Medical nutrition therapy

Medical Nutrition Therapy, MNT, is a new form of treatment. It is intended to prevent diseases that arise or evolve by adding specific nutrients to the body instead of drugs. The treatment is the result of more than ten years of scientific studies in the Swedish and international research labs.

Being based on a medical nutrition therapy, we have developed the Preload® Balancetherapy, which can stabilize blood sugar. By taking natural nutrients concentrate, one can stimulate the system hormonal balance. This makes the system prepared for the blood sugar increase at the upcoming meal, stabilizing the blood sugar response. This means that you do not need to use drugs in the same large amount in order to adjust the insulin level in the system.

Hunger and saturation are the basic processes of all people. Hunger controls our minds making us to seek and get food. Saturation signals that the body has received a sufficient amount of nutrients and energy to take care of. There are two kinds of saturation, one is a direct saturation that occurs during meal, second is the feeling of saturation between two meals. Both are important for us in order to understand how the medical nutrition therapy can affect our food intake positively.
The first process that controls saturation is the feeling that the stomach is filled. When we get in our food, the stomach is expanded and signals to the central nervous system that the stomach is full. Fiber, protein and fat reduce the speed of emptying the stomach, which gives an increased sense of saturation and increases blood sugar. Liquid foods, such as soda, provide faster emptying of the stomach and saturation is less than the equivalent amount of energy received from regular meal.

Another process that affects saturation is that food stimulates a number of hormones. They influence our conscious experiences of the food intake. They also affect the complex physiological system that takes care of the food taken by distributing and transporting nutrients to the body’s tissues and organs.

The appetite-promoting hormone ghrelin controls our hunger, while the hormone leptin controls saturation. Ghrelin is produced in the stomach. The levels of ghrelin decrease after eating. Leptin is released into the blood from fat tissue where it is formed.

When food, after passing through the stomach, reaches the duodenum, several hormones are secreted that signal saturation to the appetite-regulating centers of the brain. When we take a meal, pancreas begins to produce insulin. Insulin controls blood sugar levels and affects appetite. When concentration of the saturation hormones increases in the blood, the body system sends a signal to reduce food intake.

By developing foods and meals with the right mix of nutrients we can affect the system saturation signals. This way you can avoid getting in too much or the wrong kind of food, such as fast carbohydrates. This is the basis of Preload® Balance therapy. You can read more about how the products work in the use of this therapy here.