Clinical Nutrition At The Hetrick Center, we are prepared to help you on your journey toward living a healthier life. There has never been a more crucial time to take charge of your health. We have great news! The Hetrick Center's Clinical Nutrition Counseling Program has the resources to help you make sound decisions on many of the issues surrounding your well-being.
How can you benefit from Clinical Nutrition Counseling?
Our Clinical Nutrition Program is specifically tailored to meet each individual's dietary and health needs. In order to determine the best approach for you, we will consider your health goals, current diet and lifestyle, and their association to your current symptoms and overall health prior to determining what dietary actions are best for you. Through our nutrition program, we offer dietary coaching and training through which you will be instructed on what foods you should add or eliminate from your current diet, how to store and prepare these foods, and how your diet will help to heal and correct particular problems with your health. In addition, we offer a full line of nutritional supplements and herbal products, as well as a Purification Program to provide additional dietary support when indicated.
What can you expect?
The consultations are direct one-on-one sessions with one of our well trained Chiropractors. After years of training, our doctors have an excellent understanding of your body's physiologic mechanisms and how they can be adversely affected through poor dietary habits. You will be given a road map to healthy eating, meal planning, nutrient rich foods, short-term and/or long-term supplementation, and purification geared specifically to your health care needs. For those who wish to continue with long-term nutritional guidance and continued health, follow-up visits may be scheduled accordingly.
Conditions that can benefit from Nutritional Support:
- Fatigue
- Asthma
- Diabetes
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- High Cholesterol
- Insomnia
- Muscle Cramps
- Arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Ulcers
- Acid Reflux
- Indigestion
- Headaches
- and more...
Vitamins vs. Herbs:
Vitamins are small molecules that cannot be synthesized (for the most part) by the body, and must therefore be obtained through the diet. Vitamins are used in metabolic processes and are absolutely necessary for these processes to occur properly. Due to their association with these specific chemical reactions, a lack of a specific vitamin will lead to a deficiency disease. Vitamins may be fat or water soluble. Water soluble vitamins will leave the system within 12-72 hours. Fat soluble vitamins are stored in the fatty parts of the body like the cell membrane and nerve linings. These vitamins are needed much less often and in lesser amounts. Vitamins do not include essential fatty acids, essential amino acids or minerals but do include A, C, E, B's, D, and K among a few others.
Herbs are mush less complicated. An herb is a plant whose properties allow its use as a medicine. we use many herbs as seasonings such as thyme, ginger, and cinnamon.