Is essentially the treatment or prevention of disease using diet and nutritional supplementation in preference to pharmaceutical drugs, which are foreign to healthy metabolism and can produce damaging side-effects.

Specialist training is required in anatomy, physiology, nutritional biochemistry, environmental medicine and laboratory diagnostic test procedures. Treatment protocols are based on naturopathic principles.

Clinical Nutritionists diagnose and treat conditions relating to nutritional deficiencies and biochemical imbalance, often an underlying problem in all areas of poor health.

Biochemical Tests may be recommended, ranging from stool or urinalysis, blood tests, salivary hormone panels to hair mineral analysis.

Nutritional Medicine aims to change an individual’s metabolism from an unbalanced state which causes symptoms of ill health and a higher risk for disease, to a balanced state which allows for self-healing and a return to optimal health. This approach in health care is also vital in aiding immune response in diagnosed conditions.

Clinical Nutritionists recommend treatment based on metabolic and genetic make-up. This helps to alleviate symptoms, improve biochemistry and, as a preventative medicine, to promote good health. Recommendations include guidance on diet, lifestyle, digestion, absorption, detoxification, environmental toxins, bowel health and the appropriate use of nutritional supplementation and herbal therapy.