How can Naturopathy help?

Naturopathy can help with supporting:

  • Digestive health

  • Endocrine function

  • Musculoskeletal issues

  • Nervous system support

  • Immune function

  • Respiratory issues

  • Cardiovascular health

  • Genitourinary health

  • Integumentary support

Digestion

Mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small and large intestines, rectum and anus. The alimentary tract and accessory organs: salivary glands, liver, gallbladder, and pancreas.

Naturopathy can help with symptoms you have had recently and also have had for years.  We uncover the mechanics underlying the drivers to your symptoms, by getting to the root cause of your issues.  When the digestive system isn’t functioning correctly, it can impact your entire body and how other systems function, such as immune function, cardiovascular system, neurological, mood and cognitive function, skin, nervous and reproductive systems. Working together with a Naturopath can help find the balance that is needed to bring the digestive system and body back to health.

  • Bloating, indigestion, constipation, diarrhoea, weight gain and weight loss, nausea, incontinence, pain, specific food intolerances, imbalances

  • Conditions including NAFLD, IBD, metabolic disease

  • Gut dysbiosis, SIBO, microbiome support

  • Liver support and detoxification

Endocrine

Your body's metabolism, energy level, reproduction, growth and development, and response to injury, stress, and mood

The endocrine system is comprised of a group of glands in certain areas in your body that regulate and produce specific hormones.  These hormones act as messengers to our organs and cells such as pineal gland (that controls circadian rhythym), thyroid (cellular metabolism), ovaries and testies (sex hormones), adrenal glands (cortisol balance) and the pancreas (digestion and blood sugar control). 

Naturopathy can help with:

  • Thyroid dysfunction and autoimmune conditions

  • Blood sugar and digestive support

  • Hormonal and fertility issues

  • Adrenal fatigue and mood issues

A Naturopath will do a comprehensive assessment to address the drivers behind endocrine dysfunction, with thorough dietary and environmental analysis and appropriate prescriptions and individualised goal settings.

Musculoskeletal

Bones, cartilage, ligaments, tendons and connective tissue

Naturopathic help with musculoskeletal issues including management and complementary care for issues including arthritis, muscle fatigue, chronic pain management, usually working alongside a current diagnosis with a physiotherapist. Depending on the specific injury for each individual, a Naturopath can help:

  • Reduce inflammation

  • Assist connective tissue repair

  • Nervous tissues support and management for comorbidities such as weight loss and bone strength, swelling management, lymphatic support, nervous tissue support, and psychological wellbeing.

  • Diet and lifestyle influences

  • Assess prescriptions needed for nervous tissue support and analgesic properties as well as reducing inflammation and increasing bone health.

Nervous System

Brain, spinal cord and nerves

Your nervous system is a complex and intricate system comprised of signalling nerves that go to your muscles and glands throughout your body, controlling most of your bodily functions. Working with a Naturopath you can be given specific, targeted herbal and nutraceutical prescriptions, as well as assess diet and lifestyle changes that can help get you back on track. Some areas we can help include:

  • Mental health, stress responses, chronic stress

  • Sleep

  • Cognitive function, visual disturbances, dizziness

  • Digestion and hormone responses

  • Headaches, tingling in arms and legs

  • Reproductive issues

  • Weakness and malaise

If there are any detrimental impact compromising the way this system works, it isn’t always obvious, and a variety of issues can develop.

Immune

Thymus and bone marrow, lymph nodes and vessels, spleen, tonsils, mucous membranes and skin. This is our defence system against pathogens. Autoimmune diseases occur when your immune system
mistakenly attacks your body.

Naturopathic care can help your immune function in so many ways. Under the care of a Naturopath your diet and lifestyle will be thoroughly assessed and analysed to help uncover what is driving immune dysfunction and irregularities. More commonly this is done with GIT repair or toxin and heavy metal exposure detoxification that can often be a trigger. A lot of what determines how our immune system functions is how well our gut microbiome is, as most of our immune cells are derived from there. Naturopathic care include:

  • GIT repair

  • Toxin and heavy metal detoxification

  • Resistance to disease

  • Chronic immune dysfunction and autoimmune diseases

  • Acute response to pathogens such as viruses, fungus and bacteria

We use heavily researched and proven supplementation with herbal remedies and nutraceuticals as well as appropriate, tailored diet and lifestyle advice to suit your goals in achieving optimal immune function.

Respiratory

Lungs, airways, mouth, nose, trachea, windpipe, and breathing muscles

Certain remedies can help with acute treatment as well as chronic respiratory conditions, using researched, specific prescriptions for the symptoms, as well as making long term plans to help improve respiratory and immune health. Naturopaths unfold factors that are contributing to these issues.

Naturopathic care involves:

  • Respiratory infections, chronic and acute

  • Asthma, bronchitis, coughs, COPD, emphysema

  • Investigating specific environmental and dietary triggers may be exacerbating lung and respiratory conditions

  • Dysbiosis (imbalance of good vs bad bacteria) can impact respiratory health and make people more prone to illness that can develop into chronic conditions

  • Respiratory health can be addressed by looking at the gut-lung axis, specific probiotic strains, increasing prebiotic fibre and understanding how our environment that surrounds us impacts our respiratory health.

Cardiovascular

Heart, blood vessels and blood

Cardiovascular disease is largely preventable through diet and lifestyle, and often reversible. Cardiovascular disease leading cause of death, globally.

The effectiveness of treatment from a Naturopath has been thoroughly researched in reducing the risk and enhancing the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Naturopathic care include:

  • Working with associated with modifiable factors that contribute to the risk in its development

  • Treating underlying causes for disease and risk factors

  • Metabolic syndrome (high blood pressure, high blood sugar and diabetes, excessive weight).

  • Diet, and prescription of certain nutraceutical and medicinal herbs

  • Working with your nervous system

  • Reviewing current medications

  • Restoring a healthy gut flora, dysbiosis, correcting digestive conditions, reducing obesity and correcting the pH.

Appropriate laboratory testing and interpretation of results is an essential step in the treatment of cardiovascular issues. Enhancing endothelial function and restoring detoxification processes within the liver, lymph and colon are key areas to help prevent, manage, reverse and enhance cardiovascular function.

Genitourinary

Kidney, bladder, fallopian tubes and penis

This system is comprised of the kidneys, bladder, fallopian tubes and penis. It is responsible for the formation, storage and elimination of urine as well as reproductive activity.

A Naturopath can help with supporting:

  • Repeated urinary infections

  • Pain and incontinence

  • Urination at night

  • Kidney and bladder infections and stones

  • Testicular and prostate problems

  • Pain and reproductive support

  • Kidney sludge, interstitial cystitis

Cultivating a healthy genitourinary microbiome is important when treating recurrent thrush, bacterial vaginosis and the vaginal microbiome as well as looking at the influence of oestrogen and other lifestyle factors on symptoms. The vaginal microbiome and influences vaginal pH and susceptibility to infection or dysbiosis. 

Integumentary

The outermost layer of a person’s body.
Epidermis, dermis, hypodermis, associated glands, hair, and nails.

We work with you to uncover the root cause that is driving the condition, supporting gut health and digestion, balancing detoxification pathways to enhance waste and toxin eliminations through multiple systems known as emunctories (liver, kidneys, GI tract, and the skin). Issues with the integumentary system is more often a complex, multifactorial result. While there are remedies and treatment for the acute symptoms, to reduce its re-occurrence and driving causes for the symptoms is the ultimate goal. A Naturopath can help with skin health in a large number of ways:

  • Chronic conditions including dermatitis; such as eczema and psoriasis,

  • Various types of acne including nodular, hormonal, cystic and fungal

  • Dry skin, rashes

  • Hair and nail conditions

  • Detoxification pathways

  • Conditions that contribute to integumentary health, such as food sensitivities and intolerance

  • Mitigating chronic inflammation

  • Repairing gut health

  • Herbal and nutraceutical considerations internally and externally.

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