Alcohol, Drugs and your Body

After your initial psychotherapy and counseling consultation, and based on your habits and eating pattern results, our nutritional therapist will prepare a bespoke, easy-to-follow nutritional & sport program for you.

This nutritional & sport program is designed to help your body recover from the negative impact drugs or alcohol have had on your body.  Although the specific impact depends on the substance, the long-term impact of alcohol and drug addiction has similarities among many different substances.

The impact of drugs and alcohol abuse on the body include:

• Increasing the risk of heart attacks or stroke

• Higher risk of various forms of cancer

• Higher risk of organ failure and damage

• Nutrient deficiencies that cause health concerns

Nutrition Therapy for Drug & Alcohol Addiction

Recovering from alcohol or drug addiction reduces many of the risks associated with addiction with suitable planning and execution. You can only recover if you have a healthy body with the correct balance of nutrients.

Research shows that a strong and healthy body is essential if you are recovering because it allows you to focus on your emotional, or mental health complications that make alcohol and substance abuse tempting.

While nutrition therapy does not directly prevent cravings for a alcohol or substances, it does balance out nutrients and prevent deficiencies. Since nutrient deficiencies contribute to cravings for the alcohol and substances, eliminating those deficiencies also helps reduce the cravings.

Nutrition plays a key role in the health of the human body. Without the proper combination of vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, proteins, and fats, the body does not have the building blocks that it requires for healing and recovery.

Researchers say that proper nutrition is the first step toward loving yourself and thriving after recovery. The National Institutes on Health suggest that nutrition is particularly helpful when it relates to healing.

Physical and emotional health are essential for alcohol and substance addiction recovery. An unhealthy body distracts  you from your recovery goals and makes alcohol and substances tempting.

By including nutrition therapy in a treatment program, you will naturally heal and improve your physical well-being. As a result, you focus on the underlying causes of alcohol and substance addiction and have a lower risk of relapsing. Here at MindSure, we approach healing from alcohol and substance abuse or mental health issues both practically and holistically. We understand that you and all our patients have different treatment needs.