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Do you suffer from heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, chronic fatigue, arthritis, asthma or other chronic and degenerative diseases? Progression of these diseases can be stopped or even reversed with intensive lifestyle changes. The therapies we offer can improve your Nutritional status, help you manage Stress, improve your sleep, bring your hormonal system into balance, improve gut health, reduce obesity, reduce inflammation and optimise detoxification processes. Our expertise and knowledge in providing individually tailored programmes really can help you to become disease free. In the United Kingdom, every hour, someone dies from cardiovascular disease. Collectively chronic diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity affect more people and claim more lives than any other illnesses in the world. Coronary heart disease, prostate and breast cancer, diabetes and obesity account for 75% of healthcare costs, yet the progression of these diseases can be stopped or even reversed with intensive lifestyle changes. While diseases such as coronary heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, chronic lung disease may manifest in very different ways, the same fundamental mechanisms drive the disease process. Chronic disease is the result of an individual’s response to their environment. Remarkably, we live in a culture where costly and risky approaches such as drugs and surgery are considered conventional care for sufferers of chronic disease yet safe solutions to the problem, in the form of nutritional therapy and lifestyle change are often labelled as radical therapies. Low cost, low risk, simple dietary and lifestyle changes (Therapeutic lifestyle change or TLC) have the power to prevent and reverse the major chronic diseases. In fact accumulating evidence and several best practice guidelines suggest TLC should be the first choice of therapy for diseases such as:
The key external influences which impact upon our health are Nutrition, Activity, Stress, and Sunlight. The key internal, physiological influences are Hormone Balance, Inflammation, Gut Health, Detoxification and Insulin resistance. The therapies we offer can improve your Nutritional status, help you manage Stress, improve your sleep, bring your hormonal system into balance, improve gut health, reduce obesity, reduce inflammation and optimise detoxification processes. |
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Massage Therapy
Massage can help to release chronic muscular tension and pain, relax and tone the muscles, improve circulation, improve lymph flow, increase joint flexibility, reduce mental and physical fatigue and stress, promote faster healing of injured muscular tissue, improve posture and reduce blood pressure. Massage is also known to promote better sleep, improve concentration, reduce anxiety and create an overall sense of well-being. Massage is the quickest, surest way to create a sense of relaxation and well-being. It is comforting, soothing, reassuring and makes us feel happy. A regular massage will maintain vitality, promote healing and keep muscular tension at bay. We offer several styles of massage; Aromatherapy, Deep Tissue, Hot Stone, Indian Head, Pregnancy, and Swedish.
Reflexology
Reflexology is a therapeutic method of improving health by stimulating predefined pressure points on the feet and hands. This controlled pressure alleviates the source of the discomfort. In the absence of any particular illness or abnormality, reflexology may be as effective for promoting good health and for preventing illness as it may be for relieving symptoms of stress, injury, and illness.
Reflexologists work from maps of predefined pressure points that are located on the hands and feet. These pressure points are reputed to connect directly through the nervous system and affect the bodily organs and glands. The reflexologist manipulates the pressure points according to specific techniques of reflexology therapy. By means of this touching therapy, any part of the body that is the source of pain, illness, or potential debility can be strengthened through the application of pressure at the respective foot or hand location.
I offer various forms of Reflexology practice, including: Classic Foot and Hand Reflexology, Vertical Reflex Therapy (VRT), Nerve Reflexology and Maternity Reflexology.
Nutritional Therapy
The foods that we consume play more of a role in our health than perhaps anything else. The saying, “you are what you eat”, is very true and good nutrition leads to a healthy body and a sound mind.
Nutrition is the science that establishes the relationship between a person’s diet and their levels of health. As a fully qualified nutritional therapist I can advise you on dietary and nutrition matters relating to your health. Following a good diet can have an incredible effect on your quality of life and hence Nutrition is one of the most important things to consider in your life.
After all it is not the number of years in your life that matter, but the life in your years.
Within this therapy I offer the following: Nutritional Therapy, Dietary Advice, Iridology, Detoxification Programmes, Healthy Eating Workshops, and Individual Coaching .
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