The difference between the two is that the medical profession often uses chemicals to control body function, while the use of nutrition is directed towards building tissues and providing the basic raw materials for body function.
Malnutrition is an increasing problem in our society due to the refining of foods, dietary indiscretion and the depletion of soils in which food is grown.
This problem is insidious in nature and does not cause classic malnutrition disease but causes a general loss of health, which leads to lack of energy and fatigue.
Sometimes the chemical imbalance can occur from taking too much of a certain nutritional supplement. Nutritional products should be prescribed and used in keeping with your body's needs.
In this office, we utilize various Applied Kinesiology procedures to determine which nutritional products are the best for you to take. Just as there are nutritional products that can empower the body, there are nutritional products that can cause the body to be disempowered.
There is a correlation between organ function and muscle strength integrity that has been found through the acupuncture meridian system.
For example, with chronic stress the adrenal glands, which sit on top of the kidneys and make anti-stress hormones, start to get negatively affected. This puts an increased strain on the body's ligaments, which act to hold joints, thus creating an imbalance within the joints and the surrounding muscles.
In order to correct this, proper nutrition is needed to help strengthen the adrenal glands along with providing the appropriate structural care.
Nutrition such as vitamins/minerals, herbs, homeopathic, are used to specifically target towards building tissue and provide the raw material needed for normal body function. Sometimes cleansing of bowels and kidneys or detoxification of the liver is necessary or recommended.