Does your diet support your lifestyle? Often our diets and daily activities leave
us deficient in nutrients such as selenium, magnesium, vitamin C, Omega 3’s, and other essential vitamins, minerals,
and fatty acids. Symptoms arise over time if we lack these essential components. But, through diet modification or supplementation,
we can feel better immediately.
Food therapy is very beneficial. Throughout time, cultures around the world have
been utilizing foods to heal their bodies. The Chinese culture often incorporates dietary herbs into their cooking to cure
or prevent certain illnesses. Drawing on my knowledge of Chinese herbs and general nutrition, I give clients practical advice
that they can use in their own kitchens. You will be guided in the awareness of what your body needs to consume in order to
subdue symptoms and overcome illness. In essence, the use of this knowledge will help bring you back into balance.
High quality, food-derived, nutritional supplements may be prescribed as is necessary. Balance Point Acupuncture utilizes
the highest quality and finest nutritional therapies available. Supplements made from organic and fermented whole foods are
the primary nutritional support that is offered here. As opposed to synthetic vitamins, these supplements provide nutrients
that the body understands and is far more able to use. Your body will be able to tell the difference.
Watch a video on the difference between supplementing
with whole food and supplementing with the common isolated grocery store vitamin.
At Balance Point Wellness, only high quality food based supplements are used. When food is used for your nutrition, you
receive the full spectrum that the food has to offer, including all necessary cofactors. Isolated nutrients are far less therapeutic
or restorative.
Does your multivitamin list in detail the chemical names of each nutrient? For instance, do you see "cyanocobalamine"
for B12 or "ascorbic acid" for vitamin C? This lets you know that they are synthetic and created in a laboratory
(often from a petroleum base). Although these can be mildly beneficial because they look very simmilar to a real nutrient,
your body actually has to donate the co-factors to help the vitamin be used - which can eventually lead to a deficiency of
those co-factors. With food derived nutrients, the whole spectrum is there, even the parts science hasn't discovered.
