'Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.'

- Hippocrates

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Naturopathic nutrition

Nutritional healing (or naturopathic nutrition) is based on the principles of naturopathy, the term first coined in 1895 by Dr John Scheel, to define a medical practice that brings  together natural healing systems. The principles go back much further however, to the time of  Hippocrates, who laid the foundations and is considered to be the first advocate of naturopathic medicine.

Guiding principles

 

Working with nature

Working with the healing powers of nature, and trusting that you have healing resources within you when the obstacles to cure are removed, and appropriate complementary nutritional measures are taken.

Collaboration

The nutritional therapist is viewed as a teacher, educating in the art of self care, and the changes needed to achieve optimal health, but at the same time recognising that you have the knowledge of yourself and your body.

Whole person

Supporting the whole person by looking at all aspects of any disease or health problem, physical, mental and emotional, in their environmental context, not just the condition in isolation.

Root causes

Identifying and treating the likely root cause of disease and possible preventive measures rather than just treating symptoms.

Healthy process

Understanding that the nutrients we consume provide the building blocks of all bodily metabolic function and healthy process. My approach is all about restoring your body’s healthy processes.

Optimal healing

Using the most natural, least toxic and least invasive therapies first, not least using whole and organic foods as medicines to create an optimal healing environment for each and every cell in your body.

These principles provide a practice that acknowledges each person as an individual, and encourages the acceptance of more responsibility for promoting and maintaining one’s own health.

 

I might be able to help with …

 

  • Energy levels

  • Poor sleep

  • Troublesome anxiety

  • Low mood

  • Unexplained headaches or abdominal discomfort

  • Premenstrual and menopausal symptoms

  • Skin conditions

  • Gut inflammation in conditions such as Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

  • Blood sugar level control

  • Bloating and bowel irregularity in Irritable Bowel Syndrome

  • Slowing down the progression of neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's Disease

  • Possibly other physical, mental, or emotional symptoms