“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

Thomas A. Edison

You will be asked to complete a number of questionnaires about your past medical history and your current physical and emotional health including your diet, digestion, symptoms, habits, Barnes thyroid temperature test, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, metabolic type, energy levels, exercise, relaxation, stressors, inflammation, acidity, allergies, intolerances, toxicity, environment, hormonal symptoms, emotional needs and management (or mismanagement).  Your answers will help us to identify your potential barriers to good health, fitness and happiness. 

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Your physical examination will assess

1. •the mobility of your body as a whole and flexibility of your individual joints
   

2. •the strength, tone, endurance and extensibility of your muscle groups
   

3. •measurements of neck, chest, abdomen, hips, thighs and calves
   

4. •Body fat measurements using body mass index (BMI), lean body mass and body fat percentage.
   

5. •Pulse rate and blood pressure
   

6. •Lung capacity and aerobic fitness

Your metabolic rate is defined as the rate at which your body burns calories or utilises energy.  Your basal metabolic rate is defined as the amount of oxygen your body uses when it is completely at rest (e.g. comfortably asleep!).  If you have a fast metabolic rate, your body needs to take in a lot of calories just to keep up with the rate that your body is consuming energy and you will tend to be thin.  If you have a slow metabolic rate, your body only needs a few calories to maintain itself and so it is easy to eat too many calories and the excess will be stored as fat. You will not lose weight easily as the fat you have already stored away is unlikely to be mobilized for extra energy.

So if you are over-weight with too much body fat, it is important to increase your basal metabolic rate (N.B. some conditions such as under-active thyroid lower your metabolic rate, therefore we include a simple test for you to carry out in your pre-course questionnaires).  The simplest way to achieve this is to increase lean body mass by building and toning muscle tissue and eating a metabolically appropriate diet.

Muscles are constantly contracting and moving, therefore muscle burns significantly more calories than any other tissue of your body.  By building more muscle (or increasing your lean body mass) you increase your body’s use of calories from food (and reduce the amount available to turn into fat).  This doesn’t mean you need bulky muscles - by improving their endurance strength your muscles become denser and firmer.

Your body and mind are inextricably  interlinked by:

1. 1.Your body chemistry
   

2. 2.Your body structure
   

3. 3.Your mental or emotional self
   

What you eat and how you eat affects your body’s make up or chemistry.

You may have heard the saying “you are what you eat”. And this is very true.

A builder goes to a builders’ merchant for the raw materials to build a house; our bodies rely on you putting the right raw materials in at the top end in order to build a healthy body!

Not only what we eat but how we eat is important. For example, if we eat when we are angry or stressed the food goes through our systems much more quickly, not giving us much time to digest or absorb all the nutrients.

Our bodies struggle to function properly if we become out of balance structurally. For example, if we don’t use our upper backs and chest properly because we are slumped over a desk most of the day we can develop lung problems such as asthma.

Our thoughts and emotions also affect our health. Your mind produces messenger substances called neuropeptides (over one hundred different neuropeptides have already been identified). The type of neuropeptide produced is determined by the emotion or feelings you are experiencing at that instant (happiness, sadness, optimism, pessimism etc.). These neuropeptide messengers are released into you blood stream and therefore affect your whole body.

For example, if you get up–tight about an exam or a job interview you may feel your abdomen go into a knot, this tightness will affect how well you are able to digest your food. You may get diarrhoea. If you are constantly under stress you may be prone to diarrhoea or loose bowel motions more of the time.

Even more interestingly, these neuropeptide messengers are also produced in response to the food we eat, the way we breath and even the way we stand and move.  So simply by walking in a slouched way, looking at the ground and not smiling your body will produce emotions that are low, glum or depressed.  Conversely by walking with good upright posture, with energy and with a smile, your body will produce emotions of brightness, optimism and happiness.

These three areas, body chemistry, structure and emotions are not separate. As you can see from the above examples they all affect each other. The amazing part is that when you bring these areas back into balance the symptoms simply disappear. Symptoms are only

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