Nutritional Therapy 1HR £30

What is Nutritional Therapy?

Nutritional Therapy is not just about healthy eating. It is a form of complementary medicine in which a practitioner will work with a patient or client, helping their body rid itself of stressful substances, providing raw materials, and improving the assimilation of food in order to aid physical repair.


In a recent survey of 300 people treated by a nutritional therapist, it was found that 85% of headache / migraine sufferers, 82% of people with digestive problems, 70% of people with hormone-related problems, 55% of chronic fatigue sufferers and 54% of people with skin problems reported a definite, lasting improvement, usually within two months.

How Does Nutritional Therapy Work?

How well we feel depends on the efficiency with which our body produces hormones, enzymes, prostaglandins, blood cells, antibodies and countless other substances. All these substances are made from food but many people cannot assimilate their food properly, perhaps because of poor digestion or chronic irritation of the digestive system. They may also have a toxic overload - a build-up of unwanted waste substances that get in the way of efficient functioning. 

Food allergies or intolerances can also cause a lot of unpleasant symptoms, which may be delayed or chronic, and difficult to relate to a specific food.  People who have used a lot of antibiotics in the past can also be prone to dysbiosis. This is the excessive growth of undesirable bacteria and yeasts, including candida albicans (which you may have heard of) in the intestine. Dysbiosis irritates the digestive tract and this irritation may impair digestion and absorption of nutrients. Many undesirable bacteria and yeasts also produce toxic waste products which get absorbed into our bloodstream and make us feel tired or unwell. 

Nutritional therapists aim to improve your body's efficiency by identifying and then dealing with these problems using a number of different types of diets, herbs and dietary supplements according to individual need.  An efficiently functioning body finds it easier to repair itself and heal itself, but if you have a serious illness much will depend on your body's powers of recuperation and on other factors such as stress.

What Happens When You Visit a Nutritional Therapist?

These days you can find many different books around on the subject of diets. Many of these have been written by people who have overcome their own problems with various types of diet. However, we are all different in our inheritance, our life experiences, our diets (past and present) and our combination of health problems. Therefore, what works for one will not necessarily work for someone else with a similar problem. It is for this reason that naturopathic practitioners see each person as an individual with their own set of circumstances. These circumstances may include features in common with people troubled by similar complaints but in addition there may be factors particular to you. It is discovering these additional factors that is often the key to successful treatment.

The therapist will carry out a full consultation with you and then after discussing what you would like to attain, the therapist will devise a workable programme that will include an eating and exercise plan that will work for you specifically. You will be given a follow up appointment that will enable the therapist to monitor how well you are progressing and alter the plan if necessary.

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Maximise muscle mass / achieve and maintain low body fat
A nutritional programme will help the athlete to achieve an ideal body composition for their sport. In other words, it will help to maximise muscle mass by boosting protein synthesis and inhibiting protein breakdown, while also minimising the amount of superfluous body mass, ie fat. To Book your appointment please contact us

Increased metabolic efficiency
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An optimum nutrition programme can increase an athlete’s metabolic efficiency, thereby reducing the oxygen consumption and heart rate required to perform.

Reduce risk of injury
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Research shows that dietary intake and total body stores of some nutrients, namely iron, may have some effect on an athlete’s risk of injury. By optimising nutrient levels, a nutrition strategy can reduce risk of injury, and so avoid lost training time.

Promote recovery
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Injuries are common in sports, and nutrition can aid recovery by supplying appropriate levels of restorative nutrients, which help to increase the rate at which muscles and connective tissue are repaired, and reduce the pain associated with the injury.

Optimise energy production/prevent fatigue
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Fatigue often develops during intensive training sessions, primarily due to the energy costs of exercise, which often leave an athlete with the unpleasant feeling of ‘running on empty’. A nutritional programme can optimise glycogen stores and prevent hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar), which is vital for consistently high energy levels. Not only this, a nutrition strategy increases nutrient levels, which in turn increases oxygen delivery to tissues, helping to prevent fatigue. An optimum programme will also raise energy levels by ridding rid the body of, and reducing exposure to, toxins which interfere with energy-producing reactions.

Enhance training capacity
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An optimum nutrition programme will help to enhance training capacity, primarily by ensuring adequate energy supply, which enables the athlete to carry out repeated training sessions to improve fitness and performance. Not only this, such a programme will help to ensure optimum amounts and balances of all essential nutrients, which is important as shortfalls of nutrients can seriously impair athletic performance.

Improve competitive performance
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It is important that an athlete has a nutrition strategy leading into, during, and after the competition phase, as this will help to ensure that they fulfil their potential, and do justice to their talent and training

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