Why choose Nutritional, Environmental and Lifestyle Medicine?
Source Health and Wellness applies evidence-based Nutritional, Environmental and Lifestyle medicine technologies to identify the root cause of disease. A peronsonalised comprehensive treatment plan can then be prescribed, one that manages and treats the source of disease, and optimises your health, strength and lifespan.
Nutritional, Environmental, Lifestyle and Functional Medicine treatments can be safely combined with conventional medical treatments for many diseases. Both quality of life and clinical outcomes can be improved with this safe blended approach.
What is Nutritional Medicine?
Nutritional medicine (food as medicine) is focused on optimising your body’s biochemistry through targeted changes in diet; eating organic, choosing anti-inflammatory foods and eliminating known allergens. Along with a healthy diet, tailored supplements may be required for a short period of time to optimise biochemistry levels.
What is Environmental Medicine?
Environmental medicine focuses on identifying and removing harmful toxins from your body. Some of these toxins may include, mercury, lead, mould mycotoxins, and pesticides from food. Exposure to toxic substances such as mercury causes inflammation in the body and may over time if not detected and properly eliminated lead to disease. At Source Health and Wellness we use precision functional testing to identify toxins, hormonal and metabolic disturbances, and inflammation. Similarly, allergy testing can help people identify triggers in their immediate environment, such as food or dust, enabling them to make the necessary environmental changes to help prevent future allergic responses. Environmental medicine also focuses on safety in your workplace and home, including heavy metal exposure, mould, pesticide exposure and electromagnetic frequency (EMF) exposure.
Source Health and Wellness also recognises the importance of a persons “inner -environment”, that is, connection with their spirit or higher-self in maintenance of overall health of body and mind. A balanced inner-environment is important in maintaining a stable emotional response to the inevitable dualities of daily life. Meditation, yoga and spiritual practices are important tools in maintaining a healthy “inner environment”.
What is Lifestyle Medicine?
Lifestyle Medicine is an evidence-based approach to preventing and treating chronic diseases that are usually caused by modifiable lifestyle habits such as poor diet, inadequate exercise, substance misuse and other choices. Replacing unhealthy behaviors with more beneficial alternatives can help you live a healthier life. At Source Health and Wellness we provide personalised recommendations including addressing diet and hydration, sleep, exercise, and stress management. Integrative healthcare that encompasses nutritional, environmental and lifestyle is the key to overall health and wellness. This blended holistic approach to your care means early detection of inflammation and possible prevention of future disease. If you have established disease, the cause be detected and treated to help reduce the severity of symptoms.
Client Information
At Source Health and Wellness we offer appointments for consultations both in-person and by video conference. It is recommend attending the appointment in person whenever possible.
Please be aware that currently consultations are not eligible for Medicare rebates.
All new clients are sent questionnaires to fill in prior to their initial consultation. The questionnaires are lengthy and designed to extract as much health information as possible to guide your treatment plan. Please take your time to fill out the forms with as much information as possible. Importantly, the questionnaire forms are required to be returned no later than two days before your appointment. If the forms are not completed in time your appointment will be rescheduled.
Your initial health consultation will include:
- Review of your completed Health and Nutritional History Intake questionnaires and Environmental Toxin Exposure History questionnaire
- Symptom Screening assessment
- Disease specific questionnaires for example Adrenal, Hormonal and Mental Health.
- Comprehensive Assessment
- Appropriate Functional Pathology Investigations that might include:
Routine blood tests; micronutrient analyses (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids), Environmental Toxin analysis (heavy metals, pesticides, food allergy / sensitivities), Functional Testing of the Gut and Liver; Antioxidant Status, Salivary / Urinary / and Blood Hormonal Levels (cortisol, oestrogen, testosterone, DHEA, thyroid), Organic Acid analysis to check metabolic pathways, Genetic Profiling, Cognitive functioning etc. - Your Personalised Source Health and Wellness Management Plan.
– this may include Key Lifestyle Interventions such as diet and exercise
– specific micronutrient support such as vitamins and/or minerals. Occasionally specific supplements for reducing inflammation, improving gut health, nervous system support and elimination of toxins may be required. - Follow-up arrangements will be made to review and discuss your pathology results and assess your progress with lifestyle interventions. Your Personalised Management Plan will be tailored to your health goals, illness, test results and your capabilities.
- Source Health and Wellness will be there to hold your hand and guide you through the process step by step.
Meditation and Yoga
This page is currently under development
Coming soon:
Source Health and Wellness aim to provide FREE guided meditation sessions and yoga classes to clients.
Frequently Asked Questions
Source Health and Wellness PTY LTD is a registered trading company in Australia. It was registered with the goal to provide personalised nutritional, environmental and functional medicine.
The goal of Nutritional, Environmental and Functional medicine is to achieve optimal physiological functioning of your cells to prevent disease and treat established illnesses by using nutrition based medicine combined with healthy lifestyle choices. Environmental medicine seeks to identify toxins in your external environment that are negatively impacting on your health and also identity toxic elements within your body and eliminate these with detoxification strategies. Personalised functional testing (for example hormone, metabolic, nutrition, toxic load) and lifestyle interventions such as diet, sleep, exercise, and mindset are incorporated into a personalised treatment plan to transform your health. Nutritional, Environmental, Lifestyle and Functional Medicine treatments can be safely combined with conventional medical treatments for many diseases. Both quality of life and clinical outcomes can be improved with this safe blended approach.
Source Health and Wellness offers both in-person and on-line consultations. The cost for in-person and on-line consultation is the same. The duration of both consultations is also the same.
When you book an appointment you will be sent a confirmation email. If this is your first consultation you will be sent an email with a Client Intake Questionnaire to complete to obtain important contact information, past medical and surgical history, medications, supplements and occupation. This information is required at least two days before your appointment time and enables the health practitioner to have a better understanding of your requirements before your consultation. This also allows you to make best use of your consultation time. Based on the information obtained during consultation, functional testing may be recommended to get to the root cause of your symptoms. Your comprehensive management plan will begin at your first consultation and will be adjusted according to your test results, progress and capacity.
If the client intake questionnaire is not returned two days before your booking date you will be contacted to reschedule your appointment.
The laboratory will send testing kits with instructions on what to do directly to your home. Many important investigations are based on urine, saliva or stool sampling and can be completed from the comfort of your home and returned to the laboratory by following the instructions included in the kit.
If blood tests are required, the laboratory will post a kit to your home. The laboratory has mutual agreements with the more common pathology collection centres. You can bring the kit to your local pathology collection centre for your blood test to be completed. The collection centre will then return the sample to the laboratory by courier.
Reach out for a 20 minute no obligation phone call with a health practitioner to discuss your health concerns and discover how Source Health and Wellness may be able to help you.