When you can get so much information for free? It’s easy to get all your health information online now. Much of it is free so why would anyone pay for it? Social media, weekly newsletters, blog posts. What more could you get from paying? What extra benefits could you get for going to see a nutritionist?
This post looks at some of the reasons you could benefit from a paid consult.
An Individualised Plan
A nutritionist will look at all the pieces of your health which may look like an unrelated, convoluted mess of various ailments to you. To a nutritionist, they should have a pattern to them. You may have been googling to get help on this ailment and that one, taking different vitamins or drugs for each – when they may all stem from the same starting point. That’s what a nutritionist will discover.
Then they will put together a plan with a starting point, which will lead to the next step and the next step until you come out with improved health in hopefully every area. It needs an unfolding plan – and if you are just picking a bit from there and a bit from here online, you won’t get that development in the programme.
You can’t get that information free online. It takes some training to unravel these sorts of health issues and make a plan to turn it around.
Saving time
Clearly, getting professional help saves time. It may still take months or longer to get well, but at least you will be heading in the right direction. A professional will talk with colleagues about your case if it seems to be not moving forward fast enough. If you are self-treating, it’s hard to know who is giving reputable advice. And that wastes time.
Saving Money
This seems the opposite of what is true.
First, when someone sees a nutritionist it may seem expensive. There is the first consultation – always the most expensive – then there may be supplements to kick start the healing faster. At first glance, it seems less expensive to just go to the health food shop and browse the shelves and buy something you read about online.
But here’s the truth – most vitamins are quite expensive. And just like going to Ikea – where you pick up one $3 item, then another $4 item and when you get to the checkout, suddenly it all comes to hundreds of dollars – so it is with vitamins. I often see clients who have lots of vitamins they have bought themselves. Often they are very expensive – more so than they should be, judging from the ingredients.
Many, many people are taking too many low-quality vitamins when a single high-quality one would suffice.
Some may be of excellent quality – but my client may not be taking a therapeutic dose. When research is done using certain supplements, the researchers usually trial different amounts for different lengths of time. What gives the best results is called the ‘therapeutic dose’. They have worked out exactly how much is needed to get the best results, how often it will need to be taken and for how long.
So it is not always just a matter of buying the right supplement – you have to take the right amount and for the correct length of time to get the same results.
Many have heard that Vitamin C, for example, will protect you from getting a cold. That’s an old wives’ tale. The only research on this that brought success used very large doses for a long period of time to achieve these results. A nutritionist will have access to this information. It is a waste of money taking those small doses. Book in to see a nutritionist and bring along all your supplements to sort through.
Not only are therapeutic doses needed, but how the supplement is made makes a real difference. I see people taking supplements that also contain things they are intolerant to or are triggering other problems they experience. Or people taking supplements in a form that doesn’t absorb well. The normal consumer is so vulnerable to clever marketing – many selling the supplements don’t know themselves about how what they sell has been made – and why it matters. A nutritionist has learned the manufacturing processes and knows how to decide if a supplement is worthwhile or not.
When you think about all those supplements you have bought and continue to buy, you realise you have spent a lot of money. A nutritionist will show you what is needed and what is not. You’ll end up saving money as well as having peace of mind that you have what you need.
See a nutritionist for support
I’d say this is the most valuable reason that many people would benefit from seeing a nutritionist. Change rarely comes easily and normal life gets in the way. Working out strategies for coping with YOUR everyday life and knowing what is important to change and what doesn’t matter so much, is something a nutritionist looks at.
We all know how working on a game or quiz with a computer is good because the computer doesn’t get cranky when you keep getting something wrong. A nutritionist is similar! There are all different ways people keep stumbling over their healing plan, and a nutritionist keeps finding ways to cope and encourages you to keep going – until it all comes together for you. Most people would give up long before that. It really helps to see a nutritionist.
So if you’ve been thinking about it, but think you might self-treat a bit longer – think again. Coming for an appointment might save you time and money in the long run, and in a year you might be in a completely different place to now.
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