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 Lab Tests may be recommended, ranging from stool, urine, saliva or blood tests to Gastro-Intestinal, Hormonal, Metabolic Profiles and Hair Mineral Analysis.

Assessing body system function provides a more complete picture of a person's health and can help identify problem areas before disease develops. It also allows treatment for diagnosed illness to be more effective by focusing on the root cause rather then symptoms of disease.

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.

A Clinical Nutritionist recommends treatment based on individual metabolic and genetic make-up. A detailed medical history is taken. Recommended programmes include guidance on a healthy lifestyle, nutrient rich foods, dietary balance, healthy digestive function, absorption and elimination, detoxification, environmental toxins, bowel health and the appropriate use of nutritional and digestive supplementation with herbal therapy.