Do you have blood sugar highs and lows?  Insulin Resistance can be a huge contributor to pain: causing us to store fluid, become more acidic, be more inflamed… and doctors RARELY find it!

We work with many weight loss challenges in our clinic, and insulin resistance is huge!  We have a small blood analysis machine that tells us on the spot how ‘insulin resistant’ someone is.  This is a pre-diabetic condition which medically doesn’t get picked up due to the fact that it’s NOT diabetes.  Medically (and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with this) they are always waiting for tests to be bad enough to 1. put us on medication; 2. send us to a specialist or 3. operate.

I tell my clients all the time ‘thank goodness they didn’t find anything!!’.  Insulin resistance means that the cells are not taking in insulin easily and/or the internal mechanism of the cell which deals with insulin isn’t working.

One of my clients yesterday has been exercising his butt off, changing his diet and weight hasn’t come off.  Yesterday his insulin resistance was huge (about 6x maximum level for ’safe’ insulin levels - no wonder his body isn’t losing weight.  The small amounts of carbohydrates he’s having (fruits, rice crackers, bread…hmmm, and cereals) are simply storing as fat.  His body can’t handle them at the moment.

By the way, insulin is a very inflammatory hormone when out of whack - it can be a major cause of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and pain.

Luckily we have some fabulous products which help reverse insulin resistance.

Madonna Guy ND

Chief Clinician at New Leaf

If you’re after great remedial massage, then look no further!  New Leaf Natural Therapies would like to introduce our newest team members.  AND join a programme to get your health under control and save up to 50% off your regular massages (for a limited time only!)

Katherine Lynn is our new Musculoskeletal Therapist with a passion for kinesiology and all aspects of health, especially in getting to the cause of each clients problem. With training in the chiropractic field as well as MST and kinesiology, Katherine enjoys treating all conditions, but in particular those of the neck, shoulders and lower back.  Her degree in MST gives such a huge understanding of the human body that booking in with her can only enhance your physical body, head to toe!  See Katherine for issues such as chronic neck and back pain, hip and lower back pain, headaches and migraines, frozen shoulders and more.

We gladly welcome another remedial massage therapist, Cherice Day back to the fold at New Leaf.  Cherice worked at New Leaf prior to working in New Zealand expanding her skills.  Along with her initial diploma in remedial massage training around 4 years ago, she has continued to update her skills with Chinese cupping techniques, reflexology and lymphatic drainage. Cherices’ Hot Stone Massages are fabulous!!!  See Cherice for pain management, stretching techniques, relaxation massage, reflexology, cupping techniques and more!

Bonus:  We have chronic pain programmes available where massages with Cherice and Katherine are 50% off the normal retail price (until further notice)!!!

Hi!  Welcome to our pain site.  Here you will find all sorts of useful tips and hints on what can be done naturally to get rid of pain for good. I’ve been healing people naturally since 1993…  With a combination of nutrition, naturopathy, kinesiology, herbal therapies; homeopathy, massage therapies, natural supplements, frequency specific microcurrent, infrared saunas - and more - we always get to the root of the problem.  Whether people are fixed - is up to them.  We do such a range of naturopathic testing processes that within one hour of testing procedures: VLA - Cellular Analysis; Live Blood Analysis (Hemaview); Urine & other blood tests, we guarantee to show at least 3 things you can improve to reduce the pain…  whatever type.  This is why we started this Pain Website.

Madonna Guy ND

New Leaf Natural Therapies