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Beyond 'Eat Well'

General nutrition advice tells you to eat vegetables and reduce sugar. Nutritional medicine goes deeper — using functional testing to identify your specific nutritional status, optimising your unique biochemistry, and selecting therapeutic doses of specific nutrients to address deficiencies and dysregulations.

This is individualised, evidence-informed medicine — not generic healthy eating advice.

Functional Testing We Use

Our naturopaths interpret or order a range of functional tests to guide nutritional prescribing:

• Microbiome and gut permeability testing (stool analysis)
• Comprehensive hormone panels (Dutch test, saliva or blood)
• Nutritional deficiency screening (zinc, magnesium, B12, folate, vitamin D, iron studies)
• Organic acids testing (metabolic function and mitochondrial health)
• Food intolerance testing (IgG antibody panels)
• Hair tissue mineral analysis (mineral balance and heavy metal burden)

Therapeutic Nutrition Areas

We apply nutritional medicine to:

• Gut health — healing the lining, restoring microbiome diversity
• Hormonal health — supporting oestrogen metabolism, thyroid, adrenals
• Mental health — addressing the gut-brain axis, B vitamin and amino acid status
• Metabolic health — insulin resistance, weight management, cardiovascular risk
• Energy and mitochondrial function — addressing fatigue at its biochemical root
• Skin — addressing nutritional drivers of acne, eczema, and psoriasis

Food as Foundation, Supplements as Support

Nutritional medicine always starts with whole food — what you eat three times a day is the most powerful medicine you take. Targeted supplementation fills gaps and provides therapeutic doses when food alone cannot achieve the required effect. We use quality-controlled supplement brands that match label claims.

Your genes load the gun — but your diet pulls the trigger. Nutritional medicine gives you back the safety.