Nutritional Counselling
Vitamins, minerals, and supplements! Let us help you make good decisions, by selecting quality products that will improve your health.
Vitamins and supplements are advertised aggressively in the marketplace, however it can be confusing for consumers to select the correct products that will improve health. Furthermore, it is difficult to find sources of food that have not been altered by food industry practices that remove the micronutrients we rely on for optimum health.
Nutritional Counselling
Dr. Wysotski's approach as a care provider in this area, is to evaluate the patient's current state of overall health, to determine dietary deficiencies that can be corrected through the use of vitamins, minerals, health food supplementation and other dietary changes.
Many medically diagnosed conditions have symptoms that can be positively impacted through improvements in dietary health and supplementation with vitamins and minerals.
Informed patients will learn what vitamins and suplements have the potential to impact their health and how they should be administered:
Many medically diagnosed conditions have symptoms that can be positively impacted through improvements in dietary health and supplementation with vitamins and minerals.
Informed patients will learn what vitamins and suplements have the potential to impact their health and how they should be administered:
- How often should recommended vitamins/supplements be taken?
- What is the recomended strenght?
- What form of vitamin is appropriate for ideal absorption?
- Should vitamins/supplements be taken on an empty stomach?
- What recommended brands will ensure quality?
If you are taking medications to treat medically diagnosed conditions, drug side effects as well as nutrient depletion form taking medication, can be helped through supplementation with vitamins and minerals.
Dr. Wysotski will review your medication history and dietary habits to develop a plan of supplementation to improve your health. He will not change your medication. He will instruct you as to which supplements cannot be combined with the medication that you are currently taking.
It is important to remember that the vitamins and minerals recommended for supplementation are not medication. It is more accurate to think of these elements as food, and to acknowledge that there are many reasons for dietary vitamin and mineral depletion in our food supply:
Dr. Wysotski will review your medication history and dietary habits to develop a plan of supplementation to improve your health. He will not change your medication. He will instruct you as to which supplements cannot be combined with the medication that you are currently taking.
It is important to remember that the vitamins and minerals recommended for supplementation are not medication. It is more accurate to think of these elements as food, and to acknowledge that there are many reasons for dietary vitamin and mineral depletion in our food supply:
- Industrial agriculture, soil depletion and contamination
- Chemical food alteration and gentic modification
- Food preperation practices
- Comercial food preservation methods (ie irradiation)
- Lack of access to healthy food sources
