ORTHOMOLECULAR NUTRITION

Orthomolecular Nutrition describes preventing and reversing various health challenges by providing the body with optimal amounts of nutritional substances that are natural to the body. Two-time "Noble Prize Winner first used the term "orthomolecular" Linus Pauling in a paper he wrote in the journal Science in 1968. This paper first described the theoretical foundations for becoming a specialty within integrative medicine healthcare. Many people use the term "nutritional therapy" synonymously with orthomolecular Nutrition, although the latter covers a much a broader range of healthcare issues.

The critical idea in Orthomolecular Nutrition is that genetic factors are central to the physical characteristics of individuals and their biochemical milieu. Biochemical pathways of the body have significant genetic variability in transcriptional potential and individual enzyme concentrations, receptor-site binding, affinities, and protein transporter efficiency. Specific biochemical abnormalities are associated with certain ill-health either as causal or aggravating factors. The concept of orthomolecular Nutrition is that particular amounts of vitamins, minerals, and other food factors are enough to correct biochemical abnormalities to prevent or reverse specific health challenges.

For the better part of the 20th Century, we've been taking vitamin and mineral supplements to eliminate deficiencies. Orthomolecular Nutrition takes this idea one step further, holding that larger than usual doses of certain nutrients can prevent or cure disease. Although there's still considerable debate over specific dosages and their therapeutic effects, the basic principle is now firmly established and widely accepted. Two of America's greatest scourges--heart disease and high blood pressure--can sometimes both be held at bay by high-dose nutrients, and advocates insist that many other chronic conditions, including diabetes and schizophrenia, can be helped as well.

We provide a comprehensive orthomolecular nutritional interpretation of your standard medical findings and lab mineral interpretation. After collecting and interpreting your health data, a program is tailored based on your individual biochemical needs.