Why use it?
Optimum nutrition can have a profound effect on your current and future health, lifting it to levels that can transform your life. Many people in modern society continuously tolerate symptoms and ailments that adversely affect their lives. Some of the most commonly experienced symptoms are:
- Headaches
- A lack of energy
- General aches and pains
- Difficulty in concentrating
- Poor skin
- Being overweight
These are signs that indicate all is not as it should be in the body and that imbalance exists. If ignored they may develop in time into more serious symptoms or disease conditions. Nutritional medicine searches for and deals with the underlying causes rather than just masking the symptoms.
In essence, the human body can only ever be as good as the sum of its parts. If any organ or system is weak or under-functioning physical and mental performance in all areas of life are compromised. We are made up of trillions of individual cells and optimal health can never be attained unless they are functioning correctly. In order to achieve this we have to supply our cells with the best possible raw materials from the diet and the environment. Recent scientific research has shown that approximately 98% of the cells that make up your body are replaced in 1 year. If you can ensure that the old cells are replaced by higher quality cells you can literally grow a new and better you and nutritional medicine can help you accomplish this.
If you have no time for complete and balanced nutrition, you better reserve a lot of time for illness.
Dr Michael Colgan - Lecture series 2000
What benefits could I expect?
Providing your body with the tools that it needs to make superior cells through optimum nutrition can improve your health on virtually every level. Some of the most commonly experienced improvements are:
- An overall sense of well-being that includes increased vitality and energy together with clearer thinking and positive mental outlook.
- Elimination or reduction of aches and pains especially those associated with joints and back.
- Improved immunity resulting in less colds, flu and other common illnesses.
- Enhanced physical abilities in conjunction with exercise e.g. more stamina, increased strength, better flexibility, improved reflexes.
How does a nutrition programme work?
A nutritional medicine programme works by finding out key information through a detailed analysis of diet and lifestyle that covers the past as well as the present. A client's medical history is also examined to help build up a picture of why a person is in their current state of health. The analysis may also be complemented by laboratory tests if it is deemed necessary. Once all this information is gathered and examined a strategy is worked out taking into account a person's biochemical individuality. This concept acknowledges that no two people are alike and that every treatment must be specifically tailored to the individual. When this has been done, gradual changes to the diet can be introduced, often with the simultaneous use of supplements together with appropriate alterations in certain areas of lifestyle.
Substances present in the body that are adversely affecting health are carefully removed by detoxification and nutritional imbalances corrected to create the right conditions for the body to heal and flourish. All these actions are carefully planned so that they provide the client with the best results, as quickly as possible whilst fitting in with their normal life.
This treatment is administered through the Primary Programme: