Department of Heart & Circulation · East to West Wellness Center
Blood pressure, cholesterol or circulation that keeps getting worse?
You take the medication, change your diet and try to exercise. The numbers may improve briefly, but you still do not know what keeps driving the pattern.
Sound familiar?
If this is you, you’re in the right place
- Blood pressure or cholesterol keeps creeping up
- Hands or feet are often cold
- Swelling appears in the legs, hands or feet
- Cuts heal more slowly than they used to
- Heart disease runs in your family
What medicine does well, and what it wasn’t built for
Why it keeps coming back
Statins and blood-pressure medications lower the numbers and protect against heart attack and stroke. That matters. But those numbers are also influenced by fat metabolism, chronic inflammation and the gut. Medication may protect the system without changing every factor driving it.
That’s the part we work on. We don’t replace your doctor. We optimize the systems underneath, your metabolism, mitochondria and immune response, so your body can do what it’s built to do: heal and stay well.
Systems biology, applied to Heart & Circulation
The three systems we see most often
Poor fat metabolism
When the body processes fats poorly, cholesterol and triglycerides can climb.
Chronic immune activation
Inflammation can damage blood-vessel walls and affect circulation.
Gut dysbiosis
The gut microbiome affects cholesterol, blood pressure and inflammation.
Systems we check in every heart & circulation evaluation:
Diagnosis decides what we fix. If a system tests fine, we leave it alone and put your time and money where it matters.
How we fix it
In the order that matters
Improve fat and sugar metabolism
Address how the body processes fuel.
Lower inflammation
Review the inflammatory factors affecting blood vessels.
Rebalance the gut
Address microbiome patterns connected to metabolism.
Restore circulation
Support blood flow through the systems around it.
What we measure
Your numbers, re-tested
We only order what would change your plan, and we tell you up front which tests may be covered.
Our tools
Acupuncture and electroacupuncture, clinical nutrition, medical-grade supplements and herbal prescriptions, moxibustion and red light. When you need more, our physician partners and your own specialists are part of the plan.
What patients say
★★★★★Terrific acupuncture office! Greg is caring and positive in his approach to addressing your issues. He has successfully treated me for back & hip issues, & is now treating my neuropathy. I highly recommend this provider and everyone at East to West Acupuncture!
Hope v. · Google review, 2023-09
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Our offer
A personalized care plan, backed by your own markers
Every department offers the same thing: a time-based plan built for your issue. Testing, mapping where the problem started, a written plan, treatments, clinical nutrition, and supplement and herbal prescriptions, all aimed at your issue instead of piecemeal visits. Acupuncture is our super-specialty, and many plans work with or without it.
| East to West care plan | One-size protocol | |
|---|---|---|
| How it’s built | From your testing and your history | The same steps for everyone with the same complaint |
| What it targets | The systems underneath, in the order that matters for you | The symptom you walked in with |
| How you know it’s working | Markers agreed up front, re-tested | You guess |
| What backs it | Progress Guarantee tied to those markers | Nothing |
| What you take home | A System Map and a roadmap for you and your doctors | A product list |
Every plan comes with our Progress Guarantee. Before we start, we agree on the markers we’ll track: your symptom score plus two or three lab or clinical markers that can realistically change. If you’ve done your part and we haven’t hit them in your plan’s time frame, we keep working with you at a reduced rate or add complimentary care. We promise the work and the measurement, not a cure.
Care plans: Compare Reset, Rebuild and Thrive for this department — see included tests, visits and holiday enrollment savings.
The one place to start
Plans, not protocols. It starts with your Systems Biology Evaluation.
You know you have the problem. What nobody has shown you is how your symptom ties back to your metabolism, inflammation and immune system. That connection is our specialty.
- We map your chief complaint back to every system driving it.
- We decide which tests you actually need, and tell you which may be covered and which aren’t.
- We lay out your plan and timeline, with options for how many treatments and how long.
- You leave with your one-page System Map: where the problem sits, which systems are involved, and how we’ll address each one, in order.
Sometimes the answer is simple. If it’s a local problem, you may only need acupuncture, and we’ll tell you that.
Systems Biology Evaluation for Heart & Circulation
$100
30–60 minutes, in person in Huntington. A $350 evaluation, $100 to start.
Book your Systems Biology Evaluationor call (631) 416-4940
By your fourth visit, we’ll both know whether it’s working. We score your symptoms at visit 1 and visit 4, and if it isn’t working we’ll tell you and point you to what will.
Heart & Circulation questions
Do I need to stop my heart or blood-pressure medication?
No. Never stop or change medication without your prescriber. We work alongside your doctor and build around your current care.
Do you replace my cardiologist?
No. We work alongside your cardiologist, primary care doctor and existing medical team.
What testing may be reviewed?
Lipid panel, ApoB and Lp(a) when appropriate, hsCRP, homocysteine, A1c, fasting insulin, liver panel and vitamin D.
When is this an emergency?
Chest pain, shortness of breath, sudden swelling in one leg or stroke signs such as face droop, arm weakness or slurred speech are emergencies. Call 911.
What happens at the Systems Biology Evaluation?
In 30 to 60 minutes we map your chief complaint to the systems driving it, decide which tests you actually need, and lay out your plan and timeline. You leave with a one-page System Map. It’s a $350 evaluation, $100 to start.
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Your body is a system. We treat it like one.
Start with a $350 Systems Biology Evaluation for $100. You leave with your System Map and a plan.
