Your body needs fuel to function, and it needs GOOD fuel to function WELL. Proper nutrition is a bit more complicated than eating a salad once in a while and taking a big multi-vitamin (that makes you pee bright yellow) once a day! Sadly, there is no one perfect diet or supplement regimen for everyone. This is because (1) not everyone’s biochemical needs are the same and (2) not even YOUR OWN biochemical needs are the same all the time! Nutrition is a very important component of health, and we pay special attention to it in this office. Why? Could a person’s nutritional status affect the state of their spine? Muscles? Tendons? Bones? Nerves? Yes, everything! To ignore this key component of health would be a great disservice.

What are some of the tools that we use to address nutrition here? Symptom Survey questionnaires, food log evaluation, EDS (electro-dermal screening), blood or urine lab tests (as appropriate), muscle testing, supplemental recommendations.

What are the sort of things that you can do yourself to address the nutritional base of health? Well, for one thing, EAT FOOD. Or, more importantly, DON’T EAT THINGS THAT ARE NOT FOOD. Sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it? But it’s harder than you think! Pay attention to what you ingest and you may be surprised to see how many “harmless” things are added for various non-nutritive reasons. (P.S. “high fructose corn syrup” is NOT a food.) Often, the most nutritional part of a food is removed during the process of refining the food. This is the case when a food - such as wheat - is turned into a nutritionally dead product, such as white bread.