Nutritional Therapy

Nutritional Therapy and how it can help you:

Almost any health condition can be improved, and many can be prevented with optimum nutrition. Enhance Your Nutrition will look at your health problems, diet, and lifestyle and suggest recommendations to improve your health by helping you to make positive changes to your diet, lifestyle and exercise levels. Supplementation may be recommended.

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Your first consultation will take 90 minutes. You will have been asked to complete a nutritional therapy questionnaire before you visit. During the session, we’ll discuss your medical history, your health goals and any other challenges you’re facing, what you generally eat, what you like to eat, what you hate to eat and where you eat (on the bus, in a rush at your desk, and so on). There’s no judgement and anything you share with me is kept in confidence.

Nutritional therapy sessions are sold in programmes that run over 12 weeks. This is because it is rarely helpful for anyone to leave without the knowledge that they have at least 3 sessions in place to help them implement the programme, make changes at a pace that suits them, and to deal with any challenges or questions that come up along the way.

Knowing what you should be doing is only part of the problem if you are unhappy with any aspect of your health. Staying motivated is the hardest part of any plan. The single best way to stay in the zone is to have a buddy or coach who can give you a nudge or support you if you start to go “off piste” or fall back into less healthy habits. This is the single biggest thing that makes the difference between reaching your goal and actually staying there. That’s where health coaching comes in. It keeps you accountable and ensures that all your good work doesn’t go to waste.

It’s unfortunate that so many people don’t understand what a huge effect a personalised food and lifestyle programme can have on the symptoms they have or how they experience their life.

Newspapers are full of soundbites about the latest foods, but they don’t really join the dots, and it’s difficult to see what might be possible for you. The vast majority of doctors – even those being trained today – have next to no current knowledge or practical experience of what their patients should be eating or how they might integrate the theory into their lives. They live in a world, by and large, where the solution presented during your 10-minute session lies in a prescription.

Some – like Chatterjee – are training in something much bigger called Functional Medicine. This is a framework for considering that the symptoms you are experiencing are a result of imbalances in your body and, rather than treat the specific symptoms themselves, nutrition professionals try to understand the root cause of the problem and base their programme around that. If you think about it: nearly all medications merely suppress symptoms. Only very few are an actual cure – antibiotics come to mind here. The exclusively pharmacological approach conventional medicine so often employs does nothing to uncover the root causes. Metformin lowers blood glucose – but why is it high in the first place? Statins lower cholesterol – but why is it elevated? Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) numb pain – but why are you in pain? These are the questions nutrition professionals will ask before embarking on a quest to discover and then address the root cause.