CLINICAL NUTRITION

“Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.”

-Hippocrates

“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”

-Thomas Edison

DID YOU KNOW THAT?

Food intolerances, deficiencies, dietary imbalances or nutritional excesses have been associated with many medical conditions. With dietary modification and addition of the accurate nutritional supplements, your health concerns can be treated safely and effectively.

Clinical nutrition is the study of the relationship between food and a healthy body. More specifically, it is the science of nutrients and how they are digested, absorbed, transported, metabolized, stored, and eliminated by the body. Besides studying how food works in the body, nutritionists are interested in how the environment affects the quality and safety of foods, and what influence these factors have on health and disease.

Nutrition and the therapeutic use of foods is a cornerstone of Naturopathic medicine. Dr. Talib is trained to assess and diagnose your diet and the impact it is having on your health and individualize a nutritional eating plan specifically for your immune system. Everything that we eat will have a direct reflection on our health.

With all these in mind, we can now say that food allergy test will further custom tailor the type of foods you should eat.