| All who work at Nutrition Clinic subscribe absolutely to the principle that nutrients best come from food and in a food configuration. That is to say that upon close examination, food presents nutrients in very complex packages—never just one vitamin or mineral or enzyme in a mega-dose amount. This has everything to do with balance and also a new vision of the word “potency.” Is potency mega-dosing one single nutrient factor like a vitamin or mineral or lower amounts of many factors of vitamins and minerals and co-enzymatic factors? We see it as the latter. The concept of potency must and does in our clinical experience include SYNERGY—the synergistic effect of one nutrient factor in food enhancing others in the body.
We use two powerful strategies to achieve success: Changing the direction of what is eaten day to day so that nutrient-rich foods are ingested increasingly. This is a step-by-step process—no reading the riot act in the first visit. Typically we demonstrate to a new patient in 30-40 days that proper nutrients ingested, digested, and utilized make a difference. Our patients experience that and begin to know the difference it makes. At that point our doctors and practitioners having earned confidence from our patients, begin a step by step process of upgrading the diet. We also use whole food supplements which introduce to our patients very nutrient dense packages to ensure vitamin and mineral complexes to get these nutrients quickly to the glands, organs, and systems in the body.
We are very aware of the law as it pertains to using food in a health clinic. Food may be used for special dietary purposes. 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. Proper food provides the patient with the needed nutrients, and the body by design to its existing potential in all people will do the rest. |
