What is nutritional therapy?

More than two thousand years ago, Hippocrates proclaimed: "Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food". Still eminently sound advice today - literally, you are what you eat! Nutritional therapy uses food and dietary management as powerful therapeutic tools, based on scientific research and evidence. The aim is to prevent disease, heal, and enhance health, through the belief that the body has an inherent ability to heal itself when given appropriate nutrition.

Nutritional Therapist , Maureen Houston

Unsuitable dietary choices, excessive stress, lack of exercise and over-indulgence in stimulants, all contribute to low energy, compromised immunity, and impaired mental functioning. Nutritional therapy offers a balanced, holistic approach to the prevention, diagnosis and management of disease, seeking and addressing the root cause of the problem rather than treating the symptoms.


What does treatment involve?
You will be asked to complete a comprehensive questionnaire and a three day food diary before your initial consultation. Initial consultations last approximately 90 minutes.

Follow-up consultations are normally scheduled 3-5 weeks later, and last between 35-50 minutes.