Nutritional Therapy
Building a powerful gut microbiome
What does a Nutritional Therapist do?
A Nutritional Therapist identifies possible nutritional deficiencies and imbalances, and provides comprehensive instruction and support to correct these deficiencies and imbalances.
Nutritional Therapy may include:
- Lifestyle and health assessment
- Nutritional assessment
- Biomarker testing (body mass index, blood pressure, blood lipids, malabsorption/dysbiosis)
- Education about the gut microbiome and chronic internal injury
- Lesson in human physiology and ideal food choices
- How to read food labels
- Help with meal planning and budgeting
- Ways to handle social dining events such as restaurant meals, dinner parties and holiday celebrations
- Cue-based planning to develop healthy habits and avoid common pitfalls
Why does Nutritional Therapy work so well?
Though some genes are hard-coded, there are many genes that can be turned on and off by things you do and even by your thoughts, beliefs and emotions. Food is one of the most powerful forces affecting these kinds of genes.
When you eat variety of whole and minimally processed foods, you get an ideal balance of protein, carbohydrates, fiber, healthy fats, vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and antioxidants. This builds a healthy gut microbiome which turns on health-promoting genes and turns off disease-promoting genes.
Does Nutritional Therapy cure diseases?
Nutritional Therapy can stop certain diseases from getting worse and often reverses chronic diseases, but does not take the place of medical advice or treatment from a physician or similar provider.
Because Nutritional Therapy works so quickly to reverse many health issues, it’s critical that any person under the care of health professionals consult their provider(s) before beginning any nutrition, supplement, or lifestyle program because medications may have to be reduced or stopped in as little as a week.
“My triglycerides were 173 and having type 2 diabetes I wanted to lose weight. Just making a few of the changes recommended by Miracle For You, my triglycerides dropped to 110 and I’ve lost over 20 pounds. I’m excited to put the whole plan in place now!”
“After working the Miracle For You nutritional therapy program, my cholesterol dropped 70 points, my high blood pressure is now normal, and I lost 30 pounds .”
Our Most Dangerous Nutrition Myths
"A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on."
Animal protein is high quality protein
Animal and plant protein food sources contain the same essential amino acids. Essential amino acids are the parts of protein that we must get from food. Animal protein is high quantity protein, but the package it’s delivered in threatens your health with saturated fat, TMAO, bacterial endotoxins, excess cholesterol, IGF-1, environmental toxins and heme iron.
Plant protein contains all the amino acids you need in the right quantity AND the package it’s delivered in contains important health-promoting items you can’t get from animal sources such as fiber, vitamin C, polyphenols, and carotenoids. In fact, animal protein sources contain no dietary fiber at all and dietary fiber is absolutely essential for good health.
Carbs make you fat and sick
Highly processed carbs can make you fat and sick. However, whole and minimally processed carbs are absolutely essential for good health and are the foundation of chronic disease prevention and reversal.
Humans are natural meat-eaters
The human body is designed to thrive on whole and minimally processed plant foods, making us natural herbivores with the ability to eat animal foods as well. We have adapted well as omnivores and this ability to adapt allowed us to thrive in places where we would never make it as herbivores. However, when it comes to optimal health, animal foods should be an occasional indulgence and whole/minimally processed plant foods should dominate.
And when it comes to reversing chronic disease, animal foods should be eliminated altogether.
Oils are heart-healthy
Oils are highly processed fats that contain more than twice the calories of carbs and protein yet no fiber and little or no micronutrients crucial for a strong immune system. Fats are healthy and necessary for good health, but only when eaten in their whole or minimally processed form. If you chew coca leaves, you get sustained energy; it’s similar to drinking coffee. On the other hand, if you ingest cocaine extracted from the coca leaves, you become addicted over time and often end up with psychosis, organ damage and death. Similarly, when you eat fats that have been extracted from their food source, you throw your body’s metabolic functions out of balance, often leading to chronic disease and early death.
There are no studies whatsoever showing that adding oils to a diet stops the progression of heart disease or reverses heart disease. None of the studies that conclude certain oils are heart-healthy compare a diet with added oils to a diet with no added oils; instead, they compare diets with a lot of saturated fat to diets with vegetable oils such as olive oil. The vegetable oils result in better heart health than the saturated fats. But comparing two unhealthy options to each other does not turn the “less bad” option into a healthy option.
Multiple studies have shown that a diet of whole and minimally processed plant foods with no added oils stops the progression of heart disease, reverses heart disease, rapidly lowers cholesterol and blood pressure, and restores normal blood sugar levels.
Junk food can be part of a healthy diet
Junk food can be part of any diet, but not part of a healthy diet. Once you add junk food to an otherwise healthy diet, you’re either adding obesity-promoting excess calories, or replacing important whole fiber-filled foods with highly addictive substances. Highly processed foods consisting of refined fats (oils), refined grains (flour), added sugar, added salt and “flavorings” have been shown to be as addictive as nicotine and cocaine. If such foods become a regular addition to even an otherwise healthy diet, the risk of addiction to such foods is high.
Around 61% of people who try their first cigarette become addicted to nicotine. Similarly, 70% of Americans are overweight or obese due to junk food addiction.
Organic foods are healthier
Organic foods are only as healthy as the package they come in. If a food is whole or minimally processed, organic is best, but conventional is still far healthier than highly processed organic foods. Slapping the word organic on highly processed foods does not make the food healthy.