Nutritional Therapy

Good health is not only the absence of disease, it is a state of wellbeing, vitality and sustained energy; something that many of us rarely achieve.

Nutritional therapy is for anyone and everyone! It is both illness prevention and treatment of the underlying root causes of disease using nutrition, dietary and health promoting lifestyle changes, sometimes with the addition of supplements, to help individuals reach and maintain their optimal health. It aims to treat the underlying causes of illness rather than just suppressing the symptoms.

In today’s busy world we tend to tolerate and try to manage many of the aches, pains and niggling symptoms ourselves, visiting doctors only once our symptoms become bad enough. It’s these niggling symptoms that can be the hints and signals that your body is giving you to tell you that something isn’t right or isn’t working properly. If ignored, these can often develop into an illness later in life.

Many people today have health problems that aren’t particularly straight forward and can involve a range of symptoms such as:

• Sleep problems
• Digestive issues
• Headaches and migraines
• Weight management issues
• Pain and inflammation
• Low energy
• Pre-menstrual or post-menopausal symptoms
• Low moods, depression or anxiety
• Regular infections
• Skin problems

Nutritional Therapy can help overcome all of these …and many more!

In Nutritional Therapy each person is unique in the treatment plan they may require because the causes involved for each person may be different.

As examples:

Headaches and migraines - possible causes include stress, dehydration, food allergy or intolerance, hormone imbalance, chemical overload, poor detoxification or unwanted pathogens.

Weight Problems or bloating - possible causes include poor digestion, chemical overload, hormone imbalance, food allergy or intolerance, stress, yeast overgrowth (e.g. candida) or poor detoxification.

As a Nutritional Therapist I look for the most likely causes for you based on what you tell me in the consultation and work with you to address these when designing your personal health and lifestyle programmed.

My own experiences of alleviating my own hay-fever and IBS symptoms using nutritional therapy, has given me a fantastic insight into exactly why and how easily people can become ill, a better understanding of what it’s like being unwell and additional tools to help you on the road to optimal health, happiness and vitality.