Archive for the ‘ADD/ADHD’ Category

« Older Entries

Back to School Assessment: with NOT and LEAP assessment

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

Are you sick of people telling your kids are lazy? Not paying attention?  Not focussed?  And you know something’s going on with them?

Is your child stressed about going to school, feeling picked on or stupid?

There is help available – and NOT drugs or years of counselling…  we are specialists in this area and have many many years of experience…

We do a combination of treatments in our clinic that can help your children:  NOT (Neural Organisational Technique); LEAP (Learning Enhancment Acupressure Programme) and FSM (Frequency Specific Microcurrent) which can help to determine and correct, what’s going on in the brain of your kids.

What does this mean?

We can FIND and CORRECT:

  • Issues which have been there since birth: poor oxygen to certain parts of the brain; jammed cranial bones; poor nutritional supply to the brain due to caesarian sections; anesthetics still in the system due to epidurals and anesthetics.
  • Old Stress Patterns that are Hindering the Ability to Learn: once a child has been repeatedly in trouble for ‘being lazy’, ‘not trying hard enough’, ‘feeling like the class idiot’, their body starts shutting down as soon as they go to do something they’ve failed at in the past.
  • Vaccination Side-Effects: some children don’t cope with vaccination toxins.  It can (in susceptible children) hinder liver function, brain function, immune system function…
  • Neurological Switching: sometimes the brain simply isn’t sending information to the correct areas, or ’switch off’ crucial pathways and functions (for example logical thinking) under stress.
  • DPP4 Enzyme Deficiency: means that certain foods may be acting like ‘opioids’ in your childs brain and stopping or hindering brain function, making them tired and stressed and unable to cope or learn.

Sound like you or your children could do with a session!??  We have a Learning Enhancement Programme which will save you lots of $$$ per month if you believe this programme would be good for you or your family.

Madonna Guy ND
New Leaf Natural Therapies
Chief Clinician

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in ADD/ADHD, Behavioural Issues, Cellular Regeneration, DPP4 enzyme deficiency, LEAP Learning Enhancement Acupresure Programme, N.O.T. Neural Organisation Technique, Our Services, dyslexia, learning enhancement programme | Comments Off

LEAP Learning Enhancement Acupressure Programme

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

I found this article at Brain Joggers – felt it was very well researched and written and gives great insight as to how the LEAP programme – which we’ve been using at New Leaf Natural Therapies for over 10 years – work.  We use LEAP for:

  • poor memory
  • poor concentration
  • behavioural issues
  • ADD ADHD
  • Autism & Aspergers
  • Poor ability to spell
  • inability to do maths
  • poor problem solving
  • temper tantrums
  • exhaustion and depression

Madonna Guy ND
New Leaf Natural Therapies
Chief Clinician

LEAP (Learning Enhancement Acupressure Program)


IMPROVING ABILITY TO LEARN

The Use of The Learning Enhancement Advanced Program to Improve The Transmission of Information Across The Corpus Callosum to Improve Learning

Based on the research of Charles T. Krebs, Ph.D. &
Susan McCrossin, B. APP. SC.

(from Complementary Health News Journal)

One of the most common factors associated with learning problems is a “blocked” Corpus Callosum, the site of hemispheric integration. A blocked Corpus Callosum also generally results in poorly developed access to Gestalt or Logic functions.

An even more important, yet often unknown factor affecting learning, is a profound deep level confusion in mental processing which we term “Deep-Level Switching”. In people with Deep-Level Switching, their brain confuses the location of their Gestalt and Logic processes causing massive processing problems as information is often routed to the wrong cerebral hemisphere for processing. While Right-Left, Deep-Level Switching may profoundly affect, our academic learning, Top-Bottom and Front-Back, Deep-Level Switching can have equally profound effects on learning “life’s lessons”. Unless this “Deep-Level Switching” is resolved and the “blocked Corpus Callosum, ” cleared, people can never realize their true learning or human potential.

A number of kinesiological techniques and acupressure techniques can help reintegrate brain function at the electromagnetic, neurological and emotional levels. For those who have long-term, ongoing loss of brain integration resulting from experiences traumatic enough to permanently shut down part, or most of the communication across the corpus callosum, or who experience the massive brain confusion that we call deep level switching, more specific ic and direct interventions are required. The Learning Enhancement Advanced Program (LEAP) protocol can help address these imbalances. This article addresses these issues based on the research and experience of Charles T. Krebs, Ph.D. from Australia and Susan McCrossin, B. APP. SC. from the U.S.

Mental processing of activities seems to take place in the most ancient part of the brain, in the limbic system, with its various nuclei and the paleocortex. The brain, using hierarchical processing, determines how information is sent, stored or retrieved. With learning disorders some processes seem to go off-line. Dr. Krebs surmised that the brain processes in a modular fashion. If one of the antecedent functions were compromised, all the processes dependent on that function would also show deficits. A way to unlock the processing sequences was needed.

Applied physiology and kinesiology interacts with on-line brain processing, and allows the integrity of modular or sequential brain functions to be directly assessed. Using only a few specific muscle tests, whole configurations of brain functions such as the integration of visual processes, can be accurately discerned. Stress or dysfunction in mental processing can be easily detected by monitoring muscle response in conjunction with the activation of specific acu-points, either singularly or in combination.

Whenever any factor disrupts coherent homeostatic muscle proprioception (feedback), a locked muscle may suddenly weaken or unlock, indication that this factor is acting as a stress in the muscle feedback system. Thus using only a few specific muscle tests, whole configurations of brain functions such as the integration of visual processes, can be accurately discerned.

For a full discussion of Kinesiology and muscle response testing you are referred to Dr. Kreb’s book, “A Revolutionary Way of Thinking: From a Near Fatal Accident to a New Science of Healing”‘.

Applied physiology techniques for brain physiology formatting, developed by Richard Utt of the International Institute Of Applied Physiology, Tucson, AZ, provided the guidelines for the primary neurological processing modules and a basic format to access them. Utt showed that by focusing on the physiology of the brain itself, the readout of brain function would often show up as a pattern of acu-point activity instead of single active acu-points.

Once the pattern of stress, as indicated by a pattern of acu-point activity, was detected by muscle response testing, factors causing that stress could be pinpointed, and kinesiological and acupressure techniques could be applied to normalize the area. Thus, in the case of dysfunction in communication across the corpus callosum, as soon as the stress, or stresses that caused shutdown of functions were resolved, processes vital to learning could come back on-line.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and other techniques revealed that in all but one of sixty one cases not responding to LEAP treatment, the underlying cause of learning problems was organic brain damage.” Brain damage can occur before, during or after birth even from a blow on the head, oxygen deprivation or seizures. As long as the affected areas are either small, or in a non-critical centre of function, the brain is able to compensate but may function less efficiently.

If damage occurs to a critical structure, like the left hippocampus, problems in the auditory or short-term memory processing develop. These processing functions weren’t changed, because pre and post-testing of Weschler Intelligence digit-span test, a standard measure of auditory short-term memory, remained the same for these brain damaged individuals.

FUNCTIONAL SHUTDOWN

In cases not involving organic damage, hippocampal function can usually be restored via acupressure treatment. In several hundred cases psychometric post testing has shown a return to the normal range of auditory short-term memory and even more importantly, a child was from then on able to remember spelling of words and retain multiplication tables’. For example, consider a 12 year old girl with a digit span of only 3 digits forward and 2 digits backwards. This low functioning would place her in the lowest percentile of same-age children for auditory, short- term memory function, and was thus having extreme difficulty at school as she had basically no short-term memory. After applying hippocampal formatting techniques, she improved to the 50th percentile for children her age. She had gone from practically no useful function to average ability for her age. She could now access enough short-term memory to learn spelling words, and for the first time in her life, could recall her multiplication tables even weeks after learning them. She improved from the 25th percentile in innate reasoning capacity to the 99.81 percentile following treatment. Literally, she went from the bottom of her class to the top of her class in six months.

Learning is a voluntary activity. Even if you have optimal brain integration you may choose not to use it for a variety of personal and emotional reasons. Teenage boys can be some of the least satisfying clients because in many cases they are brought to treatment under protest. Even if these teenagers currently choose not to take advantage of their new state of integrated brain function, reintegration does give them one big advantage: they now genuinely have the ability to develop a function if they want to use it in the future. Before integration they had little chance of developing these function.

For example, during a follow-up visit after completing the brain integration program with a 15-year-old, his mother reported that his spelling had shown no improvement. He was then checked for his ability to learn to spell words, which he easily demonstrated. He was then asked to spell some words he had learned as part of the program months before. Again there was no problem. He had demonstrated his ability to learn to spell any word quite easily and to remember it, but he was just choosing not to do so at this time and for his own reasons. The integration was showing up elsewhere: He now had 70% accuracy shooting baskets in basketball. Prior to treatment he had been shooting with 20-30% accuracy.

An encouraging counterpoint to that case was the case of a 16-year- old boy who passionately loved reading and who was desperate to be able to spell well. He came for integration and in the two weeks following the correction of his spelling functions he mastered 150 words that had always given him problems. At his next appointment, he bought in a list of the 50 most difficult words and asked to be tested on them. He got all but one right. Six months on, he had no spelling problems of any note and continued to be highly motivated to succeed in an area where he had previously experienced only failure.

EEG PATTERNS AND BRAIN INTEGRATION

An EEG allows scientists to look at the patterns of electrical activity generated by the cortex of the brain when it is performing an activity. Traditional forms of EEG, using only three reference points, were inconsistent, showing a varying degree of correlation between the type of mental task and the areas of the cortex showing activity, How were the researchers to distinguish if activity was due to the stimulus they were initiating, or some other brain activity, such as random thoughts?

A study was made by McCrossin with five learning-disabled adults ranging in age from 18 to 45. Primarily, they reported reading comprehension and short-term memory problems. The study concentrated on a new EEG method known as Steady-State Visually Evoked Potential (SSVEP). In this SSVEP technique 64 electrodes are placed on the scalp, covering all processing areas of the cortex. In this way, specific areas of cortical activity can be identified, particularly against the constant stimulus of a flashing light. When the data from the electrodes is fed into a powerful computer, detailed maps of cortical activity can be constructed. While being SSVEP scanned, if a person is asked to consciously do a particular mental task, he will automatically activate specific brain areas related to the performance of that task. In the area that is active, the SSVEP signal is reduced and the degree of reduction is proportional to the degree of activation of that area. An activation map of the brain was drawn.

In a previous study comparing children with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) to normal subjects on two different mental tasks, the SSVEP patterns of these two groups showed significant differences. When normal subjects were doing a purely visual task, observing a computer monitor displaying numbers, their brains showed activity predominantly in the occipital lobes in the back of the brain, where visual image formation takes place. When they were then asked to anticipate, or pay attention to a particular signal, their cortical activity switched to the frontal lobes, the area of the brain involved in attentional tasks. In ADD children, the brain activity did not change. Activity remained predominantly in the occipital lobes even when they were paying attention.

Children with ADD or adults with learning problems often just watch their world and react to whatever happens with little anticipation of what might occur because they cannot activate the brain areas involved in “paying attention” which is required for anticipating outcomes. Likewise, since prefrontal activity is also required for “planned” decision-making, and there is little prefrontal activity when people with ADD and learning problems make decisions, it would appear that these decisions must depend more on “reaction” to stimuli than on planned actions based on considered decisions.

Along with these changes in cortical activity, after LEAP there was concomitant improvement in the adult subjects digit span and reading comprehension. Before integration, the reading comprehension of the group had varied from 33 per cent to zero, after LEAP all had 100% comprehension. On the digit span test, all subjects changed from being marginal or borderline in their function to being above-average. Changes in both these mental functions is supported by the significant changes in cortical activity observed in the SSVEP results.

WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE?

Intelligence has been defined as being composed of two distinct aspects: “fluid” and “crystalline” intelligence”. Fluid intelligence is the capacity to perform abstract reasoning which involves “native” intelligence and is thought to be unaffected by formal education. This includes the ability to solve puzzles, memorize a series of arbitrary items such as words or numbers, as well as the ability to change problem- solving strategies easily and flexibly. Crystalline intelligence, on the other hand, comprises the abilities that depend upon knowledge and experience or the amount of stored factual knowledge such as vocabulary and general information.

A number of standardized intelligence tests like the Wechsler Intelligence Scale of Children (WISC) and Stanford Binet Intelligence Test, have been developed to measure various aspects of cognitive function. Regardless of whether these psychometric tests measure “intelligence” or not, they do provide a standard assessment of performance in a variety of cognitively demanding tasks.

In a second study by McCrossin, three standardized tests of fluid intelligence were chosen to help measure intelligence: the WISC Block Design subtest, the Kaufmann Matrices and Inspection Time”. The subjects were also tested on short-term memory and reading comprehension. The WISC digit span subtest was used as a measure of short-term memory, retrieval and distractibility. The Neale Analysis of Reading, a standardized test to assess reading comprehension, was also applied. Twenty children were initially assessed on the five psychometric tests and then were retested six to eight weeks later. In the intervening period the ten children in the treatment group had the complete LEAP protocol performed on them. The ten children in the control group received no treatment, but were retested at the end of the study.

Empirical observation and scientific validation of these tests show that fluid intelligence generally does not improve over time”. From this data it has been assumed that a person’s past and future performance will be the same (or, allowing for growth, will hold their relative position amongst their peers). This appears to hold true for children with learning disorders even when they have received extensive remediation.

The McCrossin study found statistically significant improvements in all of the tests of fluid intelligence between the pre- and post-tests for the treatment group”. No changes occurred in the performance of the control group. The LEAP protocol was shown to be capable of changing the innate reasoning capacity of these children. It was capable of affecting profound changes including the demonstrable ability to apply flexible strategies to solve problems.

The complex task of digit-span (short-term memory and attention) also showed significant differences before and after treatment between the two groups. There was an increase in the forward digit span from 4.8 (before treatment) to 6.2 (after treatment) and an increase in the backwards digit span from an average of 3.1 (before) to 5.5 (after). Since the average adult digit span is six forwards and five backwards these children had clearly improved from a deficit in this vital function to “above normal” 14.

With the LEAP program, problem areas within the brain can be detected and corrections can be made to enhance reading, motor coordination, visual perception and psycho-neural responses.

ADHD and LEAP

Some children who come to the LEAP program are classified as hyperactive and taking Ritalin to control it. Often when a child is going through the brain integration program of a LEAP, these children will calm down and maintain this state even after withdrawal from Ritalin. Parents often report that LEAP has resolved the child’s hyperactivity.

The LEAP protocol has such potential for improving the lives of so many children and adults, extensive testing by a major medical school or other research facility would seem to be a worthwhile investment.

Madonna’s comment:  I have been using the LEAP programme in my clinic for over 10 years.  We currently have 3 LEAP Practitioners in our clinic, as I see it as a core method in supporting people’s health and wellbeing along with helping memory, learning and children’s anxiety about attending school and exams.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in ADD/ADHD, Autism Aspergers, Behavioural Issues, LEAP Learning Enhancement Acupresure Programme, Our Services, learning enhancement programme | Comments Off

DPP4 Enzyme Deficiency? Food Ideas…

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

So… you’ve been told (or suspect) you have a DPP4 enzyme deficiency. The 2 most common food issues with this deficiency are wheat (sometimes gluten) and dairy.  In order to get this enzyme working properly (to stop the addictive nature of the food and create a healthier gut and brain connection) it really needs to be cold turkey for the offending food.  These are very different from allergies, intolerances and energy-mismatches which can be going on quite separately in your body.  It takes at least 3 months for the wheat opioids to be out of the body – and at least 3 weeks for the dairy opioids to be released.  Other foods which may create this affect are sugars, processed rice and alcohol.  This opioid effect can create ANY BRAIN SYMPTOM that drugs can…

Wheat Alternatives:

I know – cutting out wheat – what a chore!  But imagine life where your brain functions better, you have more energy, less pain and your memory is fabulous!

Firstly there are many gluten-free products available these days:

  • rice crackers
  • corn crackers
  • rye – ryvitas etc
  • many brands of gluten free breads

Obviously there’s the danger of overloading on gluten free goodies – just because it’s gluten free doesn’t mean it’s healthy!  Read the packaging and also determine how much sugar, how many carbohydrates there are, expecially if weight or tiredness are an issue.

Dairy Alternatives

  • goat’s milk (if kinesiology says it’s ok – sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t)
  • almond milk
  • soy milk – get non-genetically modified
  • rice milk – watch the sugar content – always add protein powder since it’s full of sugar

If it’s a real problem it may be easier to simply find food groups which avoid the need for ‘breads’ and ‘milks’ altogether…

  • quiche with lots of eggs & veggies
  • protein drinks (made with water/fruits)
  • soy/goat milk yoghurts
  • protein & veggies
  • lots of high protein, low carb recipes at http://www.shake-it.com.au/
  • (we have all of the products mentioned on that site…)

Hopefully that helps a little, obviously come in for a larger chat – there may be a lot more to it!!

Madonna Guy ND
New Leaf Natural Therapies
Wynnum, Brisbane, Australia
3348 6098 / 0417 643 849

Tags: ,
Posted in ADD/ADHD, DPP4 enzyme deficiency | No Comments »

DPP4 Enzyme Deficiency? What does it mean??

Saturday, November 19th, 2011

We’ve been working with information about the DPP4 enzyme issues for kids (and adults) this year with some interesting results.  There is an enzyme (DPP4) we release from the intestines, which if it’s not working, foods such as wheat and dairy can create an ‘opioid’ effect in the body.

It is NOT an allergy and will NOT show up in allergy tests. In fact, we find (kinesiologically) that they are totally different things in the body.

Think about anything that happens to people on drugs – slurred speech, hyperactivity, stress, anxiety, paranoia, exhaustion, panic attacks…  and that can happen in people with a DPP4 enzyme deficiency.  It can also create moodswings such as anger to tears and increase violent tendencies.  It can also affect our pain receptors – kids will often injure themselves but not be hurt – that’s the opioid effect.

Because of the opioid effect, it’s a true addiction. We find it in kids with learning problems, autism and aspergers, ADD & ADHD, dyspraxia.

Over a period of time that will exhaust many organs of the body which are trying to deal with this opioid effect on a day by day basis.  Using kinesiology we have found this opioid effect happening due to wheat, dairy, soy (occasionally), sugar, wine and rice.  Once off the offending foods, it takes around 3 months for the ‘opioid particles’ to leave the body – which gives a great window of opportunity for us to heal the gut, detoxify whatever toxins (heavy metals, bacteria, candida) that are inactivating the enzymes and clean up the bloodstream.

When this DPP4 enzyme deficiency is rampant, the gut bacteria gets totally out of whack – the bacteria can change from good to bad and this bad bacteria can cause lots of issues to, such as bloating, burping, belching, wind, flatulence, diarrhoea, constipation. The bad bacteria can create other issues to, for example, they can convert insoluble heavy metals (the type we can’t absorb into the body) into soluble heavy metals (which we can easily absorb into our fat, brain, bones and muscle).

It’s worth finding out if there’s a DPP4 enzyme deficiency issue creating health issues for you or your family.

Madonna Guy ND
Chief Clinician
New Leaf Natural Therapies
3348 6098

Tags: , , ,
Posted in ADD/ADHD, Autism Aspergers, Behavioural Issues, DPP4 enzyme deficiency, dyslexia | No Comments »

ADD, ADHD, Autism, Aspergers, Memory Loss… is your brain inflamed?

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

Brain Inflammation… sounds awful doesn’t it? Did you know that it’s impossible to have any of ADD, ADHD, Autism, Aspergers, Memory Loss without brain inflammation?  It’s an increasing problems these days:

  1. 1 in 12 kids have ADD/ADHD
  2. 1 in 91 kids have autism/aspergers (this was 1/1000 10 years ago…)
  3. 1 in 3-6 kids have allergies (very much linked with ADD/ADHD/Aspergers/Autism)
  4. 1 in 2 people over 50 years old will have dementia by 2030

Scary statistics!

But does it feel like there’s nothing that can be done? Medically it’s a matter of give this drug (a calming down drug) in the morning and this drug (another calming down drug) at night…  not to mention the side-effects and family stress associated with the problems of these conditions.

There are some things we can do immediately to start the process of reducing the inflammation in the brain!  Kinesiology helps us target the correct things for you and your family – not everyone needs every intervention, and that would be exhausting!

  1. Stop wheat, gluten and dairy: many kids have a DPP4 enzyme deficiency which creates an ‘opioid’ effect in the bloodstream which can literally make them act like they’re on drugs!  Hyperactivity, tantrums, exhaustion, brain-dead…
  2. Colourings, preservatives and flavourings: these overload metallothioneine pathways in the liver, the ‘particles’ create the inflammation in the brain, and cause hyperactivity and extreme anger symptoms in susceptible bodies…
  3. Salicylate Sensitivity: often in kids with nasal allergies, red rashes.  Salicylates are an aspirin-like substance that thin the blood (the liver, the skin, the gut – in susceptible people) and can cause huge problems where there’s an issue.
  4. Sugars, fructose, glucose issues: many kids don’t have an ability to break down sugars properly.  Kids foods are soooooo linked with sugars these days, all the pre-packaged spreads and biscuis, tiny teddies, fruit juices, cereals, muffins…  If there is ‘insulin resistance’ the body is not getting the sugar into the cells, insulin is floating around outside the cells – yep, creating more inflammation!
  5. Auto-Immune Components: Through live blood screenings and kinesiology we can find out if there’s the possibility of an auto-immune condition affecting the brain.  Current thinking with Autism (particularly) is that an old staph/strep infection is affecting the basal ganglia in the brain, directly affecting moods, behaviour and how we interact with our world around us.
  6. Heavy Metal toxicity: Lead, mercury, cadmium and aluminium (regularly in medications we give our children such as vaccines) are very well documented to  be a link in ADD, ADHD (lead particularly), Autism (aluminium and mercury particularly), Aspergers and Allergies
  7. LEAP Kinesiology: is a specific process done at New Leaf Natural Therapies that re-integrates the pathways of the brain.  The more toxic the brain is (the more inflammation, insulin, opioid-like-substances, sugars, flavourings, colourings, preservatives) the more likely our brain pathways won’t be functioning properly.  See if any of these problems sound familar for someone you love!

Amygdala stress: the amygdala is a part of the brain that is activated when we’re under stress.  IF we’re stressing, and we don’t get our logical and creative thought processes finding a solution quickly enough, we whip into an old ‘amygdala’ pattern.  (This is the same pattern that people with PTSD and Vietnam Vets know all about)  The amygdala holds patterns of:

  • fight and flight (these can be fully activated or have exhaustion)
  • pain and punishment circuits (kids who are constantly in trouble are easily ‘labelled’ and therefore their brains and always expecting the worst.  This doesn’t help behaviour in any circumstance where there’s always a pattern in place
  • escape, submission, freeze: some kids brains just ’switch off’, they look like they’re ‘not paying attention’ but their brains are just overloaded and they can’t take anymore
  • rage, anger, frustration (need I say more?!?)
  • pleasure and reward centres - switched off!  this creates depression, anxiety, panic attacks, lack of enjoyment with day to day activities

Our Learning Enhancement Programme has been put together to get the best results and to save you $$$.  Ask about our 9 month programme (standard length of time for ‘normal’ learning and behavioural issues).  More complicated health problems take longer to resolve – but we’ll see how we’re going as we go through the sessions.

Madonna Guy ND
Chief Clinician
New Leaf Natural Therapies
3348 6098 / 0417 643 849

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in ADD/ADHD, Autism Aspergers, Behavioural Issues, DPP4 enzyme deficiency, Sensitivities & Intolerances, allergies, auto-immune disease, dyslexia, kinesiology, learning enhancement programme | No Comments »

Age related memory issues

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Brain 2

I found this article today:  this isn’t any surprise to me as we’ve been working with improving people’s memory for many years:

  • insulin resistance (which we can definitely reverse) leads to dementia
  • B12/folate deficiency (not found in bloodtests) leads to lack of genetic protection and our brain can falter.  2000mg-4000mg daily for 3 weeks – if memory improves it can be early onset dementia
  • kinesiology – LEAP – works with working memory, hippocampus, parahippocampus and other momory centres.
  • microcurrent can reduce inflammation in the brain, which causes premature ageing.
  • Stem Enhance for regeneration of any tissue in the body which needs it – increases stem cell production release from the bone marrow.
When reading the following article, take care – chemical imbalances don’t mean drugs.  We don’t have a deficiency of effexor or paxil or valium.  We have nutrient deficiencies – B12, zinc, C, E, coenzyme Q10.  We can find and work with real deficiencies with real tests.
Madonna Guy ND
Wynnum, Brisbane, Australia
3348 6098 / 0417 643 849
THE ARTICLE:

The cause of age-related memory loss — that moment of “where did I leave my keys?” — has been found and reversed in monkeys, researchers announce.

By restoring a chemical imbalance in the brains of elderly monkeys, the study scientists transformed aging brain cells into young ones, capable of sustaining working memory, through which the brain is able to hold a thought for a short period of time.

Monkeys have long been used as a model for human brain studies, and so the results may also hold true for humans, though further research is needed to confirm that.

“This starts to change very early — by your thirties or so, you start to show decline in your working memory. This kind of memory is actually quite vulnerable,” said Carol Barnes, Director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Arizona, who was not involved in the study.

“What’s exciting about this study is the more you understand about how memory changes in different brain regions, the better we will be able to do something about it,” Barnes added.

Monkey brains
The researchers studied working memory in a group of monkeys separated into three life stages: Young monkeys (ages 7 and 9, or the equivalent of 21-27 in human years), middle-age monkeys (12 and 13, or 36-39 in human years), and older monkeys (17 and 21, or 51-63 in human years).

Using special tiny probes, the researchers watched single cells in each monkey’s prefrontal cortex (where working memories are formed and stored) as the monkeys performed a memory task; the monkeys had to remember the location of a treat in a computer simulation for 2.5 seconds, a time short enough for even the oldest monkeys to perform well. If they don’t do well at the test, the older monkeys get frustrated and won’t play anymore, study researcher Amy Arnsten of Yale University School of Medicine told LiveScience.

As expected, the memory circuit in the brains of older monkeys didn’t sustain activity as well as in younger monkeys, even though they still performed accurately at this short time scale. In longer trials, up to 5 seconds, they didn’t perform as well as the younger monkeys.

The researchers knew that a chemical called cyclic AMP played an important role in memory formation in the prefrontal cortex and that too much of the brain chemical could lead to forgetfulness in monkeys and humans alike.

To test if lowering cyclic AMP could help restore brain function in these monkeys, the researchers injected tiny amounts of drugs that block it in the vicinity of certain memory-holding neurons. Then, they had the monkeys redo the tests. The drugs improved the ability of these cells to hold a signal, though because the monkeys were already performing well on the tests, the researchers couldn’t see improvement on the actual tasks.

“If we restore the correct neurochemical environment, they were able to fire like young neurons,” Arnsten said. “It’s very easy for something to be impaired and not work right; you have to really understand what’s going on to get them to work again.”

Tags: , , ,
Posted in ADD/ADHD | No Comments »

Autism, ADHD, Aspergers, Bipolar, ODD: Are we being diagnosed to death?

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

It’s been interested researching the origins of Psychiatric Terminology/Definitions/Diagnosis…  Have you or a loved one been diagnosed with a mental ‘disorder’ that can only be fixed by drugs ‘for the rest of your life?’.  Since the 1950’s new psychiatric terms have been ‘voted on’ by psychiatrists with links to drug companies.   They vote on the symptoms, what should and shouldn’t be included.  Diagnosis change depending on political input and $$$ put in from different Drug Companies.  In order to make the largest amount of $$$ they need to have a new beaut ‘illness’ to prescribe a newer (often repackaged) drug.  It’s a trillion dollar industry.

So many people believe that the diagnosis is lucky to have been found – thank goodness they’ve found a reason for my feeling low, losing my temper, having really bad days…  and there’s a drug to fix it.  Isn’t ‘feeling emotional’ part of being human?  We’re trying to suppress the very thing that separates us from animals!

There are over 70,000 known side effects of psychiatric drugs – everything from death (worst case scenario), dementia, rages, chronic depression, digestive disorders, further ‘mental illness’, non-verbal behaviours and more.

In the U.S.A. children are being screened (questionaires) filled out be children in over 43 states, without parental permission.  Over 50% of these questionaires that give a diagnosis of ‘high suicide risk’ or ‘pediatric biplar’ or ‘ADHD’ send parents to psychologists/psychiatrists who instantly prescribe drugs from the questionaire.

This is scary business.

Being on psychiatric drugs increases risk of child/teenage suicide by 65x.  Is that a risk worth taking?

Children on ritilan for concentration are well known to become addicts to stronger drugs as they get older, snorting ritilan for a ‘faster fix.’

What are we doing to our children?  It is becoming more and more acceptable to put our children (from 2 years old) onto medical drugs to suppress their childhood urges and to stop their ‘moodswings’ which are simply from being a child.

What can we do to help?

We have several specific programmes and solutions that support children:

  • underlying health issues? thyroid? iron levels? B12/folate?  liver function? hormonal issues?  Often we are whacked on a psychiatric drug so quickly that no medical doctor has even thought of taking a look at other health issues.
  • looking at nutrition.  What are we eating?  Are we absorbing our food?  Do we have a DPP4 enzyme deficiency in the gut causing food staples such as wheat and dairy to act like opioids (Drugs) in the body and brain?  We would also prescribe (if necessary, minerals, homeopathics, herbal combinations) depending on what’s going on.
  • is our gut functional? There is a massive gut-brain connection – if the gut is dysfunctional, the brain will struggle.  Are our kids starting the day with only carbohydrates (cereals/toast) which turn into sugar, raise blood sugar, and make them cranky/unable to concentrate?
  • Kinesiology/Microcurrent therapy: the combination is fabulous – it helps to integrate the brain and detox the body.

Call us today for an initial consultation to get you or your loved one started on the road ‘back to health’.
Madonna Guy ND
New Leaf Natural Therapies
Brisbane, Wynnum, Australia
3348 6098 / 0417 643 849

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in ADD/ADHD, Autism Aspergers, Behavioural Issues, Dangers of Medical Tests and Treatments, learning enhancement programme | No Comments »

New Hope for Autism, ADHD and Aspergers: available in Brisbane, Australia

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

New Hope for Autism, ADHD and Aspergers

We’ve always had good success in support for kids with Autism and Aspergers.  Adults are tricker since change is a challenge and we’re all more set in our ways – but, it can be done!

Things we check for (using kinesiology/symptomatology) that can be supported…

  1. is there a DPP4 defect in the intestines? We can see simply and easily if it is working using kinesiology.  Many of the symptoms associated with these health issues can be supported by removing gluten and dairy from the diet.  It needs to be for 3 months minimum – and up to 85% of the symptoms may be alleviated is there is a DPP4 enzyme deficiency.  Worth trying, huh?  This defect means that wheat, gluten and dairy are not broken down properly in the gut, and the partially digested molecules end up in the bloodstream, creating an ‘opioid’ effect, basically acting like a drug in the body…
  2. Is there a metallothioneine deficiency in the liver pathways?  Once again, simple and easily found through kinesiology…  this pathway indicates the liver can’t eliminate heavy metals properly.  In combination with the DPP4 enzyme deficiency (which also converts non-organic mercury/heavy metals into organic/easily absorbed heavy metals) it means we have more heavy metals in the body AND we can’t rid our bodies of them.  These heavy metals build up in the brain and nervous system, stopping the brain from working properly!
  3. We use a combination of kinesiology (from brain integration) and microcurrent (for detoxification and healing) along with nutritional support for our clients with Autism, ADHD and Aspergers.  It takes time, but the journey is worth it…   We would also recommend Infrared saunas to speed up the process of detoxification so that life can become more normal as quickly as possible.

Slowly but surely, the treatment of Autism, ADHD and Aspergers is about getting the gut right, supporting the liver, detoxification of the body, liver and brain…  the statistics show that these disorders are increasing at the speed of light…  let’s get healthy!

Madonna Guy ND
New Leaf Natural Therapies
Wynnum, Brisbane, Australia

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in ADD/ADHD, Autism Aspergers, kinesiology | No Comments »

Most Complete Naturopathic Clinic in Brisbane – Why Choose New Leaf Natural Therapies!

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Why Choose New Leaf Natural Therapies

  • New Leaf Natural Therapies, at Wynnum Brisbane, is the most complete natural therapies clinic in Brisbane, with an abundance of services, treatments, testing facilities available for you and your family…
  • Our team members work towards healing our clients as quickly and effectively as possible.  Since we work together as a team you will probably end up seeing several practitioners, since we all have different areas of expertise.
  • We are the only low-toxin clinic in Australia – we spent a lot of energy researching our carpets, lighting, vinyl (marmoleum), glues and paints, and spent the $$$ ensuring the least problematic environment for you and your family.
  • We have payment plans which will save you and your family $$$ every month!
  • Our team is dedicated to your success.  All of our practitioners regularly expand their knowledge, undertake courses and find out the latest in natural health!
  • We work with ALL health problems.  There is nothing we haven’t successfully treated.  There’s a saying in natural therapies – everything is treatable, everything is possible, but not all clients are ready to take the journey…

New Leaf Team Members

Gabby & Helen are our core reception team – often your first contact with New Leaf.  Gabby & Helen are both practitioners themselves, Gabby offering reiki & kinesiology services and Helen was a remedial massage practitioner in the past.  Both will offer you care & expertise with how to go about finding the right practitioner for what you need at the time.

Chris Shana – our meditation facilitator.  Chris is lovely.  Thursday nights at 6.45 for meditation classes will add a little peace and serenity into your life.  Each week is different.  Chris is also available for spirit drawings and readings.

Prices:$16 casually for Meditation…      Best value are our meditation ‘packs’ – just ask!

Norm Todkill – Norm is a fabulous addition to our team.  With a combination of skills including remedial massage, neural organisational technique, learning enhancement, nutritional & toxin additions and removal, LEAP, kinesiology, Norm can help you out with many areas of your health:  structural, physical, emotional and spiritual.

Prices from $77 per ½ hour      Best value – monthly specials – just ask!

Gabby Graham – Gabby has been doing reiki/intuitive energy healings for around 10 years.  Reiki is an energetic treatment with Gabby has a definite love and passion for.  Gabby is currently undertaking further kinesiology training and is incorporating kinesiology techniques into her sessions where required.

Prices from $60 per ½ hour         Worth every cent for clearing stagnant energy and healing old emotional hurts!

Doug Newitt -  Doug has been in natural therapies for over 13 years.  Having started as a remedial massage therapist he has a gift of looking at the body and knowing where things are out of balance.  With the additional training in naturopathy, allergy testing & treatments, natural fertility and hormonal balancing, skin disorders and weight loss challenges, there is very little that Doug doesn’t enjoy treating.  Doug loves finding dietary and lifestyle changes which impact hugely on the lives of her clients.

Prices from $88 per ½ hour         Best value – join a naturopathic programme OR monthly specials OR Doug’s re-booking policy:

  • Book within 1 week with Doug save 30%
  • Book within 2 weeks with Doug save 20%

Katherine Lynn – Kat is a fabulous Musculo-Skeletal Therapist and Kinesiologist.  Her passion is in finding what is causing a problem – physical or emotional and finding the solution.  Kat is a therapist with a knack for working through past issues, finding what emotional gear is tied up in the subconscious and finding ways of diffusing or eliminating those old stressors.

Prices from $65 per ½ hour         Best value – Massage plan (always saves 30% per massage)

  • Regulars:  book within 1 week, save 30%
  • Book within 2 weeks save 20%
  • Book within 3-4 weeks save 10%

Madonna Guy – Madonna has been a full-time naturopath/kinesiologist/massage therapist since 1995.  New Leaf is Madonna’s clinic – she had the dream to open a clinic which would offer everything she loves about natural therapies, and to do so with integrity and love.  One of Madonna’s goals is to always find the underlying causes of the problems and fix them…  Madonna has many skills due to the fact that if she finds a better way to treat someone, she wants to know about it.  There are no other naturopaths in Queensland with Madonna’s unique combination of skills, techniques and knowledge.

Prices from $111 per ½ hour        Most of Madonna’s clients are on Naturopathic/Kinesiology/Pain Relief programmes which saves lots of $$$

Sheridan Oliver – Sheridan is very experienced in yoga training – as a remedial yoga instructor she takes it to the next level, in a simple, easy and effective manner.  Sheridan has many loyal clients from over many years – try Sheridan and see why she’s stood the test of time in the Yoga Industry!

Prices:  $16 per class / paid in groups of 6 weeks.  Phone her directly

What Do We Do?

Naturopathy is a system of healing that aims to provide holistic or whole body healthcare by drawing on treatment methods from several traditional systems of medicine. Naturopathy seeks to use the natural healing powers of the body to cure itself. It focuses on treating the cause of a disease rather than the symptoms themselves. In the past naturopathy was described as an alternative medicine; however there has been such a massive amount of scientific research in the past 20 years that it is much more mainstream these days.

Good health and wellness is what naturopathic treatment is all about. The main emphasis of naturopathic practice is the belief that the body has an inbuilt ability to strive for health. The role of a naturopath is to work with a person to promote the natural healing of the body. Naturopathy is rooted in the belief that health is more than just the absence of disease and works on strengthening the body’s natural defences.

Just about all disease conditions can be supported through naturopathic supplements and treatments.  There is very little that our team hasn’t treated, and with such a range of practitioners, testing facilities, treatments and skills available, you and your loved ones are in good hands.

Our naturopaths are Doug Newitt and Madonna Guy

Kinesiology: We have kinesiology techniques for just about everything!  Kinesiology is a tool (like acupuncture but without the needles) that helps to find and correct imbalances in the body.  It has been developed over the last 60 years and utilises a combination of techniques – chiropractic, acupuncture, Chinese philosophy such as meridians, chakras & other energies, counselling and brain neurology.

Choosing a kinesiologist at New Leaf is easy:   we all have different skills and different knowledge base to work from, and you simply book in with the practitioner that feels right for what you are going through. If you need to see someone else afterwards, we’ll let you know (your body will tell us!!!)

Norm is a very gentle kinesiologist who brings many years of massage therapy and biochemistry skills and knowledge to your treatment session.  Norm is very calm and has an ability to gently move through big issues and help to alleviate stress and pain from your life.  With the combination of NOT/kinesiology skills he can find out exactly what supplements your body needs, so that you get on track sooner!  Norm’s balances are often very energetic in nature and clients often ‘feel’ his energetic healings. Norm also uses kinesiology to perform allergy testing, allergy treatments, endocrine balances and structural balancing.

Kat has a wide variety of kinesiology skills and is continuing to add to her skill base regularly.  Her technique moves through a variety of nutritional balancing, energetic healings, structural balancing, emotional issues and she, like Jacq, can help you to thread together the issues from the past which are creating current health issues – emotionally and structurally. Kat is also being sought out as a kinesiology teacher – you’re in great hands with Kat.

Madonna is more structurally based than Kat & Jacq.  Madonna’s areas of specialties are NOT and LEAP.  NOT is Neural Organisational Technique, a process which helps to realign the spine, remove whiplashes and cranial injuries, rebalance the foot and ankle muscles, hips and shoulders and more.  LEAP is a learning enhancement process which is great for brain integration.  It works through a series of parts of the brain and gets them working one by one.  Both NOT and LEAP are programmes which take time to work through, but are worth the energy.  3 sessions of LEAP do more for the brain than a year of counselling!  3 sessions of NOT is worth 3 months of chiropractic!

An example of our Kinesiology ‘Balances & Treatments’ are:

Allergy Testing: a protocol to find substances: foods, pollutants, additives which are causing health issues

Allergy Treatments: helps to re-set the body energetically so that it may handle allergens/intolerances better

Celestial Circuit Balancing: do you feel like yourself?  Feel beside yourself?  Your centre of gravity may be out of balance…  this is an incredibly powerful technique to bring your energies back into centre…

Emotional Diffusion: the ability of kinesiology to find old emotional patterns and ‘diffuse’ them.

Endocrine Balancing: a specific balance (from NOT) which re-sets the endocrine system – supporting all of your endocrine organs:  adrenals, thyroid,

Heart Healing: when something has happened in your life, which colours every single thing that you do, a heart healing may be appropriate.  It is a huge balance, aimed at increasing your level of ‘consciousness’.  For high level stress.

Immune System Balancing: this improves the function of your immune system, activates your immune system and reduces stress.

LEAP:  a protocol (over many sessions) which progressively works through areas of the brain.  Memory centres, working memory, auditory pathways, visual pathways, balance mechanisms.

Neural Organisational Technique: a process which systematically works through getting better ‘neurology’.  Can help spinal pain, whiplash, scoliosis, jaw & hip problems, feet issues, shoulder pain & more.

Nutritional Balancing: the body can get confused about what it needs nutritionally.  This process works systematically through the minerals & ensures your body is accepting/utilising them.  Often it’s stress that shuts down our absorption.

Whiplash Correction: long term whiplash issues can be resolved through this process. Whiplashes can start long term health issues such as Chronic Fatigue & Fibromyalgia.

Hypnotherapy/Neuro-Linguistic Programming:  this combination, performed by Norm, is exceptionally relaxing, and similar  to kinesiology helps us deal with, and cope with, stress, addictions, weight loss, fear and/or anger issues, OCD, anxiety, sleep issues and more.  It works through the subconscious to

Our Massage Techniques

Reflexology is a natural healing therapy, based on the principle that there are reflex points in the feet, hands and ears (the feet are most commonly the primary area of application), which correspond to every part, gland and organ of the body. The body is treated through application of pressure on these reflexes without the use of tools, crèmes or lotions. reflexology relieves tension, improves circulation and helps promote the natural function of the related areas of the body.

Reflexology is able to help with many things, such as;

  • Constipation/Diarrhea
  • Impact on physiological measures (Cholesterol, blood pressure etc)
  • Poor blood circulation
  • Respiratory problems (asthma, allergies)
  • Post operative recovery and pain reduction
  • Mental health issues (depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder)
  • Pregnancy (easier childbirth, delivery, post-partum recovery)
  • Stress
  • All over muscle pain and tension
  • Sleeping problems

Aromatherapy uses essential oils which are aimed at improving a person’s health or mood. Many consider this type of treatment as unscientific and wishful thinking – however, scientific evidence of its effectiveness is growing. The essential oils used in aromatherapy have a different composition compared to other herbal products because the distillation used in aromatherapy recovers the lighter phytomolecules.

The theory behind aromatherapy:  It is believed that the inhalation of essential oils stimulates the part of the brain connected to smell – the olfactory system; a signal is sent to the limbic system of the brain that controls emotions and retrieves learned memories. This causes chemicals to be released which make the person feel relaxed, calm, or even stimulated. If the aromatherapy includes massage the effect is to further relax the person.

Remedial massage: When muscles become knotted and tense or damaged, remedial massage provides a healing treatment that can be gentle or strong, deep or shallow. Remedial massage holistically treats the body. The massage therapist endeavours to identify the original biomechanical dysfunction, thus healing the cause of the disorder, as well as the symptoms. Remedial massage uses several specialised techniques to locate and repair damage to muscles, tendons and joints. Massage therapy supports and speeds up the body’s own repair mechanisms. A lubricating edium (usually oil) is applied directly on the skin. This ensures that the muscles associated with the disorder are deeply penetrated. Passive joint stretching moves are also used.

Hot stone massage: Hot stone massage is a fabulously relaxing massage utilising lomi lomi massage and flat hot stones used in various positions on the body in order to relax, rejuvenate and pamper!

Frequency Specific Microcurrent

Very few practices in Australia have FSM and even fewer run FSM sessions the way we do!!!  FSM is a gentle, yet effective tool, originally developed for pain relief with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.  In the 80’s disc regeneration was developed as well, and since then much research has gone in to perfecting many, many pain protocols.

The technology is similar to MRI scanning – but FSM is used for healing and not for diagnostics (great, huh???)

We have programmes specifically for FSM, and most of our naturopathic programmes include 20-80% off FSM treatments.

Reiki

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by “laying on hands” (on or over the body) and is based on the idea that an unseen “life force energy” flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one’s “life force energy” is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words – Rei which means “God’s Wisdom or the Higher Power” and Ki which is “life force energy”. So Reiki is actually “spiritually guided life force energy.”

A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and wellbeing. Many have reported miraculous results.

Reiki is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can use. It has been effective in helping virtually every known illness and malady and always creates a beneficial effect. It also works in conjunction with all other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery.

Our Payment Plans

Our clients LOVE our payment plans.  Why?  Clients on our payment plan save lots and lots of $$$.  The way they work is simple:

  • Prepay a naturopathic consultation OR microcurrent treatments OR learning enhancement treatments OR massage per month
  • AND get discounts off further treatments
  • AND get discounts off further tests
  • AND get discounts off family naturopathic consultations.  It’s definitely Win-Win!!!
  • Naturopathic Programmes: detoxification, wellness, anti-ageing
  • Fertility & Hormonal Programme
  • Pain Programmes using Frequency Specific Microcurrent
  • Remedial Massage Programme
  • Flexible Naturopathic Programme
  • Learning Enhancement Programme (brain integration, dyslexia, ADD, ADHD etc)
  • Wellness Programme (Naturopathic)

Our Testing Facilities

many testing processes are 20-80% off on naturopathic & massage payment plans

Allergy Testing

(using Kinesiology N.O.T. technique – for internal allergens, foods,  external allergens, make-up, cleansers etc)

Blood Group

Candida

Celiac

Helicobacter

Insulin Resistance: are you pre-diabetic?

This test is a non-fasting test which lets us see your Cholesteral, LDL, HDL, Trigs and Insulin Resistance – which is not standard in Doctors blood tests…

Live Blood Analysis: You SEE your blood on the screen – live!!!

B12, Iron, essential fatty acids, liver stress, leaky gut, white blood cell activity and count, parasites, infections, auto-immunity, poor immunity, ‘vitality’, inflammation

Ph – your acid/alkalinity

Being too acidic internally is one of the major causes for miscarriage, pain, skin disorders, exhaustion, heart disease and cancer.

Supplement testing (using kinesiology to ask what your body needs/how much.  We have many years experience in using this technique and it’s why our success is far beyond that of many other practitioners – Jacq and Madonna prescribe only what your body tells them you need!)

Urinalysis

Heavy metal testing, ph – acid/alkalinity, cancer pre-cursors, vitamin C, and more.

Urinary Indicans

This lets us know how much ‘bad bacteria’ you have in your gut.  Bad bacteria causes obesity, exhaustion, digestive disturbances and chronic disease.

VLA Cellular Analysis

We use this weekly to fortnightly  in our fat-loss programme to ensure it’s FAT that’s being lost.  Most weight loss programmes destroy muscle mass and dehydrate the body – so rebound weight is inevitable.  Our programme is successful because we treat the whole body, not just count calories or add up points.  You will achieve success if the programme is followed!

Zinc tally

Zinc is important for over 250 liver functions, every hormonal function, energetic pathways, mood hormones  and more…

Classes Available

Meditation Classes:  are held at New Leaf Natural Therapies, currently at 6.45 on Thursday evenings.  Our meditation facilitator is Chris Shana.  Chris has been running meditation classes for over 10 years.  Guaranteed to add a little peace and gentle energy to your life!

Yoga classes:  are held at New Leaf Natural Therapies, currently on Monday nights at 6pm.  Our remedial yoga instructor is Sheridan Oliver, an experienced yoga practitioner with over 20 years teaching experience.  There is a maximum of 8 people per class, with plenty of one-on-one.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in ADD/ADHD, Behavioural Issues, Cellular Regeneration, Our Practitioners, Our Services, Our lovely clinic - what you ought to know!, Our tests and equipment, allergies | No Comments »

Testimonial for LEAP: ADD, ADHD, Aspergers, Autism, Learning Problems; Pain Relief; Hormonal Balancing for a whole family!! Everything available here in Wynnum, Brisbane!!

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Over the last four years, 12 members of my family, friends, and students have been treated at the New Leaf Natural Therapies Centre run by Madonna Guy and Associates.

Initially I approached Madonna Guy for therapy for my two adopted daughters  both of whom  have severe learning problems due to health problems. A friend, Jen, told me about the clinic because her grandson had had wonderful results with the Leap Programme. Although he seemed just as intelligent as his brother who was a straight A student, he only achieved C’s at school and was totally uninterested in reading.

After just four treatments of the Leap Programme, he began to achieve A marks and began to really enjoy reading. Jen had had severe bowel problems for over 20 years, but Madonna, with her Naturopathic skills and the Leap Programme gave her pain free results.

We gave the whole Leap Programme to our daughter Chrissy who was adopted at 2 years from Brazil, starving and with 4 severe sicknesses that were killing her. She struggled with severe health and learning problems. In grade 2 Chrissy was diagnosed with A.D.H.D with an IQ of 86. Later in grade 7 the QLD Government guidance officer diagnosed her with an IQ of 70-75 (borderline intellectually impaired) with a Reading Age of 8 years.

After 10 Leap treatments her teachers were amazed at the reduction of hyperactivity, improvement in focus and confidence in learning tasks.

At home I was delighted with the marked improvement in household tasks, a new ability to relate to me without tantrums and an ability to show affection towards me for the first time in 10 years.

After the Leap Programme her Reading Age leapt to 12 years. She had previously been diagnosed 8 years 6 months before. In grade 5 in the statewide testing, her Maths came in the bottom 10% to 20%. After Leap in grade 7 in similar testing she performed above average in all areas.

As a mother the change in family stress levels was enormous as a new Chrissy emerged with new confidence and interest in life and learning. Recently our local treating psychologist tested her IQ at 99 with a projected IQ of 118 as her brain function improves. She is now in grade 10.

My elder daughter, Jo, adopted from Korea as a tiny baby, has suffered  from a very severe hormonal imbalance caused by xeno-hormones from toxins received in a factory where her mother worked when Jo was in the womb. Her progesterone levels were 3 at 13 instead of 20 – 100which is normal. This caused excessive and at times uncontrollable bleeding and  necessity of artificial hormones from our gynecologist to try to control the condition which had awful side effects including such severe depression that she was given an antidepressant so she could tolerate the drugs stopping the bleeding. After we changed to natural progesterone cream, her condition slowly improved, but her extremely heavy periods still came every 20 – 23 days. Madonna gave her a product to detox her body, called Zeolite (Natural Cellular Defense – the only one Madonna will use).

Within 2mths she had a normal 28 day cycle. Part of her condition was total exhaustion. At 13 she was referred to a heart specialist. He found that her heart was so strained because of such low levels of oxygen to all the cells in her body caused by the progesterone deficiency, that she had developed a heart murmur.

Recently whilst in hospital, the oxygen levels in her red blood cells were tested at 99%, very high indeed. The heart murmur was no longer present. Her body healed itself when the toxins were removed.

So impressed was I, by these results, I asked Madonna if she could give me a few treatments of the Leap Programme. 18 years ago I had 8 ½ hours of radical neurosurgery for a massive brain tumor on my brain stem and behind my spinal cord. Although I had had three books published and a number of children’s songs before surgery, my life now changed totally. Due to damaged nerves in my brain, my life was controlled by pain and trauma as I struggled emotionally to survive through life with my much longed for adopted daughters but with a damaged body and brain.

In Madonna’s first treatment she discovered that I was operating in survival mode with my brain functioning on the logic side. Gone was all my creativity and relaxation I had enjoyed as a teacher in special education and in mainstream teaching. Madonna not only gave me three treatments but she also taught me brain integration exercises which Chrissy and I used daily after our relaxation therapy together.

I had begun tutoring as teaching has always been one of the joys of my life. My sister, a counsellor at a most prestigious private school, rang me about a little boy needing tutoring. The little boy (Peter) after a year at school had uncontrollable behaviour and could not read at all. His mother was searching for a tutor to help her son over the Christmas holidays.

Peter was already on large doses of dexamphetamine for A.D.H.D but the school could not deal with him unless he was placed on an antidepressant. We decided that I would tutor him three mornings every week and he would have the Leap Programme 1 day a week.

He had been recently diagnosed with Aspergers Disease and his treating paediatrician felt a special school for intellectually impaired children might be a better solution.

As I began working with Peter, I realised that he was a highly intelligent boy with very mature language development but severe brain dysfunction.

After a few Leap treatments I began to realise his potential and interests. I began to capture his imagination. Learning for him had meant fear, trauma, and failure but we were able to change this attitude to fun, fun, fun and success! His treating specialist was totally amazed after 3mths as his Reading Age had improved 2 years and he was so stable even without antidepressants he could cope in his classroom.

The work he received on his Brain Function and his new desire to achieve allowed his reading to accelerate to his real potential so that in 8mths this little grade 2 boy tested at R.A. 11.5 years performing at grade 6 standard.

Many of my students have now received help with the Leap Programme. For me, new horizons have opened up as my tutoring business expands.

At present I am writing a new book which is very practical introducing parents to all the therapies I have found to be most helpful with teaching children with Autism, Aspergers Disease, A.D.H.D., brilliant children and Down Syndrome children .

I heard from a friend’s child recently about her daughter that had auditory processing problems and struggled with Reading and Phonics when I was tutoring her in grade 1. She went to Madonna for treatment with health problems and also had 7 Leap Treatments. She is at a private school giving wonderful support in learning problems. She is now in grade 9 receiving A’s and B’s for assignments and is very motivated to succeed. She is aiming to be a vet; her horizons have opened.

As tutoring and helping children with learning problems is my passion, I can tell you dozens of other success stories. If you choose help with the Leap Programme, your child will Leap over problems in learning.

Marj Lumley.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in ADD/ADHD, Behavioural Issues, Detox, Fertility, Testimonials, Zeolite - Natural Cellular Defence, allergies, anxiety, chronic fatigue, hormonal issues, kinesiology, learning enhancement programme | No Comments »

« Older Entries