ADVANCED INTEGRATIVE NUTRITION

How Effective Is Your Nutritional Program?

Nutritional supplementation is an essential component of all healing processes. Yet, trying to construct an effective nutritional program out of a collection of nutritional facts is an overwhelming and confusing task that will produce inferior results at best. There is far more to the scope of applying nutritional therapy than simply researching nutritional healing guides, following fad diets or taking nutrients based on the latest research.

Interestingly, clinical evaluations with new patients, who self-prescribed nutritional supplements with the intention of improving their health, typically demonstrated this very fact. The vast majority of the supplements used by these patients were either not appropriate for their health condition, ineffective and doing absolutely nothing, or exacerbating their present symptoms. Sometimes these inappropriate supplements were recommended by other health care practitioners! Such is the problem with what we call “paper nutrition.” It is the application of nutritional “facts” irrelevant to the individual’s true underlying health issues. This is why “paper nutrition” typically provides inconsistent results, even when the cause of symptoms appears obvious. There are always varying underlying factors involved with every individual.

Advanced Alternative Nutrition Is Your Answer

Advanced Alternative Nutrition is a dynamic nutritional strategy that is specific, potent and always “on target” with the precise nutrition for your requirements. This means you get more of the nutrition you need to where your body needs it most! “All-in-one” formulas, “miracle” supplements and “hit and miss” generalized nutrition determined through laboratory results alone cannot match the remarkable health improvements obtained from this specialized approach.

Can AA Nutrition determine the nutritional deficiencies that are affecting your health and the way you feel? AA Nutrition does that and more. It not only provides the nutrients you need to correct deficiencies, but it also provides nutritional support to reverse underlying biochemical interferences that cause those deficiencies. Only when biochemical interferences are removed can the rest of your nutrition be properly utilized to do what you intend it to do: heal your body!

We believe you should always get maximum benefits from the nutrients you take. This is why AA Nutrition uses an innovative synergistic program design to deliver complete nutritional support. Synergistic nutrients complement each other so that the sum of their therapeutic effect is greater than if each was taken alone. Optimizing nutrient synergism provides maximum effectiveness for restoring your health and energy. This synergistic advantage is an important consideration for those with complex health disorders, which can dramatically improve an otherwise poor chance of recovery.

AA Nutrition ensures you receive the finest quality nutritional supplements. The question is: Do you really know the quality of the supplements you are taking? Most people do not, or may believe so because they purchase some nationally recognized brand; but that is far from a guarantee. The fact is a majority of health conscious individuals are using supplements that are simply not doing what they believe. AA Nutrition utilizes only the finest quality nutrients, these include:

• Chinese and Western Herbals
• Vitamins
• Minerals
• Glandulars
• Essential Fatty Acids
• Enzymes
• Immune System Support
• Homeopathic Remedies
• Antioxidants
• Chelators
• Other Therapeutics 

All herbs and nutrients are tested and dosed to your body’s specific requirements, so you are assured of receiving maximum therapeutic results from your nutrition.

Q&A:

Can You Obtain All Of Your Nutrients From Food?
Trying to obtain therapeutic levels of nutrients from food is the equivalent of trying to achieve optimal health by taking Required Daily Allowance (RDA) levels of vitamins and minerals. Obtaining RDA levels for nutrients may keep us alive, but it is highly questionable whether those levels can provide the life long, high quality of function most of us desire.

A diet void of nutritional supplementation is no match for offsetting the harmful toxins of today’s environment. You are exposed to toxic chemicals and heavy metals, and polluted water and air. Many consume processed food stuffs with artificial ingredients, and poisonous artificial sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose. The majority of the food supply is commercially grown with pesticides on chemically treated, nutrient depleted soils. Many consume toxic drugs, caffeine, nicotine and other stimulants to handle the high stress of life and then use alcoholic beverages to relax. When you consider all of this and the many other potential assaults to your health, nutritional supplementation is actually a necessity, not an option.

Can Anyone Take Nutritional Supplements?
Yes, everyone can and should be taking quality nutritional supplementation. For the reasons mentioned above, today’s quality of food, even if you eat all organically grown foods, cannot supply all the necessary nutrients to provide optimal health.

Are all Nutritional Supplements Equal?
Obtaining quality nutritional products is certainly a major problem. We have spent many years seeking out and testing many nutritional supplements for quality, effectiveness and that work synergistically with other quality products.

Unfortunately, many national brands do not pass our clinical standards. There is more to nutrients, and especially herbal products, than an active ingredient. As a result, some of the poorest quality herbal products we have clinically tested are those that have been “standardized” for an active ingredient. The truth is nature already knows what is best for you.

Is It Necessary To Test Patients For Nutrients?
Every nutrient will affect your body chemistry and function in specific ways, so it is important to match the proper quality nutrient with your requirements. For instance, there are a number of forms of vitamin C that can be purchased. Some will say vitamin C ascorbate is the best, some claim whole food form vitamin C is best, some swear by ascorbic acid, yet others claim Ester C is the best. So what’s the truth? The truth is every form of vitamin C has a more or less different action on the body. As such, not every form of vitamin C will be appropriate or effective for everyone. The best form of vitamin C is one that is of high quality and tests optimally for the patient’s condition and/or course of treatment.

Testing is especially important for those who have “allergic” type responses to certain nutrients such as vitamin C, herbs or homeopathic remedies. Most often, however, the real issue is they are taking nutrients not appropriate for their state of health. When tested for the appropriate nutrients they require, these “allergic” type responses subside.

© Copyright 2010 Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu All Rights Reserved
Disclaimer:  The content of this material is based upon the opinions, research, and clinical practice of Dr. L’Hommedieu, who retains copyright as marked. The information contained here is not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and is not intended as medical advice. It is intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of Dr. L’Hommedieu. Dr. L’Hommedieu always encourages you to make your own health care choices based upon your own research in conjunction with a qualified health care professional.