Nutritional Therapists work with clients to understand their bio-individuality, through an investigative fact-finding process and in-depth questions about your history wanting to understand intricate details of your health.

After analysing your responses to the fact-finding process, Nutritional Therapists perform what is known as a Functional Clinical Assessment (FCA) that may include:

• Blood pressure and pulse check
• Palpitating reflex points on the body
• Lingual Neural Testing

A combination of each of these tests will help determine any underlying dysfunction within the body, which in turn will determine the dietary and lifestyle adjustments required to support your body.

Our gut is responsible for everything from absorbing to breaking down to digesting to excreting food waste. The gut should remain intact, preventing food from entering the bloodstream.

When our digestion is compromised, the food we consume is not digested. As a result, there is a cascade of downstream detrimental effects on our mood and mental health.

Furthermore, poor gut health can manifest itself through the following symptoms:

• Gastrointestinal symptoms – Bloating, Burping, Gas
• Neurological symptoms – Anxiety, Brain fog, Depression, Fatigue, Headaches
• Skin symptoms – Acne, Dry Skin, Eczema
• Other symptoms – Autoimmune disease, Food sensitivities

Addressing gut-health is at the core of what Nutritional Therapy is about, as the practice adopts a holistic approach from a nutrition and lifestyle point of view, treating each and every individual on the basis of their unique requirements.

Nutritional Therapy is not a diet plan. Diets have a singular focus (i.e., reduce weight), and present only one path (i.e., calorie counting).

Furthermore, most ‘one-size-fits-all’ diets don’t take into consideration:

• Your bio-individuality – our bodies are influenced by not just what we eat, but also what we think, the environment we live in and our lifestyle.
• Your food sensitivities – how your body reacts to various foods (e.g. broccoli may be a highly nutritious vegetable but if you have a food sensitivity to it, it is doing you more harm than good)
• Understanding the root cause – understanding the underlying cause of a symptom (e.g. leaky gut that can cause bloating) is more important than providing a band-aid solution to the symptom (e.g. bloating)

Without attempting to understand an individual’s bio-individuality, diets can deprive a body of much needed nutrients and – in some cases – replacing them with “foods” that contain synthetic ingredients.

Nutritional Therapy therefore does not focus on ‘diets’, but rather on helping people transition into a lifestyle of high-energy, improved mental clarity through a diet of nutrient-dense whole-foods complemented, if required, by supplements.

Nutritional Therapy is a holistic approach to health and nutrition underpinned by a philosophy that many of the health problems facing our society can be traced to poor nutrition in the modern diet.

The modern diet – brought upon by fast-paced lifestyle, lack of time, and being surrounded by temptations – is a far cry from the foods our bodies have evolved to consume. Over time, our physiological foundations have weakened, leading to dysfunctional symptoms in the form of:

• Inflammation
• Low energy
• Brain fog
• Constant pain
• Digestive issues
• Skin issues
• Poor sleep
• Blood sugar deregulation
• Hormonal issues

Nutritional Therapy works to understand and reverse the tragic and unsuspected impact of the modern diet on our bodies. NT takes a holistic approach, that focuses on the importance of properly prepared, nutrient-dense, whole foods paired with a balanced lifestyle.