Dietetics

Our dietician provides a range of essential services aimed at improving health and well-being through personalized nutrition guidance:

- Nutrition Education and Diet Changes: Offers tailored dietary plans and education to manage and improve conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, kidney disease, and various gastrointestinal disorders (e.g., liver, pancreas, inflammatory bowel disease).

- Support with Specialised Diets: Provides expertise and support for specialized diets including vegan, vegetarian, low salt, renal diets (low potassium or phosphate), and texture-modified diets to meet specific health needs.

- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - FODMAP: Assists individuals with IBS through the implementation of the low FODMAP diet, providing guidance on food choices and meal planning.

- Increased Nutrition Support: Offers nutritional strategies to support recovery following surgery, during cancer treatment, or after a recent illness, ensuring adequate nutrient intake for optimal healing and health.

- Weight Management: Provides personalized plans for weight management, whether the goal is weight loss or gain, incorporating balanced nutrition and lifestyle adjustments.

- Healthy Eating: Promotes overall health and well-being through education on balanced nutrition, portion control, and making healthy food choices suitable for individual lifestyles.

- Healthy Aging: Develops nutrition plans focused on maintaining or improving strength, muscle mass, and bone health as part of healthy aging initiatives.

- Stress Fractures and RED-S:  Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S) is a condition caused by an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure, leading to impaired physiological functions including metabolism, menstrual function, bone health, immunity, and cardiovascular health. We provide a nutritional plan to ensure that your stress fracture is given the appropriate environment for repair and regeneration.

Dieticians play a crucial role in enhancing health outcomes and quality of life through evidence-based dietary interventions and ongoing support. 

Our Dietician is based primarily at our sister clinic Life Performance Sports Medicine in West Melbourne

Dietetics consultations are claimable on-the-spot via the HICAPS system for those with the appropriate Private Health cover.