Ginny Johnsen is a Registered Dietitian with over 20 years experience helping individuals improve their health through lifestyle changes and better eating habits. Ginny is a member of the American Dietetic Association, the Ohio Dietetic Association, and a member of the practice groups for Weight Management, SCAN (Sports Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutrition), Nutrition Entrepreneurs, and Nutrition in Complimentary Care.

Services offered:

1. Do you know which supplements and remedies will bring you to a place of optimal health and balance? The BioMeridian Stress Assessment (MSAS) is a comprehensive evaluation of a person’s energetic health and balance. An MSAS provides a completely noninvasive method for gaining valuable information about the body’s vital functions. The primary objective is to disclose patterns of stress, and to provide feedback to help structure a program for restoring each system and meridian to an appropriate balance. The MSAS allows consideration of numerous herbal, homeopathic and nutritional products to facilitate this balancing process.



2. Is your food making you sick? Adverse reactions to foods and food-chemicals can play a role in many common illnesses:
   • IBS, IBD, dyspepsia, diarrhea, cramping, bloating
   • Migraine and other chronic headaches
   • Fibromyalgia, joint pain, muscle pain, muscle weakness
   • Fatigue, tiredness, insomnia, general malaise, hyperactivity, “brain fog”
   • Hives, eczema
   • Excess mucous production, chronic post nasal drip
   
   You may have food sensitivities and not know it. Frequent headaches, chronic digestive problems and fatigue, and a number of other common health complaints can often be caused by reactions to the foods and chemicals in our diet. Symptoms provoked by food sensitivities occur when our immune system begins perceiving foods in the same way it perceives things which are truly harmful – bacteria, viruses, parasites, etc. This mistaken identity leads to the release of toxic chemicals called “mediators” (such as histamine, cytokines, and prostaglandins) from our immune cells. It’s the inflammatory and pain-inducing effect of the mediators that give rise to symptoms making us feel sick.
   
   Food sensitivity symptoms are often chronic. This is because the mediators are released every time you eat reactive foods. And it doesn’t matter what drugs we take to try and get better - if we have food sensitivities and don’t figure out which foods we SHOULD be eating, getting better and staying better becomes a long-term losing struggle.
   
   Find out which foods you are sensitive to that could be causing your chronic health problems and how to modify your diet for optimum health.



3. Did you know your DNA holds the key to optimizing your health? Now you can base your health and lifestyle choices on evidence, not speculation. By understanding your genetic makeup you can make positive decisions to optimize your health. Nutrition is the most powerful tool we have in supporting the health of our genes.
   
   The Gene SNP DNA Screening Analysis is designed to provide you with valuable information on the relationship between your own unique genetic profile and maintaining long-term health and vigor that can be effectively enhanced through customized advanced nutritional supplementation. Because your genes don’t change, the results of this analysis will remain accurate forever
   
   In Balance is now offering two screenings:
   
   GENE SNP NUTRITION & WELNESS PANEL
   
   • Identifies the changes needed to promote your health and wellness. After analyzing variations in your DNA, Gene SNP will make recommendations based on how your body metabolizes food, utilizes nutrients, and removes toxins. Gene SNP uncovers the ability of your genes to respond to nutrition and environmental factors that affect your heart health, bone healthy, insulin sensitivity, antioxidation function, detoxifications efficiency and inflammatory responses. For example, you will fully understand your bodies:
   • B Vitamin Metabolism
   • Cholesterol Metabolism
   • Bone Mineralization
   • Antioxidant Function
   • Cellular Detoxification
   • Insulin Modulation
   • Inflammatory Response
   
   
   GENE SNP FITNESS PANEL
   The Gene SNP Fitness Panel provides a personalized exercise and fitness program based on your genetic profile. According to variation in your DNA, Gene SNP will make recommendation based on how your body builds muscle, recovers from exercise and utilizes specific nutrients. Gene SNP uncovers the specific ability of your genes to respond to physical activity and nutritional factors. Genetic impacts on flow, exercise recovery, body composition and glucose utilizations. The role of the gene and the variation found will determine what impact there is on your fitness potential. By providing you with an in-depth understanding of how your genetic profiles affects your well-being, Gene SNP will help your take charge of optimizing your wellness and fitness. You will have a clear understanding of your bodies:
   
   

   Cardio Fitness

   Vascular Flow, HDL levels

   Fat burning efficiency

   Maximize your efficiency

   Endurance/Power profile

   Which is right for you?

   Recovery from exercise

   How can you support faster recovery?

   Learn More Here
   
   



4. Mindful and Intuitive Eating: Do you struggle with food issues? Angry with yourself for yet another failed diet? Have you developed disordered eating patterns that are controlling your life? So many people get angry with themselves for overeating, for their lack of willpower, and for failing yet another diet. The rules, regulations and harsh judgments that are part of the “diet mentality” keep people from listening to their bodies. Mindful eating focuses on nurturing your body rather than starving it, encourages natural weight loss, and helps you find the weight you were meant to be. Most importantly, it can help you end your battle with food, find peace and live a richer, fuller life. Mindfulness can change your relationship with food so that you can find a place of peace!



5. Cholesterol and Heart Health: CHOLESTEROL TESTING AVAILABLE
   
   What is your risk for developing heart disease? Do you know your cholesterol levels? Find out about:
   
   Bios Life™ Complete. The only clinically proven, patented, natural alternative to statin drugs to effectively reduce cholesterol!



6. Helpful tools for weight management:
   
   



7. Intrinsic Lifestyle Coaching & wellness: Results you thought you couldn’t get. Resources you didn’t know were there. Clarity and momentum where you don’t expect it. Coaching helps you make the lifestyle changes by finding what works for you! A step by step approach that gets you to your goal. Intrinsic Lifestyle Coaching means getting our priorities straight so thinking better, together, becomes possible. It means maximizing resources and increasing strategies for accomplishing results.



8. Medical Nutrition Therapy: The application of nutritional interventions to help manage or prevent certain medical conditions. Get help with managing obesity, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, cardiovascular disease, hypertension and more.



9. Nutritional assessment and supplements for optimal health: Are you meeting all your nutritional needs through the food you eat? Do you eat 9 servings of fruits and vegetables a day? Come find out which nutrients may be lacking in the foods your eating.