What is Nutritional Therapy?
Nutritional therapy is the educated and scientific use of vitamin complexes, minerals, phytochemicals, enzymes, amino acids, electrolytes, and essential fatty acids to balance the biochemical and physiological processes of the body. Nutritional therapy is not for the purpose of treating diseases, but rather to provide nutrients for maximum efficiency in body function.
Without adequate raw materials biological processes within the body are not able to function properly. This can lead to a decreased resistance to disease as well as a slowly progressive breakdown of body function, cells, tissues and eventually organ systems. Disease is more than the absence of something necessary (raw materials) in the body than it is the presence of something evil (germs). Through the proper use of nutritional products the objective is to correct deficient or faulty processes within the body.The adequate and proper application of nutritional therapy by a health care physician requires an extensive understanding of human physiology and biochemistry to determine what is appropriate for an individual’s unique physiology or
bioindividuality. Because it is not merely enough to have read a couple books and attend a couple of workshops, it is wise to consult a physician who specializes in nutritional therapy.
Why do I need to consider taking supplements?
Do not allow the headlines to fool you: Your chances of getting and dying from cancer are up dramatically. The incidence of asthma, diabetes and heart disease have doubled in just the past decade despite the heroic and expensive efforts of modern medicine. Chronic diseases, infertility and antibiotic resistant disease are taking a heavy toll on the health of Americans and their pocketbooks. At the turn of the century all of these maladies were nonexistent or extremely rare. So what is going on? In addition to over-reliance on drugs, other outside forces and influences that erode our health, it’s the food we eat!
Our food is refined, bleached, preserved, pasteurized, sterilized, homogenized, sanitized, artificially flavored, artificially colored, hydrogenated, synthetically fortified and enriched, denatured, degermed, defibered, canned, frozen and exposed to hundreds and perhaps thousands of dangerous man-made chemicals. This food is prepared for long-term shelf life and then it is overcooked. And we wonder why ill-health and disease abound.
