If you have concerns about diet, current food trends, or healthy food choices, Dr. Guillemette is here to help! Nutritional assessment can be as in depth as the client requires. Making changes to one's diet can be a very difficult task. That is why Dr. Guillemette works closely with each client to make change happen easily and comfortably.
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nutritional advice
There are many important things to consider when it comes to nutrition. Sometimes small changes can have big impact on many different health conditions. The first thing that should be considered is what conditions are you suffering from. All conditions are different and the recommendations should reflect the condition you are trying to help. Although it is true that having healthy nutritional habits can help with most health related conditions.
Nutritional Points of Interest
Inflammation
Many health conditions are related to inflammatory mechanisms. Head injuries, arthritis, chronic pain, are just a few conditions that tend to be driving by increased inflammatory pathways in the body. Generally, speaking it's always a great idea to reduce the amount of inflammatory markers created by your body. This can be done both by changing the food you eat as well as with supplementations.
Neurogenisis
Some conditions are dependent on building new pathways. Concussions, TBI, strokes, autoimmune disease all have destructive consequence on our bodies. Supporting the bodies natural mechanism and helping the body to make neuroplastic changes can be extremely helpful for theses conditions. Nutritional changes and supplementation are both great ways to boost your bodies natural mechanisms.
Deficiencies
It's not uncommon for individuals to be suffering from nutritional deficiencies. Depending on the condition you're suffering from and the symptoms you may be experiencing there may be a nutrient your missing in your diet. In certain circumstances it's important to make short term changes and in others you may need to make long term changes to your diet or supplementations.