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The therapeutic prescription of specific dietary nutrients to improve health is called nutritional therapy. These will be either macronutrients or micronutrients. Macronutients are carbohydrates, fats, proteins and fiber. Micronutrients are vitamins, minerals, and trace elements that cannot be manufactured in the body. Nutritional therapy often uses "dietary supplements" or "food supplements" and these may include tablets, capsules, powders or liquids. Because food is essential to life, therapies involving plants, foods and nutritional elements naturally seem fundamental to a person’s health and well-being. Diet, then, becomes a "tool for living," not a secondary thought to daily life.
Therapy is tailored to each person. Proven effective for stress and stress-related disorders, arthritis, circulatory disorders, women’s problems—including PMS, infertility and menopause—and joint and bone problems. A Certified Nutritionist (CN), or Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), can be consulted. Some nutritionists prefer to be trained outside of the conventional nutrition schools, and therefore have different credentials.
Megavitamin Therapy advocates taking more than the dosage of vitamins advised by the established medical community. Nobel prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling believed that schizophrenia and other mental problems resulted from inadequate vitamin supplements. Despite skepticism from some quarters, more than half of all Americans take daily nutritional supplements.
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