NUTRITIONAL COUNSELING/SUPPLEMENTS

Along with exercise, proper rest, good mental attitude, and a healthy nervous system, DIET is a major component of health and wellness. While it is universally agreed that a good diet rich in vegetables and fruits is linked with better health, not all of us act on that knowledge and many of us are still unclear about what foods we should eat.

The reality is that our environment is polluted and our foods are depleted of nutrients. Most of the soil in our country is depleted of minerals as a result of over-farming, and most of the vegetables and fruits we eat are rarely grown organically. In an effort to ensure against gaps in our diets, many of us take vitamins. What most people do not realize is that there is an enormous difference in synthetic and/or “high potency” vitamins versus organic whole food complexes. While synthetic and/or high potency substances appear to be good for us, the can often make changes in our bodies that, over time, leave us depleted of nutrients, leading to other health problems because our bodies are designed to get our nutrition from food and not from man made sources. Synthetic and high potency vitamins are man made, while organic whole food complexes are made from food, not synthetic sources. As an example, the FDA requires that marketed Vitamin C contains ascorbic acid. While ascorbic acid is a component of Vitamin C, it only represents on of the many components of the Vitamin C Complex found in organically grown vegetables and fruits. Too often, in synthetic high potency vitamins, one component of a whole food complex is extracted and concentrated and then offered into our bodies in a ratio that Mother Nature never intended. This is why, at Power Source Chiropractic in Fountain Valley, CA, we use ONLY organic whole food complexes from Standard Process (see www.standardprocess.com). In our office, we offer nutritional deficiency screening tests to determine if you show any signs of nutritional deficiencies. If so, we may recommend a specific protocol of Standard Process whole food complexes designed just for you, based on your specific nutritional deficiencies and health issues. We then periodically re-test, to assess if your body is functioning better and if we need to alter the nutritional protocol. For more complex cases, we may also include Nutritional Response Testing to determine if the body is even open to healing, and if not, why not. From there we are able to determine a specific protocol to help the body open up to healing and move forward. With these approaches, we find that our patients respond better, faster, and achieve better overall health than patients with nutritional deficiencies who receive only chiropractic care alone.

In addition, we also offer a body purification/weight loss program through Standard Process.

If you are interested in learning more about Standard Process whole food complexes, please visit www.StandardProcess.com for information regarding the various products we offer. If you suspect you have nutritional deficiencies and would like to be tested independent from our chiropractic exam, you are welcome to call our office to schedule an appointment.

Contact : Dr. Lysa at Power Source Chiropractic in Fountain Valley, CA to schedule your Nutritional Deficiency Exam.