Nutritional Therapy

Nutritional therapy is the application of nutrition and lifestyle medicine sciences to promote an individual’s optimum health and well-being. It is relevant for individuals with diagnosed chronic conditions, as well as those looking to enhance their health and well-being. Depending on the region, nutritional therapy may be better known as functional medicine. The role of nutritional therapists is to thoroughly investigate what stands in the way of you achieving your goals, and to deliver relevant, evidence-based nutritional and lifestyle recommendations that are entirely tailored to you. To do so, you practitioner not only assesses your nutritional status, they also take into consideration everything that makes you unique, such as your dietary preferences and cooking abilities, your lifestyle, your life constraints, your family antecedents, medical history and symptoms. With this holistic view in mind, your practitioner looks for possible root causes for your symptoms, health concerns and conditions. In some cases, functional laboratory tests can help confirm or accelerate the investigation process. While nutritional therapists try and focus on obtaining the nutrients you need from foods in the first instance, they may recommend taking some dietary supplements. Nutritional Therapy can help with a vast range of conditions and health concerns, which is why most practitioners specialise in a specific area, or a few.