High-dose nutrient therapy =
orthomolecular therapy
When you think of the word "nutrient therapy" ( known in the medical language as "orthomolecular therapy"), you may wonder why your normal diet or the multivitamin tablet from the drugstore shouldn't be enough. They do - for healthy people who are exposed to little stress in any form and whose metabolism is working perfectly. However, not all "supposedly" healthy people have sufficiently high nutrient levels. However, very few will suffer from classic nutrient deficiency diseases such as scurvy. But just because you don't suffer from a classic deficiency disease doesn't mean that there aren't deficiencies that simply manifest themselves in unspecific symptoms.
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This is where high-dose nutrient therapy comes in. It is not only used to prevent deficiency diseases, but also to get our body's biochemistry running smoothly. "Therapeutic" here means in "therapeutically high doses". Mini doses, such as those found in the multivitamin tablet from the drugstore around the corner, are better than nothing, but do not lead to any noticeable change or improvement in symptoms.
You can compare this to going to the gym. If I go once, there is no noticeable effect. If I go several times a week, but only do one squat at a time, it's certainly better than just lying on the couch at home, but it won't make me any fitter - so unfortunately there will be no change in my condition and fitness.
This is also the case with nutrient therapy. It must be carried out regularly and in sufficiently high therapeutic doses.
Unfortunately, the exact same doses do not work for everyone. Every metabolism is unique. Some of you need more of one substance, others more of another. In addition, some nutrients need and consume each other. This can also lead to a deficiency of another nutrient being masked or hidden. At first glance, all but one nutrient may appear to be in the norm. However, if the nutrient that is deficient is then supplied in greater quantities, metabolic pathways that were previously slow and in which this nutrient was lacking are restarted. As a result, nutrients that could not previously be used due to the slow metabolic pathways are increasingly consumed.
As you can see, high-dose nutrient therapy is a process. In most cases, a single prescription of nutrients is not enough. You have to follow up and consider the consumption of stimulated metabolic pathways.
Feel free to book an appointment with me so that I can help you through the jungle of micronutrients and we can find the optimal nutrient combination and dosage for you.