Unlocking Metabolic Insights

Metabolism is defined as the sum total of all chemical processes taking place in the body to sustain life. The metabolic "superhighway" is a highly individualized and beautifully complex biochemical road map inside your body through which all of the vitality of health - or the discord of disease - unfolds. This superhighway requires many things to function optimally, including proper amounts and ratios of specific "cofactors" such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and fatty acids derived from your food. But it doesn't end there. Understanding the language of the metabolic superhighway involves understanding how different organ and regulatory systems talk to one another and what they're saying.

A customized approach to metabolic support for chronic conditions and health optimization

Toward a personalized approach

 

Many of the basic nutrition recommendations we hear about - the RDAs, for example - came from research that looked at limited groups and/or healthy populations only. But what does that tell us about what and how we need to eat in order to restore our health and rebuild after disease? Often, chronic conditions leave our body in a state of dysregulation with biochemical infrastructure less able to support “normal” recommendations.

Highly compromised individuals who have been struggling with a variety of illnesses - often for long periods of time - require specialized metabolic strategies that work to halt the downward spiral of dysregulation and begin to reverse it from a systems-based perspective. This is a highly individualized approach and requires supervision by a qualified and experienced team of healthcare professionals. As part of this team, a dietitian with specialized training in advanced areas of metabolic science can be a game-changer.