How Doctors Should Choose Supplements

Nutrition is an essential aspect of everybody’s lifestyle. People’s daily diet every, ranges from still breathing to dead and processed. For the most part people eat what tastes good to them. What they put in their mouths is what generations of their family, mostly based on culture, put into theirs. For example, Italians tend to eat pasta's and breads as the bulk of their diet, Southeast Asian cultures use rice a basis for much of their diet. It takes an awakening and a total commitment in order to change the way someone eats. Unfortunately some people have to learn the hard way, such as a stroke, heart attack or the onset of diabetes. to change their nutrition. Others such as myself entered into a lifestyle where health and wellness was around me 24/7. It was a culture that I have adopted.

Unless the health care provider believes in and practices what they preach, their words of advice will go on fallen ears. A doctor must be fit, healthy, live the lifestyle and most importantly be passionate in his or her beliefs on nutrition. I have seen too often coaches, trainers, dieticians, nutritionists and doctors who are overweight or sick most of the time, who try to force a change upon those who need it, yet cannot do it themselves.

Since I fully believe in and am totally committed to the benefits of a balanced daily diet, I will make nutrition a significant part in my practice. Just preaching the benefits of nutrition to my patients is not enough. I want to provide them with the very best information available. Which products they use, is a serious process that takes a lot of time and thought. I will not necessarily sign with the first vendor that walks through the door. The most important feature of a supplement company is the quality of their products. The extent to the research done in developing specific products for specific needs, the source of their ingredients and manufacturing process used must be of the highest standards. My name and standing with my patients are on the line with each recommendation I offer to patients. In order to keep the highest of reputations everything I offer, including supplements, must also be top quality. In addition the company must employ an extremely knowledgeable representative who is easily accessible and readily interactive. The salesperson needs to do more than simply pitch new product lines. He/she must be able to educate me, and my entire staff on new and existing products. They need to build the confidence with my office that what they say is truthful and beneficial for my patients.

Part of my planned practice will include monthly interactive seminars in the local community. These seminars are designed to educate current and possible potential patients. Part of each seminar will be nutritional in nature. In regards to exercise goals, I believe that 80% of a patients success is through nutrition while the other 20% is through physical activity. This stems over into daily wellness as well. Nutrition is so vitally important to each and every person. The food they put into their systems is the same idea as to what they put into their car. If they put a cheap and substandard fuel in their vehicle, it will run poorly. The same goes for what they put into their body. The higher quality fuel they put into their bodies, such as properly grown, whole foods, the higher quality performance they can expect out of themselves.

The idea of incorporating nutrition into my practice is not a question of whether or not to do it, but rather, “Why wouldn’t I”? Proper nutrition is a way of life for my family. As a result, nutrition in our practice is simple as breathing and as common as an adjustment to free up an immobile joint.