Medical Nutrition Therapy

Nutritional therapists use a wide range of tools to assess and identify potential nutritional imbalances and understand how these may contribute to an individual’s symptoms and health concerns. This approach allows nutritional therapists to work with individuals to address nutritional balance and help support the body towards maintaining health. A nutritional therapist treats the person as a whole, and not the condition itself. Nutritional therapy is based on the scientific principle that food, as nature intended it, provides the nutrients needed to heal the body and to help bring us back to a state of optimum health and vitality. This is achieved through the consequence of metabolic homeostasis – where the individual maintains equilibrium in the throughput of energy to sustain body function, structure and information.

FOR OUR RECOVERY PATIENTS:

Proper nutrition is crucial in achieving sobriety and committing to a more productive way of life. With the help of a Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist RD, LDN, clients will learn the fundamentals of making healthy dietary choices and will discover the connection between fuelling the body and overall emotional and mental well-being.