Holistic Care (Health care & prevention)
How We Can Help
What you can do
Overview
To be healthy our body strives to maintain a balance. This is called homeostasis. It is helpful to recognise what upsets that balance. Homeostasis and therefore our immune system is affected by stress:
How We Can Help
Dental Stress
Preventative Care Program
- Our Oral Health & Prevention Program
- A Model For Health
- Good Health & Holistic Dentistry
- Guidelines for Good Health
Oral infection assistant
Safe removal of mercury amalgam fillings & eliminate toxic metals from your mouth
- Mercury amalgam fillings - an environmental and health issue
- Rubber Dam
- Health Diagnostics and Naturopathy
- Metal Allergy Testing
Detoxification of mercury following removal of mercury amalgam fillings
Biocompatible dental materials (i.e. filling materials that will not compromise your health)
Alignment of teeth to promote clear airway, healthy breathing and comfortable ability to chew
Why are teeth crowded or crooked?
Dysfunctional breathing affects your health in many ways
improve your ability to chew by providing balance
Dental Implants
Improve your smile
Neural therapy
- injuries & illnesses that may have occurred many years ago can still have an affect on your health today. The regulatory system (autonomic nervous system) can be compromised
- meridians run through the body ,including the teeth. An undetected problem in a tooth can have far reaching effects throughout the body (see FDIV2-3.1-tooth-chart)
Postural Stress
Improve airway
Reduce chronic pain i.e. Headaches, neck aches and jaw pain & tension
Correct sleeping posture , skeletal alignment, balance and exercise
Nutritional Stress
Sound nutritional advice
After over 30 years of looking at diet and nutrition and its affects on health, finally I feel someone has got it right.
This is based on 2.5M years of "human research". It is simple, sensible and easy to follow.
It does however defy the standard advice given by the Heart Foundation, Diabetes Australia, the Cancer Council and almost every other nutritional advice we get.
But, after 30 years of following the food pyramid, we are now more obese than ever before, with epidemics in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, depression and a myriad of other degenerative diseases.
Visit the website http://www.primalbody-primalmind.com/ read the blogs, download the podcasts from iTunes and follow the advice. You will feel better physically and mentally.
Assess and advise your dietary intake , assess food sensitivities, advise need for supplementation and absorption of nutrients
Environmental Stress
Eliminate toxins from the mouth
Biocompatible dental material testing (i.e. Are your fillings compromising your health)
Low radiation digital xrays
Assessment of heavy metal and environmental toxins
Emotional Stress
improve sleep quality , the body has a chance to recover rebuild and be refreshed. It also helps you make sound decisions about your food and exercise when you are not constantly tired.
limit damaging effects of night time clenching or grinding which can perpetuate chronic pain conditions such as tension headaches and neckaches and migraines.
Understanding the impact of emotional stress on your health
What you can do
Dental Stress
ensure that your mouth is free of inflammation (bleeding gums), infections and toxic dental filling
- reduce acidity in the body through healthy eating, breathing and exercise
- eat slowly and chew your food thoroughly so that the nutrients can be absorbed.
- regular brushing and flossing
- avoid carbonated drinks, fruit juices and sports drinks
- focus on breathing gently through your nose. Mouth breathing predisposes you to many health problems
- avoid clenching or grinding your teeth
- get plenty of sleep, it helps you make sound decisions about your health when you are not constantly tired.
Postural Stress
involves the way you use your body on a daily basis. Our posture affects our breathing, which is basic to every system in our body. We are also at our best if we move our bodies, that is exercise
- build sustainable, realistic and achievable exercise in to your day that can be part of your life without injuring yourself. We work with Personal Trainers who can design a program for exercise and nutrition.
- review your breathing. We work with Respiratory Physiologists dealing with dysfunctional breathing (see Breathe Well Be Well.doc & Home Based Breathing Retraining Program.doc
- review your sleeping posture. Stomach sleeping is the worst and places strain on your jaw neck and lower back
- review your working posture. Sitting at a deck, at a computer or on the phone can place repetitive stress on your neck, shoulders and lower back
- review your foot structure. Over many years compensations are can alter the balance in your foot structure and predispose you to on-going back problems. We work closely with podiatrists, osteopaths, chiropractors, physiotherapists craniosacral therapists and body workers.
Nutritional Stress
involves the foods and nutrients we do and don’t eat and drink that can upset the body’s homeostasis. Also how well those nutrients are absorbed
- eat nutrient-dense foods that are fresh, free of preservatives, chemicals and hidden sugars
- read labels eg. sugar 4g = 1 teaspoon of sugar, therefore 500ml of fruit juice = 10-12 teaspoons of sugar
- limits alcohol and caffeine intake - both affect blood sugar
- try to balance protein, carbohydrate and fat in each meal
- eat healthy fats
- eat less
- see Guidelines for Good Health
Environmental Stress
involves the affect of all the chemicals and radiation
- minimise your exposure to chemicals and radiation, in the home, work place and in general.
Emotional Stress
dramatically affects your health. We need quiet time
- build relaxation into your day. A time to rest and slow down to allow your body a chance to recover and rebuild from the day’s activity. We work closely with therapists who specialise in relaxation & counselling
- ensure adequate sleep. We work closely with Ear, Nose & Throat (ENT) specialists and sleep assessment clinics.
