Specialists at your service
Our medical centre employs eleven doctors, most of whom have several decades of experience in clinical practice and who have worked for both the public and private sectors. Many have their own area of expertise and extensive experience of their specific fields. In addition to the doctors, nutritional counselling is also provided by a licenced nutritional therapist and our nurses in accordance with the doctor’s orders.
Assessing the patient’s nutritional status takes place based on the guidelines and recommendations of the European society of ESPEN and the ones the National Nutrition Council of Finland provided to health clinics in 2010. All the doctors and nurses at our clinics are members of ESPEN.
Deficiencies as health determinants
Assessing the nutritional status includes evaluating the risk of malnutrition. This takes into account, among others, the patient’s weight development and other factors that influence protein and energy deficiencies.
The diagnosis often involves defining the status of micronutrients (vitamins, trace elements). Mapping micronutrient deficiencies is important with regard to many diseases. For example, patients with infections usually have some form of micronutrient deficiency. Another example is those with stomach problems, as they often suffer from malabsorption.
The WHO has declared micronutrient malnutrition to be a health risk. Most vitamin and trace element deficiencies have their own diagnoses and classifications maintained by the WHO. Oxidative stress is one explanatory factor in many diseases and assessing the risk of oxidative stress is part of our doctors’ methods.
Some of our doctors follow the holistic idea in their care, which includes treating the patient as a whole by taking into account, among other things, their genotype, underlying conditions, nutrition, mental state, exercise, and rest.
The first visit to one of our doctors takes 45 – 90 minutes, depending on the doctor. A longer first meeting aims to form a picture, as complete as possible, of the patient’s health status. The Antioxidanc Clinic is member of Suomen lääkäripalveluyritys ry (Finnish Association of Medical Services).
