{"id":5272,"date":"2014-02-19T16:14:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T00:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fxnutrition.com\/?p=5272"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:30:58","slug":"functional-nutrition-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/blog\/functional-nutrition-101","title":{"rendered":"Functional Nutrition 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I\u2019d love to introduce the concept of nutritional dogma vs. dharma<\/strong>.
\nWhich do you prescribe to?<\/em>
\nIn Friday\u2019s Functional Nutrition 101 Seminar<\/strong> I\u2019ll spotlight the key practice that we use within the Replenish PDX counseling system to enroll clients and ensure that we\u2019re meeting their unique health needs.
\nI\u2019m not talking about sales strategies or pitches. I am talking about the true principles of functional medicine and bioindividuality<\/strong>.
\nI confess that it\u2019s been a tremendous year of business growth spurts and hurts for Replenish.
\nIn the interest of evolution, and with my continuing education in functional medicine and nutrition, as well as my commitment to effectively serving individual\u2019s health needs as an agent for making significant shifts in our healthcare system as a whole, I\u2019ve been able to refine and enhance our procedures for bringing clients into our fold of care.
\nThese procedures not only help our clients, but also help us to help them.<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s a win, win situation. Ultimately its our goal to walk clients ~ even those with the most challenging health conditions ~ toward a path of healing. We need to develop all our skills to enable us to do so.<\/p>\n

This is what I want to share with you in Functional Nutrition 101.<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

It\u2019s time for you to step into your true potential as a healer.
\nAnd these procedures that we\u2019ve adopted within our clinical practice are also the ones that bring us back to our ability, as holistic health practitioners, to our commitment to either nutrition dogma or dharma<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Nutrition Dogma vs. Dharma<\/h2>\n

Dogma refers to an authoritative principle, belief, or statement of ideas or opinion, that are considered to be absolutely true.
\nThe Greek word from which it\u2019s derived means \u201cthat which one thinks<\/em> to be true\u201d.
\nMuch of how the medical system has evolved falls into the realm of dogma. It neglects to consider the individual\u2019s needs, but instead sides with symptoms or clinical diagnosis as the guiding principle for treatment.<\/p>\n

In dogma, we lose the unique qualities, attributes and history of the person seeking our support in favor of a set of ideas or principles.<\/h3>\n

This too can happen in nutrition.<\/strong>
\nWhen we endorse a specific way of eating because it\u2019s worked for us or the majority of people we choose to associate with, we\u2019re siding with dogma.<\/p>\n

Dogma is not the principle of functional nutrition or bioindividuality.<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

So what is?
\nThis is where dharma comes in.<\/strong>
\nDharma refers to our essential quality or character.
\nDharma, in the context that I\u2019m choosing to use it, refers to the bioindividuality of each of our clients. In order for us to tap into their dharmic potential to heal and thrive<\/strong>, we also need to hone our skills of perception on constitutional, physiological and clinical levels.
\nDharma is not about knowing all the answers. Dharma is about knowing how to be curious and ask the right questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is exactly what we will begin to explore in Functional Nutrition 101.<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Join me this Friday for this free seminar to support the pursuit of not just your clients\u2019 right to the path of dhama, but yours as well:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Functional Nutrition 101<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

February 21st, 2013 9am PT \/ 12pm ET<\/a><\/p>\n

How to use the guiding principles of Functional Medicine to captivate and enroll health coaching clients \u2013 while giving you the top tools to help them.<\/h3>\n

In this free seminar, you\u2019ll discover:<\/strong><\/p>\n