Proper Nutrition is Essential for Health 

Proper nutrition is essential for maintaining health, preventing disease, and restoring health in the face of disease.
Medical Nutrition Therapy, seeks to improve health and symptoms naturally by optimizing patient nutrition, thereby decreasing the need for medications.

• The balance of nutrition is unique to the individual and can vary depending on diet, digestion/absorption, age, race, gender, lifestyle, medications, and state of health or ill health.

• The common symptom in every disease is the loss of health, and it's the one symptom doctors often fail to treat. Yet any symptom can be made worse if the nutrition is insufficient to maintain health or promote healing.

• Nutritional deficiencies are common in chronic and degenerative disease or after trauma injury or surgery.

• Medications can't correct for nutritional deficiencies, and improved nutrition can't correct for medication toxicities (side effects). Long term use of medications increases the risk of side effects which are usually treated with more drugs. Medical Nutrition Therapy can improve symptoms naturally which may decrease the need for some medications.

• Self-care is the most important part of healthcare, and proper nutrition is the foundation for health; without which you can't obtain adequate exercise, quality sleep, adapt to stress, detoxify or maintain the body's tissues.

Medical Nutrition Consultation and Therapy

• Medical Nutrition Therapy identifies areas of nutritional weakness that can negatively impact health, and provides information on how to strengthen these areas to improve overall nutrition, health and wellness
  
  
• Telemedicine consultations available at no extra charge.
  
  
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John W. Cartmell, MS, has been a Clinical Nutritionist since 2004, receiving a Master of Science degree in Nutrition Research from Bastyr University of Natural Medicine in Kenmore, WA. His master's thesis was on "Nutrition in Fibromyalgia".

He specializes in addressing specific nutritional needs of clients with acid reflux (GERD), age-related degenerative disease, allergies, anxiety, arthritis, Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), autism, autoimmune disorders, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), depression, diabetes, digestion problems, fibromyalgia, heart disease, high cholesterol, hypertension, Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis), insomnia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), memory problems, obesity, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), restless legs syndrome, and other chronic conditions of ill health.

He has published papers and letters on health and nutrition in several professional journals. His book, “Fibromyalgia, a Nutritional Approach to Prevention, Treatment and Cure”, was published as an e-book in 2008. His book, "Medical Nutrition Therapy" was published August 15, 2021.