Why root cause healing?

For those unfamiliar with root cause healing, you may be wondering what it is and why you should choose it.

A lot of Western medicine treatments are designed to manage symptoms and keep you alive. This is the goal of modern medicine. The issue with this, is the underlying cause/s of your health issues are often overlooked. Many medicines just “switch off” bodily processes so that symptoms don’t present. Until they start showing up somewhere else (this is why many medications have side effects!). Or until you develop additional health conditions as whatever was causing your initial illness is still running in the background, causing damage. This is not to say Western medicine doesn’t have its place - but when it comes to chronic disease, we should be doing more.

Root cause healing goes beyond your symptoms. Instead, we develop a picture of your health, diet, lifestyle and environment, as a whole, to figure out what is causing the imbalance in your body in the first place. It is a patient-centred form of healthcare, that intends to help you achieve long-term healing.

Root causes can include things such as chronic stress, history of trauma, environmental toxin exposure, poor diet, genetic SNPs, lack of physical activity and nutrient deficiencies. It is typically more than one of these things that contribute to the clients clinical picture. As a clinical nutritionist, my goal is to restore balance to your body by aligning it with the way it was designed to function. This means addressing these root cause/s and undertaking acute treatment protocols to mitigate the damage they have caused (e.g. chronic inflammation, gut microbiome dysbiosis, mitochondrial dysfunction).