The PNI is a healthcare specialty that studies the interaction of different body systems, mainly the digestive, immune, nervous, and endocrine systems to gain a deeper understanding of each person's health and disease context. It is a relatively new vision of Health that is shifting its paradigm, understanding the individual as a whole and not as isolated systems.

PNI gives us the ability to work in an integrative and holistic manner, focusing the therapeutic approach on understanding the origin of the problem, that is, always seeking the cause of what disrupts our health and quality of life.

KEY ELEMENTS OF CLINICAL WORK THROUGH PNI:

• Nutrition: follow a diet that respects the evolutionary logic of our species at least 80% of the time, always seeking enjoyment in food and respecting our eating and fasting rhythms.
• Hydration: drink quality water, mineralized and free of toxins.
• Sun exposure: extremely important for our overall health since the sun is THE most powerful instruction manual for absolutely all our cells, so let's not fear the sun and seek conscious exposure.
• Limit exposure to blue light: one of the biggest disruptors, if not the biggest, for our visual, thyroid, digestive, hormonal health... essentially, our overall health. This factor has never coexisted with our species until artificial light was invented, so let's return to respecting natural light and dark cycles as much as possible, as they dictate our rhythms.
• Movement: living in motion is our motto! Find the type of movement you connect with the most and that motivates you the most, and keep in mind that strength training is essential for living healthily.
• Night rest: take care of your sleep quality, find out what is preventing you from sleeping well, as this is only a consequence of something that was already disrupted. Rest is key for our cellular repair, tissue regeneration, muscle growth, and mental reset, among many other things.
• Decision making: this point is very important! It might have the most significant impact on our health. It is crucial to make the necessary decisions to live in congruence with ourselves, as this will promote our well-being, motivation, and self-love, and ultimately, our Health.
• Listen to your body: connect with yourself, get to know yourself, and learn to listen to what your body is telling you, as it is always communicating with us, and connect with the needs it requires.

What can we address through PNI?

As we have said, PNI helps us understand the individual as a whole in which all their systems interact with each other and which can be affected by many different factors and stimuli. Therefore, PNI at Clínica Avança is a complementary tool to the Physiotherapy we carry out in consultation, thus being able to address the origin of the symptoms that represent the reason for consultation or those symptoms that occur simultaneously.

Thus, we can work on:

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM:  practically all of us have gone through a period in our lives where we felt that our digestive system was not functioning correctly, suffering from a wide range of symptoms such as constipation, recurrent diarrhea, abdominal bloating, food intolerance, gas, acidity, reflux, and many more. These symptoms sometimes have a structural cause such as a hiatal hernia or stomach ulcer, and can even be due to alterations in the microbiome that coexists in our digestive system, related to diagnoses like Helicobacter Pylori or SIBO, among many other causes that can lead us to suffer from digestive symptoms. Many of these alterations lead to a dysfunction of the digestive system, mainly damaging its mucosal system, stomach acid, microbiota, and intestinal motility. And this can be bidirectional, meaning that in many cases, the alteration or pathology does not start on its own but is caused by a poor prior context of the digestive system maintained over time, most often due to unhealthy lifestyle habits. This is why it is important to analyse each case individually and personalise the treatment, mainly by modifying lifestyle habits, and also by monitoring the side effects and sequelae that may be caused by the medical treatment of some of the digestive disorders we have mentioned.  

That is why it is important to analyse each case individually and personalise the treatment, mainly by modifying lifestyle habits, and also by accompanying the side effects and sequelae that may be caused by the medical treatment of some of the digestive disorders we have mentioned.

ENDOCRINE SYSTEM: Difficulty or inability to lose or gain weight? Difficulty in thermoregulation? Redness of the skin under normal conditions? Hormonal alterations? Difficulty in conceiving a pregnancy? All these signs may indicate an alteration in the endocrine system, which is essential to maintain in good condition for our survival. At Avança Clinic we help you to achieve the correct functioning of this system and to maintain it over time.

NERVOUS SYSTEM: This is one of the systems that requires the most energy for our metabolism, representing one of its priorities, as absolutely every reaction of our organism depends on the action or inaction of the electrical impulses of the nervous system. Nowadays we are in crisis with this system as its action is gaining ground, finding it difficult to lower its revolutions when necessary, that is to say, the context of a life of stress and high rhythms that we live stimulates this system in excess, a fact that ends up making us ill. Some of the symptoms that we relate to the alteration of the rhythms of this system are insomnia, headaches, cramps or restlessness in hands and/or legs, among other symptoms. In these cases, the key to therapeutic accompaniment will be to find a way to balance this dance of action and inaction of this system.

IMMUNITARY SYSTEM: The other system that in scale of priorities equals the nervous system and that, together with it, must be balanced in order to function correctly is the immune system. 80% of this system is found in the digestive system, so we cannot isolate it from the rest of the systems, as the PNI has already stated. If you are a person who gets sick easily, who tends to feel weakened or fatigued, who feels inflamed or swollen all the time, or who has difficulty resolving various injuries, it is advisable to study your immune system in more depth and address it with the necessary guidelines.

The accompaniment through PNI in any case will prioritise the study and integration of the context of life of each person, giving space to emotions and feelings at all times, as every day more and more we see the close relationship they have in the health of people and it is a priority to accompany them in consultation. When we give space to all this, the clinical results are very relevant in terms of the quality of life of our patients.