Anne Fairlie Therapies

About Nutritional Therapy

Nutritional therapy is a complementary form of health care and nutritional therapy practitioners combine naturopathic (natural) principles with up-to-date scientific research.

Nutritional therapists believe that Nature is a potent force that employs healing mechanisms in the body and mind to maintain and restore health. The therapist works respectfully with these healing mechanisms to allow nature to take its restorative course. The therapist's goal is to find the cause of ill health from a nutritional medicine perspective, and to work with the patient to remove the cause, e.g., food intolerances may be causing symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome or faulty eating habits may be causing reactive hypoglycaeamia, leading to weight gain and/or headaches.

As well as employing natural methods to help patients, nutritional medicine is also backed up by the latest science evidence. Therapists employ biochemistry and nutritional science to ensure that treatment is grounded in safe, technical practice which is applied according to a person's individual needs. Health and disease arise from an intricate interaction of physical, emotional, lifestyle, environmental, inherited and dietary factors. Taking all of these factors into account, the nutritional therapist treats the whole person, respecting his/her integrity and unique individualism.

Nutritional therapists work with healthy people to help them maintain health and also with those who have intermittent or persistent health problems, to stop these problems becoming chronic diseases. A therapist can also work with people who have chronic degenerative diseases to help alleviate the suffering that these health problems cause.