the nutritional assessment questionnaire (NAQ)

The NAQ is an abbreviated form of a form called the Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire.

It is a 321 questionnaire that takes you around 30 minutes to complete. Following the completion of this form, it uses an algorithm to provide me with a graph that illustrates the severity of several important areas including:

• Upper GI

• Liver and gallbladder

• Small intestine

• Large intestine

• Minerals

• Fatty acids

• Sugar handling

• Vitamin need

• Adrenals

• Pituitary

• Thyroid 

• Male/Female reproductive

• Cardiovascular

• Kidney + bladder

• Immune system

If you read the previous blog post about what an NTP is… you may see some similarities between some of these key areas listed above, and the foundations [what an NTP uses to restore balance to the body]. 

Everything from ‘Upper GI’ to ‘Pituitary’ represents the foundations, while everything from ‘thyroid’ to ‘immune’ represents the consequences - what happens to the body after long periods of foundational dysfunction. 

Above is a screenshot of my own NAQ… 

While this form is an amazing tool, it isn’t the end all be all because it is of course, subjective. There are times when people score really low even though their symptoms should be high because they don’t have a high degree of self awareness, or because they have had the symptoms long enough they don’t even realize they aren’t normal. There are also times when people score very high because they are acutely in tune with their bodies and are quite sensitive to changes and shifts (hi, it’s me) while their symptoms may actually not be as severe as this graph would leave you to believe.

That is why I also have you conduct the 7 day food and mood journal with great detail so that I may glean some objective information. 

What is really fun about the NAQ is that over the course of a 3-month package, a client will take this 3 times so that we may compare where they started at the beginning vs where they are now - as if feeling incredible wasn’t enough validation that you’re on the right path, you get to see it too! 

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