WHAT IS NUTRITIONAL THERAPY?
Simply put, Nutritional Therapy is the use of whole foods and whole foods concentrated to clinical potencies to help restore and maintain health. The use of Nutritional Therapy in conjunction with chiropractic adjustments, which remove interference from the nervous system, is a particularly powerful combination of natural support for healing and for optimum health maintenance.
WHAT MAKES NUTRITIONAL THERAPY DIFFERENT THAN DIETS AND VITAMINS I CAN GET JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE?
In the first place, Dr. Travis is an expert in the use of whole foods and whole foods concentrated to clinical potency and in the management of your return to health. In the second place, Nutritional Therapy uses these whole foods and whole foods concentrated to clinical potency which are specially designed to enable Dr. Travis and you to achieve your health goals.
WHAT ARE SOME CONDITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN HELPED WITH NUTRITIONAL THERAPY?
The answer to that question is just about everything. The body has a great ability to heal when given the chance to do so. Many times all the body needs to make healthy cells -- to build its health -- is the right ingredients, the right Nutritional Therapy!
BALANCE = HEALTH
IMBALANCE leads to DISEASE
HOW DOES DISEASE OR IMBALANCE BEGIN?
The body has to have whole nutrients to maintain healthy balance and functional health. Unless all of the required elements are available and able to be assimilated, body chemistry imbalance results and disease begins to set in.
HOW DO I KNOW IF I HAVE AN IMBALANCE IN MY BODY CHEMISTRY?
Symptoms are nature’s way of communicating what the body needs for health. Symptoms often occur in patterns. If you are having symptoms in recurring patterns, you may have an imbalance in your body chemistry and a disease process may be developing now.
WHEN I TAKE MEDICATIONS MY SYMPTOMS GO AWAY. DOES THAT MEAN THAT MY IMBALANCE IS GONE TOO?
Medications can alter bodily functions, but they do not build up the stores of whole nutrients necessary to maintain the body’s health. Medications usually only mask the symptoms, while the condition of bio-chemical imbalance continues and the disease process works deeper into the body’s systems.
A balanced body chemistry means that all of the bodily functions are also balanced. Healing will be rapid. Sleep will be deep and restful. Your digestion will be proper, elimination complete. A balanced body chemistry also assists in your hormone functions and helps keep you feeling young and fresh. Your appetite will be moderate and your consumption based on your needs, neither will you overeat nor under eat.
Now that kind of health may sound like a miracle. You might say, “I could never feel that good.” But try to remember the last time you felt like that. One year, five years, 10, 15, 25, 45 years ago? Did you ever feel that good? If you did, you know it is possible to be that healthy. Many adults who enjoy balanced body chemistry say they feel like that now. YOU can feel good again too!
Contact our office today for a nutritional evaluation and chiropractic exam.
Telephone: 302-475-1267 or 610-485-9800 (in Pennsylvania)
This section on Nutritional Therapy has been excerpted from a booklet entitled, Patients Speak about Nutritional Therapy, by Dr. J. Rodney Shelley. This booklet, which contains case histories of patients with a wide variety of health problems that have responded to Nutritional Therapy, is available free of charge in our office upon request.