Alison Honour is the new remedial massage therapist at New Leaf..  Pain can be helped long term with many types of massage treatments and it takes an experienced and well-qualified therapist to know how to help you!

We’re trialling Alison for the next few months to see how she goes.  If the first few weeks are any indication, she’s doing well, next week is packed and the week after getting very busy as well.  We’ve had re-bookings by many clients already (very impressive).  No surprise I suppose since she has 5 diplomas qualifications in massage therapy:

• Diploma of Remedial Massage
• Diploma of Remedial Therapies – Reflexology
• Diploma of TCM Remedial Massage ( An Mo Tui Na)
• Diploma of Oriental Massage – Shiatsu
• Diploma of Sports Massage
• and has 3 years training in Acupuncture as well.

Alison also does Hot Stone Massage (mmmmmm..); Pregnancy massage; facials; deluxe facials using frequency specific microcurrent and much more.  With Alison’s history in competative sports she has a great knowledge of the human body, how it performs under stress and what it needs to get well after injury.  She has worked closely with Fibromyalgia Clients, Bowel Cancer Clients; sporting injuries along with people who just need some relaxation.  With 3 years training in acupuncture she has an overall health perspective you’ll get from few other massage therapists!

She’s great, come on in and give her a try!

Madonna Guy ND, Naturopath, Wynnum

Key highlights of November’s Pain Seminar at New Leaf Natural Therapies were interesting…  Attendees were from different walks of life, with varying levels of pain and inflammatory conditions: gut pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia, exhaustion & chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, menstrual pain, insomnia, depression and anxiety…

When you put it all together pain, regardless of the type, comes from the same causes which were discussed:

1. chronic nutritional deficiences such as magnesium, calcium, potassium and B vitamins
2. inflammation
3. acidity
4. toxicity
5. structural imbalances and
6. stress… leading to the fight and flight response

Our clinical and scientific testing processes can measure these problems and then our naturopathic supplements and treatments can start to reverse these problems in the body.

Madonna Guy ND
Chief Clinician

Kinesiology: the definition of kinesiology is a little tricky since there are so many forms, developed with different processes in mind.  In general kinesiology is about muscle movement and muscle testing, therefore we use muscle testing to find out what’s going on inside the body.  We use different ‘muscle testing’ techniques depending on who we are treating and what we are treating them for.

Kinesiology was developed originally in the 1950’s by renegade chiropractors in the U.S., who were sick to death of treating the same condition week in, week out.   George Goodheart went to China and learned acupuncture philosophy, so acupressure and acupuncture meridians, points, and emotions are highly integrated within most kinesiology models.

Physios used ‘kinesiology’ techniques in the 1950’s as well to find out how damaged a persons muscles were after a bout of polio, or after the polio vaccines, so we add in the structural muscular knowledge from this side of medicine as well.  Richard Utt, Gordon Dickson ND & Charles Krebs PhD all developed various kinesiology processes which have created the overall process now known as LEAP (Learning Enhancement Advanced Acupressure) system which helps people with learning problems, memory issues, behavioural problems such as ADHD, ADD, Aspergers, Autism and more. 

Carl Ferrari D.C. combined chiropractic with Touch for Health and other modalities to develop N.O.T. (Neural Organisational Technique) which is fabulous in re-booting the nervous system from head to toe, supporting long-term issues such as whiplashes, jaw and hip problems, scoliosis and more.  Both Linda Hoggard ND and Madonna Guy ND have been using N.O.T. since 1996 and have found it invaluable in treating long term health problems such as chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.  Jacqueline Dekoke ND is the primary practitioner dealing with finding allergies, dealing with sensitivities and helping overcome long term immune system issues with the Endocrine and Immune Balancing processes.

All of our kinesiologists are also naturopaths so we utilise our knowledge within both spheres to ensure people get the most out of our treatments.  The types of kinesiology that we do are very non-invasive: we may find a time-line that’s important to clear (ie, father unwell at 8 years old, creates a fear pattern in our brain around loss or lack of security for example) but we don’t delve on these old patterns very long, we simply store the information and move on, clearing the stressors as we find them.

Madonna Guy ND

Chief Clinician at New Leaf Natural Therapies

We use a really cool system in our fat loss programme – a machine which lets us know EXACTLY what is going on with your body composition, each and every step of the way!  Your body composition is the key to longer-lasting fat-loss!  It’s simple, we want you to maintain OR ADD TO your muscle mass, and we want you to decrease fat mass and excess cellular fluid.  Our practitioners:  Madonna Guy ND, Jacqueline Dekoke ND and Linda Hoggard ND all have specific training in Bio-Impedance Analysis – which accurately measures your body composition.  Our girls also know when things are going wrong on the road to good health – have you been stressed, sabotaging yourself, given up on exercise.  Our weekly sessions keep you motivated and up and running so you get trim and stay trim long term.

The number on the scales is just a number.  Imagine this scenario: I hopped on the scales on Saturday and only weighed 200g less than the week before (bummer) – when I did the Bio-Impedance Analysis, however, I found that my fat mass had reduced by 700g and my muscle mass had increased by 500g.  So it was only a net loss of 200g.  The brain only wants the number (of course) but people get that and so much more with us!

Our fat-loss programme is designed to prevent thyroid disease, hashimotos, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and much more.  Come on in and give it a try!

Madonna Guy ND

We’re having a few small talks in November 2009, about pain drugs – getting off the pain drug merry-go-round!  Sounds like a familiar story for someone you know and love?  Or you maybe?  Without drugs life just isn’t worth living, but with the drugs it’s not much chop either??!!

Pain drug useage is so common, people don’t think twice about it.  Panadols are $2 for 24 tablets – how easy it is to get addicted to these drugs and what are they doing to our health?  An aspirin a day for the Over 50’s; so many people on blood thinners, blood pressure tablets, pain killers, many drugs which are seen to be as life-long habits.  One per day.  Easy.  Not that we’re saying get off your drugs, but there are other alternatives which many doctors and specialists simply don’t know about.

The problem with the body is that everytime we take a drug we are not just affecting the system we want to affect.  Blood thinners don’t just thin the blood, they thin the gut lining (often causing leaky-gut which we see easily in our live blood analysis) too.  Blood pressure tablets aim at slowing blood pressure, but it often causes side effects such as weight gain and exhaustion.  Pain drugs numb the pain but don’t fix the problem. 

What’s the solution?  Come along to our free talk on Wednesday morning or Thursday evening, meet Madonna & see what New Leaf Natural Therapies has to offer!

Everyone gets $150 bonus for attending – can you pass that up??

Madonna Guy ND

Chief Clinician at New Leaf

How often do you hear from someone that ‘it’s in the genes!’ - heart disease, diabetes, blood pressure: no more can we use that excuse!! Read on…

So much is now known about the ageing process that wasn’t known 15 years ago.  It’s what I love about current research and attending symposiums on genetic research, true anti-ageing ‘medicine’ and reversing chronic disease.  This is what we do here at New Leaf.

We have technology such as Frequency Specific Microcurrent which helps reduce inflammation, pain and chronic disease patterns, we use supplements which increase Stem Cell Production, we have supplements which gently repair and regenerate areas of the body, brain and nervous system.  We have listened and learned from experts all around the world who are using natural therapies to reverse dementia, depression and type II diabetes.

We can see in our live blood analysis when people already have a ‘dodgy gene’ activated within their immune system.  What’s really exciting is that seems to take 3-4 months to reverse.  Studies in the USA show that we can reverse 70-80 dodgy genes every 3-4 months with a healthy lifestyle, supplementation and a good mental attitude.  There’s a particular white blood cell called a monocyte which should have only 1 nucleus.  When it has 2 or more nucleii, it means we’re on a downhill slide of ‘dodgy gene activation’.  It is very well known now, that just because we have the gene for something, doesn’t mean we will get the disease.  The disease must be ‘activated’ somehow, usually by our diets and lifestyle.

Some medications at the symposium in June 2009 were mentioned as being drugs which activated dodgy genes in many study participants.

We are confident that a healthier way of life is available to everyone on the planet.  We know from experience that 99% of people can be helped.  We look forward to nurturing many clients in years to come take their health to a level they never thought was possible.

Madonna Guy ND

Chief Clinician at New Leaf.