Nutritional therapy treats the body as a whole
Allergies
Allergies should be viewed as symptoms of the whole body picture. Why are you disposed to getting allergies in the first place, rather than what are you allergic to? This is a very important question, because if you are suffering from chronic symptoms, whether caused by allergies or some other reason, then your body systems are not functioning as they should.
When food allergies are present, then the liver is not succeeding in filtering out partly digested food materials before they meet the immune system, which is therefore constantly over-triggered. Exhaustion may result, and low blood sugar attacks may cause attacks of the symptoms.
Nutritional therapy aims to determine and correct why this is happening.
Anorexia and bulimia
Eating disorders have considerable mental and emotional components, but the damage that they do to the long term health of the body is considerable. However, nutritional therapy, together with adjunct natural therapies, can help stabilise the attitude of the sufferer as well as supporting the body with diet and supplements and helping to reverse the self-destructive nature of the illness. Those who have left their eating disorders behind may still benefit considerably from nutritional therapy to help put right any problems remaining from the period of poor nutrition.Asthma
Asthma is associated with skin problems, notably eczema and psoriasis, and has the same causes, with tendencies running in families. It results from bowel misfunction and toxicity as well as some nutritional deficiencies and irritation by pollutants. It is worsened by stress. It can be helped considerably and even eliminated by nutritional therapy.Bowel problems
Bowel problems can result in many different symptoms and can range from mild constipation or excessive wind to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and chronic inflammatory conditions, causing much misery, embarrassment and loss of quality of life.Causes can be complex - faulty nutrition, food intolerance, reaction to antibiotics and steroid drugs, yeast overgrowth (Candida), or poor composition of bowel flora. read more
