Intermittent fasting – simply the best way to keep healthy!

First what is intermittent Fasting?

There are so many ways to do this, some people fast for a few hours or a few days – but research is showing that we are better off eating within an 8-10-hour period. What this means is that you simply skip a meal.

What I have found over the last 10 years of doing this is that Breakfast for most, is the easiest meal to skip. Making sure you have lots of fluids to keep you hydrated. In no time at all you get used to this way of being and you don’t feel hungry. With Fast Track to Health we recommend eating between 11am and 8 pm which is a 9 hour window, but many clients find that they are simply not hungry at 11 and so don’t eat until 1 or 2 pm which makes their window of eating 7-8 hours.  But the best thing is that the health benefits are huge.

First though let’s go to why the 3 meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner, isn’t serving us health wise.
Research has shown that when you eat throughout the day your body adapts to using sugar as energy. This in turn switches off the enzymes that utilise and burn stored body fat. In effect turning your body into stress mode as it is under constant bombardment. Research suggests that 90% of people eat within a time frame of 12- 15 hours. This has been shown to be metabolic disaster and can lead to all sorts of health issues. This most often leads to insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and diabetes. Plus of course you will gain weight! As we look through recent health history as the western world no longer is struggling to find food, we have been strongly encouraged to have the three meals a day – through advertising and then through medical advice. The incidence of obesity, diabetes and other metabolic disorders have been on a steep trajectory, in the wrong direction.

What can intermittent fasting help with?

It can normalise your hunger levels to real hunger for food, instead of craving for carbs and sugar foods.
Increases HGH – human growth hormone – which is vital for keeping us young, fit and healthy. It also helps us to grow healthy muscle tissue whilst letting go of unwanted body fat. Supresses inflammation and therefore pain. Normalises blood sugar levels and helps us become more insulin sensitive, which is a really good thing as this can help reduce or completely bring Diabetes under control. Promotes leptin uptake – Leptin is a hormone created in our fat cells, the fat cells release it when they are full. In turn Leptin, gets  which is a mechanism that if all is working well . Improve immune function, helps to lower blood pressure , reduces risk of heart disease , reduces risk of cancer and boosts fat burning.

These benefits however will only come about if you are in Ketosis – burning fat rather than sugars as energy.

How do you do that? 

Well you come off all sugars and carbohydrates for 6 weeks (Think Fast Track To Health phase 1) Then you slowly find out how your body tolerates some sugars – keeping on intermittent fasting most of the time and once your body is stable and feeling good – normally after 3-6 months you can have 1-2 days a week (although preferably not together) were you can eat what you like.

This way of being is not about calorie restriction, so make sure you are eating enough to keep you energised and your brain sharp and active. If you don’t feel this then you may need to tweak your nutrition and levels of fats.

Testimonial Bridget – Auckland

After going onto Fast track 2 Health 3 years ago, I have never gone back to “normal” eating as I feel so good. I find that I don’t have to be super good with my food choices as long as I stick to the eating between 11am and 8pm – in fact I normally eat between 1pm and 8pm and I find that it really suits me. On Fast Track I lost 22kg’s and felt amazing. My doctor took me off the blood pressure pills that I had been on for over 5 years, I haven’t looked back. Over the 2.5 years since doing fast track I have lost another 5 kg’s just by following these simple techniques. I still use the magnesium and take boost every day, I think they really help me too as I did run out for a few months and started to feel aches ands pains. As soon as I got back onto them I felt so much better so that proves to me that they are staple products that I personally need on a regular basis – they are in fact my daily supplements!

Are you low in Zinc? Try our Zinc taste test!

Did you know that you can easily check zinc levels in your body?

With a simple taste test you can see where you are and when you supplement, you can see if your body is getting the benefits that it should be in a quick and easy way.

It only takes 15 seconds then you will know!

Why check?

Zinc is another vital nutrient that has hundreds of functions and like Magnesium it is getting harder and harder to access in our foods and it is so important for our health and wellbeing! Here are a few of the symptoms you may be experiencing if you are low in zinc.

Zinc deficiency symptoms

· Skin rashes/eczema

· Poor memory

· Loss of taste or smell

· Sinus problems

· Allergies

· Breast/prostate cancer

· Infertility and/or low libido

· Abnormal loss of hair

· Spots on fingernails and slow growth

· Insomnia

· Low energy

· Low immunity

· Poor memory

· Slow thinking

· Infertility

· Prostate problems

Zinc also helps to

· Reduce inflammation

· Supresses abnormal growth – eg cysts

· Boost immune system

· Supports hormone production adrenal and sex hormones

· Reduces risk of some cancers

Zinc helps balance the immune system by bringing the branches of our immune system into synch. What this means is that your immune system remains strong whilst making sure that it doesn’t over react – as in the case of auto-immune diseases where the system is fighting itself.

Apart from lacking zinc in our diet other things can deplete us further – such as

· Leaky gut

· Poor diet and hypoglycaemia

· High toxin and heavy metal exposure

· Medications – like anti-inflammatories, acid blockers, antibiotics etc.

· Ongoing stress

As you can see the benefits of having enough zinc in your system is huge, but how can you tell if you have enough?

One of the best ways I know if testing zinc levels is the zinc taste test:-

All you do is to access liquid Zinc Sulphate
Place a capful in your mouth. Swish it around the mouth for 15 seconds then swallow.

Then read the following to see what your results are, it is that easy!

No Taste, like water – indicates substantial zinc deficiency

No initial taste but a furry, mineral taste develops – indicates low body stores

An immediate unpleasant taste – indicates moderate to low body stores

An immediate gross taste (like you just have to get it out of your mouth – indicates good levels of stored zinc.

If after taking this test, your stores are low then there are a few ways you can approach this.

If you feel that you just need to tweak things a little, then purchase some Clinicians zinc drops and take 8-15 drops. – BTW it is best to take zinc along with protein rich foods as you will absorb more that way.

Plus remove foods that deplete zinc in the body, like Sugar, grains, processed foods and alcohol. Then increase levels of the foods that are rich in zinc. These are:-

· Oysters

· Chicken

· Grass fed dairy

· Cashews

· Almonds

· Spinach

· Asparagus

· Red meat

· Pumpkin seeds

· Salmon

· Dark chocolate

If you have 2 or more of the symptoms above, then it would be worth having a chat to see what would be the best way(s) of improving your overall health (after all if you have leaky gut, there is no point taking zinc as it is unlikely that you will absorb all of the supplement without some other help along the way.

While you are making changes you can do the zinc taste test on a weekly basis to see how you are doing. If there is no improvement there may be something else that needs to be added in, like magnesium as this will help up your digestive ability.

Have a magical day

Are you really ruled by your DNA?

Over the last 2 decades, I have been fortunate in the fact I have been studying quantum physics and the world beyond our physical one. Now it seems that mainstream science is starting to implement and study the effects that quantum scientists have known and been talking about for a very long time. in this newsletter we are covering a little about the impact our DNA has on us and the impact we can have on our DNA! It is so very exciting! 

Are you ruled by your DNA? Or can you choose your Health destiny?
 
Over the last few years science has now proved beyond any doubt that your DNA has absolutely nothing to do with your illness!
Yes, we all have genetic weaknesses and strengths, that is very clear. However, due to studies in epigenetics (Epigenetics is the study of heritable phenotype changes that do not involve alterations in the DNA sequence. The Greek prefix epi- in epigenetics implies features that are "on top of" or "in addition to" the traditional genetic basis for inheritance. Wikipedia)
it has been shown that we are actually in the driving seat as far as our health is concerned.
This is a huge statement isn’t it? As it does appear that certain families do seem to go down with the same problems eg. Heart, cancer etc. however what the new science is showing us is that the hereditary part is not in the genes at all, it is in our family habits!
Those family habits are mechanisms that can turn certain genes on or off. For example if it is your family habit of eating certain foods, or habits of life that can turn certain genes on or off!
Does that make sense to you?
No, then here is a more detailed explanation
Epigenetics, as a simplified definition, is the study of biological mechanisms that will switch genes on and off. What does that mean? Well, if you are new to this whole thing, we first need a quick crash course in biochemistry and genetics before learning exactly what is epigenetics:

• Cells are fundamental working units of every human being. All the instructions required to direct their activities are contained within the chemical deoxyribonucleic acid, also known as DNA.

• DNA from humans is made up of approximately 3 billion nucleotide bases. There are four fundamental types of bases that comprise DNA – adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine, commonly abbreviated as A, C, G, and T, respectively.

• The sequence, or the order, of the bases is what determines our life instructions.  Interestingly enough, our DNA sequence is mostly similar to that of a chimpanzee. Only a fraction of distinctively different sequences makes us human.

• Within the 3 billion bases, there are about 20,000 genes. Genes are specific sequences of bases that provide instructions on how to make important proteins – complex molecules that trigger various biological actions to carry out life function

 
Now that is the genetic component, the epigenetics part of it is how our genes are read by our cells and then how they produce proteins.
Here are a few facts about how our body uses this information and what epigenetics is all about.
 

• Epigenetics Controls Genes:- Certain circumstances in life can cause genes to be silenced or expressed over time. In other words, they can be turned off (becoming dormant) or turned on (becoming active).

• Epigenetics Is Everywhere. What you eat, where you live, who you interact with, when you sleep, how you exercise , even aging – all of these can eventually cause chemical modifications around the genes that will turn those genes on or off over time. Additionally, in certain diseases such as cancer or Alzheimer’s, various genes will be switched into the opposite state, away from the normal/healthy state.

• Epigenetics Makes Us Unique. Even though we are all human, why do some of us have blonde hair or darker skin? Why do some of us hate the taste of mushrooms or garlic? The different combinations of genes that are turned on or off is what makes each one of us unique. Furthermore, there have been indications that some epigenetic changes can be inherited.

• Epigenetics Is Reversible.  This is the most exciting thing about this research as I feel we are totally in the driving seat as far as our health (and the rest of our life for that matter)
  With 20,000+ genes, what will be the result of the different combinations of genes being turned on or off? The possible arrangements are enormous! But if we could map every single cause and effect of the different combinations, and if we could reverse the gene’s state to keep the good while eliminating the bad… then we could theoretically* cure cancer, slow aging, stop obesity, and so much more.

 
After working in the natural health field for so many years I have been lucky enough to see this in action. I have seen clients who have been given a death sentence who, with work and a total belief that they would get well. They have turned the illness around totally and after just a few months been told that there is no sign of the disease. What they have done is turn the illness genes off and turned the wellness genes on!
 
How?
Well first off you have to make changes. For some it will be just a few tweaks and with others it might be a total life change. It just depends on what is going on and what results you are after.
 
Does that lifestyle change have to be all at once?
 
This is a question I hear often. In a word no, if you do change everything it can be a huge challenge and can feel very uncomfortable, so I advocate a nice gentle approach and work on one area of your health and wellbeing at a time. Why? Because then you will know what is working and what isn’t.
 
What do I mean by that?

Just like when you come and see me as your practitioner, I will normally send you away with just a few products to get started with. If I have done my job properly you should notice a difference, then we will know what is working for you. If I send you away with an armful of supplements and herbs and you start to feel better, you won’t know what is doing the job for you and what is surplus to requirements. The same with lifestyle changes. One thing at a time.
 
Saying that, if you have a life-threatening illness then you don’t have time to waste and you throw the whole lot into the mix and know that you are getting better.
 
So my prescription for keeping the wellness gene turned on and the unwellness genes well and truly turned off. Eat foods that your body thrives – you can find out this with our Fast Track to Health program (80 days)

Think positively about yourself and those around you – hard sometimes I know but the more you practice this the happier and healthier you will be. Do moderate exercise – the ideal for you will depend on body type and what you love to do. Use a few well-chosen supplements – you don’t need huge amounts if you are eating the low inflammatory foods (see above)
Avoid chemicals like the plague- in foods, skin care, air fresheners (in-house and car)  and cleaning products. Last but by no means least – surround yourself with people who you love to spend time with and strictly limit time with those who make you feel down tired or angry (if you can totally avoid them that is ideal!
 
Hope this makes sense to you?
If you would like a consultation on preventive or help with your health and well-being then give me a call on 021 408 277 or connect via email or on Facebook

Thank you for being you and thank you for reading this far! 
 
With Love and Wellness 

Fast Track to Health Program – a health Transformation that helps you shed extra kilos!

Are you sick and tired of trying every new diet program that comes out, only to feel like you have failed? Do you try to lose weight but feel so awful that you can’t help but gravitate towards foods that you know in your heart aren’t right for you, but you just have to have them?

The great thing about Fast Track to Health program is that it is not just a weight loss program. It is a program that helps in so many other ways – (see testimonial below). It can help us find out what foods are causing inflammation in our bodies. That matters because it has been proven that inflammation is the root cause of ALL Disease processes. What this does is empower us to make choices that help the continuing improvement of our health and well-being. This is very different to many programmes/products on the market that are designed in a way that to keep weight off you HAVE to continue to use those products.

Yes you may want to continue taking the nutritional component of Fast Track, but you don’t have too!

With our Fast Track to Health program. You will have a unique journey. On your journey I guarantee you will lose weight and with that begin to transform your life. This program enables you to unveil your unique beauty that is there waiting to be revealed. Whether you have 2kg or 60kg to lose Fast Track to health, comes to the rescue.

With Fast Track to health you will be able to transform your body and lose the fat from areas you have never been able to before. This works because of my unique remedies and nutritional formulas along with a specific food program.

How?

This is the question I get asked all the time, How does this work?

Quite simple really the Homeopathic Remedy, which we call Fast Track spray. The Fast Track spray, is working on bringing balance in your body. Starting with the master gland of the body, your hypothalamus. This amazing glad controls so much of what goes on in our body.

Here are a few of the functions that it has an impact on:

Control of blood pressure and electrolyte composition
Body temperature
Control appetite
Controls Taste buds
Energy metabolism
Reproduction
Emergency responses to stress
Receiving sensory information from all areas of the body
Comparing sensory information with biological set points
Adjusting the system to restore the body balance when deviations from biological set points occur
Releasing hormones
Regulating emotional response
Controlling appetite

Many of these actions are to do with our HPA Axis – this is a Big topic that you can find out more about here (this is a booklet I wrote many years ago that explains how this works) . The HPA axis is the interlinking and connections between the Hypothalamus, Pituitary and Adrenals.

If the hypothalamus is out of balance all of these actions go out of balance too!
The remedy works on bringing this vital gland back into line, so then everything else comes back into alignment too.

What causes the Hypothalamus to go out of balance in the first place?

The simple answer is stress! Our world today is a very stressful place. We are exposed to EMF’s at higher and higher rates – see blog here for explanation. We are getting exposed to more and more toxins, virus, bacteria, fungal and parasites than ever before (mainly due to the fact we are all travelling much more and so these pathogens and chemicals are going all around the world.
Plus our “Food” is becoming a stressor for the body too as it doesn’t know how to deal with this foreign substances. Exposure to news and other negative programmes, films all cause the body to go into stress mode.

So, our remedy has a very big job to do and it does it amazingly well, plus it is supported by our boost drops (high ionic minerals with support remedies for our liver, kidneys and lymphatic system to aid the detoxification and re-mineralisation along with our unique Magnesium oil which you apply to the skin and helps bring up the levels of magnesium helping every system of your body. Along with the products you will eat low inflammatory foods, drink plenty of liquids, remove toxic products that go on your skin, you will do intermittent fasting and get supported along the way.

On this wonderful program you will learn what foods suit your body best and which ones don’t serve you. By doing this you will feel totally empowered. As You will then know what foods are best for you. After all we are all so unique and beautiful why not let that beauty shine through for all to see. Plus with that release of fat and fat cells comes a release of toxins, emotional and physical that enables your body to bring about healing and therefore balance.

Every client (and we have had thousands), who has completed the full 80 days of Transformation have said that they feel so different and that they will never go back to the old habits of eating, drinking and thinking that they had before!

This program is great value – clients have said that they save over 40% of their average shopping bill, so pay for the program in a matter of weeks – so you have nothing to lose and everything to gain – except the weight!!

Testimonial - Jacky, Auckland

I went to Vitality to see Karen about 4 months ago and asked about what I could do to help heal my very sore foot and leg. When I was there I heard her talk about Fast Track to Health. I didn’t think any more about it, as my diet was so similar to what I heard her describe that I thought there was no point in my trying. After using Karens potions that she made up for me with my leg, and feeling the difference almost straight away (when, NOTHING had helped me for 3 years) I thought I would give this Fast Track program a go. So the next time I was in Paihia I went to the shop, filled in a form, purchased the products and I was on my way.

I had been trying to lose weight for the last 8-10 years, since hitting menopause and nothing had made this weight shift. As I say the diet I was eating was almost identical to the Fast Track one. So the eating part was easy. In the first week I lost 3kg’s I was wrapped. Every week I saw similar results. After 12 weeks I am 18kg’s lighter and feel so good. Everyone I meet ask what I have been doing as I do look a lot more vibrant too.

Karen, I am amazed, whatever magic you have in those potions of yours keep on creating as they are totally amazing. Please share this as I know there will be many who are doubtful that it can work for them. It works, plus it has changed the way I feel about myself. It is not just the weight loss It has made my life a lot more positive and I am excited about what is to come.

There is a new weightloss craze going on – well it appears to be new!!

That new craze is mono dieting ! This basically means that you eat just one food!! There are a few extremes – the most extreme I have read about is Bananas all day and every day until you reach your goal weight, some people have stayed on this for weeks at a time!!
The other – not quite so extreme but it is still very restricted is mono meals – say bananas for breakfast, apples for lunch and strawberries for dinner.

The more user-friendly end of the scale – but still mono diet – is where you have a single food group at each meal, say eggs for breakfast, fruit for lunch and a vegetable at night – still only one (no mixing your veggies like a salad!) This last one could work, if you really know your nutrition and you follow a very rigid plan. However, it does take all the fun out of food.

On all these programmes you will lose weight, quite simply because you will be restricting intake. However, it is not only boring, but lacking in nutritional variety. When you do a programme like this your body will let go of fat, but what it will also do, is believe that you are going into famine time. So, when you do resume eating as normal – which you will do because you will get bored – your body will save up all the excess and store it away as fat, so you end up being heavier than you were to start with.

I think it works well for some, in the short term, because it takes the choice out of what to eat, you don’t have to think about it. You just have that one food, all day every day!! But what you won’t do is learn. Learn how to eat right for YOU or how to moderate your eating so that your body stays in balance. When we are in balance we won’t over eat, plus we make good food choices because it feels good to do so.

I say in my introduction that this appears to be new, but it isn’t.
Mono dieting been a part of my dieting life – as a constant dieter from the age of 13 up until I discovered Fast Track to health 10 years ago – So, for 37 years I went through a variety of different “mono” diets. In my late teens, I tried carrot only days – yes lost weight after 5 days of only carrots, my skin also went a very appealing orangey colour!!  But once I started eating a couple of very light meals, after just 1 day my weight was back to where I started.
After a while I came across another trendy program, I went onto the fibre only diet which left me very bloated most of the time, with NO weight loss.

Then came Apple only days, result, the same as carrot. I did do this particular one many times as I thought it would work better this time and each time the same outcome! Nosuccess!

Food combining, which for those of you who don’t know is not mixing fruit, protein and carbohydrates together. This one probably isn’t considered mono dieting but it is working on the same premise. The premise is that our bodies can’t cope with all the different food groups in one meal. Well that really doesn’t make sense when you think about how we, as humans have been eating over the last few thousand years, we have always mixed, protein, fats and carbs in one meal, after all we didn’t have a choice of what to have. It was what was available

Then the next extreme was juice only (same result as carrot and apples) Did that for a month!

Need I go on – this type of eating has been around for many a year. It hasn’t stayed around because, yes it works, but it is very temporary, plus it has health repercussions that you really don’t want to experience.

I can’t prove that the extreme dieting I did as a teenager and adult had anything to do with the extreme fatigue I experienced for a very long time from my mid-twenties onwards. But it wouldn’t mind betting that it had a lot to do with it!

Because your body thinks that you have been starved, your hormonal system will be out of balance, even more than it was before you started. I believe, that, if you put on weight it is because your hormonal system is out of balance, so you are doing more harm to this vital system.

The damage that mono-fasting can do to the rest of your body includes muscle wasting, foggy brain, constipation and bloating to mention just a few.

I know there are going to be those who love this sort of eating and say they have healed themselves of a variety of ailments. Well that is what they are saying on the blurb they write. But I am not convinced! I believe we need a variety of nutritious foods to keep us healthy and energised. I am not saying that you need loads of variety in each meal. But we do need to keep those taste buds happy. If you do, cravings will go away, then we will be balanced in every way.

Plus, I don’t know about you but I love food! I love the variety I am now able to enjoy. I no longer worry about my weight, as I am balanced and if I feel myself craving my unhealthy foods. I put myself onto one of my programmes for 10 -20 days and voila I am in balance again and making healthy food choices.

How do you do that?

Well you need to change lifestyle and eating habits if you are to make lasting changes in your body.

I found that by doing intermittent fasting you get the benefits of fasting – giving your body a break from food so that your body can start the healing process by having 2 meals with a balance of protein and variety of vegetables. Have this along with 2 pieces of fruit a day and some selected nutrients you can stop overeating. We do this with our programmes, Kickstart, FastTrack2Health and Enlightened Hormones. You will learn what foods your body loves – so you can eat every day plus the ones your body is not so keen on so that you have them maybe once or twice a week.

If you would like to know more click here to contact us

Signs of Insulin Resistance

Most people think about diabetics when they see the word insulin. However, problems with insulin can occur in several different conditions. Even in people with normal blood sugar. Have you heard of insulin resistance? I am sure you will have, as it is quite big news. Plus, if you have had a consultation with me either in person or over the phone I am sure I will have brought it up!  

What does insulin Resistance mean?

People with insulin resistance usually have excessively high levels of this hormone, because it isn’t working properly in their body. One of the main reasons, I believe, is due to magnesium deficiency. The reason for this is quite simple.

If we don’t have enough of this amazing mineral, we don’t make perfect insulin. If the insulin is imperfect, our insulin receptors don’t recognize it. So, therefore, it cannot use it! What this does is to send signals, which go back to the pancreas sending messages that we haven’t enough insulin!

We are seeing a huge number of clients who have been diagnosed with insulin resistance, they leave their doctors having a diagnosis but don’t fully understand what this term means.

The role of insulin

Insulin is a hormone that your pancreas secretes into your bloodstream after you have eaten. It enables the glucose from your food to enter your cells. This is where the glucose is burned for energy. If insulin is not doing its job properly, less glucose will be burnt for energy and more of it will be converted into fat.

Insulin has many important roles in your body. People with too much insulin in their bloodstream are said to have insulin resistance, syndrome X, metabolic syndrome or pre-diabetes. These are all the same thing just varying degrees.

Due to modern diets, lifestyles and magnesium deficiency, nearly everybody produces more insulin in their pancreas than they should.

This is a problem, in fact it is a time bomb waiting to explode at any time.  If blood insulin levels have been high for years the cells of your body start to ignore it. The insulin becomes less and less effective.  Especially for the very important job of getting glucose inside your cells so you can burn it for energy.

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Knowing whether you have too high insulin is important because you can then make some changes. Knowledge is key, you can then avoid some serious health problems in the future. If you act on it!  Luckily there are many signs or clues that your body shows, alerting you to this problem.

Here is a list of the most common signs of long-term insulin raised levels

• Fatty liver

• Abdominal fat. As the waist grows larger, insulin becomes increasingly ineffective in your body, therefore levels of this hormone rise.

• Hunger and cravings for sugar or carbohydrate - rich foods. People with high blood insulin are hungry and nothing will satisfy their appetite like carbs/sugar!

• Fatigue and no matter what you do nothing helps.

• Elevated blood sugar.

• Acne and large pores on the face. Insulin and its cousin insulin-like growth factor 1, promote higher levels of the male hormone testosterone and increase the sensitivity of your face to testosterone. That means you’re more likely to experience acne and greasy skin.

• Polycystic ovarian syndrome

• Scalp hair loss in women in the male pattern (front and sides).

• Skin tags.

• Increased risk of gout. People who are insulin resistant are sensitive to fructose and convert too much of it into uric acid. Elevated uric acid can raise the risk of gout and kidney stones.

• High blood pressure

• Swollen ankles. Insulin tells your kidneys to hang on to sodium and water. Therefore, you will look puffy. You can experience fluid retention anywhere on your body. Such as your feet, fingers, face and abdomen.

• Foggy Brain and short-term memory impairment.

• Eyesight degeneration.

• Dark patches of skin, usually on the back of the neck. Sometimes people have a dark ring around their neck

How to help? Stop Insulin Resistance being a problem for you! 

What to do about Insulin resistance and prevention of diabetes. Or if you already have diabetes how do you reduce or eliminate it totally from your life?

Have a low carbohydrate diet – include lots of leafy veggies and eat protein at each meal.
This includes eliminating sugar from your menu!! Use Transdermal (applied to the skin) Magnesium 4-5 times daily! Get some liver herbs that contain Berberine (like Golden Seal – I have a formula that will fit the bill perfectly. just give me a call or email me) to help support your liver if you know that your liver is struggling.

Our Glutathione Boost is worth looking into! By Boosting your Glutathione levels really helps.

 Glutathione - what is it for?

Those with insulin Resistance or with uncontrolled type 2 Diabetes will almost always have a severe Glutathione deficiency. Glutathione is not only important for those who suffer from insulin resistance or diabetes to supplement, it is vital for a long and healthy life regardless of your health situation.

The ability of a cell to resist the damage caused by oxidative stress is determined by the capacity of an array of antioxidants. The most abundant and important of these is Glutathione. Found in every living cell on the planet, it is critical to rid our cells of harmful toxins and heavy metals. Healing the damaged cells and helping prevent disease, cancers, neurological disorders and even helping to reverse the ageing process.

Supplementing with things that can help increase our Glutathione levels (see Glutathione boost) with those who suffer with hyperglycemia can help lower their oxidative stress levels and prevent or heal oxidative damage to their cells.

Our Fast Track 2 Health and Enlightened Hormones works on this at a very deep level too!

Fast Track 2 Health really can help bring Insulin Resistance under control

If you have other hormonal issues, then Enlightened hormones is awesome!!

WhoDunnit? Or more to the point - Whatdunnit?

The health detective at your service

Are you feeling as though you have been run over by a bus? Or feeling the size of a bus? Maybe your brain feels as though it has left the building because you can’t remember what you went upstairs for?

This could be because one or more of your hormonal organs could have gone out of balance -  but which one?

Have you had your thyroid checked, and nothing is wrong? You have been to the doctor and all of your bloods have come back as fine? Is it truly just in your mind?

I have been putting in the detective work over the last 20+ years, to help you find out what could be going on in your body. Like all good sleuths I never stop looking for a solution to the crime! There is NO such thing as an unsolved case, in my book!  It is my mission to find how we can give you some simple steps to help you start the re-balancing act.

The main offenders  of your symptoms maybe

Thyroid – this organ has had a lot of publicity and the hormones are very tricky as they are masters at being where they are meant to be, but they are really good at creating false alibi’s. There are lots of them in the blood. What that doesn’t do is tell us if they are doing their jobs in the tissues of our bodies, they are just hanging around! The Thyroid hormones are like a pickpocket, they hang around but that doesn’t do anyone any good, plus they seldom get caught in the act – but we have ways to bring them into custody!

Adrenals – our wonderful adrenals are often very overused and can really struggle after a lifetime of abuse, the problem is that we don’t even know we are abusing them! Again the testing for this is the blood and this can miss a few things. Very often the diagnosis of this is: “it is in your head” which is so frustrating. When our adrenals are playing up they can cause all sorts of mayhem in our body and like a clever fraudster, the symptoms can strike suddenly without you knowing what has been going on. 

Sex hormones – generally this is estrogen dominance due to taking the birth control pill, exposure to certain chemicals and other external forces. Estrogens are like thieves in the night - they can rob us of our joy de vie!

The reason these three can be so elusive is that the symptoms of imbalance are so similar to one another and they, like the master criminals that they are, are very difficult to find!

Help is at hand I have devised an easy way of flushing out the culprit plus ways to catch them and help keep them under control!

We have a questionnaire for you to fill in so that we can get our detective hats on and find out for you where the crime has been committed and then what the sentence will be to help you keep the culprit where it is supposed to be, balanced.

My desire is to help you to become the health detective for your own health!

My "Health Detective" Credentials

Hi there - Karen Creighton at your service. I have been working in natural health for nearly 30 years and during those years I have always been looking for answers. Sometimes the answers are easy to come by as the clues are relatively easy to follow. However some are much harder. And the chase has been long and taxing but I believe I get the felon in the end. I love a challenge and health is a big one as the stakes are very high.

As a health detective I have had some wonderful tools at my disposal and I have seen thousands of clients achieve better health and well being after we have eliminated and added certain things to the mix to achieve balance for them.

Health is relatively simple really – find out which area of your body is being affected and then give it the right ingredients (nutrition) to help it repair. We also have to arrest the culprits by using herbs and/or homeopathic remedies to put them where they belong, out of harms way.

Let me help you by putting on my Sherlock Holmes hat and magnifying glass, then see if I can help you with this FREE Questionnaire and free consultation to go over the results. I will also make some recommendations to help you along the way. 

Look forward to working with you!

With Love and Gratitude

Magic Magnesium

Each of our three Magnesium Oils is designed to be a 3 in 1 product!

First we have our unique Magnesium Oil – this is a transdermal oil that is applied externally. The reason we apply to the skin rather than taking powders, liquids or tablets is that after over 30 years of experience in the field of natural health and nutrition we have found quite simply is that it works!

Why? Because it by-passes digestion and gets taken up directly into the blood stream. Now, because it does go directly into the blood we have found that no matter what state of health the digestion is before we start using the Magnesium, once we build up the system with this amazing nutrient, everything starts improving.

Why doesn’t this happen with the oral type? Mainly because when we are low we don’t absorb all our nutrients. In fact it generally goes straight through! 

What makes our Magnesium Oil different from any other on the market? We have created a way of making our oils more potent and a very unique in every way, with everyone's health & wellbeing in mind!

Next is our Essential Oils- these combinations of oils are put together to work in synergy together to help specific purposes. By applying them to the skin, like the magnesium, they get absorbed via the blood stream and the effects are like magic (it can be effective immediately) 
In fact, we have found that the Magnesium Oil acts as an amazing conduit, it brings whatever we put with it into the body in a very speedy way. We have seen the effects on humans and animals they can be amazing!

Homeopathic/NZ Essences – we add these into our magnesium for the same reason we use the Magnesium Oil via the skin, quite simply they work! The combinations have come together after over 10 years of trailing and improving. These formulas work brilliantly together as the vibrational synergy is part of nature. The formulas cover many bases and as a broad spectrum formula at least one of the ingredients will help the body heal.