Our Philosophy:

The whole is more than the sum of its parts. This principle is a core truth that we hold central at Nutrition Clinic. It is the basis upon which we view the human body with its capacity for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual expression. Applied clinical nutrition refers to the clinical application of this principle with patients in their quest for the maintenance or restoration of health.

Therefore, in the application of this principle, we utilize food for special dietary use as distinguished from general uses of food, as follows:

1. Uses for supplying particular dietary needs which exist by reason of a physical, physiological, pathological or other condition, including but not limited to the conditions of diseases, convalescence, pregnancy, lactation, allergic hypersensitivity to food, underweight, and overweight; uses for supplying particular dietary needs which exist by reason of age, including but not limited to the ages of infancy and childhood;
2. Uses for supplementing or fortifying the ordinary or usual diet with any vitamin or mineral, or other dietary property. Any such particular use of a food is a special dietary use, regardless of whether such food also purports to be or is represented for general use.¹

 ¹Title 21 Code of Federal Regulation, 1985 edition, section 105.3 subsection (a)(1).

This clearly distinguishes food uses from the term "drug" which is defined by federal law to indicate articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or animals.

Nutrition Clinic values real food as created by Mother Nature and, in this context, uses the term "natural." Natural means produced by growing processes inherent in the un-manipulated, original seed allowed its full measure of growth to maturity. Fundamental alterations of the structure and significant biochemical changes are excluded from our definition of food.

Whole Food Supplements and Herbs

Whole food, organically grown in a nutrient-rich soil as Mother Nature intended, is what our bodies are designed to use to heal and maintain themselves. With today's American diet often deficient in whole food nutrients, whole food supplements can play a part in providing for the body what overly processed, synthetically-made foods cannot.

For optimum results, Nutrition Clinic primarily uses a professional line of supplements from Standard Process, Inc. Begun in 1929, Standard Process, Inc., maintains over 1000 acres of organic farmland in the rich glacial soils of Wisconsin. Their supplements are carefully prepared with low temperature processing so as to be balanced, potent, and readily absorbable. In addition, we have chosen a professional line of herbs from MediHerb that meets the same standard of excellence.