Functional Nutrition
It is becoming more and more evident how great of an impact nutrition has on our health and the role it plays in disease prevention and management. Nutrient imbalances are known contributors to several chronic conditions, yet 85% of medical doctors receive less than the 20 recommended hours in nutrition. This leads nutrition to be greatly underemphasized in healthcare.
In today’s conventional model of medicine, we have learned to view the body as a collection of separate parts. In reality, our bodies are made up of a dynamic system of cells, tissues, and organs that are connected through incredibly complex communication pathways. Together, these systems are meant to operate together in order to achieve optimal function. Functional Nutrition recognizes this interconnectedness of the body and uses it as an approach that goes far beyond managing the immediacy of symptoms and disease.
Food is not only a source of fuel, but a form of medicine. Each food that we eat plays a role in our physiological function all the way down to the cellular level. Functional Nutrition is a holistic science that looks at your own body’s bio-individual needs and delivers personalized food practices to influence well-being and serve as a guiding factor on disease and symptom management.
Root cause, evidence based healing.
What is Functional Nutrition?
Functional Nutrition vs. Standard Nutrition
We often say there is no one size fits all dietary approach, yet our current system of healthcare perpetuates a narrow view of what a “healthy” plate is supposed to look like. Standard nutrition bases it’s intervention plans on the USDA’s nutritional guidelines. This framework can be very limiting as it fails to consider other key elements of a patient’s health. This often leaves patients feeling confused and frustrated when not seeing the results they were hoping for.
All bodies are unique, which means that health and nutrition needs vary greatly from one person to the next. Things like genetics, pre-existing conditions, stress, living environments, and other lifestyle factors greatly contribute to health and support the idea that there is no such thing as a cookie cutter approach to healing. Your nutrition plans should be just as unique as you are! Functional Nutrition practices take all of these factors into consideration when determining an individualized care plan that is meant to correct nutrient deficiencies and restore balance in the body.
How Can We Help You FeelWell?
At FeelWell Collective, we work with a WHOLE PERSON approach to well-being, and view health through the lens of this integrative, science-informed method of nutrition to help you optimize your health based on your own unique needs! We believe that nutrition based interventions, in combination with lifestyle practices, are strategies that not only enhance your well-being, but also combat chronic symptoms and illness!
Whether you are dealing with gut issues, auto-immune conditions, hormone imbalances, fatigue, or even just a stressed out nervous system, we want to help you find balance in the body and mind so that you can start to Feel Well!
“It is not about being fully healed and then starting your life, it is about embracing healing as a lifelong journey while allowing genuine connections to organically emerge along the way”
— yung pueblo