Apr 28

There are real reasons for poor diagnosis, medically, of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Fibromyalgia.  Think about what happens in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia – medically there is often nothing outstanding in the blood tests, slight variations in iron levels, liver function, but nothing conclusive.  There may be a little rise in inflammatory signs, and yet medically this will be blamed on ‘fighting a bug’, ‘pain’ or ‘being tired.’

Anything that slows down metabolism, makes the blood supply sluggish, upsets the liver and digestive tract can be involved in chronic fatigue. Isn’t it time to start dealing with the reasons, one by one, and get your life back on track??

Here are various reasons for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia and what tests we do to confirm/deny this is a problem for you.

  • the body is too acidic (urine test)
  • the body is inflamed (live blood analysis and cellular analysis/VLA)
  • heavy metal toxicity (urine test)
  • candida (blood)
  • celiac (blood)
  • helicobacter (blood)
  • insulin resistance (blood)
  • low HDL cholesterol levels (blood)
  • fungal and mould spore infestations (blood & kinesiology)
  • allergies/intolerances (live blood analysis & kinesiology)
  • general toxicity (live blood analysis & cellular analysis/VLA)
  • tooth toxins/amalgams
  • scar tissue toxins
  • environmental allergens & intolerances (kinesiology)
  • endocrine issues – thyroid, adrenals, sex hormones (kinesiology)
  • adrenal stress (kinesiology/blood)
  • emotional stress/post traumatic stress syndrome
  • poor immune system (live blood analysis)
  • geopathic stress
  • electromagnetic stress (kinesiology)
  • viral and bacterial load (live blood analysis & urine test)
  • parasites (live blood analysis)
  • digestive issues and leaky gut syndrome (live blood analysis)
  • poor diet
  • smoking, drugs and alcohol

You can see why the one-reason-fits-all ’cause’ that they’re looking for medically doesn’t work.  In all of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia clients we see, there has been a combination of causes that we find through our various testing processes.

Our naturopaths all have experience in dealing with these causes, can recommend treatments to help speed up the healing processes and will recommend lifestyle changes that ultimately will save your cells!

Madonna Guy ND, Naturopath, Wynnum, Brisbane, Australia
New Leaf Natural Therapies  07 3348 6098
healthteam@nlnt.com.au

Feb 2

The digestive tract is the first out of four of our body’s major filters: the first of the Foundations of Health!

Would you have ever considered that chronic pain can be linked with poor digestion?  Well, let’s take a look at components withing the digestive tract and symptoms which are linked to pain:

  • parasites,
  • lack of good acids to break down foods,
  • small intestine bacterial overgrowth,
  • viral and bacterial particles,
  • undigested food particles.  All of these create ‘bad acids’ in the body

Symptoms of poor digestion are huge and include the obvious symptoms of:

  • bloating, burping, belching, wind, flatulence, diarrhoea, constipation
  • reflux and heartburn
  • allergies: eczema, dermatitiis, hayfever, sinusitis
  • chronic coughs
  • headaches and migraines
  • chronic  fatigue and fibromyalgia, just to name a few…

Just about any long term health condition is linked with poor digestion: think of bones and muscles - what are they made out of: we are what we eat, but moreso, we are what we digest!  So if we can’t break down our proteins and fats, we can’t repair our muscles and nerves.  If we can’t break down our veggies and fruit, we can’t utilise the nutrients and keep our cells clean and healthy.  Get the picture.  Digestion is everything.

It takes many months to cleanse the digestive tract properly…  Parasites, for example, can be everywhere:  the gut, the liver, the bloodstream - the more we have the longer it takes.  We can even have parasites in the brain and nervous systems, so it’s not something that can done quickly.  In fact, the killing off of parasites, the process itself needs to include natural anti-inflammatory substances and immune boosting substances since the membranes of the parasites release about 30x more toxins than the parasites themselves.

Parasites, fungus, candida and bacterial overgrowth can all take some time to cleanse, and then we start the process of healing the leaky gut.  Then we start to deal with the liver, once the gut is feeling strong enough to cope with the onslaught of toxins we’re about to release through the liver.

All in all it really does take 9-12 months of taking you step-by-step through the process…  but the digestive process itself takes about 3 months or so (although if the leaky gut has been long-term some gut support can be recommended long-term…)

Take care,
4BC’s Madonna Guy ND & Jacqueline Dekoke ND
New Leaf Natural Therapies
07 3348 6098
www.newleafnaturaltherapies.com.au

Feb 1

Cleaning Your Body’s Filters (the Foundations of Health) is crucial for long-term pain relief:  these are your digestive tract (stomach, small & large intestine); your liver; your immune system (lymphatics & spleen) and your kidneys.  These work from one to another and if one is clogged, the others can’t possibly function properly. Long-term pain relief needs to be a full body process, the better it functions at this core level, the less pain we’ll be in!

For long-term pain relief these Foundations of Health filters must be cleansed and kept cleaned.  To cleanse the Foundations of Health properly takes time, and most cleansing products and programmes barely even touch the surface, and pain continues.

What do we feel when we are in pain?  Aching in the muscles and bones?  Burning acidic pain?  Throbbing, stabbing pain?  A constant nagging in the nerves and muscles?  It doesn’t matter what a condition is diagnosed as: fibromyalgia, frozen shoulder, peripheral neuropathy, arthritis…  when it comes down to it our bodies are not functioning properly, we’re not cleansing our Foundations of Health and toxins and acids are building up in our body - when these toxins and acids can’t be released, they attach to the muscles, nerves, bones, spinal cord, cell membranes - these degenerate and deteriorate these tissues and cause pain.  These toxins then lead to other chronic health problems such as depression and stress, anxiety, weight gain & obesity and more.

Last week we had a clients with a combination of Frozen Shoulder and Peripheral Neuropathy.  Within 2 treatments of Frequency Specific Microcurrent - reducing inflammation in the nerves, joints and muscles, there has been significant pain relief and more movement!  It will be sometime until she is well, but we have already started the detoxification process in the nerves and muscles.  Medically this would never happen, and pain drugs are the only option.  Scary huh?

In my next blog I’ll talk about the parts to cleansing these Foundations of Health and again, why it is so necessary!

Until then,

Madonna Guy ND
New Leaf Natural Therapies
07 3348 6098
www.nlnt.com.au

p.s. Our Foundations of Health Programme is a 9-12 month programme designed to cleanse these systems; reduce weight and pain; increase health and vitality; and extend life!  Both myself and Jacqueline Dekoke ND are fully trained in taking you through our programme.  The programme includes specialised supplementation, treatments such as Frequency Specific Microcurrent; various detoxifying massage processes such as Lymphatic Drainage and Remedial Massage with our fantastic therapist Alison Honour; Infrared Saunas to pull toxins out of every cell in the body and more.

Nov 28

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

Nov 27

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

Nov 25

Kinesiology: What is it??

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

Nov 25

Our Fat-Loss Programme

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

Nov 25

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Oct 20

Have you heard of SIBO??  Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth???  It’s been found that 80% of people with Fibromyalgia and 100% of people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome have SIBO.  It’s hard to detect medically and I find this statistic totally incredible.  It doesn’t surprise us at New Leaf since these clients generally require fairly big detoxification processes (gently and long-term).  The major filters of the body are nearly always exhausted (ph is too acidic, digestion not working, liver not filtering properly, and kidneys generally damaged…).  So get your gut checked out - it’s very easy to have candida, celiac, helicobacter & parasites checked for, and the process of ridding your body of these (NOT WITH DRUGS AS THIS CAUSES MORE ISSUES) will make a huge difference to your health, long term.

Sep 4

How to Get Rid of Stress - today I’ll give some Natural Pain Treatments that really work! Of course I say this with 15 years of naturopathic experience with a huge emphasis on nutrition and body work!

1.  Have you ever tried magnesium for stress and pain relief? There are many brands I find good (many are total rubbish - some simply are a waste of energy).  Why magnesium?  When we are stressed we chew up a huge number of minerals and vitamins at the speed of light.  We use heaps of magnesium, potassium and calcium, lots of B vitamins just for a start.  When our body is running on adrenalin, noradrenalin and cortisol we also can get quite acidic bodies (probably due to losing our minerals) which leads to chronic disease and chronic pain.  Our body used magnesium, calcium and potassium to help our bodies stay more alkaline, if we are deficient in magnesium and other minerals (like 70-80% of the human race) than our bodies slowly but surely start to be more and more acidic, which is linked to heart disease, cancers, arthritis and dementia!

Scary huh?  However, it’s easy to add magnesium.  I recommend a product called Metagenics Fibroplex or CardioX which both have an easy-to-absorb magnesium which gets into the cells pronto!  It makes us more alkaline, helps our nervous system heal faster, helps in reversing insulin resistance (a side-effects of long-term-stress) and much more!  It’s also excellent for Frozen Shoulder, Back and Shoulder Pain, Sciatic Pain and more.  It was originally developed for Fibromyalgia and it is fantastic for that long-term health problems! AND - if your body is magnesium deficient it can take up to 4 months at high doses to get enough into your system so that you’ve re-established levels in your muscles, bones, nerves and blood supply.

2.  Let’s briefly look at diet - the D word!!!  What does diet have to do with stress??  So Much!!!  Doctors really miss the boat here - there are connections with every hormonal  issue in our bodies… if we are not getting enough good fats (fish, avocados, LSA - linseed, sunflower and almonds) for essential fatty acids), green leafy vegetables for anti-oxidants and minerals, healthy organic and free-range meats, eggs and dairy products for protein, than we don’t have the ingredients to make our hormones.  If we eat too many carbohydrates - grains, starchy vegetables (potatoes, pumpkins, carrots - yes carrots!), sugars - natural and refined) than our body releases a lot more insulin, which increases adrenalin and cortisol (our stress hormones), makes us more acidic and throws our blood sugar levels into chaos.

As a general rule of thumb, for a long and healthy life, we need to have approximately even amounts, per meal of:  Fats + Protein = Carbohydrates…  Sound easy??  If we need to lose weight, we need to use the Keto Diet see www.ketodiet.com.au

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