Bradenton, Florida Office/Fax: 941-242-0022 | Cell: 727-422-7289
Bradenton, Florida Office/Fax: 941-242-0022 | Cell: 727-422-7289
At Cairn Clinic, we strongly believe
“Food is Thy Medicine” and we encourage patients to turn to their
diet first for answers to why they are sick. In today’s world,
many of us our living for convenience because we are constantly in
search of more time. In a world of convenience, we begin to lack in
the true healing power of food. We have forgotten how to love and
appreciate real food.
Together at Cairn Clinic, we work to
reconnect with preparing our own food, eating from the earth,
rediscovering our innate ability to feed ourselves as God and Nature
intended. Together we learn to let go of processed foods and ‘the
silent killer’ sugar. Together we dive into the ‘why’ we
struggle to let go of old eating habits which no longer serve us on
our health journey.
The nutritional therapy offered at
Cairn Clinic has its roots in Cognitive & Mindful Eating
Practices, Macrobiotic Diet Therapy, Food Combining based on the
Season & Region, Healing with Whole Foods, & Traditional
Chinese Medicine Food Therapy.
FirstLine
Therapy Nutrition Program
Rethinking Your Foods
The foods you choose to eat can have a
dramatic effect on your health and ability to heal. Some of your
current food selections and eating habits may be conscious decisions
or emotional responses, while other habits may have been passed from
generation to generation.
FirstLine Therapy helps you understand
how to make better choices to help you get the nutrition your body
needs and still enjoy the experience of eating and sharing meals with
others.
Your FirstLine Therapy Food Plan is expansive, not
restrictive, and gives you the flexibility to make it a lifetime
plan.
FirstLine Therapy Food Plans
incorporate key concepts that we will be discussing in the coming
weeks: portion control, a healthy plate, glycemic control, the
importance of fiber, and eating mindfully.
Eating For Wellness
It’s now accepted that a person’s
state of health is influenced by the dynamic interaction of a variety
of environmental factors—such as diet, physical activity, and
pollutants—with his/her genetic uniqueness (known as epigenetics).
Nutrition has emerged as a primary environmental factor that can
positively or negatively impact the extent to which a person will
realize his or her genetic potential.
Modern lifestyles can foster habits
that lead to illness. Most people living in industrialized parts of
the world eat too much animal protein, salt, sugar, saturated fat,
and new-to-nature chemicals in the form of preservatives,
environmental contaminations, pesticides, insecticides, and
herbicides. These factors can help turn on genes that predispose us
to chronic diseases, as well as turn off genes that protect us from
illness.
The ‘big’ epigenetic shift in our
general eating patterns is the move away from eating an abundance of
diverse fruits and vegetables, legumes, seeds, nuts, and whole
grains—as well as clean, lean proteins. We’ve also become
increasingly reliant on heavily process packaged foods that can strip
out beneficial fibers, vitamins, minerals, and other
health-promoting, plant-based compounds.
Optimizing nutritional intake from
whole foods—as well as targeted nutritional supplements—can help
maintain and extend a state of better health. Many current dietary
recommendations reflect guidelines to help curtail development of
conditions and symptoms associated with inadequate consumption of key nutrients from
foods. In other words, these guidelines help an ‘average’ person
maintain a ‘basic’ level of wellness.
A growing body of research suggests
that enhanced consumption of key vitamins, minerals and certain other
plant-based compounds may help certain individuals manage disease
risk better and help them realize their best health possible. This
field of research is known as nutritional genomics or
nutrigenomics—the ‘junction between health, diet, and genomics.’
Nutrigenomics helps show us how diet and nutrition can be
personalized to help you go beyond basic wellness to achieve your
best health possible.
Your health care team welcomes you on
this journey to better health.
What Program Includes: 12 weeks
OPTIONAL TESTING:
Nutrient Evaluation
Food Sensitivity Test
Complete Hormone Panel (Male/Female)