What is Nutritional Therapy?
Nutritional therapy is the application of nutrition and lifestyle medicine sciences in the promotion of health and individual care.
The discipline is now widely recognised as policy makers, health practitioners and the general public become increasingly aware of the impact of nutrition and lifestyle medicine on the health and wellbeing of individuals.
Registered Nutritional Therapy Practitioners assess and identify potential nutritional imbalances and understand how these may contribute to an individual’s symptoms and health concerns.
NUTRITION AT GUT REACTION
At Gut Reaction, nutritional therapy is available for people who wish to lessen the impact of persistent digestive issues, skin problems, fatigue, or hormonal issues, as well as those looking to support gut-related health concerns such as IBS, an IBD, Diverticulitis, or Coeliac Disease. Helping clients support their digestive health has been a special area of interest of mine over the past ten years, originally due to my own health experiences.
As nutrition is of growing interest in today’s society and information sources are plentiful, ironically knowing what to eat can often feel more complicated, rather than easier. For anyone keen to proactively support their general health and wellbeing whilst avoiding information overwhelm and restrictive food rules, I provide tailored, qualified nutritional guidance that respects both your emotional and physiological connections with food.
HOW NutriTIonal therapy AND LIFESTYLE MEDICINE can help you
Understand how your diet and lifestyle impacts your physical health and mental wellbeing
Learn to nourish your brain and body more effectively for your personal needs
Help optimise your gut function and digestive health
Gain confidence in your food choices and enjoy the food you eat
Reap short- and long-term rewards of a healthier lifestyle
AN INDIVIDUAL, ‘Whole Health’ APPROACH
Grounded in functional medicine principles that focus on the root causes of ill health, rather than merely treating the symptoms, nutritional therapy draws on current and emerging nutritional science and research, providing an individual approach to healthcare based on diet and lifestyle change, as well as natural supplements.
Nutritional Therapy practitioners consider each individual to be unique - with their own health goals and dietary preferences, and influenced by their own combination of biochemical and genetic influences, environmental factors, lifestyle choices and mental, emotional and spiritual influences.
Rather than take a 'one size fits all' approach, practitioners map their client’s presenting symptoms to consider how well, or otherwise, the systems of the body are functioning. And they use a range of assessment tools and functional tests to help identify potential nutritional imbalances and understand how these may contribute to an individual's symptoms and health concerns.
This approach allows practitioners to work with people to address nutritional status in a individualised way, and help support the body towards maintaining health.
SYNERGY WITH MAINSTREAM MEDICINE
BANT practitioners do not diagnose or treat disease, and recommendations are not a replacement for medical advice.
Practitioners frequently work alongside other medical or healthcare professionals to support individual’s wellbeing.
