Nutritional Medicine

Nutrition as a prevention and treatment of disease is as old as Hippocrates, who first advocated it. Nutrients are an essential part of the human internal environment. Wholefoods and nutritional supplements help to maintain health, preventing and treating the underlying causes of disease.

Many people believe that eating a well-balanced diet provides us with all of the vitamins and minerals necessary for good health. In ideal circumstances this is the case, but in reality there are many reasons why you may need vitamin and mineral supplements. For example poor digestion, stress, alcohol, overcooking, smoking, ill-health, pregnancy, old age, antibiotic use, food allergies, environmental pollutants, nutrient depleted soils and many other factors may increase the nutritional requirements of each individual.