I recommend that those interested in utilizing micronutrient support for their practice start with basic substances for the most common conditions they encounter. For the majority of DCs, this means nutrition for the neuromusculoskeletal system. Most professional companies employ degreed personnel who can telephonically instruct you on the amounts of their product needed to obtain rapid results. Generally, one must remember that when utilizing nutritional adjuncts in your practice, you will most likely be dosing very liberally for relatively short periods of time. Your goal is to provide an adequate pool of the micronutrients your patients require for the synthesis, repair, and regeneration of their specific problem.
Many doctors feel uncomfortable learning nutrition from sales representatives.
There are many ways to easily keep up or enhance your nutritional knowledge without too much time or effort. This author has listened to literally thousands of hours of cassette tapes while traveling. For advice on how to obtain educational material for a busy professional, I recommend you either contact the ACA Council on Nutrition or your professional vitamin representative. If you do not have success with either of these avenues, feel free to contact me at my office. Doctors complain that when using nutritional questionnaires from professional companies, the results indicate many areas of need, which in turn equates to an unreasonable demand on the patient, both from a compliance and a financial standpoint due to the number of supplements to be taken.