you can make the biggest impact on your personal performance, quality of life and long-term health.
For each of your top three pathways, Dr. Steve will outline simple but meaningful changes or maintenance behaviors in:
Diet
Lifestyle or Behavior Interventions
Supplements or Activity Enhancements
Cardiovascular & Muscle Health
Your cardiovascular and muscular capabilities play a major role in your ability to perform and live optimally. In tandem, these systems drive your functional capacity and with proper assessment and action, can be maximized.
Dr. Steve’s Total Body Evaluation uses a metabolic analysis system that allows the type of personalization in physical activity (workouts) and nutrition only previously available to Olympians.
By analyzing 12 biomarkers in your breath, we measure your heart, lung, and cellular fitness, how “fast” your metabolism is, your fat-burning efficiency, how your breath affects your posture and brain, and your muscle’s ability to utilize oxygen. All with clinical-grade accuracy.
Your individual data is then integrated into your personal action plan which will lead you to optimal personal performance, quality of life, and long-term health.
Body Composition & Mechanics
What you are made of and how you move can greatly impact your health, personal performance, and self-confidence. Accurately measuring body composition and body mechanics will quantify your unique body and help identify target areas to improve.
Body Composition
The Body Lab sees a distinct difference between body weight and body composition. Dr. Steve knows that it does not matter what you weigh, but instead, it matters what you are made of. Therefore, the focus is always on Body Composition because it describes the amount of muscle (total and segmental), lean body mass, fat (total, segmental, and visceral), bone, water (intracellular and extracellular) in the body. Moreover, these components can be positively impacted by the execution of your individual, data-driven plan developed by Dr. Steve.
Body Mechanics
The way you move and hold your body throughout the day or during specific exercise is called Body Mechanics. Good Body Mechanics starts with good body position and posture. This includes when we sit, stand, lift, bend, sleep, etc. Proper Body Mechanics can lead to more efficient movement and better personal performance. Poor Body Mechanics can cause back problems and other injuries, negatively impacting your quality of life.
At the Body Lab, we leverage the most efficient and effective technology to collect your precise Body Mechanics, this includes 3-D analysis. Based on this wealth of information, Dr. Steve develops a personalized plan that matches you and will lead to positive outcomes.
Sleep & Rejuvenation
Without question, sleep is one of the most important keys to your health and performance. Knowing this, Dr. Steve realizes that an individualized plan must include your personal sleep statistics to address your level of rejuvenation. Specifically, quality sleep must include the proper balance of sleep cycles for muscle repair, skin health, memory consolidation, brain repair and regulation of hormones.
Without this integration, many of your goals will not be fully realized.
The Body Lab understands the overarching impact sleep has on health and performance. Therefore, incorporated in Dr. Steve’s Total Body Evaluation is a sleep study completed in the comfort of your own bedroom, an environment that is representative of your personal sleep habits.
The Athletic High – Achievement Mindset
A mindset is a set of beliefs that influences how you think, feel and act in any given situation. Dr. Steve defines an Athletic – High Achievement Mindset as a set of beliefs that foster the pursuit of excellence through personal choices and behaviors. Additionally, this mindset is in no way exclusive to athletes or athletic performance. On the contrary, many people who have never competed or have no desire to compete, inherently apply an Athletic – High Achievement Mindset to producing optimal health and peak performance. Overall, the application of an Athletic – High Achievement Mindset can influence success and demonstrate the power of the Mind-Body Connection.
At the Body Lab, we leverage the most efficient and effective technology to collect your precise Body Mechanics, this includes 3-D analysis. Based on this wealth of information, Dr. Steve develops a personalized plan that matches you and will lead to positive outcomes.
