title: What is nutritional medicine?
abstract: Nutritional Medicine is based on the principle that nutrients, including essential micronutrients, are required for the proper functioning of all the biochemical processes on which our bodies depend. Therefore, when treating symptoms or diseases, we look for the underlying causes which, although often partly genetic, are usually very much tied up with nutritional and environmental factors. This is in contrast to the tendency in the conventional medical approach to treat symptoms by means of drugs or surgery.
authors.affiliation: Nutrition Associates, York, UK.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Meldrum
mesh_terms: D015510:Clinical Medicine; D004032:Diet; D004046:Dietetics; D004063:Digestion; D006801:Humans; D007408:Intestinal Absorption; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena