Nutrition
You’ve heard it before, YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT! For the most part, this is true. The body thrives, lives, or barely gets by, on the items you put into your mouth. If you consume foods that are fresh, healthy and full of life. You tend to feel fresh, healthy and full of life.
Most of the time!
However, there are other factors that can have a profound effect on your health. Your mom’s health when she was pregnant with you, your early diet and lifestyle, your environment, exposure to stress and other nasties, your thoughts and feelings and so on!
If you need to get to the root cause of your current health issue, nutritional therapy is sure to bring you closer to your goal. Nutritional therapy uses nutrition and health science to maximise your own body’s healing abilities. It works to give the body what it needs to be well and to remove the things that have a negative impact.
I’d like to say a visit to your nutritional therapist should be the first place you go if you start to feel unwell, but these days, feeling unwell has become the norm. Going to work with a headache, itchy skin, aching back has become part of life. We don’t think twice when we need to stop by the pharmacy to pick up a painkiller, or fill a prescription. It is only when serious illness knocks on our door that we start to wonder, ‘where did this come from, I’ve been well up to now’. Unfortunately, we begin our path toward ill health, long before we get the diagnosis at the doctor’s office. So, if you’re feeling great, now’s the best time to visit your nutritional therapist and get the best from all stages of your life.
But if you’re not feeling great… visit your nutritional therapist ASAP before you start to feel worse!
Nutritional Therapy is NOT a cure all. There are MANY factors (emotional, enviromental, spiritual and so on) that affect health, but eating well gives you an excellent foundation on which to build everything else.
Here is a list of just some of the health issues that a nutritional therapist is trained to help you with.
- Arthritis and joint pain
- Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders, Autism
- Bone Health
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia
- Digestive disorders – Bloating, Excess Gas, Gastric Reflux, Diarrhoea and Constipation
- Food allergies/sensitivities
- High blood pressure
- Hormonal disorders (PMS / Difficult Menopause, PCOS, Menstrual Difficulties)
- Male and Female Subfertility / Infertility.
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Low Energy Levels and Fatigue
- Metabolic syndrome, Insulin resistance, Blood Sugar Imbalance
- Mood Swings and Anxiety, Low Mood
- High Cholesterol
- Skin Problems
- Weight problems
If you have a question about any of the above, or a particular concern not mentioned here, please don’t hesitate to drop me an email.
NUTRITIONAL THERAPY – What can you expect during your visit?
Nutritional Therapy uses food to enhance the body’s natural healing abilities. It also seeks to help a person to become aware of how diet and lifestyle choices can have a positive or negative effect on health.
In my practice I recognise that you are an individual with unique dietary and nutritional requirements. We all have a different health history and this history may be affecting how you feel today.
The first consultation is designed to identity factors from before birth to the present day, that may be affecting you now, with the aim of treating the problem from its root cause.
As our health is inextricably linked to what we eat, a healthy, well balanced diet promotes a healthy body and mind. However, food is just one aspect of health and so where necessary may suggest other useful therapies to maximize the effects of your healthy diet.
Nutritional Therapy is excellent to achieve optimum general health and prevent future illness. It is suitable for both children and adults.
THE CONSULTATION
The initial consultation will take approximately 90 minutes. The following will be covered.
- Current health concerns
- Medical and lifestyle history
- Family history
- Current diet and lifestyle.
At the end of the consultation a tailored nutritional programme incorporating detailed dietary advice, lifestyle modifications, advice on supplelemts (if appropriate) as well as a full explanation of findings and recommendations will be given. Menu suggestions are also given. Where appropriate specific information handouts are given to support your programme.
Further tests may be recommended in some cases. E.g. Specific Allergy tests. Thyroid tests and so on.
When attending a consultation please bring along details of any nutritional supplements and/or medication you may be taking. Two to three follow-up consultations are usually recommended to monitor your progress and to adjust your programme to best suit you over the long term. These last 45 – 60 minutes.
ALL CONSULTATIONS ARE STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
FEES
Adult - First visit approx 90 mins – €65 / Follow-up 45 – 60 mins – €40
Child – First visit €50 / Follow-up €35
(Those 16 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian).
LOCATION
Now seeing clients in Unity Yoga
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