FUNCTIONAL NUTRITION
All OYMN nutritional programs - including for sport performance - are based upon “Functional Nutrition,” which is rooted in Functional Medicine.
Functional Nutrition considers every aspect of an individual’s health, diet, training and lifestyle. Therefore, the foundation is an in-depth assessment of an individual’s history, goals, lifestyle, training and nutritional status that results in targeted nutritional programming, supplementation and lifestyle modification.
Instead of doing what is easy, the emphasis is on doing what is best to help optimize health and performance.
Fundamental Differences
There are inherent fundamental differences between conventional medicine and functional medicine, and, subsequently, functional nutrition.
Notable Components of Functional Nutrition
Investment in the time to investigate any and all root causes driving problems better guides interventions and treatments, which subsequently results in a faster rate of success.
The approach
Katie dives through everything to find the story. Katie’s role is to listen, understand the signs and symptoms, investigate peer-reviewed literature, synthesize and analyze the literature in the context of the relevant data, find the root cause(s), create a plan, monitor progress, provide support and make adjustments until we reach the desired outcome. However, execution on behalf of the individual is paramount. Uncovering the answers we look for requires a strong mutual commitment and partnership.
The Functional Nutrition approach is to find true healing by using a “bottom-up” approach rather than a “top-down” approach, which typically provides band-aid solutions, used in both conventional medicine and nutrition. Many problems are rooted in diet and lifestyle - so medications only mask the symptoms.
For chronic problems, asking “why” certain systems in the body are acting differently requires further investigation in all of the possible root causes so that the most appropriate treatment can be prescribed.
Functional Nutrition is a dynamic process. This means, nutrition and lifestyle are continually refined to restore optimal health. When an intervention is integrated, monitoring is carried out via objective diagnostics and, equally as important, how one feels. This is why there is always on-going dialogue.