The Institute for Personalized Therapeutic Nutrition.
Our Mission & History.
The Institute for Personalized Therapeutic Nutrition, or IPTN, is a Canadian-based not-for-profit comprised of researchers, academics, healthcare practitioners, policy-makers, all focused on the mission to help those who struggle with chronic diseases.
As Canada’s first charitable organization dedicated to the advancement of evidence-based, personalized therapeutic nutrition, IPTN serves as a catalyst, rapidly moving new evidence from research to practice through training programs, professional leadership, and engagement.
In 2016, a group of like-minded professionals came together to diagnose and treat the staggering increases in various chronic diseases being documented across Canada; and North America more broadly. IPTN was born out of mounting contemporary nutritional research and the seemingly simple idea that prescription drugs need not be the only weapon in the arsenal of a healthcare professional when tackling complex diseases like pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes.
Since then, we have worked to close the research-practice gap for health professionals by translating peer-reviewed research into educational programs, materials and professional resources to help support this modern-day medical paradigm shift.
What is
Therapeutic Nutrition?
Therapeutic Nutrition is a way for people to use a personalized evidence-based eating strategy in order to reduce or reverse specific chronic conditions or symptoms of a chronic disease.
In practice this is defined as gaining an understanding of how your individual body reacts to various foods and then implementing a way of eating which aids your body in the remission or reversal of specific chronic diseases/conditions.
Everyone who is diagnosed with a chronic disease deserves to know all the treatment options available to them and have a informed choice in the path that they take.
While diets and lifestyle interventions have existed for a long time, they are at times seen as superficial or 'fad-like' however, at it's core Therapeutic Nutrition is the implementation of an intensive, time-limited therapy to showcase an immediate improvement to ones metabolic health; followed by a long-term lifestyle change curated specifically for the person being treated.
Therapeutic nutrition can reduce or eliminate the need for many medications, reduce complications, and lessen the impact of a chronic condition.