Nutritional therapy isn’t just about healthy eating. It’s a form of complementary medicine in which a practitioner will work with a patient to help their body rid itself of damaging substances, provide useful raw materials and improve the digestion of food in order to bring about physical repair.
How does Nutritional Therapy work?
How well we feel depends to a large extent on the efficiency with which our body produces hormones, enzymes, prostaglandins, blood cells, antibodies and countless other substances. All these substances are made from food, but many people cannot use their food properly in their bodies, perhaps because of poor digestion or a chronic irritation of the digestive system.
They may also have a toxic overload – a build-up of unwanted waste substances that get in the way of efficient functioning. Food allergies or intolerances can also cause a lot of unpleasant symptoms, which may be delayed or chronic, and difficult to relate to a specific food.
What Should I Expect?
These days you can find many different books around on the subject of diets, many written by people who’ve overcome their own problems with diet. However, we’re all different in our inheritance, life experiences and diets (past and present) as well as our combination of health problems. Therefore, what works for one person will not necessarily work for someone else with a similar problem.
That’s why Naturopathic practitioners view each person as a unique individual with their own set of circumstances. These circumstances may include features in common with people troubled by similar complaints but in addition there may be highly individual factors. It’s discovering these additional factors that’s often the key to successful treatment.
What can Nutritional Therapy Treat?
Nutritional therapists aim to improve your body’s efficiency by identifying and then dealing with these problems using a number of different types of diets, herbs and dietary supplements, according to individual need. An efficiently functioning body finds it easier to repair itself and heal itself, but if you have a serious illness much will depend on your body’s powers of recuperation and on other factors such as stress.
Nutritional therapy can help with an array of ailments from eczema to building your immunity back up after a virus or a cold.
Where can I get Nutritional Therapy?
Nutritional Therapy is available in Edinburgh at Medicalternatives.
