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"Let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy food" -Hippocrates
Hippocrates is considered the Father of Medicine so by pure deduction we can confidently conclude maybe he was onto something here. I think we all can agree the role food can play in our health, mood, and overall well-being, but maybe we take for granted the extent to which this can optimize health, cure disease, and prevent illness.
Nutritional therapy is implemented ideally in the form of whole foods and when necessary added as supplements to achieve therapeutic doses to prevent or treat certain diseases. Clinical nutrition can be used to optimize your health and help treat disease but can additionally be used to support certain nutrients that may be depleted due to medication use, chronic illness, certain birth control use, or stress.