Heart Spring Health in Southeast Portland, Oregon provides non-judgemental, individualized guidance to support your digestive health. We will analyze the latest trends against your situation to provide dietary changes that will not only improve health, but will improve overall well-being.
Food and how we process it plays a big role in how all of our body’s systems function, and each person’s body is unique. When it comes to diet, there is no “one size fits all” approach. In our assessment, we help you create an individualized plan that takes into consideration your unique functional, psychological, and environmental needs. Food is a journey, and we are here to support you in making the changes and refinements necessary to reach your health goals.
We are committed to meeting you where you are now, without any assumptions or judgement of your personal path or previous health history. We are here to assess your unique values, approach, needs, resources, and emotions, and make a realistic plan to help you connect with your intentions for the future. With these values as a foundation, the practitioners at Heart Spring Health will figure out the best place to begin your dietary journey to ensure that you are set up for success. Our goal is to direct you down a path that is advantageous for your health, but also at a pace that is right for you.
We help you navigate the latest food trends and provide clear recommendations to form a more individualized and beneficial plan. By exploring your history and performing a thorough exam and specialty testing, we will analyze the health and function of your digestive system as well as the impact that foods are currently having on your system. Through applying these methods, breaking down current health trends, and being a guide for valuable nutrition choices, we help you move confidently in a direction that improves your long-term health.
From the start, we will encourage you to use ways to augment your eating habits that are not only healthy, but that also make you feel good. We are strong believers that once you feel what it is like to have a healthy body, and understand how much food impacts that feeling, you will want to make choices that serve your well-being for the rest of your life.
To optimize the full benefits of nutrition, considerations of how we eat are just as important as what we eat. Our relationship to food is a vital component of healthy nutrition that can have an enormous impact on health and digestion. We work to find ways to make all of your interactions with food fun and rewarding so that you (and your digestive system) get the most nutrition out of the foods that you eat.
To learn more about our Portland natural medicine practitioners, as well as more information regarding the naturopathic doctors at Heart Spring Health, mindful eating, amma therapy, long-term digestive health, and our holistic nutritionist in the Portland, Oregon area, explore our articles below.
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