If a nutrient is lacking or is present in excess in our diet, cellular activity is disrupted and metabolic processes malfunction or even stop.
Nutrients and health
The role of food in your body
The nutrients in food allow the 100,000 billion cells in our body to perform their functions optimally. They are therefore essential for the maintenance of basic bodily functions and life.
Our organism is indeed a real chemical factory that manufactures hormones, antibodies, tissues, enzymes, neurotransmitters etc., millions of actions and reactions animate it every second and this biochemistry requires substances that we must eat: fatty acids, amino acids, glucose without forgetting the precious vitamins and trace elements which are catalysts.
To think of food in this way, you must go beyond calories or grams. It is important to look at the composition of foods and their best preventive and curative potential to maintain the organism in good health.
Nutritional Therapy
Origins
Nutrition or nutritional therapy has its origins in ancient times. We already find dietary advice in the oldest writings of ancient Greece through China, Egypt, India, Persia and Europe. The principle is to identify and treat the underlying cause of an individual's symptoms or health problems based on the person as a whole, then recommend a revised lifestyle plan that includes foods, nutrients and appropriate supplements.
The approach to disease and the very conception of health are therefore far from those of conventional medicine, which is to combat symptoms.
Principles
Nutritional therapy starts from the observation that a large number of our ailments are induced by our modern lifestyles and our unbalanced diet. Today we are indeed talking about diseases of civilization (obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, etc.).
In other words, by civilizing ourselves, we created diseases for ourselves
The nutritional therapist
The nutritional therapist optimizes the functions of the organism, prevents and co-treats pathologies by food rehabilitation by gradually but lastingly introducing new eating habits, short-term diets having a very limited benefit. He or she identifies and corrects nutritional deficits and/or overloads as well as metabolic dysfunctions and uses foods, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, amino acids, probiotics and, where appropriate, herbal medicine and other molecules natural.
The nutritional therapist does not target a pathology, nor does he or she make a diagnosis (unless he or she is a doctor), he or she takes charge of a person as a whole to reach a state of homeostasis. A nutritional therapist could therefore be described as a "mechanic" who regulates and rebalances the cogs or biochemical mechanisms of this breathtaking machine that is the human body, to obtain a state of lasting dynamic equilibrium.
Nutri-detoxicology
Due to my initial training in 'nutri-detoxology,' I utilize not only nutrition and micronutrients but also phytotherapy and other natural solutions to gently detoxify the body, tailored to each individual's pace.
Furthermore, nutri-detoxology raises awareness of toxic sources that can impact the patient's health. Its aim is to distance the patient from toxic sources they are exposed to (dental amalgams, heavy metals, tobacco, highly processed foods, excessive medication intake, or medications containing intolerable additives, endocrine disruptors, etc.).