Dr. Yavari introduces Zen Yoga Sword Dance performer, Aaron Hoope at a Wellness Event at Branford, CT's
Blackstone Library



Photo by Gloria Pepin

Reza Yavari, M.D., and French chef Jacques Pepin prepare a recipe included in It Must Be My Metabolism!

Dr.Yavari was a guest in a local public access show Live with Pete Lombard (a live, call-in program) which was re-broadcasted in towns across Connecticut

In January 2006 Beyond Care's methodology was published in Dr. Reza Yavari's book, It Must Be My Metabolism! (McGraw-Hill) - an exciting first "advice book" on metabolic syndrome.

Beyond Care News
  
Third Lifestyle Medicine Health Symposium organized by
Beyond Care®
Find Out How You Can Change Your Metabolism The Healthy Way

     This year's symposium includes prominent medical experts as well as the celebrity chef and author Jacques Pepin, and will take place on Sunday September 23rd from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Mercy Center Shoreline Retreat in Madison.

    As part of this symposium, experts will discuss the role of food, wine, sleep, exercise and hormones in changing metabolism, appetite and fat distribution - the program is attached. While Dr. Joe Shin, Yale plastic surgeon, will discuss the benefits and pitfalls of plastic surgery before and after weight loss. Jacques Pepin will participate in the symposium and together with Dr. Yavari and Aaron Hoopes, author of Zen Yoga, will be available for book signing. Yoga, pilates, nutrition sessions will also take place at the center. L  "40 million Americans have metabolic syndrome which is the connection between diabetes, heart disease and excess body fat" says, Dr. Reza Yavari, Founder of Beyond Care and author of It Must Be My Metabolism. "Reversing metabolic syndrome", he continues, "requires a healthy and lean metabolism beyond just weight loss or dieting."

        Lunch is included. To sign up for this symposium call Beyond Care at 203.315.2936. Space is limited, $ 40 before Wednesday 9/19/07, $ 50 after and on site registration.

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Article: Can't Keep The Weight Off?
Don't blame yourself. It really could be your metabolism!

By Amy Capetta, September 2006
Woman's World Magazine

Do you ever feel like you're just meant to be heavy? Like no matter what diet you try, the weight will always come right back? Well, that's how Pamela Delise felt too. I'm a failure, she told herself. Until one day, she discovered it wasn't her fault after all ...

Over the years, the Branford Connecticut human resources manager had tried every diet. But her weight always sprang right back. And during stressful times -- like her divorce -- she gained even more.

At 5'2" and 215 pounds, 38 year-old Pam looked -- and felt -- terrible. Forget about exercising. She barely had enough energy to get off the couch! I'm hopeless she despaired.

"It's not just an excuse"

Then one day, she spotted a weight-loss clinic: Beyond Care. In what turned out to be an incredible stroke of luck, it was run by Dr. Reza Yavari, a renowed weight-loss expert and author of It Must Be My Metabolism.

"I just can't keep the weight off," she told Dr. Yavari.

"It may be your metabolism," he said after reviewing her history.

"I thought it was just an excuse," Pam raised an eyebrow.

"Metabolic Syndrome is very real," Dr. Yavari insisted.

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Article: Go Ahead, Blame it on Your Metabolism-Local Doctor Publishes Book on His Proven Program for Weight Loss

By Amy J. Barry, January 2006
Living Editor, © Shore Publishing Newspapers

Despite the plethora of books and programs on dieting and Americans' obsession with thinness, we just keep getting heavier. We are now in the throes of an obesity epidemic, estimated to affect more than 40 million people in this country, creating an increase in such serious illnesses as diabetes and heart disease.

Reza Yavari, M.D., of Madison has some surprising news for all those people who blame their inability to lose weight on their "slow" metabolisms. His newly published book, It Must Be My Metabolism!, confirms that metabolism (more specifically metabolic syndrome-a malfunction in the way the body breaks down food) is the reason why so many Americans are overweight and obese.

The good news, Yavari asserts, is, "By understanding the difference between a healthy and lean metabolism as opposed to that of a yo-yo dieter's, you will be able to lose fat the right way and keep it off forever."

For five years, Yavari, an endocrinologist and Yale University School of Medicine faculty member, has been implementing his program for shedding pounds and becoming healthy, which he calls Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (TLC), with patients at Beyond Care, his lifestyle-management center in Branford. He also recently co-founded and became national medical director of MDiet, a dietary program based on the program he developed in Branford, launched by MDVIP, Inc., one of the fastest growing healthcare companies in the country.

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Dr. Yavari Personal Interview with
Charles Stuart Platkin for the
Dietdetective Newsletter

Platkin: Tell us how you got to where you are now.

Dr. Yavari: As an endocrinologist, I have always been interested in hormonal and metabolic disorders such as diabetes, obesity, thyroid disease, menopause, among others. However, instead of just diagnosing and medicating my patients, I wanted to offer them lifestyle change solutions to enhance their health and prevent disease. So, six years ago I created a lifestyle management center called Beyond Care (www.beyondcare.net), which offers medically supervised programs including fitness, stress reduction, nutrition intervention as well as hormonal and metabolic evaluations. There was clearly a need for this new "lifestyle medicine" approach and I was asked to write a book about it (published by Mc-Craw Hill and titled It Must Be My Metabolism) and recently asked to launch a national program called MDiet (www.mdiet.net).

Platkin: Define and discuss failure.

Dr. Yavari: There is no failure or success! But there are degrees of failure and degrees of success. "Black and white" thinking is a common cognitive obstacle in lifestyle change for weight loss. If one loses weight but is still unhappy and stressed out is that a failure? Well, that person has succeeded in overcoming one challenge but there is more work to do. Satisfaction comes from overcoming challenges we face. Everyday we fail a little and succeed a little. If we try to enhance our lives in incremental steps we are more likely to achieve wellbeing. For every small successful step we take, we should reward ourselves to keep the spirit of change going. After every failed attempt or a setback we should pick up where we left and again reward ourselves for resuming our efforts.

Platkin: Is there anything about yourself that you've changed your mind about in the last 20 years?

Dr. Yavari: Yes! I always thought that money and power made the world go around. But I have reached the conclusion that emotion is the main motivator for most of our actions. Guilt, regrets, envy, loneliness, sadness are examples of negative emotions that often make us behave in unhealthy ways such as indulging in stress-related eating. Love, kindness, fulfillment, gratification are among positive emotions that keep us going. Much of obesity is related to emotions. How many people do we know who gain weight when they are going through a divorce, or are planning a wedding, or when they suffer setbacks? We are emotional beings first and rational second.

Platkin: What's the next major item on your "to-do" list?

Dr. Yavari: Every item on my list of "to-do" tasks is a major one - or at least it appears like that. I have always had my plate full and I let life pick the next one. Currently, my list includes next book(s), publishing research articles, expanding my national and local businesses. But it also includes planning a meditation retreat for me, training my puppy, reaching out to friends and family. A big one is to prepare my kids for a rich and happy life.

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Book Launch of "Metabolism, Not Diet,
Is the Key to Fighting Obesity"

In celebration of Beyond Care's five-year anniversary and the publication of Dr. Yavari's new book, a reception with a booksigning was held at Beyond Care.

The old excuse for gaining weight, "It must be my metabolism" isn't a lame excuse after all -- it's the truth. The latest scientific studies demonstrate that metabolism -- more specifically metabolic syndrome -- is the reason that so many Americans are overweight and obese.

Dr. Yavari asserts in his new book, IT MUST BE MY METABOLISM! A Doctor's Proven Program for Losing Weight by Reversing Metabolic Syndrome: "By understanding the difference between a healthy and lean metabolism as opposed to that of a yo-yo dieter's, you will be able to lose fat the right way and keep it off forever."

Click here to read more about the book

Clicl here to view the Table of Contents

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We are very pleased to announce that Jean Henry M.D. has joined us at Beyond Care.

She is happy to see patients for endocrinology consultation, as well as the Therapeutic Lifestyle Change offered at Beyond Care.
Dr. Henry is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, and Endocrinology and Metabolism. She received her medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia in 1991. Both her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Endocrinology were completed at Yale.

From 1996 to 2001 she practiced Endocrinology in New Haven before going on leave to care for her four young children. She is very excited to be back at work and looks forward to working with the diverse patient population that we see here at Beyond Care. Her special interests include Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Osteoporosis, Thyroid and Parathyroid disorders.

As you know, Beyond Care was founded in 2000 and has established a solid presence in the Shoreline medical community. We offer comprehensive and medically supervised weight loss and lifestyle medicine programs aimed at Metabolic Syndrome, Diabetes Prevention and Management, Obesity, and Women's Health. Each patient is enrolled in an individualized program and works with a team of health care professionals supervised by a physician.

We are excited to have Dr. Jean Henry join us in this endeavor. We thank you for your support in the past and we will continue to assist you in providing optimal care for patients in the future.

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PERSONAL HEALTH;
Diabetes Candidates Can Reduce the Risk
By Jane E. Brody, January 15, 2002

Most serious childhood diseases can now be prevented by vaccines, and most bacterial infections can be cured with antibiotics. But one condition now running rampant has no medical preventive or cure. That condition is Type 2 diabetes, and preventing and curing it requires a kind of intervention that only the potential and actual victims can provide: making better food choices, getting more exercise and -- most important of all -- avoiding excess weight or taking it off if it's already there. The incidence of Type 2 diabetes has risen by a third since 1990, and treatment of the disease costs $100 billion a year.

There are now 15 million Americans, including at least 300,000 children, with Type 2 diabetes, an inability to prevent dangerous rises in blood sugar because the body's cells have become resistant to the hormone insulin and the pancreas is unable to supply enough extra to compensate.

One-third of people with this disease do not know they have it. However, like Type 1 diabetes, in which the pancreas fails to produce insulin, Type 2 diabetes can lead to serious, even life-threatening complications, including blindness, kidney disease, nerve damage and heart disease.

Who May Be Affected

Certain ethnic groups face a higher than usual risk of developing diabetes, including African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, Pacific Islanders and American Indians.
Regardless of ethnic heritage, three main groups face an elevated risk of becoming diabetic: those with close blood relatives with diabetes; women who developed gestational diabetes or whose babies weighed more than nine pounds at birth, and people of all ages who are significantly overweight, particularly those with a spare tire around the middle.

Dr. Reza Yavari, an endocrinologist affiliated with the Yale University School of Medicine, said abdominal fat was particularly dangerous ''because it secretes hormones and other factors that counter the action of insulin.''

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