The beauty of NAMIO is that your child isn't singled out. The whole family participates. While we encourage children and adolescents to attend the group sessions with their parents, it is not required. Parents can participate on their own, for the benefit of their kids and whole family. We will help you get the kids and whole family on board with your positive changes.

NAMIO is $199 per quarter, or just $66 per month. You may be eligible to use your health savings account to pay for NAMIO if your child has BMI>95th percentile. 1:1 coaching and nutrition consults are available for an additional fee.

NAMIO participates in various collaborations and partnerships to help to make the NAMIO program available to as many families as possible. We believe that every family affected by obesity should have access to a best-practice lifestyle program and want to do everything we can to make that possible. Please contact us if you’d like further information about our existing initiatives.

Absolutely! If your teen is taking obesity medication (Wegovy, Saxenda, Qysmia, etc), NAMIO is a complementary, virtual tool to support lifestyle change that provides exactly what families, pediatricians, and payers are looking for -- evidence-based lifestyle change that complements medication.

NAMIO is a 100% virtual program that is delivered when and where families need it. It's ok if you miss a group coaching session -- you can get all of the information covered as well as the NAMIO curriculum, coaching services, workshops, cooking demos, and workouts on-demand through the HIPAA-compliant NAMIO platform.

No! This is not a diet. NAMIO helps families make positive, sustainable lifestyle changes with a focus on improving overall health and well being. We help your whole family improve nutrition, physical activity, sleep routines, and overall wellness. We do not prescribe diets. NAMIO is about positive habit building, not restrictive dieting.

NAMIO is based on the best scientific evidence of what comprises a safe and effective family healthy weight program. The CDC, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommend that children ages 6 and older with overweight or obesity be offered or referred to a family-based program that includes at least 26 hours over 3-12 months with focus on nutrition, activity, and other behavior changes. NAMIO does just that. Additionally, all NAMIO content is based on the best evidence of what works to help support families in optimizing their health.

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends digital health interventions to assist adolescents with overweight or obesity with weight management. Evidence shows these interventions lead to meaningful weight reductions as well as improvements in depressive symptoms and no increased risk of disordered eating or body image harms in adolescents with overweight or obesity.

NAMIO works closely with families to monitor engagement, behavior changes, goal attainment, and family and clinician satisfaction. NAMIO is committed to continual learning and growth to help all families who engage with the NAMIO curriculum to improve their health and have a successful experience.

The NAMIO program was developed by Dr. Natalie Muth, a pediatrician, board-certified obesity medicine specialist, and registered dietitian and Cassandra Padgett, who has a masters degree in health education and is an ACE-certified health coach and personal trainer and diabetes prevention program-certified lifestyle coach and has extensive experience serving as a health coach in a healthy living clinic for children, adolescents, and their families. Cassandra Padgett is the primary lifestyle coach for the NAMIO program and leads all of the group sessions and provides optional individual coaching. Dr. Natalie Muth provides the 1:1 nutrition consults and value-added webinars.

Absolutely! NAMIO has a special track for families with adolescents taking anti-obesity medications that provides additional coaching and health education tailored to the experience of families with a teen taking a GLP-1 or other medication that causes weight loss. Co-founder Dr. Natalie Muth is a board-certified obesity medicine specialist and registered dietitian. She leads several NAMIO workshops tailored to nutrition and physical activity for adolescents on anti-obesity medications.

The FDA insert on approved anti-obesity medications suggest that behavioral intervention is essential for adolescents taking anti-obesity medications. Additionally, the American Academy of Pediatrics advises that anti-obesity medications should never be used alone – they must be accompanied by a behavioral intervention. Despite exponential growth in prescribing anti-obesity medications for adolescents, few behavioral programs are accessible for many families. NAMIO helps to solve this problem, providing ready access to a best-practice intervention.

NAMIO is committed to partnering with pediatricians and referring clinicians to help link clinical and community healthy weight services. NAMIO provides families an enrollment certificate and progress report they can share with their clinician at the time of enrollment, with each milestone a family and child achieves, and program completion including the total number of hours of engagement and goals achieved.

Namio Health is deeply committed to ensuring privacy and confidentiality. Our technology complies with all applicable laws and regulations. We will never sell family's information. All individual coaching, nutrition consults, content, and sign ups are conducted through HIPAA-compliant Healthie electronic health record.

Yes! NAMIO is now available in Spanish.

We focus on making positive, fun small changes that your child is excited about. We do not talk about or focus on weight. If you have specific questions about your child's weight or would like to discuss more, we recommend scheduling a 1:1 parent-only session.