Diet & Lifestyle Counselling & Optimization
A nutritious and healthful diet is the cornerstone to good health. Like medicines and drugs, food affects the way your body functions. Some foods help you heal while others damage your body and contribute to chronic illness. Food intolerances, nutritional deficiencies, dietary imbalances, and nutritional excesses all contribute to ill health. Likewise, a healthy diet consisting of the right balance of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and anti-oxidants is the most important tool for your body to manage stress and prevent and recover from illness.
Not to be outdone by dietary requirements, the effects of a balanced lifestyle cannot be forgotten. Many health concerns are worsened or even caused by stress. Although we are often limited in our abilities to reduce many of the stressors that we face every day, we can effectively manage them, thus, reducing their detrimental effects on our health.
A nutritious and healthful diet is the cornerstone to good health. Like medicines and drugs, food affects the way your body functions. Some foods help you heal while others damage your body and contribute to chronic illness. Food intolerances, nutritional deficiencies, dietary imbalances, and nutritional excesses all contribute to ill health. Likewise, a healthy diet consisting of the right balance of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and anti-oxidants is the most important tool for your body to manage stress and prevent and recover from illness.
Not to be outdone by dietary requirements, the effects of a balanced lifestyle cannot be forgotten. Many health concerns are worsened or even caused by stress. Although we are often limited in our abilities to reduce many of the stressors that we face every day, we can effectively manage them, thus, reducing their detrimental effects on our health.
What would this treatment look like for me?
There is not just one diet or way of eating that is healthy for everyone. There are general guidelines, which will apply to most people, and which your naturopathic doctor will go over with you at your first visit, however, to reach a true state of health optimization, your diet must be tweaked and modified according to your body, genetic make-up, lifestyle, health concerns, and everyday demands. Your dietary needs will also continually change as you age, and as your life changes. What was healthiest for you at age 20 may not be healthiest for you at age 60.
Your naturopathic doctor will help you to navigate this confusing dietary landscape and figure out exactly what you should be eating the majority of the time. This is done by collecting information about you and your health concerns and can sometimes be aided by an objective and computerized dietary analysis as well as laboratory testing.
Your naturopathic doctor will also help you to work towards diffusing those biggest "stress bombs" that may currently be threatening to go off (or perhaps go off repeatedly)! By listening to your concerns and your unique situation, your naturopathic doctor can suggest the best, most real-world applicable techniques or strategies to better balance your life, which may contribute to a happier and healthier you!
There is not just one diet or way of eating that is healthy for everyone. There are general guidelines, which will apply to most people, and which your naturopathic doctor will go over with you at your first visit, however, to reach a true state of health optimization, your diet must be tweaked and modified according to your body, genetic make-up, lifestyle, health concerns, and everyday demands. Your dietary needs will also continually change as you age, and as your life changes. What was healthiest for you at age 20 may not be healthiest for you at age 60.
Your naturopathic doctor will help you to navigate this confusing dietary landscape and figure out exactly what you should be eating the majority of the time. This is done by collecting information about you and your health concerns and can sometimes be aided by an objective and computerized dietary analysis as well as laboratory testing.
Your naturopathic doctor will also help you to work towards diffusing those biggest "stress bombs" that may currently be threatening to go off (or perhaps go off repeatedly)! By listening to your concerns and your unique situation, your naturopathic doctor can suggest the best, most real-world applicable techniques or strategies to better balance your life, which may contribute to a happier and healthier you!
