Nutritional Therapy 

Nutritional therapy is based on the belief that food provides the medicine we need to obtain and maintain a state of health.

Although some health problems require specific medication, many conditions can be relieved effectively with nutritional therapy. Nutritional therapy will also benefit you if you have no specific illness, but want to maintain a state of optimum health. It is safe for babies and children as well as adults, and the change of eating patterns that is typically prescribed usually has far fewer side effects than synthetic medicines. Nutrition as the key to good health is the principal used since the time of the famous Greek doctor and founder of western medicine, Hippocrates, to help people of all ages to stay at their personal peak of energy and vitality.

We now know that food intolerances and allergies significantly contribute to various conditions such as asthma, eczema and rheumatoid arthritis but we also know that certain types of food can actually support and stimulate the body's own ability to heal itself.

Today our fast-paced lives push us into a fast-eating culture, where quality of food becomes secondary. Eating on the job, on the run and under pressure means that most of us have an unhealthy diet. Modern supermarkets are stocked with instant meals and more often than not these meals are far lower in nutritional value than those prepared at home with fresh rganically grown ingredients. The food we eat is far less nutritious than it appears to be thanks to intensive farming methods, pesticides, additives and preservatives.

Illness develops in four stages tiredness, changing to fatigue where no amount of rest seems adequate, irritability, symptoms and then illness. The Eastern approach to health divides the causes of illness into two those that come from within and those that come from without. Those from within are mostly products of our lifestyle, traditions, and beliefs. The ways we can be affected from within are:

• Excess of emotions 
• Excess of anger can affect the liver 
• Excess of sadness can affect stomach, spleen, or pancreas 
• Excessive grief can affect the lungs 
• Shock, fear, surprise, or fright can affect the kidneys

We can also develop illness through lack of sunlight and fresh air, proper exercise and sufficient rest, good food and pure water.

A nutritional therapist looks at the client holistically and works on optimum amounts of nutrients which are the amounts needed to minimize health problems and promote optimum health. A nutritional therapist also works on prevention of health problems as well as encouraging the body to heal itself using lots of research from peer reviewed sources and by looking at environmental factors.

Most conditions may be helped by Nutritional Therapy such as:

• Low energy or chronic fatigue
• Headaches and migraines 
• BS or digestive disorders 
• Weight Control
• Reoccurring thrush or cystitis
• Male and female Infertility
• PMT 
• Menopause 
• Frequent colds and infections 
• Childhood hyperactivity 
• Arthritis or joint pain 
• Acne, eczema or psoriasis