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Functional Medicine
Achieve lasting results with our approach and functional testing.
In Health by Nutrition, we use Functional Medicine approach as our best tool to treat the cause of the disease.

We use food to maximise the potential for health and reverse dysfunction or eliminate uncomfortable symptoms.
There is no single “right diet” that applies to all of us. We have different genetic backgrounds, different preferences, and different lives.
We all want to be healthy, but most of us haven’t figured out just how to make food and dietary patterns serve that goal. Functional Nutrition offers the concepts, strategies, and tools to make that happen!
FUNCTIONAL NUTRITION FUNDAMENTALS
Emerging science clearly shows that food has a powerful influence on health. Food offers not only the calories that fuel our body’s metabolism (engine) but also many diverse components that play important roles in all our bodily functions. Poor-quality food can create disease, and high-quality food—in the right proportions and amounts—can reverse disease and sustain health. Food is medicine!
HOW FOOD AFFECTS OUR HEALTH
Food is information, not just energy (calories). Food tells our bodies how to function by signalling exactly when and how each type of cell should behave in every situation. So, we want the very best information to reach our cells to achieve optimal functioning.
FOOD IS MORE THAN ENERGY AND INFORMATION
Food also represents connection—families preparing and eating food together, affirming cultural bonds, enjoying celebrations and ceremonies. The loss of the shared family meal with food prepared from scratch has been part of the transformation that is feeding the chronic disease cycle. Functional Nutrition emphasises healthful eating personalised to YOUR genetics, lifestyle, environment, and health concerns.


What does it offer?
Functional Nutrition offers effective strategies and tools to improve health, healthful recipes, recommendations about cooking and food storage methods, and steps to achieve mindful eating.
Alicja will help you understand and implement your personalised Core Food Plan, and you will have access to a wealth of additional information to educate and support you in adopting a new approach to food and nutrition.
Alicja will also determine whether other interventions are needed. In Health by Nutrition, we work at a functional level, which means we have access to the best comprehensive and innovative clinical laboratory services to prevent, diagnose, and treat complex chronic diseases.
Changing eating behaviours isn’t easy, even after being well-informed about what to do. There will be ups and downs. But, unlike a diet, these changes are not harsh, short-term restrictions on your eating, and they do not involve counting calories or depriving yourself of delicious, satisfying food.
They are scientifically sound approaches that can benefit you for a lifetime!
If you begin with a few basic concepts, you will already be on your path: eat fresh, eat colour, eat texture, eat mostly plants, and listen to your body.
Welcome to Functional Nutrition—the most effective way to harness food’s energy, information, and connections to create health and reverse disease.
Our approach is unique. It requires a detailed understanding of each patient’s genetic, biochemical, and lifestyle factors. We leverage that data to direct personalised treatment plans that improve patient outcomes.
By addressing the root causes rather than symptoms, we become oriented to identifying the complexity of the disease. They may find one condition has many different causes and, likewise, one cause may result in many different conditions. As a result, functional medicine treatment targets the specific manifestations of disease in each individual.
Why are we successful?
We use therapeutic food plans based on detailed assessments and comprehensive lab tests.
We use an advanced stool test that provides immediate, actionable clinical information for the management of gastrointestinal health. Utilising cutting-edge technologies and biomarkers, the test offers valuable insight into digestive function, intestinal inflammation, and the intestinal microbiome.
Comprehensive Stool Profile can reveal necessary information about the root cause of many common gastrointestinal symptoms, such as gas, bloating, indigestion, abdominal pain, diarrhoea, and constipation. This stool analysis utilises biomarkers such as faecal calprotectin to differentiate between Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
We also use a non-Invasive Personalized Nutritional Assessment is a unique combination of nutritional tests that provides an analysis of key nutritional biomarkers. Nutritional test is a non-invasive, patient-friendly way to assess the functional need for antioxidants, B-vitamins, minerals, digestive support, fatty acids, and amino acids.
The insights gained from the nutritional test allow us to target nutritional therapies to meet the precise needs of our clients.