Nutritional medicine is a holistic approach to healing that looks at the interactions that take place between diet, lifestyle, the environment and its impact on health. Nutritional medicine draws on traditional food wisdom and current scientific research to gain a comprehensive understanding of health and disease. All individuals are unique in terms of biochemistry, genetics, metabolism and anatomy and therefore their food requirements are also unique. A nutritional medicine practitioner considers all of these factors to provide a personalised treatment plan that is simple, realistic and achievable using therapeutic nutrition and nutraceuticals where necessary. Nutritional medicine practitioners seek to empower and educate individuals and the community on the impact that diet and lifestyle has on the prevention and treatment of a broad range of health conditions.
