Functional Nutritionist and Dietitian
Registered dietitian and nutritionist for functional nutrition
Our functional nutritionist and dietitian can help you achieve balance, restore health and well-being using a personalized, integrative nutrition approach.
Functional nutrition is
- fully personalized
- centres around the root cause of dysfunction
- client-centred
- focused on prevention
- science-based
- designed to correct imbalances
- concerned with biological systems
- includes an educational component
- involves the analysis of symptoms to address primary health problems
- may involve functional testing
What is functional nutrition?
The Functional Nutrition approach derives from Functional Medicine–a method that “determines how and why illness occurs and restores health by addressing the root causes of disease for each individual.” (The Institute For Functional Medicine)
Simply put, Functional Nutrition is a framework whereby the client (or patient) works closely together with the integrative nutrition practitioner, namely a functional nutritionist, to achieve optimum health through various nutritional interventions.
The key component of the approach is the focus on the person rather than the disease.
What does a functional nutritionist and dietitian do?
Functional nutrition: it starts with high-quality food
A integrative nutritionist who uses the functional medicine approach effectively uses high quality, wholesome, nutritious foods, and takes an integrated approach, viewing the health and well-being of a person as a whole.
Functional nutrition: gut health
Furthermore, a great deal of emphasis is placed on gut health.
Because much of our immune system is located in the gut, it is vital to ensure it functions properly to avoid inflammation, risk of infections, hormonal imbalances, various auto-immune diseases and much more.
Counselling sessions with a functional nutritionist
During counselling and nutrition coaching sessions with a functional nutrition practitioner, each person is examined on an individual basis in an attempt to get to the cause of the given dysfunction(s).
To do so, the practitioner performs a comprehensive and holistic analysis of the person’s:
✓ health and family history
✓ medication and supplements
✓ previous medical testing
✓ eating habits (diet)
✓ lifestyle (stress, sleep, exercise)
✓ environment
✓ physical state
✓ mental state
✓ emotional state
Function nutrition interventions
1. Nutrition and lifestyle
Once the underlying causes of the given imbalance or dysfunction are determined, the practitioner uses a variety of highly personalized nutritional and lifestyle interventions to improve the overall health and well-being of men and women.
2. Personalized meal plan
Frequently, the nutritional interventions include the creation of a thorough, personalized meal plan based on the client’s food preferences, sensitivities, lifestyle, cultural or religious restrictions, and of course, budget.
3. Ongoing support and accountability
During the process of working with a Functional Nutritionist clients receive completely customized support, ongoing adjustments, specific recommendations, useful strategies and accountability.
Services Offered by Functional Nutritionist and Dietitian
Free Consultation
Schedule a free, no-obligation phone consultation during which we can:
- Outline how the process works
- Discuss your goal(s)
- Explain how billing and pricing work
- Address concerns about insurance
- Help you select a practitioner
- Answer any other questions
- And more
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How much it costs to work with a functional nutritionist and dietitian?
Where to Find Our Functional Nutritionist and Dietitian
You can enlist the help of our functional nutritionist and dietitian if you reside in Ontario, Nova Scotia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec and New Brunswick.