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Having a great interest in keeping healthy in my teens, I discovered what I thought of as healthy was not really healthy and was not providing me with the nourishment I needed. I came across a book called “Fit for Life” which explained the concept of food combining. I tried it and had an increase in energy and could eat what I wanted as long as I combined it correctly (generally not eating animal protein with starches and eating fruit alone). It was at this point that I realised that what you eat actually affects how you feel and since then I have continually tried to refine the way I eat and the lifestyle choices I make. After reading many, many books I decided to complete the Bachelor of Health Science, Nutritional Medicine, which has provided me with knowledge and a questioning mind to enable me to be able to help others attain “their” optimal health. Being a Clinical Nutritional Medicine Practitioner is like being a detective, on the case to solve the crime.
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MY STORY
WHAT IS NUTRITIONAL MEDICINE
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Nutritional Medicine uses the holistic principle of “first do no harm” and utilises the healing powers of food, targeted supplementation (if required), lifestyle and environmental factors, as a preventative for disease and treatment for chronic disease.
Nutritional Medicine is a holistic way to treat disharmony in the body across the lifespan. Nutritional Medicine assesses nutritional, environmental and lifestyle aspects and provides guidance for correcting any issues. For example, if you had a headache, skin rash, low mood or severe PMS, conventional medicine would prescribe Panadol, corticosteroid, anti-depressant or OCP. These measures would alleviate the symptom, however they would not address the underlying cause.
A Nutritional Medicine practitioner would seek out the underlying cause eg headache may be caused by gut dysbiosis, poor liver clearance of toxins or stress (physical or emotional), skin rashes may be linked to sub optimal liver function or food sensitivities, low mood could have many causes, however it may be caused by insufficient nutrients (amino acids, vitamins and minerals) to make the neurotransmitters which make us feel good (imagine a cake with no eggs) or it may be that you have a genetic predisposition to low mood and need to ensure that your genes (what makes our protein, including enzymes) are fully supported, underfunction thyroid could also be the villian and PMS, while also having many causes, could also be related to hypothyroid, underfunctioning liver, not clearing out the estrogen or dysbiosis in the gut, which allows the estrogen to be reabsorbed instead of being excreted.
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