Good health & nutrition services has many aspects to it, but a good chemical balance in the body is essential. Many health & nutrition problems are a result of having too little of one thing (deficiency) and/or too much of something else (toxicity). Our goal is to help you understand nutrition & how your body works and how to make it last for many years to come. When it comes to diet there is no silver bullet like some may claim.
Our bodies require good nutrition and particular nutrients to maintain our physical and emotional health and eating a variety of healthy foods can help each person get the nutrients they need. Unfortunately, many of the fruits and vegetables grown today are genetically modified, sprayed with pesticides and grown in minerally deficient soils. Similarly, animals are fed unnatural foods (e.g. grain instead of grass) and are injected with hormones and antibiotics. This makes it difficult to get the nutrients we need and avoid the chemicals we don’t.
At N2Health, we perform a complete analysis of each individual’s current health status to determine potential nutrient deficiencies and/or toxicities. We will create a customized nutritional protocol for each patient to restore their optimal health.
With a nutritional evaluation we integrate functional medicine, applied kinesiology and Chinese medicine together to get the best protocol for you. If method A, B and C point to the same issue, then it’s probably issue that needs to be corrected. Our methodology for creating a nutrition protocol is based on fixing the cause and not the symptoms.
A functional medicine approach is similar to the applied kinesiology and Chinese medicine approach because all holistic models look at the body as a whole and through it’s systems. Rather than the mechanistic approach that Western medicine takes where they look at your body in pieces and always try to treat the symptoms rather than the cause. Both methods are superior in certain circumstances, but when it comes to improving health and wellness, the holistic approach is the only method that will work in the long run.
Fibromyalgia is a perfect example of this. Using a holistic this is a fairly simple thing to correct, but using the medical model, it will fail every single time because it is only focused on covering up the symptoms.
Where do you start?
1. Start with the health questionnaire in the forms section
2. Fill out the brain questionnaire in the forms section
3. Bring in a copy of your most recent lab work. If you do not have all the tests required to make an accurate diagnosis
then the doctor will order those for you. A comprehensive lab test can cost anywhere from $90-$210 at Dr. Hashimoto‘s bulk
cash rate. This equivalent test through any lab can cost anywhere from $400-$1300 if you try to order it yourself.
You would need about 10-20 different diagnoses by your primary doctor to get all of these different tests covered, which is the number
one reason most people will not get a comprehensive blood test like this.
4. We sit down and go through your questionnaire, labs and perform a physical and/or an applied kinesiology examination.
5. You get your recommendations
Here is more information about functional medicine nutrition:
What is Functional Medicine?
Functional medicine is an individualized, holistic approach to nutrition and healthcare based on prevention and identification of the underlying causes of disease, rather than on symptoms. Functional medicine is based on the following principles:
• Every patient has a unique biochemical profile. While we all share certain biochemical processes, there are significant individual variations in our metabolic functioning due to genetics and environment.
• The focus is on patient care rather than disease care.
• There is a web of interconnections between physiological factors. Our biological systems function more like a network than like individual, autonomous processes. We now know that every organ and system can affect every other organ and system in the network, so the whole person needs to be treated rather than only the diseased part.
• Good health is more than the absence of disease.
• Good nutrition is not the absence of disease.
Conventional medicine compartmentalizes the body into specialties, such as cardiology, rheumatology, dermatology, and digestive disorders. Functional medicine sees the body as an integrated system rather than a collection of independent organs. The approach uses principles of systems biology, which involve analyzing how all components of human biology interact with each other and with the environment. Imbalances in environmental inputs and physiological processes can cause the signs and symptoms of disease. Environmental inputs include diet, exercise, air quality, water quality, and trauma. Physiological processes include cell-cell communication, transformation of food into energy; cell, organ and system replication, repair and maintenance; elimination of waste; defenses, transport and circulation. Malfunctions in these systems can affect all other systems in the body, and may cause imbalances in hormonal function, cell replication, immune response, inflammatory response, digestion, and structural integrity.
Practitioners of functional medicine focus on the core imbalances that underlie medical conditions. Their goal is to intervene at multiple levels in order to restore balance, manage complex chronic disease, and return patients to good health. Most medical conditions are complex and don’t necessarily fall into simple, easy-to-treat categories. For example, digestive disorders often involve inflammation, immune response, digestive system function, psychological issues, and energy transformation issues. Each practitioner uses the patient’s unique physiological, mental, and emotional story as the basis for diagnosing illness. A comprehensive and individualized treatment approach is then devised to improve the patient’s physiological function and environmental inputs, rather than focusing simply on symptom relief. Treatment may include typical medical approaches such as genetics, endocrinology, gastroenterology, psychology and immunology, as well as non-mainstream treatments and drugs such as homeopathy, nutrition, orthomolecular medicine and detoxification. Rather than simply diagnose a condition and prescribe a pill for symptom relief, a functional medicine specialist will search for the root cause of disease and provide a multi-pronged approach to restoring balance, nutrition and, ultimately, good patient health.
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