by Hayley Imbriani, LMT

Do you remember back when you were healthy and didn’t have many health concerns and enjoying life was so easy to do? Fast forward 10 years, or even 20 years, and now you’re having aches and pains everywhere, can’t get a good night’s sleep, have no energy to get you through the work day, or have serious conditions like high blood sugar, heart disease or hormonal imbalances creeping up on you. Have your health problems created barriers keeping you from achieving your goals and doing the activities you once loved? What happened? Where did it all go wrong? What can be done to improve this?

A good starting place to finding these answers is with a technique called Nutrition Response Testing. Dr. Kevin Granger, DC and Hayley Imbriani, LMT, of Nutritional Wellness, in Clearwater, are advanced trained practitioners in Nutrition Response Testing in practice for more than five years. They were trained locally in Clearwater, at Ulan Nutritional Systems, founded by Freddie Ulan. They specialize in finding the “why” behind every health condition, symptom and ailment.

Nutrition Response Testing is a technique that gets in communication with the body. This technique can be used to pinpoint areas and organs in the body that are overwhelmed and not functioning correctly. When organs are not working correctly, we start having unwanted health conditions.

Nutrition Response Testing checks the connection of nerves from the brain to all of the organs to make sure that connection is functioning correctly. This connection is the main communication center of the body and its job is to regulate automatically the natural functions that you don’t think about such as breathing, heart rate, resting, digestion and healing. It is crucial that this part of the body is working correctly. If there is a stress or nutritional deficiency interfering with that communication, then the body will not heal or function correctly until it is handled specifically.

An imbalance with how the body regulates can result in reactions such as not sleeping well; waking up at night; fatigue; feeling overwhelmed or stressed; digestion issues; joint or muscle pain; low energy; hormone imbalances; inability to absorb nutrients; weight gain/weight loss; mood fluctuations; inability to think clearly; and much more.

At Nutritional Wellness, their goal is to address the underlying cause as to why the body is not functioning well in the first place by figuring out what nutritional support, in the form of whole food supplements, is needed to safely and naturally feed the body in order to encourage healing and restoration without medications and surgery.