Nutritional Medicine is a Holistic therapy that addresses nutritional biochemistry while taking the whole person into account. Adequate nutrients are required for the proper functioning of all the biochemical processes in our bodies.
Food is the original medicine and often, simple lifestyle and dietary changes can make a significant improvement to a person’s health, along with the use of supplements when necessary.
Our bodies require the correct balance of nutrient building blocks from foods vitamins and minerals to remain healthy. Each person is unique and there are many factors that affect our individual nutritional requirements.
Internal factors like genetics and gut health affect our nutritional status, as well as environmental factors, such as exposure to heavy metals and chemicals. Food allergies and intolerances can also affect nutritional status as can chronic parasitic, bacterial, fungal and viral infections.
Eating a nutritionally balanced diet and living a healthy lifestyle provides the body with the best conditions to prevent and heal disease. When treating symptoms or diseases the underlying causes need to be addressed. Correcting nutritional imbalances is fundamental to the prevention and treatment of many common conditions.
Nutritional medicine supplements can be effective used alone or therapeutically combined with a variety of other natural remedies for example probiotics, herbal medicines and homeopathics.