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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Today Alex and I discussed chronic pain with a few callers.. A few thoughts on pain:
1 in 5 Australians have chronic pain at some stage in their lives, so pain management is a huge challenge for many health professionals. Pain can come from so many sources, and is often linked to emotional pain and traumas in our lives: deaths of a loved one, an operation, a nasty viral infection, financial difficulties. Neck and shoulder pain, for example, is notoriously worse when someone is stressed. Eventually this can lead to chronic pain for which medical science has no answers for other than stronger and stronger drug therapies.
Natural pain management works to reduce irritation to the nerves; regenerate the areas which are degenerating and re-mineralise the body. This combination helps to reduce acidity, reduce pain and increase longevity. Drug pain management suppresses the symptoms allowing nerve damage, acidity and degeneration to continue.
New Leaf Natural Therapies has many treatments for pain management: naturopathic supplements; frequency specific microcurrent; remedial massage; infrared saunas; structural kinesiology and acupuncture. It’s time to get to the cause of health problems, not just suppress them!
Madonna Guy ND
New Leaf Natural Therapies
Tags: acupuncture, Cellular Regeneration, chronic pain issues, drug pain management, drug therapies, emotional pain, infrared saunas, natural pain management, neck and shoulder pain, nerve damage, nerve irritation, pain management, reduce acidity, remedial massage, stress, structural kinesiology, traumas
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
We really hit an interesting discussion this week on 4BC (1116) & BayFM (100.3) when we started discussing natural pain options, and we started talking about how long anesthetics stay in our bodies. We had several callers who have never recovered since having anesthetics for one problem or another.
We use Frequency Specific Microcurrent and clinical nutrition in order to remove anesthetics from the body. It can take several sessions and months (or years for some very toxic people) of supplements to remove anesthetics from the body.
Side-effects of anesthetics include liver and gut dysfunction; exhaustion; muscle aches and pains; numbness and neuropathies; headaches and lots more. If you feel that you may fit into this category, give us a call and we’ll talk to you about how we go about removing these substances from your body!
Tags: 4bc, anesthetics, bayFM, Cellular Regeneration, clinical nutrition, exhaustion, headaches, liver and gut dysfunction, muscle aches & pains, natural pain options, neuropathy, numbness, side-effects
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
Well, this week we chatted about a few cool topics:
What can we do to increase longevity (and how can we start reversing ‘genetically predisposed health problems’?)
- There has been very cool research in the past twelve months about genes. And yes, they can be reversed and turned around…have you been blaming your health problems on genes and therefore been doing nothing about them? Well, these days we can look at your blood with Live Blood Analysis and see whether or not genes have been activated. We can tell if your body is chronically inflamed (which is also known to activate ‘bad’ genes) and also prescribe therapeutic doses of nutrients in order to start reversing these processes.
- Keeping your body more alkaline is one of the proven ways of protecting your genes: plenty of filtered water and 6-7 cups of veggies every day!!! The more acidic we are the more chronic disease we have. Simple.
- Maintaining a healthy body weight: this is the one thing that has been known for 50 years to help with longevity and wellbeing. The higher our Body Mass Index is the more likely we are to develop heart disease, diabetes and cancer, just to name a few problems.
Take care, and see you next week!!!
Madonna Guy ND
Tags: alkalinity, body mass index, cancer, chronic inflammation, diabetes, genes, healthy body weight, heart disease, live blood analysis, longevity, reversing genetically predisposed health problems
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Today was great: we had 4 varied calls come in on different topics. We started chatting about Thyroid Issues: we see so many sluggish thyroids here in our clinic. Medically, thyroid issues tend to be undiagnosed until it’s time for medication. This is actually a good thing, however people can feel pretty exhausted for many years before it’s actually found. The thyroid is involved in metabolism, when it slows down, it also slows down digestive function, liver function, ability to detoxify and, as most people know, is involved in weight control. Good naturopaths won’t just ask for you to get blood tests, they’ll take a look and know what’s ‘optimal’ for the thyroid, bring in your tests and we’ll take a look for you!
We also had calls about high and low levels of iron in the blood: high levels is generally known as hemachromatosis, the medical treatment is basically regular taking of blood. Naturopathically, we like to treat the liver and help it cope with the excess iron levels so that it doesn’t cause a problem. Low levels of iron in the blood can obviously cause chronic exhaustion, but is also linked with low blood pressure. Red blood cells with a low iron count are too small, they don’t drop off oxygen throughout your body effectively, therefore we’re also more likely to develop bugs regularly… A great supplement we use a lot for this is Hemagenics, which gives a whopping high dose of iron, in an easy to take form.
We also had a woman with a painful spleen. The spleen is like a big tonsil – it’s a lymphatic cleansing organ of the body, so detoxification processes will help: lymphatic drainage massage with Alison Honour, Bowen Technique with Jacqueline Dekoke or Madonna Guy; infrared saunas help to mobilise toxins and move blood and lymph throughout our bodies are just a few options to support cleansing the spleen. Save $$$ by grabbing a 10 pack of infrared saunas in our clinic.
There was a query again about live blood analysis (see separately under ‘our tests and equipment) and a question about pre-diabetes. It’s important with ‘pre-diabetes’ to start changing diet is a rather large way. See the article on ‘insulin resistance’ as this gives a huge amount of information.
Until next week,
Madonna Guy ND
New Leaf Natural Therapies
Tags: Alison Honour, bowen technique, brisbane naturopath, digestive function, exhaustion, hemachromatosis, Hemagenics, high iron count, high iron levels, infrared saunas, liver function, low iron count, low iron levels, lymphatic cleansing, Madonna Guy ND, metabolism, mobilise toxins, naturopath brisbane, New Leaf Natural Therapies, painful spleen, red blood cells, sluggish thyroid, thyroid disease, Thyroid Issues, tonsil, weight control
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
I did another session today on Radio 4BC with Alex Bernard: the callers asked about chronic sinusitis; magnesium deficiency in the soil (and foods) and a wife with iron deficiency.
The poor girl with the chronic sinusitis has been treating it medically for sometime, with lots of doses of anti-biotics. The problem with anti-biotics is that although it helps in the short-term it doesn’t help the long-term problem – the immune system isn’t functioning properly. Rhinocort and claryntyne seem to work in the short term but long term the problem simply returns – the cause of the inflammation hasn’t been found. What can we do? We can do a live blood analysis and determine how active the immune system is, along with the gut. If there is leaky gut that needs healing before the sinusitis can ever be healed. We can do some food or environmental sensitivity testing and immune balancing with kinesiology. We would also provide some supplementation to really kick the body into action, reduce the inflammation of the sinuses and prevent further damage of the gut.
Another gentleman asked why Australian soils are magnesium deficient. It is my understanding that it’s not just magnesium, but many other minerals as well that are very deficient, and that over 70% of Aussies are magnesium deficient – of course lots of other things deplete this mineral such as coffee, tea, stress, insomnia as well as many drugs.
And with the lady who has long-term iron deficiency, it was asked if liquid iron tonics were better than tablet iron supplements. This may be true except that it’s more ‘dodgy forms’ of iron which cause constipation (the concern) so when naturopaths prescribe iron we use good forms such as ‘diclycinated iron’ which is absorbed without causing constipation. If the stomach or small intestine are not working properly, we don’t absorb iron very well either…we break it down firstly in the stomach and then absorb in the small intestines…
Until next week,
Madonna Guy ND
Another caller asked about iron supplements
Tags: anti-biotics, chronic sinusitis, claryntyne, coffee, constipation, environmental sensitivity testing, food sensitivity testing, gut damage, immune balancing, immune system, inflammation, insomnia, iron deficiency, kinesiology, leaky guy, live blood analysis, Madonna Guy ND, magnesium deficiency, Naturopath Wynnum, New Leaf Natural Therapies, rhinocort, small intestines, tea, Wynnum Naturopath
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
I’ve been thinking how great it would be to be on the radio for years! Having a love of public speaking and teaching people what I know, having any audience has always given me a huge sense of satisfaction. I was a member of Powertalk International for 12 years or so, and now it’s finally happened! Alex Bernard runs a show on 4BC on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and she’s a spicy entertainer who, no doubt, will challenge Madonna into action! November 2009 is our first month on Radio 4BC (AM 1116) so tune in at around 3.30pm on Sunday afternoons and check me out if you want to hear me in action. I’ll be taking calls and look forward to helping people out across the airwaves.
There’s really nothing I don’t help treat (along with your doctors of course!) and as you’ll know it’s always about getting the body back into balance… since I’m trained in naturopathy, clinical nutrition, herbal medicine, kinesiology, learning problems, natural fertility management, live blood analysis, cellular analysis, bowen therapy and much more… there’s not a lot I don’t have experience with, or an opinion about!
Talk to me on the radio soon!
Madonna Guy ND
Tags: 4bc, Alex Bernard 4BC, AM 1116, bowen therapy, cellular analysis, clinical nutrition, herbal medicine, kinesiology, learning problems, Madonna Guy ND, natural fertility management, Naturopath, Naturopath Wynnum, Wynnum Naturopath
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