What is Therapeutic Nutrition?
You may be wondering “What the heck is therapeutic nutrition and how can it help me”? Allow me to give you the run down!
Therapeutic nutrition (or nutritional medicine) encompasses a holistic approach to human health that integrates scientific nutrition with the principles of natural medicine. Rather than adopting a one-size-fits-all approach, therapeutic nutrition provides an in-depth analysis of your health, making sure that treatment plans are personalised specific to you. A therapeutic nutrition consultation involves a thorough assessment of your medical history, body systems, diet and lifestyle habits, and may include the use of:
Diet therapy
Behavioural and lifestyle counselling
Therapeutic application of foods
Food preparation and medicinal cooking
Traditional detoxification methods
Therapeutic fasting strategies
Nutritional supplementation
Specific nutritional testing.
How can therapeutic nutrition improve your health?
Therapeutic nutrition aims to address the underlying cause of your health complaint and works to support the natural biochemical processes of the body. Improvements may include ease of symptoms, reduced inflammation, reduced toxic load, improved gut health, improved energy, and better general wellbeing. By correcting nutritional imbalances and addressing lifestyle factors, therapeutic nutrition may help prevent and treat conditions such as:
Inflammation and autoimmune disease
Digestive complaints (e.g. IBS)
Blood sugar imbalances
Cardiovascular and metabolic disease
Poor immunity
Fertility issues and hormonal imbalances
Weight management
Fatigue or sleep disturbance
Healthy ageing and more.
What is meant by a holistic approach?
A holistic approach to therapy considers all aspects to a person’s current state of health. This may include areas such as:
the foods you regularly eat and your overall diet
lifestyle habits and choices (e.g. smoking or alcohol consumption)
movement and exercise
stress factors
sleep habits
energy levels
mental health, and self/life-satisfaction.
A holistic therapeutic approach considers the whole person and not just simply the symptoms you are experiencing right now. Using a holistic approach, therapeutic nutritionists will address multiple factors that may be the underlying cause for your health complaint, creating a treatment plan that is completely personalised and unique to you.
“Let food by thy medicine, and let medicine by thy food” - Hippocrates
In essence, therapeutic nutrition adopts the notion of food being a large part of one’s medicine cabinet, as famously quoted by father of modern medicine, Hippocrates. Using food as medicine demonstrates the power that good nutrition offers and its crucial role in healing therapies and preventive medicine.
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