Orthomolecular therapy
What is orthomolecular therapy
Orthomolecular therapy is a scientific form of naturopathy. With orthomolecular therapy we want to optimize your mental and physical health without using harmful substances.
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Some numbers about the human body
Your body is made up of around 10 trillion cells that work together perfectly in different systems
The cells of your immune system together weigh about 2 kg
There are 30,000 to 100,000 biochemical reactions per second per cell
Every day you produce 600 billion new cells to replace the same amount of dead cells
Your fat tissue is completely replaced during 3 weeks, without affecting the amount
In 5 days your mucous membranes of your stomach and intestines are renewed
Your skeleton is replaced every 3 months
200 million red blood cells are generated per hour
Your cells produce an average of 70 kg of ATP (energy) per day
confounding factors
Nothing in this great system happens for nothing, everything is planned. Provided the system is intact! There are many internal and external influences that can promote but also disrupt these processes. When these processes are disrupted, you begin to develop symptoms.
Common confounding factors:
Chronic stress
Trauma, both mental and physical
Relationships
Addictions
Nutrition
Lack of sleep
Excess or under-exercise
Radiation
Chemicals
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Looking for the cause
By means of an intake interview, various studies and questionnaires, we try to get a picture of the reason behind your health problem and your request for help. Subsequently, based on all this data, treatment and lifestyle advice and guidance will be given to tackle the problems.
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Why an integrated approach?
A health complaint rarely arises at a single level. In practice, we see that complaints almost always manifest themselves at multiple levels simultaneously:
a psycho-emotional layer
an immunological and metabolic layer
a musculoskeletal layer
These layers continuously influence each other. Physical manifestations often also have an emotional or regulatory component – and vice versa. Many therapies focus primarily on the layer where the symptoms are visible. This can provide temporary relief, but often leaves the underlying cause untouched.
Our focus
At Witteveen Gezond, we focus not only on reducing symptoms but also on restoring coherence and balance between these layers. This means we seek a single, integrated approach that works for your body at every level, at that moment. Sometimes this requires a specialized intervention, but always within the larger picture.
Therefore, we don't limit ourselves to a single method or protocol. By combining different disciplines, we create space for recovery that goes beyond treating symptoms.
Integrated health in practice
We want to see the full picture: not just what's going wrong, but why the body is stuck and what it needs to regulate again. We call this way of working integrated health: an approach in which the body, nervous system, stress, and recovery capacity are considered and supported together.
