Nutritionist: Carmen Martinez-Vidal

Nutritional Therapy 

Nutritional therapy is a system of healing based on the belief that food provides the medicine we need to obtain and maintain a state of health; our food is our medicine and our medicine is our food. Many disorders, ranging from chronic fatigue, energy loss, insomnia and depression, to backache, skin complaints, asthma, and headaches can be relieved effectively with nutritional therapy. A nutritional therapy practitioner will look for nutritional deficiencies, allergies and intolerances, as well as circumstances that can cause poor digestion or absorption in the stomach and intestine. Nutritional therapy is useful in treating chronic conditions that are not responding well to conventional medicine such as allergies, bowel and digestive disorders, depression, migraine and some skin disorders.

The therapist will take a medical history, and usually the patient will complete a questionnaire on diet and lifestyle. If the therapist needs detailed information on the patient's eating habits, the patient may need to keep a food diary. Diagnostic tests may be required to check for food allergies or nutritional deficiencies. The practitioner will recommend dietary changes and advise about any vitamin or mineral supplements that are needed. Treatment usually consists of an initial appointment lasting up to one hour, and a series of follow up consultations of shorter duration, so that the therapist can monitor progress and changes, and tweak the therapeutic diet as necessary 

The range of services and products available at Total Health Concept are to assist you in maintaining optimal health and fitness.

Fees: 

Initial nutritional Consultation and Analysis - £50

What if those “good for you” foods are making you sick?

Remember those four basic food groups. How you learned that you would be healthy if you ate a balanced diet of meat, dairy, fruits/vegetables and breads/cereals? Wrong. This standard diet may make you sick because it acidifies your body and makes you toxic. 

The problem is excess protein.

Eating too much of a good thing – protein – causes excess acid to accumulate in our bodies, leading to toxicity and disease.

Our cells become congested with excess protein, forc­ing the pH (acid/alkaline balance) of our body's life-sus­taining fluids, which are normally alkaline, down to abnormal, cell-stifling, disease producing levels of toxic acidity. 

Your health is your choice

To stop eating away at your health, you must under­stand two vital points:

1. The Human Body Is Alkaline By Design And Acid By Function
Cells normally live in an alkaline environment and produce acid as a by-product, which is easily eliminated by the lungs. As foods are digested, they create a residue called ash, which is alkaline, neutral or acid. Fruits and vegetables produce a healthy alkaline ash. But meats, grains, eggs and dairy products leave an acid ash. Over-consump­tion of these foods results in so much acid that the body can become toxic, leading to the disease process.

2. The Human Body Needs Adequate Protein, But Excess Protein Leads To Disease. 

The protein paradox

That's the Protein Paradox. Adequate protein is vital to keep cells healthy, but too much protein makes cells toxic and leads to disease.

Too much acidity in our diet explains why we are all tired all the time. Three examples to explain why:

1. The enzyme insulin only works well in a slightly alkaline environment. When it works well it gets sugary energy inside our cells to give us life and vitality. When insulin works poorly then our cells don’t get the sugary energy and we feel tired all the time.

2. Our blood will bind on more oxygen in an alkaline environment and thus give us more energy. 

3. The efficiency of our nervous system is another key which determines our energy levels. Our nerves are more excitable in an alkaline environment and when it goes extremely acidic we head into a coma.