Essex Heart Group at Summit Medical Group

HistoryIMMC Health was started to provide caring, evidenced based treatment, with medical nutrition therapy as the foundation of our care for our patients. We continue with the utmost attention to our founding principles even though we continue to grow incrementally.SpecialtiesPremier, evidence based medical care, focusing on medical nutrition therapy, physician led nutrition support, medical weight management, metabolism optimization. Conditions treated include: obesity, cancer anorexia cachexia syndrome (CACS), malabsorption, failure to thrive, metabolic syndrome, metabolic disorders.

HistoryDr. Catalano is very passionate about offering a new paradigm in health care. One of prevention and achieving optimal health through natural and holistic methods. Across all of our treatment protocols and modalities, our functional approach recognizes the interconnection between the systems of the body. We focus on underlying causes, healthy lifestyle changes, and treatments that increase the body's ability to achieve optimum function and prevent disease. We are an integrative practice and we do believe that at times traditional prescriptions and medical therapies may be appropriate and necessary, but we are always looking for the safest and most effective approach to healing, rejuvenation and prevention.SpecialtiesDoctors and scientist used to think our genes were locked and couldn't be influenced. We now know through the study of Epigenetics, that this is untrue.Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene expression caused by certain base pairs in DNA, or RNA, being