Anyone wishing to find out more about their health is entitled to a free short consultation of 30 minutes to chat about how we can help you. During this consultation we may use some diagnostic tools, such as iridology, or tongue and nail analysis to determine what is necessary to improve your health. If you believe our treatments may be of benefit, you may then decide to go ahead with an initial consultation, where we will take a case history of each and every system of the body to find the point of entry of imbalance, or the first incident that began the body’s decline in health. Once we have an overall picture of how your body is working, we can then tailor a treatment plan to rebalance your body.

Testing procedures are followed to determine the health status of each client which are inclusive of iridology analysis, clinical signs and symptoms of nutrition deficiencies, zinc status, urine analysis of heavy metal toxicity, urine and salivary pH testing, candidiasis in blood, bacterial growth in urine, blood pressure monitoring, and finally brain neurotransmitter levels are tested to determine underlying causes of mood disorders. Any further testing determined to be necessary are ordered through pathology.

Iridology is the study of markings in the iris of the eye, which can reveal inherited conditions that may lead to physical and emotional disorders. Over many years, iridologists have "mapped" segments of the iris to correspond with various internal organs, and their ailments.

The purpose of the use of iridology is to uncover health history; not necessarily diagnosing the present. It is a very useful starting point in consultation. Iridology often helps jog your memory about things that have happened, as signs can be seen in the eye of old or recent scar tissue, pertaining to different parts of the body. It can relate to your life, or to your parents' or grandparents lives. It helps to give us a holistic approach in assessing your health.

Each and every client attending a consultation at Cedara House Natural Therapies will receive an iridology assessment.

At your initial consultation, we look at clinical signs of nutritional deficiencies, and use a diet tailored to your needs for correcting your metabolism and aiding in weight loss. We may use nutrient supplementation to repair the gut wall, providing increased absorption of vital nutrients from the diet. Without excellent absorption ability, our immune system suffers, and our energy is depleted, usually stimulating blood sugars to vary, causing sugar cravings and perpetuating further poor dietary habits.

Herbal medicine is used when organs of the body may not be running as well as they should be, either from poor nutrition, or from extenuating life experiences such as excessive stress, or recurrent and chronic illness. Herbs deliver high potency nutrients to the specific organs depending on the herbs we choose. They can have an immediate effect, and often continue to improve the health of the organs over a period of years, if necessary. Herbs are fantastic for killing off bowel parasites, or fungal and bacterial infections, balancing hormonal imbalances, raising the immune system, and unlike medical drugs, have the ability to kill viruses. They are also great for the treatment of adrenal exhaustion, fatigue and tiredness, which include the moods that come with adrenal fatigue such as irritability, depression, insomnia, short temper, intolerance of others, lack of motivation, and many more. Most young mothers with lack of sleep suffer from these symptoms, not to mention people who are overworked, or anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one recently. They can all have similar affects on the adrenal glands.

Kinesiology is used as an effective and versatile tool to identify and correct stress and imbalances in the body, by applying skilled muscle monitoring. This helps to determine underlying illness, treatment regimes, possible food allergies, or intolerances, and progress of treatment. Jodi not only uses kinesiology as a diagnostic tool, but in some cases it is necessary to work on emotional issues that have caused problems and hurdles in a person’s life. In some cases there are behaviours that have been learned as a child, which may be inhibiting normal adult behaviour, and may also be inhibiting happiness in your adult life. It may also be used for treatment of fears, anxiety, or depression caused by earlier events. It is a treatment that has been used world wide with the principles of Chinese medicine to assess energy and body function, applying a range of gentle yet powerful healing techniques to improve health, wellbeing and vitality.

The fundamental premise of Kinesiology is that the body has innate healing energy and is at all times doing its best to care for itself, but sometimes it needs to be helped into a better position to achieve this care.

These energy flows can be evaluated by testing the function of the muscles, which in turn reflect the body's overall state of structural, chemical, or emotional balance. In this way, Kinesiology taps into energies that the more conventional modalities overlook. Kinesiology looks beyond the symptoms. It does not treat named diseases nor does it diagnose them. Kinesiology is concerned with imbalances in the body's energy. In this respect, Kinesiology has close links with the acupuncture concept of energy flow.

In summary, Kinesiology is a non-invasive method, using precision muscle feedback and body awareness that can help to reduce stress and pain, improve performance at school, work and home, in sports, in relationships, and promotes health and wellbeing.

Biomesotherapy is a cutting edge treatment in Australia, where it has been in use in Europe for the past 40 years, it has only just recently been practiced in Australia, with astounding results to date for the most stubborn and painful conditions. Therapeutic uses may be for:

For more information, click on the Biomesotherapy tab above.

Homotoxicology is a modern form of homoeopathy and is the most prescribed form of natural medicine in Germany, where it has been used for over 50 years and is practiced by conventional doctors and natural therapists alike. In fact, 80% of orthodox doctors in Germany prescribe homoeopathic or antihomotoxic preparations for their patients. The efficacy and safety of homotoxicology is supported by close to 100 clinical trials.

Homotoxicology provides health professionals with medicines that complement orthodox treatments and provide the patient with a better health outcome than they can achieve through orthodox medicines alone.

Homoeopathy is a method of medical treatment designed to stimulate the body's own healing processes in order to cure illness. It is based upon the discovery that a substance in small doses may alleviate symptoms similar to those it causes at higher doses. The phrase "likes are cured by likes" is often used to describe a basic concept behind homoeopathy.

Thus, the two cornerstones of homoeopathy are that "likes are cured by likes," and that the remedies are properly diluted to eliminate or minimise their toxic effects.

In Homotoxicology, diseases are considered to be ultimately caused by toxins, whether toxic chemicals, bacterial exotoxins, biological endotoxins, post-traumatic cellular debris and also byproducts of the bodies metabolic processes. Furthermore, disease symptoms are said to be the result of the body's attempt to heal itself and should not necessarily be suppressed.

In Homotoxicology, homoeopathically manufactured combination products are designed to work with the body's defense mechanisms and facilitate the body's elimination of toxic substances. When used in combination formulations, which contain measurable amounts of homoeopathically-prepared active ingredients, they can be utilised by physicians to treat specific conditions. Combination homoeopathic products in Homotoxicology are easy to understand and use for health care practitioners trained within the conventional medical paradigm, as well as those trained in non-conventional medicine.

Homotoxicology is a bridge between orthodox medicine which has a focus on tissue integrity and homoeopathy which has a focus on the systemic effects of imbalance within the person. Homotoxicology can provide a framework to understand its effect at the tissue level, furthermore it can provide health care solutions which may be used alone or used to complement orthodox treatment without drug interactions.

Keep an eye on the website for up-coming dates for in-depth seminars on topics such as those mentioned above. We’ll keep you posted.

Initial Naturopathic Consultation	$95.00
Follow Up Consultation	$60.00
Kinesiology	$70.00
Combination Consultations Quoted on Enquiry

Contrary to popular belief, weight loss is not just a “calories in, calories out game” which has been the belief for the past 30-40 years. There are many factors besides diet and exercise that are commonly overlooked. If these factors are not addressed, often there is no weight change at all, and so you give up, and succumb to weight gain, or obesity for the rest of your life. The key factors that also need to be addressed are stress, hormones, inflammation, adequate rest, detoxification, and nutrient absorption.

Your body goes through a detoxification cycle at night while you sleep, triggered by the lowering of cortisol. This cycle does not occur firstly if you are suffering from excessive stress through the day, or if you have trouble sleeping. Without this very important cycle, you will not lose weight.

Your dietary hormones also must be in perfect balance at all times for you to lose weight rather than gain weight. This depends solely on the balance of food groups in each meal you eat – not the amount of fat, carbohydrates, or calories in that meal – but how much insulin it allows your body to produce. Insulin is your weight gain hormone, which needs to be controlled at each meal. Without this control, you will continue to gain weight, and increase inflammation in your body, speeding up the aging process. Most chronic diseases are closely related to obesity, so it would be wise to get it right, not just for how you look, but for your long term survival and well being.

Specialising in Anti-Aging medicine, it is the natural evolution from sickness medicine. Diseases are being treated, yet people are often not. Anti-aging medicine is the new medical science which has grown largely from the public demanding new innovative ways to stay well, and prevent the diseases commonly associated with ageing and ultimately death.

Scientific studies now dominate the medical literature proving that anti-aging principles are here and ready to be implemented. This form of medicine is no longer fiction; it is fact and is being implemented throughout the United States, and now we have it available in Australia at Cedara House Natural Therapies.

Anti-aging medicine focuses on preventing conditions in the body which speed the aging process such as dysregulation of dietary hormones, growth and sex hormones, inflammation, dietary imbalances, exercise physiology, disease management for diseases such as heart disease, cancer, dementia, and osteoporosis, and finally natural hormone replacement therapy.

This information is absolutely cutting edge, and well before its time. It is designed to bring the body to complete balance, slowing the aging process, and increasing longevity with immaculate health.

Being mentally healthy is a very important part of your health. Imbalances in brain neurotransmitters can cause symptoms such as depression, anxiety, insomnia, irritability, tiredness, sadness, loss of motivation, anger, addictive behaviour, aggression, sugar or alcohol cravings, and many more.

Mental illness such as ADHD, Autism, Alzheimer’s, Clinical Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Dementia, Sleep Disorders and other psychological conditions are examined from a biochemical perspective, the causes are explored, and treated based on individual situations. Heavy metals, toxic overload, nutritional deficiency, inflammation, and a history of stress can all be triggers.

There are a number of brain neurotransmitters, including serotonin and dopamine, all of which need to be in balance for you to feel happy, calm and content. These brain neurotransmitters can become imbalanced when we go through a stressful time, if we are nutritionally deficient such as continually eating a poor diet, or if we have a continual stress affecting us on a daily basis. Depending on the case, these imbalances can be corrected using nutritional therapy, detoxification, kinesiology and counselling if necessary.

Stress is a common feature in western culture, so much so, that we accept it as part of our everyday life. We feel so tired, even exhausted a lot of the time, where you sit for a moment, you know you have to get up again, but you’d do anything to stay there. This is a physical symptom that is associated with mental stress. This occurs because of a deficiency in adrenalin.

Adrenalin is produced when a stressful situation arises, to help you with your fight and flight response, or to get up and get moving when needed. When we are under constant stress, and we have a continual need to produce adrenalin, it appears that we get stuck in the fight and flight response, rushing from place to place, always behaving as if we haven’t got time to sit and rest, never taking a break to relax. This places heavy demands on the nutrients needed to produce adrenalin. If we don’t replace these nutrients in high enough doses from our diet, the adrenalin eventually runs out. This is adrenal exhaustion.

Irritability, snapping at close friends and relatives, short temperedness, not tolerating other people, impatience, insomnia, loss of motivation and mild depression are all signs there may be a problem with stress in your life. If this is the case, you may want to look at getting treated to reduce the stress hormone levels, and to increase nutrients to replace your lost energy. It doesn’t take very long to back out of this situation, but it is a very important one to fix, as it leads to more serious problems, such as clinical depression, chronic fatigue, and as mentioned above, weight gain, and chronic diseases.

Poor libido and sexual dysfunction can cause problems not only for the affected person, but for their partner also, if they are in a long term relationship, making this problem such an important one to treat. Male andropause begins around the age of 25, very slowly male hormones decline, where women’s menopause occurs almost all at once over a 5 year period between the age of around 45 to 55 years.

The sex hormones need to be produced at good levels for healthy sexual function, though there are a few obstacles that can get in the way, such as stress, as mentioned above, which can divert the ingredients for your sex hormones away to be produced into stress hormones instead. The same goes for a healthy menopause and premenstrual tension. Too much stress, usually equates to not enough reproductive hormones, resulting in hormonal imbalance, and many unwanted symptoms such as hot flushes, irritability, premenstrual pain, depression, migraines and more.

Weight gain and obesity will also cause a problem with sexual dysfunction, causing circulatory problems. Good sexual function requires good circulation, and so heart disease and sexual dysfunction are often associated with one another. For this reason, blood pressure medication can sometimes adversely affect male sexual function. The correct treatment would be to lose weight, reduce the blood pressure through correct metabolism, increase circulation naturally, and the sexual dysfunction will often correct itself. There are some very special herbs though, to help raise testosterone and oestrogen levels, which can be used in the interim until the problem is resolved.

Did you know that recent research has shown every aspect of our reproduction is adversely affected by our modern lifestyle and living conditions? One in six couples have trouble conceiving, in one third of those cases of infertility, it is the male who is responsible, in another third, the female is responsible, and the last third both the male and female are responsible. Currently estimates suggest about six percent of men between the ages of fifteen and fifty are infertile.

Preconception care for both partners is the key ingredient in ensuring optimal reproductive health. The good news is, studies have shown that if both prospective parents improve their general health, and if they avoid many common lifestyle factors and environmental hazards in the months preceding conception, they can greatly improve their reproductive outcomes. The most improvement will be seen in the physical, mental and emotional health of their child.

There are certain things that can be done to enhance fertility for females, such as regulate ovulation, balance hormone levels, reduce endometriosis and improve uterine health, improve the health of the ova and ovaries, clear blocked fallopian tubes and improve tubal function, discover and treat hidden infections in the reproductive tract, treat pelvic inflammatory disease, soften scar tissue and adhesions, lessen cervical damage from erosion/infection/surgery, and enhance quality and quantity of fertile mucus. Not forgetting the males, we can look at improving sperm count, motility and health and quantity of sperm.

Following enhancement of fertility, we can then look at conceiving at the right time, producing a normal, healthy and full-term pregnancy, a short and straight forward labour, and finally a bright and beautiful healthy baby with successful breastfeeding. If you are having any problems at all, don't hesitate to call to make an appointment, and come and speak to me about these issues.

	What to expect at your first consultation Clinical & Pathology Testing Iridology Nutritional Medicine Herbal Medicine Kinesiology Biomesotherapy/Biopuncture Homoeopathy/Homotoxicology Seminars Fees
Areas of Specialty... Demystifying Weight Loss Pain Management Anti-Aging Medicine Mental Health Stress, Fatigue & Depression Sexual Dysfunction, Poor Libido Menopause & PMS Natural Fertility Management Disease Management Natural Cosmetic Medicine