Good health maintenance requires the right nourishment to feed the factories in the body’s billions of cells. The food intake for the cells, tissues and organs often lacks some of the items needed for efficient cell function and energy output. Brain cells require some different nutrients than the skin or liver, for example. Prescription drugs are often used to compensate for abnormal cell or organ function or to suppress symptoms, but they may be inefficient and accompanied by more symptoms and side affects.
Medical foods and supplements furnish the missing ingredients for specific cell function and correction of the deficiencies and symptoms. There are many supplements and natural ingredients that cannot be duplicated by pharmaceuticals and can correct many of the causes of disease and even prevent most viral infections altogether.
Inherited genetic defects are often related to the body’s inability to produce or utilize certain nutrients, vitamins or minerals. Disease is inevitable in these conditions, unless the correction can be made by using the specific medical food or supplement. We are able to see that the inherited condition is compensated for and when the gene expression is prevented, the disease condition is prevented.
Dr. Trister has had extensive training in this field and makes it a regular part of his practice. He completed his training at the Institute for Functional Medicine under direction of Doctor J. Bland