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About Jessica

Jessica is a registered Nutritional Therapist, who is passionate about supporting others through diet and lifestyle changes and through personal experience has found that eating foods that support the body may help to reduce inflammation and overall wellbeing.

Since graduating at the University of West London, Jessica has found working with clients on a one-to-one basis can help to achieve the best results as each individual has a different set of nutritional and overall needs to achieve balance within.

Jessica is registered with the British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT) and Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), the government supported regulatory body for complementary therapies. As a nutritional therapist, any recommendations and support will be based on scientific evidence within the field of nutrition, ensuring that suggestions made are in line with the most up to date evidence.

What is Nutritional Therapy?

Nutritional therapy uses systems biology to investigate potential imbalances which may be causing symptoms and affecting overall health and aims to promote nutrition and lifestyle changes to encourage balance, based on scientific evidence.

The functional medicine approach considers the following:
– Root causes of the symptoms presented
– Individualised care
– Consideration of a clients history including medical and emotional
– Lifestyle and dietary interventions

If more support is needed, supplements and functional testing may be recommended to assess nutritional imbalances and inform personalised diet and lifestyle recommendations to support wellbeing, at an additional cost.

Nutritional therapy is the application of nutrition science in the promotion of health, peak performance and individual care. Nutritional therapy practitioners use a wide range of tools to assess and identify potential nutritional imbalances and understand how these may contribute to an individual’s symptoms and health concerns. This approach allows them to work with individuals to address nutritional balance and help support the body towards maintaining health. Nutritional therapy is recognised as a complementary medicine. It is relevant both for individuals looking to enhance their health and wellbeing and for those with chronic conditions wishing to work with or ‘consult’ a nutritional therapist in collaboration with other suitably qualified healthcare professionals.
Practitioners consider each individual to be unique and recommend personalized nutrition and lifestyle programmes rather than a ‘one size fits all’ approach. Practitioners never recommend nutritional therapy as a replacement for medical advice and always refer any client with ‘red flag’ signs or symptoms to their medical professional. They will also frequently work alongside a
medical professional and will communicate with other healthcare professionals involved in the client’s care to explain any nutritional therapy programme that has been provided. Therefore nutritional therapy can be used alongside conventional medicine, however if any symptoms are highlighted that may require medical attention, a GP referral will be suggested.

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