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Research shows that biochemical imbalances caused by nutritional deficiencies are a contributory factor in chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, auto-immune conditions and cancer. This handbook for practitioners explains how to identify and treat such biochemical imbalances in order to better understand and manage a patient's ill-health. The book examines a range of biochemical imbalances, including compromised adrenal or thyroid function, gastro-intestinal imbalances, immune system problems and sex hormone imbalances, and explains how and why such states occur. It pulls together a wide range of evidence to show how such imbalances are involved in the most common chronic diseases. It helps practitioners to understand how to identify the imbalances through appropriate case history taking and laboratory testing, and how to design and implement effective nutritional interventions. Developed by leading academics and practitioners in the fields of nutritional therapy and functional medicine, this evidence-informed approach can be used with all patients who present in clinic, regardless of whether or not they have a 'named medical condition'. In the final chapter, a case example illustrates how to use the theoretical information in the practice of treating patients with chronically compromised health. Biochemical Imbalances in Disease is an essential text for nutritional therapy practitioners, as well as for students, and will be welcomed by complementary and conventional healthcare practitioners alike.
About the Author
Lorraine Nicolle MSc is an undergraduate and postgraduate lecturer in nutritional therapy at Thames Valley University, UK. She is also a nutrition practitioner and holds a regular clinic at a London-based health centre (www.greenwichnaturalhealth.co.uk). She also undertakes nutrition consultancy and teaching for various organizations in the healthcare, educational and business consultancy sectors. Ann Woodriff Beirne, BSc, MSc is a complementary therapist in Morisset, Australia. Ann also has experience lecturing on nutritional therapy, and was sub-editor of The Nutrition Practitioner for three years.
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Functional Medicine, Nutrition and Disease,
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This text has been written by two experts in the field of Functional Medicine, a field which has been rapidly developing within science over the last four decades. Functional medicine recognizes the concept of biochemical individuality as first described by Roger Williams who provided evidence to suggest that each of us has a unique genetic background which provides us with an internal biological system that may be quite different from our neighbor, both in terms of basic anatomy as well as cellular function. The implications to accepting this idea are immense in its implications, as we have to make all further investigative research and proposed treatment methods patient-centered. We cannot practice functional medicine by making the patient fit the medical approach proposed, you have to start and finish with the individual. This proposal also tends to contradict conventional science which in today's world develops a medicine or technology then finds an illness to attach itself to. Functional Medicine is a science-based field of healthcare that is grounded in the following principles: * Biochemical individuality * Patient centered care * Dynamic balance of internal and external factors * Web-like interconnections of physiological factors * Health as a positive vitality and the promotion of organ reserve Biochemical Imbalances in Disease uses extended evidence-based case studies to discuss in detail all the essentials needed to develop effective clinical application. Topics such as distinguishing differing types of biochemical imbalances; using case history to identify imbalance; how biochemical imbalances implicate in common chronic disorders; how to design and implement effective nutritional change. I particularly enjoyed the chapters written by Kate Neil, whose work I'm familiar with on sex hormone imbalance. I also found Michael Ash's contribution on dysregulation of the immune system and the gastro-intestinal system influence really interesting and with obvious application on the aetiology of complex illness patterns. It may well be that `all armies fight on their stomachs'-it would seem that many disorders do likewise! There is extensive coverage of metabolic imbalance-these can be subdivided into digestive, absorptive, and microbiological imbalances; * detoxification and biotransformation imbalances; * oxidation-reduction imbalances and mitochondropathies; * hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalances; * immune and inflammatory imbalances; * structural imbalances, from cellular membrane function to musculoskeletal system All of the chapters are very readable, intelligent, and give much food for thought (pardon the pun!) and are likely to be of interest to all who value the contribution diet and nutrition plays in healthcare. Thoroughly excellent textbook. Donald Scott ND DO
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This review is from: Biochemical Imbalances in Disease: A Practitioner's Handbook (Hardcover)
As a nutritional therapist and 3rd year degree lecturer this book is a valuable tool. Its well organised, well worded, well referenced and comprehensive. This is THE book for health practitioners who wants to know more about the functional medicine approach. Any doctor or complementary therapist should find it a book they refer to time and time again.
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Biochemical Imbalances In Disease - Why I wish I'd this book had come out 2 years ago,
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This review is from: Biochemical Imbalances in Disease: A Practitioner's Handbook (Hardcover)
This book has chapters on every key system in the body, with all the biochemical pathways explained along with the commensurate pathophysiology, and suggested nutritional approaches. There is no other text book out there with all this in one place.
Although technical and well referenced, it is written in a user friendly way so that anyone with a nutritional therapy grounding will have pennies dropping left right and centre. It is so refreshing to close a book feeling less confused than when you opened it! I would urge anyone studying at level 5 or above to buy this book. As a student in the final weeks of Level 6 (degree level) I wish I'd had it years ago. However, moving into practice it's already indispensable. Whether you're studying or already in practice as we move increasingly towards a functional medicine approach, you NEED this book!
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