Food Therapy & Nutrition
As Hippocrates said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
The building blocks of our bodies, and our pets bodies, are made from the food we eat. Beyond ensuring proper nutrition, food can be used as a therapy to treat specific disease patterns and restore balance in the body. Mainly whole-food ingredients will be prescribed dependent upon individual patient needs and energetic properties of the ingredients. Food therapy can make a vital difference in improving our animal companion’s health over their lifetime.
Food therapy is most commonly used in one of three ways:
Food therapy is most commonly used in one of three ways:
- To complement primary treatments, ie. acupuncture, herbs, or Western Medicine,
- To improve health and minimize preventable diseases, and
- To treat specific clinical conditions.