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Community Acupuncture of Mount Airy
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Community Acupuncture of Mount Airy
Compassionate Alternative Medicine Associates
of Chestnut Hill
Compassionate Alternative Medicine Associates
of Chestnut Hill
Elise Rivers, founder and acupuncturist, started CAMA Wellness Center 15 years ago. Learn how Elise’s and her staff’s passion for whole-hearted wellness, back on our 10th anniversary, has helped thousands of people become more healthy and vibrant.
We offer affordable, compassionate, effective, preventive, holistic care, including: acupuncture, bodywork, plant-based nutrition and self-care education.
We’ve been serving the Mount Airy region for over 15 years and have been privileged to serve thousands of clients from all backgrounds. Hear what they have to say…
Elise became a passionate advocate of plant-based eating in 2013, dedicating herself to learning about and communicating the benefits of a whole foods plant-based diet.
Once she realized her knowledge of food-as-medicine could transform her patients’ health, she has continuously immersed herself in teachings from doctors Neal Barnard, Michael Greger, T. Colin Campbell, Michael Klaper and Caldwell Esselstyn.
Through promoting lifestyle medicine at CAMA, she continues to be gratified and amazed by the progress her patients make in dramatically improving or reversing the course of their chronic diseases and conditions.
She has experience with altering the course of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and hypertension with this affordable, powerful, accessible (and do-able!) solution.
Certified by both T. Colin Campbell’s Center for Nutrition Studies program in plant-based nutrition:
as well as Dr. Klaper’s Moving Medicine Forward Initiative:
She helps her clients to be empowered and inspired to reclaim their vitality, laying the foundation for a long and healthy life.
Kirsten is a registered dietitian nutritionist licensed in Pennsylvania and an experienced practitioner of medical nutrition therapy (MNT). She has been helping people improve their health her entire career, initially by designing parks and healthcare gardens as a landscape architect to promote more physical activity.
To make the most of your consults with Kirsten, ideally you have your most recent blood test results (within the past 4 months). She’d like to see a Lipids panel (cholesterol), Vitamin D levels, and if pre-diabetic or diabetic the HbA1c, and any blood sugar logs or meter if you’re testing. It is also very helpful for her to see what clients are eating for 2-3 days before the appointment: simply document what you eat on what you feel are your “healthy days.”
Her specialty is providing food choices that fit into your life, and improve your overall health. Meeting with Kirsten for a personal nutrition consultation will involve reviewing your current eating style and preferences, and helping you find alternatives that you enjoy, and that have the potential to dramatically improve your health. Your conscious food choices are the key to living a longer, happier and better life!
She was also always interested in how food choices help improve lives, and as her children entered college, she entered the healthcare profession. She chose to study health and nutrition and to become a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator to support people in finding healthy alternatives to the Standard American Diet, a diet that generally leads to developing one of our 3 major killers: Heart Disease, Diabetes or Cancer.
Kirsten has degrees from Penn State and Drexel and currently works part-time at Chestnut Hill Endocrinology as their diabetes educator.
Kirsten accepts insurance that may cover your nutrition consults with a $40 co-pay:
If you have any of these as your insurer, please contact them to get the details of your coverage.