Nutritional Therapy

'Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food''
                                                                    Hippocrates AD390

Nutritional Therapy is the application of nutritional science to promote optimum health and prevent disease.

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It aims to prevent or alleviate a number of health conditions through dietary and lifestyle modifications. The phrase ‘You are what you eat’ does have basis in truth - our bodies utilise nutrients from food for growth, development, regeneration, immunity and so much more. This is why eating a diet that is both healthy, varied and right for you is so important.

Most of us aim to eat a healthy diet but with the conflicting media messages it can be quiet hard to know what is healthy and what isn’t. A nutritional therapist can work with you to provide an individual programme that will suit your tastes and lifestyle and promote optimum health.

Conditions that Nutritional Therapy may help include:

• Low energy or chronic fatigue
• Digestive disorders eg IBS, bloating, indigestion
• Women’s health eg PMS, menopause
• Weight problems eg weight gain, weight loss
• Pregnancy eg fertility, nutrition for pregnancy
• Skin problems eg eczema, psoriasis, acne
• Heart health eg cholesterol, blood pressure
• Frequent colds & infections
• Healthy eating for children
• Headaches & migraine
• Depression & anxiety
• Thinning bones
• Sleep problems
• Energy levels
• Low libido
• Asthma
• Stress

The Broad Street Practice’s nutritional service also offers an in-clinic, while-you-wait service for food intolerance testing.

‘The Food Detective Test’ identifies IgG antibodies to specific foods. This simple pin-prick blood test measures 59 foods, with the results available in under an hour.

The consultation process starts with the completion of an in-depth questionnaire that details your symptoms, medical history, lifestyle habits and diet. The first consultation lasts just over an hour and involves a thorough investigation of your health concerns resulting in appropriate dietary and lifestyle changes that are tailored to you. The consultation may also pin-point the need for nutritional supplements and possibly further functional laboratory tests indicated to support your health. Any follow-up consultations are forty five minutes and take into account any feedback from tests or changes that have been implemented.

Nutritional therapists must meet and maintain National Occupational Standards for Nutritional Therapy and be members of the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT).

Sophie Driver BSc, DipION graduated from the Institute for Optimum Nutrition whose alumni include such luminaries as Patrick Holford, Ian Marber (aka ‘The Food Doctor’) and Vicki Edgson of ‘Diet Doctors’ fame. Sophie is a member of BANT and is a Nutritional Therapy Council (NTC) Registered Practitioner.