Orthomolecular Nutrition Courses

Nutritional Sciences department offers two main courses, Orthomolecular Nutrition Level I and Orthomolecular Nutrition Level II. Courses are the study of food and nutrition, the building blocks of physical body such as proteins, carbohydrates, fat, water, oxygen, vitamins, minerals, and study of endogenous and exogenous cellular intoxication. They explain the ancient philosophy of five elements of life in nature and human body. The courses explain the pathways of digestion, absorption, and cellular assimilation, enzymatic actions, hormones and neurotransmitters, PH level, endocrine system, equilibrium and homeostasis. The physical dimension of human body is a vessel of 92 specific biochemical elements and essential nutrients, 60 essential minerals, 12 essential amino-acids, 12 water soluble vitamins, 4 fat soluble vitamins, 3 main essential fatty acids, water and oxygen which must be replaced and replenished on a regular basis to assist the body’s biological function in order to renew, heal and restore health at all times. The human body cannot make the essential nutrients on its own, therefore, they must be received through a proper nutrition on a daily basis, and also the necessary supplementations as required. Everything in your body, from enzymes, hormones, glands, heart, brain, immune system and simply all cells in your body, need to receive essential nutrients from food through digestion, absorption and assimilation processes in order to be able to biologically function. Food provides the biochemical ingredients to the body to make and repair cells, tissues, organs, systems and the entire body. What you consume as food, determine the level of your physical, emotional and mental health. The formula is simple, Live and naturally grown food give life and energy to the body, dead and artificially grown food give toxins and sickness to the body. Nutritional deficiency is one of the main underlying causes of almost all chronic diseases.