Functional Nutrition defines our troubling health symptoms as the ‘branches’ of our health tree.  They are the tangible expression that have resulted from a ‘root’ cause.  The ‘roots’ to our health symptoms are often embedded within broken / maladaptive biological system. It’s important to understand this, since the health symptoms that we are mostly concerned with are usually just one or more expression of a far greater and significant state of dis-ease that lies within.  In Functional Nutrition we start with detective work and mapping your health journey; joining the dots between all presenting symptoms before tracking back to the terrain, being the soil which takes us to the root/s of your health condition. Next, we seek to ‘clear the muddy waters’. This means to cut the noise within your biological terrain and ‘take out’ whatever is exacerbating symptoms or perpetuating your condition. Next we apply appropriate choices in nutrient therapy to bridge broken metabolic pathways and improve health, whilst considering your personal nutrient-biochemical story and genomic blueprint. Consider that certain key nutrients are responsible for switching specific genes on and off.  If you are rattling through key nutrients due to stress, fatigue, over-exercising, over-studying, pathogenic loading and more … then consider you may also be down-regulating important genes that are central to your health. By upregulating our Genomic expression to achieve greater Genomic functionality is one way to sustain good health.  Nutrient therapy can also switch-off over-reactive genes, such as those genes responsible for producing too much histamine leading to Mast Cell Activation Syndrome.