Nutritional Therapy

What is Nutritional Therapy?

And other FAQs….

Nutritional therapy is a completely customized approach to nutrition that focuses on the importance of a properly prepared, nutrient-dense, whole foods diet paired with a balanced lifestyle.

Nutritional therapy respects each person’s bio-individuality and believes that there is no one-size-fits all solution to total wellness. Trusting the body’s innate ability to heal, nutritional therapy honors ancestral wisdom and takes a functional approach to health & wellness.

My signature 4R Method offers a holistic approach to analyzing the nutritional, physical, mental, emotional, chemical, and environmental influences of my clients, customizing unique protocols for detoxification, nourishment, and prevention.

REDUCE & REMOVE

RESTORE

RENEW

REVIVE & THRIVE

Q: What is the difference between a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) and a Registered Dietitian or Nutritionist?

Nutritional Therapy Practitioners are unique in three main ways:

  • We mainly work with properly prepared, nutrient-dense whole foods and/or whole food supplements. We concentrate on the quality of food we eat and bioindividuality. We analyze, assess, and recommend foods and/or whole foods supplements based on your unique needs. We believe in the healing power of whole foods and your body’s innate intelligence and its ability to heal. NTP’s do not count calories, weigh food, recommend processed food or believe in “dieting”.

  • We focus on your Bio-individual Foundations such as digestion, blood sugar balance, fatty acid balance, mineral balance, and hydration. We evaluate these foundations and look for ways to enhance your body’s performance by getting it the nutrients it needs. We also use a functional assessment to better evaluate your vibrant health & wellness.

  • We use Functional Evaluation (see below) and Lingual-Neuro Testing (LNT) biofeedback method as a part of nutritional therapy assessment. Your Body’s Innate Intelligence guides us towards your radiant health.

Registered Dietitians, Nutritionists, and other dietitians, on the other hand, recommend diets, counting calories, weighing foods and focus on governmental guidelines that often recommend processed foods and general quantity guidelines.

Q: Who are your clients?

My main focus is on women’s health and whole family nutrition, but I do work with a variety of clients with personal health issues ranging from digestive complaints to fatigue or someone who just wants to start eating healthy and is fed up with counting calories, dieting and not feeling good. I work with people who want to stay off medications, lose weight, sleep better, relieve pain, control sugar addiction, improve skin issues, and just feel better overall.

Q: What is the Function Evaluation (FE) and Lingual-Neuro Technique (LNT)?

The Functional Evaluation is a thorough process where we find out if your body is deficient and/or out of balance regarding certain nutrients based on your Foundational Health. Through this technique, including Lingual-Neuro Testing (LNT), we will find out what foods and/or supplements help your body to be in a state of balance and sufficiency.

During Functional Evaluation I also measure your pulse, take your blood pressure, etc. You are unique and this process is very Bio-individual. Your Body’s Innate Intelligence guides us towards your optimal health. It is recommended that you wear loose, comfortable clothes for this part of consultation. Smoking, eating, drinking, brushing teeth is not allowed 30 minutes before a session.

Q: Do I have to do the Functional Evaluation if I do not feel comfortable with it?

You do not have to. However, the Functional Evaluation is one additional indicative tool to help assess you further, it can help “speed up” your healing process. During the FE/LNT your body will tell us what it needs and/or does not need. (local clients only)

Q: Do you use supplements in your practice?

My main focus is on improving health and longevity using a properly prepared, nutrient-dense whole food diet and proper digestion. However, yes I work high-quality, whole food supplement lines. These supplements are sometimes used to facilitate the beginning of the healing process but can be also used for maintenance depending on your needs.

I do not require that you take supplements to work with me, I simply offer them as a way to reach results more efficiently. The companies I use comply with pharmaceutical standards, yet does not use any synthetic ingredients, additives, pesticides, herbicides or artificial ingredients. Many commercial supplement lines that you get in the health food stores do not have to comply with the FDA regulation.

I also use and recommend photo-biomodulation patches in my practice. These are non-invasive, non-transdermal, and medication free therapeutic devices with over 80 clinical studies.