"Don’t wait to get sick to get better”. A life lived with wellness, true joy of living, energy and optimism is the most precious asset.
I could say that I am a healthy person, I feel happy most of the time, have energy for work, to learn, to play. I feel positive and can be patient, experience hope and joy.
It was not always the case, there was a time in my life, that I was exhausted, nervous, got irritated easily...had no energy for the most important tasks in life, had no joy in living.
Visited my doctor, a serious disease had taken hold of me, surgery was imminent.
Searching for answers like we all do when desperate, I looked into my most intimate connection with the environment, like animals when sick, I thought of food as a remedy, a healing agent, a way of stimulating my immune system to fight disease, repair my ailing body and get well.
And I did get well, and learned a lot in the process. Today I am a Naturopath dedicated to help others to prevent disease, to get better, to become empowered, to believe in the connection between our health and our environment and that there is a lot that we can do to obtain and maintain our health.
We are accustomed to get all our answers in some kind of pre-prepared package or box: if we are bored we look for entertainment provided by the box in our living room; if needing spiritual solace we try to find it already made inside a building or a book. If sad or lonely, in physical or emotional pain...a pill might do the trick. In terms of food, we teach our children to find comfort and nourishment in the content of boxes or packages prepared by money-hungry unscrupulous manufacturers of ’fun foods’, instead of the warmth of a home prepared meal. Our freezers are packed with boxes of dead foods that stop us from cooking and enjoying sumptuous colours and delicious aromas. Our youth do not know how to cook!
The term “wellness” is often thought of as being “free from disease”; however, wellness is also a state of physical and mental well-being, beyond the manifestation of obvious disease symptoms. Many patients who seek medical help for an illness are actually seeking wellness, although they may not know it. Our current mainstream medical model does not encourage people to seek professional help for the promotion of health and well-being and deals mostly with disease management, not prevention. As complementary health care professionals we are in a unqiue position of being able to provide wellness advice to our patients. Simple dietary, lifestyle and nutritional prescriptions have the potential to improve health, keep people well and prevent disease.
I invite you to join our quiet and irreversible revolution: let’s get back to basics, let’s recapture our health and vitality through a clean environment and simple basic foods. Let’s go in the kitchen and cook up a storm.
I would like to inspire you to use ingredients in your cooking that will offer protection against many forms of cancer, against premature ageing and degenerative diseases.
Further more, I would like to encourage you to embark in the most remarkable preventative medicine there is: preconception health.
Let’s improve the health of the next generation: brain power and better immunity in children and adults can be enhanced with good foods.
Let’s age healthily and with dignity, using foods.
SERVICES
"Don't Wait To Get Sick To Get Better"
Your health is your greatest asset.
What can you do today to optimise this?
TESTS AND EXAMINATIONS
BIOIMPEDANCE ANALYSIS (BIA)
This is a scientifically validated test which assists to design a program specifically for your needs.
You will be connected by leads from your hands and feet and a low voltage electrical current will pass through your body. This is safe and painless, and provides a great insight into aspects of your health such as how much fat and muscle you have in your body. BIA can also help to monitor your cellular health and energy levels.
A very popular marker given in the test is your biological age. Once you start a health building program, you will see the years drop off your cells, and you can become younger than your chronological age.
Nutritional supplements, exercise recommendations and dietary advice will be provided, giving your body the building blocks for maximum health and energy and to ensure that your body is ageing as healthily as possible.
People who may benefit from a program designed using this technology are people who want to:
Manage their weight more effectively
Increase muscle tone and fitness
Improve energy levels
Age healthily
Support the nutrition and health of their cells
Your health is your greatest asset. What can you do today to optimise this?
HEMAVIEW
Hemaview is a form of live blood screening that may help you to improve your health more than ever before.
Using only one or two drops of your blood, the Hemaview testing method will help us investigate the size, shape and ratios of the red cells, white cells and platelets in your blood.
You may have had blood test before, but nothing compares to seeing your own blood live on a screen in fron of you.
Hemaview Practitioners are fully trained to screen your blood an explain how different aspects may relate to your health.
We can work together to develop a dietary and lifestyle plan to improve your health. Not only will you feel the difference, but with Hemaview you may see changes in your blood as your treatment progresses.
Computerised Report
You will be provided with a customised report of the key features in your blood. This includes photos of your blood, information on the importance of these features for your health, and recommendations to improve your health status. Best of all you can keep a recor of your progress and see how your blood picture improves over time!
Hemaview is based on the medical science of Hematology. It provides an accurate and immediate indication of the state of your general health. Hemaview can help your Practitioner to assess you for the following factors:
Poor nutrition
Immune system health
Oxidative stress and free radical damage
Inflammation
Liver health
Seeing is believing!
Hemaview lets you take a real part in managing and understanding your health. Through a viewing of your living blood, your Practitioner may be able to develop more effective health stratgegies tailor-made for you.
Fast, effective, accurate, reliable and totally amazing!
Your health is your greatest asset. What can you do today to optimise this?
IRIDOLOGY
Your Unique Body Map
Quite simply, Iridology involves the examination of the iris. (The iris is the coloured part of the eye.) Each iris is completely unique. It provides the genetic blueprint to the body. People can acquire inherited physical weaknesses that may have affected previous family members. These can be detected through Iridology. By examining the eye, the Iridologist is able to determine a person’s overall state of health and well-being. They are also able to tell which conditions a person has the potential to develop, if they neglect their health.
During an Iridology consultation, I use a torch and magnifier to carry out the analysis. Iris analysis is a completely safe, hygienic and non-invasive process. It is the perfect method of diagnosis for people who may be anxious about undertaking other invasive diagnostic tests. By simply examining the eye, I am able to assess my client’s current state of health and any inherited weaknesses they may have. Iris diagnosis is also a perfect means of assessing levels of toxicity in the body. I have found it to be the most useful form of diagnosis over all other types of testing, such as allergy tests etc. This is because it tells me exactly what that person's genetic pattern is. This is something that will not change during that person's lifetime. It is their genetic inheritance.
Iridology can also act as an extremely useful early warning system. It can alert the Iridologist to the 'potential' a person may have for developing certain diseases and conditions. 'Potential' doesn't necessarily mean that that person will develop those conditions. However, Iridology can be used preventatively in these circumstances. Information obtained can ensure that corrective measures be put in place long before a person would necessarily develop such 'potential' health problems.
As each body is unique, every person I see has different dietary requirements. By exposing a person's weaker organs, Iridology allows me to make dietary and/or supplementary suggestions that will help support those particular areas of the body. As such, I have found that Iridology provides me with the perfect diagnostic tool to prevent the onset of any future health problems.
The recorded practice of iris analysis dates back to the time of the ancient Egyptians. But is is not until the 19th Century that the practice of Iridology as it is known today, was established.
Your health is your greatest asset. What can you do today to optimise this?
ZINC TEST (Tissue saturation)
Zinc Tally was developed by Dr. Bryce Smith of London. Liquid zinc is now recognised as a reliable way to replenish zinc and assess zinc status by virtue of the taste response
Why zinc is vital for your health
Zinc is very important to help us fight infections and diseases in general – current research shows that zinc supplements assist with quicker healing of the cold or flu.
Zinc also keeps the skin healthy; helps preserve eyesight and is also involved with memory.
Is quite common to find markings on the nails of patients with low zinc levels, as the nails, hair and skin need and use zinc.
Over 200 different enzyme systmes in the body depend on zinc to work properly. Zinc is necessary to make many hormones, including the ones that tell the immune system what to do when it is under attack from bacteria or viruses. Zinc is involved in the making of hormones that control growth and for the important male hormone testosterone. The health of the prostate is protected when males have appropriate levels of zinc in their bodies.
Your health is your greatest asset. What can you do today to optimise this?
SOME CLINIC PROGRAMS
The goal of any treatment is to establish and maintain superb health
• BLOOD PRESSURE MANAGEMENT- The natural way
The number of people afflicted with high blood pressure has been described as an epidemic .
Having unchecked high blood pressure, can cause blood vessel damage, negative changes can be seen in the arteries, the kidneys, the brain and on the retina of the eye.
The damaged blood vessels can become so hard that the heart works to exhaustion trying to push the blood in very inflexible pipes and often ends up damaged.
Did you have your blood pressure monitored lately?
You can help yourself to avoid this silent killer. Have an assessment today of your risks and learn how to manage, reverse or prevent the ravages of high blood pressure.
• DIABETES Prevention/management
Do you have a family history of type 2 diabetes?
If you have a first-degree relative with type 2 diabetes you have a lifetime risk of 40% of becoming diabetic yourself.
If you are older than 40 years, have excess body fat, particularly truncal obesity with waist circumference greater than 88cm in women and greater than 102cm in men, you are more at risk of becoming diabetic. Other factors that influence your risk are: Glucose intolerance, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, a history of gestational diabetes or polycystic ovary syndrome, if you are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, Pacific Islander, Indian or Chinese, African American, Hispanic American, and Native American.
Also a low birth weight and/or malnutrition in pregnancy may cause metabolic abnormalities in a foetus that later lead to diabetes.
Do you know what to do naturally to support your body and avoid diabetes?
• LIVER HEALTH
The liver has been compared to a housewife. Always looking after other people and neglecting her own needs. The liver is the filter of the blood and its healthy functioning protects all body systems.You probably heard many times the expression ‘liver – cleansing diet’, ‘liver cleansing in a weekend’, ‘the Hollywood liver…’ Let me tell you: they are gimmicks! Would you like to know why they don’t work? Pls visit www.mariaaugustyn.com.
If you wish to feel healthy and alive, supporting your liver function should be in the top of your list.
• LOWERING CHOLESTEROL...The Natural Way
Did you know that cholesterol (in the right kind and amount) is an important substance for good health?
Did you know that very low cholesterol has been associated with depression?
Do you know if you have a high level of the good or happy cholesterol (HDL)? Often people with a low overall cholesterol that have a low ratio of the HDL are at risk of a cardiac accident.
Did you know that cholesterol reducing drugs can cause irreparable damage to your muscles, robb you of essential nutrients that your heart and muscles need?
Did you know that food alone has the capacity to lower your cholesterol in the majority of people?
• MENOPAUSE
The View of Natural Medicine
Natural therapists view menopause as a normal transition.
Menarche, menstruation and menopause are seen as normal phases which effect women in their passage through life, and which may need supportive treatment.
Rather than encouraging mid-life women to believe they have a disease, most natural therapists (and many like-minded doctors) encourage menopausal women to adopt positive lifestyle changes, good eating patterns and a positive attitude to this phase.
Are you eating appropriately to support this important stage in your life? Did you know that with food alone many women are managing successfully many of the undesirable symptoms associated with menopause?
After a life time of nurturing and looking after other people and putting themselves last, many women find they are tired and exhausted and their bodies are screaming for attention and love. I find that many of my patients due to stress and nutritional deficiencies their bodies are in a state of inflammation and as a result they suffer from many unnecessary pains. Very often during menopause a woman needs support for her nervous system, to help her sleep better, be more relaxed and to be able to concentrate.
Naturopaths use medicines from plants (Herbal Medicine) to support women in all the different stages of life.
Herbal Medicine has a very long tradition.
In the "dark ages" women were burned as witches because they were the traditional guardians of the knowledge of such powerful medicines and the political/religious establishment saw them as dangerous. Take advantage of the knowledge that has been passed on to us today thanks to the bravery of many wonderful women.
Science today has been able to validate the knowledge that before was just tradition.
Researchers in one study found that the wellbeing of mid-life women was related to being physically well, exercising moderately, having a positive attitude to menopause and feeling happy.
Exercising, even once per week, was associated with fewer symptoms, as were positive relationships and friendships.
Hormonal status was not the relevant feature of a positive menopausal experience
• CHILDREN'S OPTIMAL DEVELOPMENT
Did you know that the frontal part of your child’s brain, the part that is involved in reasoning and problem solving, does not finish developing until s/he is about 20 years old?
Did you know that the brain needs the right kind/amount of fats to be able to develop correctly?
Is your child able to metabolise all the nutrients from the good diet that you give her/him? Is your child a fussy eater? Is s/he getting sick too often? Would you like your child to get better from all the normal childhood diseases with ease and speed? Let’s support your child if s/he has learning or behavioural difficulties, autism, bed wetting, ADD/ADHD, “growing pains”, etc
Would you like to feel that you are giving your child the best opportunity to develop into a beautiful and intelligent human being?
• DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, STRESS
Psychodynamic influences (e.g., chronic stress, especially early childhood loss or deprivation), biologic factors (e.g., alteration of neurotransmitters including serotonin, acetylcholine, and catecholamines), and genetic predisposition (a recently identified gene called SERT that regulates serotonin, has been linked to depression) are all factors in the aetiology of many mood disorders.
Other aspects contributing to mood disorders include amount of light exposure, sleep disturbances, degree of social isolation, and nutritional deficiencies (e.g., of folate and omega-3 fatty acids).
Many patients that suffer from mood disorders like depression, report a precipitating stressful life event preceding their symptoms; the mood disorder can be immediate or delayed following a trauma such as loss of a loved one, abuse, or a natural disaster.
Mood disorders like depression can also be precipitated by other medical conditions (e.g., myocardial infarction or cancer), as well as certain medications (e.g., antihypertensive, cholesterol lowering drugs, and some heart medication).
Are you getting all the nutrients that you need to control mood disorders? Did you know that there are many herbs that can be used to help you go through it? Counselling and conventional medication are sometimes needed, but good nutrition can provide the rest of the support and wellbeing that you need. Be helped and supported gently and efficiently.
• CONCEIVING A HEALTHY BABY
Preconception is a very important time to prepare the mother’s body for one of the most important tasks in the life of a woman: the creation of life. Many health issues, from minor debilities to life threatening malformations can be avoided through good nutrition during preconception. If the mother has enough folic acid during the month prior to conception, chances of the malformation called spina bifida are minimised.
It is believed that probably more than 50% of miscarriages are caused by the poor quality of the genetic contribution made by the father. The pain and disappointment of miscarriages could be avoided if the health of the father is brought up to a level of excellence before conception.
In a study of some 1500 couples that participated in a health building program before conception produced children with IQ’s well above average.
Wouldn’t you like to do your best on behalf of your child?
• PREGNANCY AND LACTATION CARE
The good work does not end at conception, during pregnancy a mother’s wellbeing is the best health insurance policy.
To keep a pregnancy enough zinc is needed, to avoid preeclampsia magnesium should be looked at, as well as the general diet of the mother.
To prevent postpartum depression there are key nutrients that the mother should make sure to have enough, as baby’s needs are met before the mother's and she can be severely depleted.
There are many herbs (powerful but safe) that can be used during pregnancy and lactation. These plants have supported women throughout the ages, and the long tradition of their use has been preserved in the hands of qualified Herbalists and Naturopaths.
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QUALIFICATION DETAILS
Bachelor of Health Sciences (Naturopathy) - University of New England
Advanced Diploma of Naturopathy
Diploma of Botanical Medicine
Diploma of Nutrition
Diploma of Homoeopathy
Remedial Massage Therapist
Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training
MAP
Herbalists, Homoeopaths, Iridologists, Naturopaths, Nutrition, Remedial Massage, Remedial Therapies, Weight Loss
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