What is Integrative and Functional Nutrition?
It seeks to understand the Root Causes of system imbalances in your body and treats the individual as a whole unique person using a holistic, multi-dimensional evidence and practice-based approach. You will walk away with a comprehensive treatment plan tailored to your unique needs and lifestyle to support the highest expression of health and healing.
What does Nutrition affect in your body?
Cellular Metabolism. We usually think of metabolism like this: Your body functions each day in your job, family life, and activities because you provide it with food, oxygen, and exercise and social interaction.
Likewise your cells are tiny little powerhouses that need proper nutrients, minerals, and vitamins and hormones to function properly in their roles inside your body.
What can a minor imbalance within the body produce?
Piggybacking off the previous question – when our cellular metabolism diminishes due to stress, toxins, food intolerances, infections, and digestion dysfunction, it leads to poor health, anxiety, chronic conditions, etc… For example, just like tight muscle in your back can downstream affect your leg. So can, for example, damage to your gut lining affect serotonin production which is made in the gut. Serotonin is vital for mood health and function. Your body is showing your the symptom of insomnia.
Why does do you say my gut (GI tract) influences my immune system? I am not sick?
Balanced immunity is not just about not being sick. If the cells or organs or tissues of your body are damaged (inflamed) your body mounts an immune response. Troops are called in and the damage repaired. However, sometimes your strong immune system becomes confused and weak when imbalanced for example with a stresser, toxin….. We need to get to the root cause. Your body cries for help by showing you symptoms.
What is Inflammation? I keep hearing that word.
Its like the troops (immune cells) keep putting out a fire that slowly burns – inflammation. There is no time to heal and rebuild because the source of the fire remains. Think of muscles becoming tired, sore and inflamed due to exercise and activity. If we don’t rest and fuel our muscles properly they will not repair and eventually lead to injury. Well, it’s the same idea with our cells. Cell function can’t be carried out which then effects downstream tissues and organs. Think down the river – supplies aren’t reaching all the houses. Eventually the troops become overwhelmed and start attacking healthy cells and organs and now you have an AutoImmune Disease. Think of a dam breaking. Help!!!