Good health is your birth right and taking the decision to embark on a natural lifestyle programme could be the best decision you ever made.  But what exactly is a natural lifestyle and what is natural medicine?

Naturopathy or Natural Health is based on 2 principles:-

1 Remove or reduce anything your body doesn’t like (this could be a food, lack of sleep or a toxin for example)

and

2 Give your body lots of what it does like.

Naturopathy is based on working with the body to stimulate your innate healing processes.  Rather than getting rid of symptoms, naturopathy is a method of reversing the disease process. This may involve the return of old symptoms as they are cleared from the body or a healing crisis which may take the form of a cold or flu, for example.

Whilst drugs can be an effective way of managing symptoms and can be life-saving in acute situations, if you have a chronic (long-term) health problem it may be more effective to promote natural healing when possible.

Natural medicine regards symptoms as a sign that something isn’t right, rather like the warning light on your dashboard.  You can plaster it over, but the problem under the bonnet won’t go away by itself.

Cleaning out the oil filters (good bowel function and natural detox), filling your tank with the right fuel (personalised nutrition, exercise and lifestyle) and jump starting your battery (optimising cell and organ function) helps correct any underlying imbalances that can sap energy and compromise function and which precede the onset of symptoms or the later diagnosis of a disease.

Naturopathy is not so much about treating a specific disease but is aimed at empowering you to manage your own health.  By switching on natural healing mechanisms it is possible to help:

  • Reverse the disease process
  • Reduce the risk of future health problems
  • Optimise gene expression
  • Strengthen the body and boost immunity
  • Balance hormones, including insulin needed for blood sugar regulation
  • Improve mood
  • Manage weight
  • Slow the ageing process
  • Boost energy

Contrary to the old joke that living healthily just makes it feel as if you are living longer, good energy and health enable you to pack more into your life and remain active well into old age.