Nutrition
Functional Nutrition is about eating for a specific purpose, whether to improve sporting performance, increase general energy or overcome health and medical challenges or ailments.
What is functional nutrition?
The term functional is defined as “something that is of function”. And Nutrition is “the sum of the processes by which one takes in and utilises food substances”. It means that functional Nutrition is eating for a particular purpose. And this purpose can vary broadly.
In the sense of Functional Sports Nutrition, one can eat for performance goals, to get stronger or to lose body fat faster.
In general Functional Nutrition, the goals can vary from eating to decreasing food intolerances, increasing intestinal health, improving hepatic biotransformation, the so-called “detoxification “to improve epigenetics, managing inflammation and autoimmunity, optimise neurochemistry and more.
What are the benefits of Functional Nutrition?
Functional nutrition’s key benefit is improving certain cellular functions to optimise health and wellbeing in sports, specifically the training progress and sports performance. Our cells are built and fuelled by the nutrients we eat. Poor material and fuel will never lead to a high-performance race car. Such high-quality food counts.
Functional nutrition identifies the different macro- and micronutrients key to your diet and increases performance. We need to choose foods and nutrients specifically to target our specific goals.
Functional Nutrition in action
Here’s an example of how functional medicine might work in action.
How does eating look with Functional Nutrition?
That’s a complex question with a simple answer. With Functional Nutrition, food looks great. In any specific case, the food needs to be tailored to the individual and the individual goals. Some examples we might be able to help with could be:
Autoimmune issues – Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) Diet, which is a paleo-type diet
Improving neurochemistry for improved sleep – optimising your sleep nutrition
Improving MTHFR and COMT genes to maximise resilience in daily life – a fasting-mimicking diet, a low-calorie diet, low protein, high-fat diet.
For an athlete, the prime focus is often on managing inflammation to recover faster – The Vertical Diet combines movement and food to gain or lose weight for competition and performance.
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