What is Nutritional Therapy
Nutritional Therapy is not just about healthy eating. It is a complementary or alternative medicine that supports your entire body, mind and emotional state. Good nutrition will contribute to the health and well being of the immune, digestive, circulatory, cardiovascular and hormonal systems. It will support the body enabling it to repair itself and regain its vitality. It treats the cause not the symptoms. It prevents a problem from developing in the first place, so that the body does not have to deal with a debilitating disease later. This therapy works with an individual person’s biochemistry rather than trying to suppress the body’s efforts to heal itself, which is the conventional approach to healing.
By use of natural unprocessed foods, specific and appropriate supplements and the use of other supporting therapies, all the organs and systemic functions are brought back into balance. This balance is critical for the health of the body. It cannot, however, be achieved if the body is still suffering from the cause of the symptoms you are experiencing.
Nutritional Therapy is also a two-way approach to a person’s health. Unlike many conventional treatments that have a ‘do as I say’ policy, this way of holistically treating illness requires trust, understanding and complete buy-in. There are likely to be many lifestyle changes that need to be made and some radical changes in dietary approach and attitude to their own bodies. That can only be accomplished if the client feels absolutely supported and informed at every stage of their recovery. This starts with a detailed and honest look, not only at the client’s lifestyle, medical history and symptoms but also those of his close family.
Some of the more common conditions that can be helped by Nutritional Therapy are:
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