Arrowhead Health's FirstLine Therapy ® programs are a unique and necessary way to help battle the tendency of chronic health problems like high cholesterol, high blood sugar, high blood pressure and extra weight of taking over your life. These problems always start out minor, but then often sneak up to become full-blown diabetes, heart disease, stroke or disability.

Unfortunately, these problems really are impossible to deal with optimally in your routine medical visits. This is one of the reasons that the management of these problems is considered such a failure in medical circles.

Your ability to deal with or prevent these chronic life altering conditions and to help you have optimum health requires the appropriate knowledge, education and individual guidance specific to your lifestyle and stage of the conditions. It is imperative that a variety of measures are consistently and constantly monitored so that you can be assured all of your life-style change efforts are having the desired effect. Not just during the initial 12-weeks of the program but ongoing. This includes the important testing and tracking of: