Clinical nutrition involves studying what nutrients are necessary for your body to function and how what you eat, affects your health. Clinical Nutrition is the study of the relationship between food ingested and the well-being of the body. More specifically, it is the science of nutrients and how they are digested, absorbed, transported, metabolized, stored, and utilized and how the resulting by-products are excreted as waste by the body.

In addition to studying how food works in the body, nutritionists are interested in how the environment affects the quality and safety of foods, and how these factors influence heath and disease. A clinical nutritionist is concerned with how nutrients in food are processed, stored and discarded by your body, along with how what you eat affects your overall well-being. As naturopathic doctors, with specialized training in clinical nutrition, we assess your nutritional needs based on your family and medical history, lifestyle and laboratory tests so that we can make dietary recommendations for your individual nutritional needs. A clinical nutritionist may provide advice on changes to your diet that may also help to prevent disease.