#1 NUTRITION, PROBIOTICS AND NATURAL PRODUCTS
While conventional Western medicine focuses on individual areas of the body that are affected, complementary medicine has more of an Eastern approach, looking at the body as a whole and recognising how one component affects another.
This line of thinking is particularly important when it comes to what we put in our bodies. After all, our overall health has everything to do with our lifestyle and diet. Eating a balanced diet consisting of different food types can ensure that we get the essential nutrients we need to stay healthy and fight off infection.
Additionally, a nutritious and diverse diet means a more balanced microbiota – the microorganisms in our digestive system that play key roles in digestion, immune functions and brain-gut signalling. Everything from diet to age-specific and environmental factors contributes to the makeup of one’s unique microbiota, and how it develops and functions. An imbalance of microbiota is associated with a variety of medical problems including diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, inflammatory bowel conditions, autoimmune disorders and asthma, as well as food allergies and intolerances.
Here are some key dietary changes that can make a difference:
Go organic
Organic agriculture prohibits the use of synthetic pesticides, whereas industrial agriculture practices focus on productivity, utilising synthetic fertilisers and pesticides to create visually appealing produce, free from imperfections, that consumers want to buy. Therefore, non-organic foods may have much higher pesticide, growth hormone and antibiotic residues than organic foods.
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