"The human body heals itself
and Nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task." Roger Williams.
How Can Clinical Nutrition Help You?
A Clinical Nutritionist Addresses Your Health From a Unique Standpoint
Guided by evidence-based scientific principles, they aim to therapeutically treat each case holistically, and take diet, lifestyle, & physiology into consideration.
"Our goal is to alleviate and prevent disease
and to make your health care Journey as straight forward and simple as possible"
Franca Camilleri
BHSc Nutritional & Dietetic Medicine
PGCert Nutritional Biochemistry (Current)
Workplace Mental Health Certified
Member Of Australian National Therapists Association
Franca is a fun loving and compassionate Clinical Nutritionist who prides herself on ensuring each of her patients obtain life-long health and vitality.
Franca’s love for health science began in the late 1990's she's been continuing to build upon her wealth of scientific knowledge ever since.
Franca will happily spend hours studying scientific research to ensure she is educated about her patient’s health conditions at the highest level, and strives to remain up to date with the latest developments within the field of Nutritional Medicine.
She is passionate about Sports Nutrition and Nutritional Biochemistry and she continuously aspires to further develop a greater understanding of the inner workings of human cells and how they can be manipulated by Nutritional Medicine to effectively treat and prevent disease.
Franca describes herself as “serious about a few things specifically; great humour, exceptional health & intransigent kindness"
Nutrition Services
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Nutritional Medicine Consultations.
Nutragenus Health Consultants are Degree qualified and passionate about ensuring your health is optimised throughout all of life's various stages.
Your Nutritionist will prepare an indiviualised, evidence based health care plan to your requirements and will work with you to modify dietary and lifestyle behaivours that may no longer serving you so well.
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Health Care Plans
Everyone's health profile is unique, a Nutritionist's skill set is extremely diverse, whatever your health challenges may be.
We have straight forward solutions to help you achieve your health goals and our areas of specialisation include:
- Gastrointestinal Conditions
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Skin Complaints
- Respiratory Diseases, Allergies & Intolerances
- Weight Management
- Autoimmune Conditions
- Antenatal and Postnatal Health
- Age specific Nutritional Therapy
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We believe that having a thorough, well researched insight into your condition and how it impacts your health, is paramount to your overall health success. Whether it be gaining knowledge about the underlying cause of a disease, or determining a food allergy or deficiency, we acknowledge that a large part of our role as your health care provider is educating you on the science behind what is driving your health concerns.
Healthy Weight Management
Whether you're looking for support for weight loss or weight gain, a weight management plan designed by your Nutritionist will help guide you every step of the way.
Weight management plans will always take your dietary and lifestyle preferences into account to ensure that your personal health goals are achievable.
We Can Assist With:
- Weight Loss
- Developing a sustainable eating plan to maintain healthy weight
- Weight gain
- Hard Gaining/Competitive body building
Allergy & Intolerance Testing & Functional Pathology
Food Intolerance & Allergy Testing can help to alleviate numerous symptoms and reduce the severity of a number health conditions.
Deciphering which substances are potentially triggering unwanted and uncomfortable symptoms can be extremely challenging. Elimination diets can be useful to determine sensitivities and allergies to certain food but can be generally challenging to follow and commit to.
Evidence based, medically endorsed allergy & pathology testing can assist in determining substances that may be driving unwanted symptoms and help identify various underlying conditions that may need to be addressed to help you gain better control of your health.
Tests Available:
Gastrointestinal Disorders
- SIBO: Methane Breath Test
- Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis
- Complete Gut Microbiome mapping
Hormone Tests
- Dried Urine Testing for Comprehensive Hormones (DUTCH Test)
- Adrenocortex Stress & Basic Hormone Test Male/Female
Allergies & Intolerance Tests
- Allergy Panel IgA & IgG Delayed Allergy Reaction Tests: Multiple Foods
- Allergy Panel IgE Immediate Allergy Reaction Tests 50 Foods
Work Place Health Care
Our Workplace Health Care Services are designed to ensure that the people you rely on are healthy and happy. When they feel their best everyone benefits, performance levels are maximised and absenteeism due to illness is significantly reduced. It Just makes better business sense.
Nutragenus offers a range of services that covers all facets of workplace health, encompassing various aspects of physical, emotional and social wellness, so you need only to delegate the management of your Team's health requirements to us, which frees up your time and reduces the need to engage other parties.
Services Available:
- Personal Fitness Training
- Clinical Nutrition Consultations (At your Business location)
- Online Counselling Service
Paediatric Health Care
Our Nutritional requirements change throughout our life cycle, however, the specific phase of life that has the highest requirements for optimal nutrition is undoubtedly our growing years from newborn to adolescence. Your Nutritionist can provide a healthy eating plan for infants, breast feeding Mothers, teenagers and fussy toddlers and ensure that your child’s nutritional requirements and growth milestones are met with ease.
We can offer guidance and information on a number areas that you may feel are required for your child or teen.
Paediatric Health Care Services:
- Lack of appetite
- Expanding on a bland & basic cuisine
- Meal planning
- Overcoming fussy eating patterns
- Food allergies & intolerance
- Sports nutrition for young athletes
Total Body Composition Analysis
Your Nutritionist will utilise Bioelectorical Impedance Analysis to calculate a number of key health indicators such as body fat percentage, visceral fat and bone and muscle mass to provide you with a greater insight into your physical health status overall.
Nutragenus uses Body Composition scales that incorporate the latest clinical research and mathematical equations to calculate your body composition accurately, which correlates to the Gold Standard DEXA (Dual Energy X-ray absorptiometry)
Why is this information beneficial?
Armed with the knowledge of a number of different areas of your health can help to monitor progress in areas such as:
- Exercise needs;
- Nutritional needs;
- Health risks; and
- Fitness goals
and can determine if the new health care regimes are working for you, or if something may need more attention.
BIA Assessments Can Monitor:
- Body Fat Percentage
- Body Water Percentage
- Visceral Fat (Around Vital Organs)
- Basal Metabolic & Calorie Intake
- Health & Fitness Age (Metabolic Age)
- Muscle & Bone Mass
Stand Alone Body Composition Assessments: 20 mins $40
Sports Nutrition
Sports nutrition focuses on providing athletes or those who want to excel at their specific sport individualised dietary advice that will enable them to perform at their best. Sports Nutrition aims to improve and enhance physical endurance, performance and recovery so that sports enthusiasts and professionals are able to achieve their personal best. Specific dietary requirements and Nutrition delivery models are based upon the individual requirements of each athlete, and take into consideration their goals, the sport they are competing in and the macro and micronutrients required for them to perform at their best.
We Can Assist With:
- Marathon/Triathlon diet plan, training and race day planning
- Recovery specific meal planning
- Dietary planning for increased muscle mass, strength & conditioning
- Enhanced adaptation and recovery
- Enhanced Hydration strategies
Personalised Meal Plans
& Diet Analysis
Your Clinical Nutritionist understands that a busy lifestyle can really make meal planning difficult at times and remaining diligently compliant to a set meal plan can at times seem challenging. This is why your Nutritionist can help simplify the process for you by customising a meal plan to suit your lifestyle whilst taking into consideration your nutritional requirements at the same time.
Our Meal plans are based on a Daily Food Journal format that is straight forward and simple to follow and designed around your daily routine which can help with compliance and keeping you on track.
Dietary Analysis.
Understanding whether your diet is lacking in certain nutrients or may be exceeding the daily requirements for certain nutrients is key to formulating a well-balanced diet.
Your Nutritionist can analyse your diet by obtaining a dietary recall from you and will utilise software that can determine whether your current diet is on track to ensuring you achieve your health goals.
Dietary Analysis: Stand Alone Assessment: 20 min $40
Service Included in Extensive Initial Consultation or 45 minute Follow Up Sessions
Solutions For Gut Disorders
Gut related conditions are common and our team is equipped to offer you a straight forward and simple solution to help you overcome whatever digestive concerns you may be experiencing that is causing you discomfort.
Whether you suffer from GERD, acid reflux, loss of appetite or other digestive conditions, or if you would just like to learn more about a gut healing protocol you may have heard about, our health consultants can help guide you in the right direction to improving your digestive function right now, if you feel things are just not quite right.
Gut Related Conditions We Can Assist With:
- IBS, IBD, FODMAP diet
- SIBO
- Candida Overgrowth
- GERD
- Crohn’s Disease
- Indigestion, gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhoea
- Short bowel
- Lactose Intolerance
- Coeliac Disease
