Whole Life

 

 

Functional nutrition takes food as medicine one step further, it individualises nutrition to best suit the your presenting complaints, treating the root cause of symptoms and living the mantra "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of the cure"

 

Functional foods provide essential nutrition for the building blocks of a healthy and functional body. These foods are also known as whole foods, which are foods in their natural state. Functional nutrition also includes foods that have been extracted without damaging the important nutritional profile such as cold pressing, dehydrating or natural fermentation. Functional foods have not been refined or had any additives or synthetic preservatives used. 

 

Refining foods such as wheat into, white flour, strips the once nutritious food of its minerals and trace minerals, vitamins, most of its fibrous content, protein and natural oils and many phytochemicals that support bodily function.

Without these essential nutrients the body compensates so it can maintain functional integrity by leeching minerals, vitamins and macronutrients from the bones and tissues, preceding metabolic conditions like hypertension, atherosclerosis, diabetes, functional disorders like menstrual irregularities,  fertility and gestational conditions, mood abnormalities, obesity and degenerative disease such as arthritis, cancer and heart disease. 

 

These symptoms and conditions are seen as indications of underlying functional problems or system imbalances. Using funtional nutrition is a personalized, systems-based approach, which considers not just the type of dis-ease a person has but the type of person whom has the dis-ease.