TotalhealthMatters! Your Guide to Better Health

We hope this simple guide will help make 2009 a healthier year for you, your friends & family.

The Foundations of Health

Breathing: "Our health and fitness depends on good breathing, poor breathing leads to ill health"

Solution: Check your breathing, if it is adversly affecting your health learn to change it. Check Breathing Here

How can we help? By teaching you better breathing with the Buteyko Method.

Structure: "Structure governs function" in other words, like every other structure in the universe it matters how we are put together. Minor misalignmeents can be the source of pain and ill health.

Solution: Keep your body mechanics in good order. If in doubt book a Free Structural Check

How can we help? Have your structure checked by the specialists, correct the mis-alignments and start to enjoy a healthier more comfortable life.

Nutrition: "We are what we eat, how could we be otherwise?"

Solution: Try to eat a well balanced diet, a good mixed diet. Check Your Diet Variety Index

How can we help? Our Free Diet Variety Index Measurement gives you a reliable measure of "How good a mixed diet you have".You can then start to increase your diet variety in your own time. Alternatively you may decide to have a consultation with our nutritionist if your health problems are possibly
diet related.

Exercise: "We are made for moving, you don't need to be an athlete but you do need to move to keep healthy.

Solution: This is in your hands, just make it a rule to walk more, take up a physical activity, gardening, sport, swimming or whatever.

How can we help? By making exercise as pain free as possible with your structural improvements, less burdensome if you are overweight by nutritional changes and making you less breathless by better breathing habits.

Stress Management: " Stress can be the number one hazard for health"

Solution: Let us check your stress level free of charge, then take control of it. We use a combination of the Luscher Colour Test and the Buteyko Method Control Pause to establish your level of stress. Free Stress Check

How can we help? Of all the above factors there can be little doubt that breathing is the keystone of our health foundation. By calming your breathing, by exercising more and by improving your diet you will be better able to cope with stressors that used to trigger adverse stress reactions.
Breathing is the first act of life when we are born, correct breathing promotes good orthodontic development and normal structural growth.
Good breathing improves our metabolism and hence our nutritional functioning. Good breathing improves oxygenation of our tissues, gives us better exercise performance, better recovery after exercise and improved brain oxygenation.
Good breathing goes hand in hand with calmness and better stress management, it is almost impossible to be stressed whilst breathing quietly.
Over 2000 years ago Lao-Tzu said: ” The perfect man breathes as if he is not breathing”. Professor Konstantin Buteyko spent a lifetime researching the effect of dysfunctional breathing in health and disease and claimed almost one hundred and fifty diseases or conditions are associated with or caused by dysfunctional breathing. Unfortunately at present it is rare to find this aspect of our physiology checked by our doctors unless you have a specific respiratory disease.

We hope this brief summary of the foundations of your health has been thought provoking and useful, please visit our website for more detailed research and discussions on these topics.

Michael Lingard

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