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"Let your medicine be your food and your food be your medicine." Hippocrates

Nutrition

Why Nutrition is important

We have up to 100 trillion cells in our bodies and each one needs a daily supply of nutrients in order to function optimally. Intake of high quality nutrients means high quality fuel for our cells. Good food choices lead to good health and high energy. Poor food choices lead to poor health and low energy.

Nutrition helps support our bodies in its work throughout our lifetime. From conception through to old age our bodies are busy growing, repairing, regenerating. Our cells are constantly regenerating and our bodies are constantly changing. Positive dietary changes you make now will positively impact the way you feel.

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What is Nutritional Therapy?

Nutritional therapists recognise that each person is an individual who has unique dietary and nutritional requirements. They look at the whole person rather than only focussing on symptoms experienced.

Nutritional therapists aim to balance your body systems through:

Identifying any deficiencies you may have and giving appropriate dietary advice.
Improving digestion and absorption to ensure nutrients make it into your cells.
Eliminating toxins that may be causing harm and irritation.
Enhancing liver detoxification to ensure toxins are escorted out of your body.

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Nutritional therapy can help alleviate a wide range of conditions and assist in recovering from many ill-health situations.

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What about nutrition and stress?

Stress is a normal part of life and in small quantities stress can be a good thing. Stress can motivate us and help us to be more productive. However, too much stress together with our particular physical stress response can be harmful to our bodies. In today’s world stress and our ability to manage stress has a major impact on our health.
Stress to our bodies takes on different shapes including;

Environmental – pollution, pesticides, chemical toxicity
Hormonal imbalances – excess cortisol, thyroid, menstruation, menopause,
Physical – wear and tear
Emotional – mood swings, anxiety, irritability, grief, anger, depression
Nutritional deficiencies - vitamin deficiencies contribute to stress and anxiety.

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Together we will look at your current stressors, the lifestyle changes that work for you, and specific “stress buster” nutrients to incorporate into your diet.

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About Nutritional Therapists

Nutritional Therapists trained in the United Kingdom, must meet the National Occupational Standards for Nutritional Therapy and are presently coming under regulation by the Nutritional Therapy Council. Nutritional therapy encompasses the use of carefully compiled individual prescriptions for diet and lifestyle in order to alleviate or prevent ailments and promote optimal health. These recommendations may include guidance on natural detoxification, procedures to promote colon health, methods to support digestion and absorption, the avoidance of ingestion or inhalation of toxins or allergens and the appropriate use of supplementary nutrients.

Nutritional therapists often work with patients, many of whom have been referred by medical practitioners, who have chronic health problems that conventional medicine finds difficult to treat. These include allergies, digestive and bowel disorders, hormonal imbalances, fatigue, depression or stress, auto-immune conditions, migraine and skin disorders. Increasingly, many parents with an overweight child and/or a child with learning and behaviour difficulties seek to support their child with nutritional therapy as opposed to prescription medications.

All information on this website is intended for nutritional information only and is not meant for medical diagnostic purposes. Please consult your physician about any serious illness or health symptoms.
Nutritional therapy is not an alternative to conventional medicine, but complementary.