Hi there, Dr. Nick Jensen here from Divine Elements Naturopathic Family and Wellness, I’m a naturopathic physician guiding my patients to their best health with natural medicine. What I’m really excited about is educating on lifestyle medicine so the people can have more energy, better quality of life so they can prevent illness from setting in. For those that are already feeling sick and run down, I’m teaching them to reverse this process to give control back. So today’s topic is discussing the role that nutrient deficiencies play on illness and why it’s so important to address this problem.
First thing is most people don’t realize that there are a ton of journal articles and published documentation and research on the role that nutrient deficiencies play in someone’s health and into the deterioration of someone’s health and these can be directly correlated with conditions such as cancer, diabetes, autoimmune conditions, osteoarthritis and Alzheimer’s dementia. Most people also don’t consider that the majority of the population become nutrient deficient for multiple reasons whether it’s diet or lack of exercise, or too much stress or whatever the reason may be. It’s very common nutrient deficiencies for a lot of people could show up as B vitamin deficiencies, vitamin D, magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, selenium to name a few. In this process of discovery, most people are just buying whatever they can get their hands on and I see many patients come in with big shopping bags full of supplements and part of our visit or consultation is going through what’s actually necessary and what’s not. So the way we decide that, is through testing to discover the exact nutrients that have become depleted over time and to target that nutrient deficiency by repleting with the right quality, the right amount and the right timing for those very specific nutrients.
Another reality is that many people as we know, are on a list of medications and these medications wreak havoc on the nutrient system and many people being on these medications over time create major deficiencies. To discover more about this I’m going to go over some of the different testing options that we do on our patients to teach you how to actually assess what it is you need to take on a regular basis and how to replete the body.
So Dr. Nick Jensen here at Divine Elements Naturopathic Family Wellness. I’m a naturopathic physician guiding my patients to their best health through natural medicine.
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