Healthy Ageing

Tick tock – it’s never too late to get your cholesterol, triglycerides and blood pressure under control and to plan for a healthy hearty future.

Your Salus practitioner will identify relevant risk factors in relation to your heart and circulatory system which may involve comprehensive cardiovascular profile testing to detect any problems before they become evident and to identify the cause of any problems which may already exist.

A specialised program will then be designed for you, individually, which will involve achievable dietary and lifestyle goals as well as specific nutrients and other prescription only complementary medicines as required.

Menopause, or the peri menopausal period, represents different things to different women. Some women sail through with a minimum of fuss, however most experience a number of symptoms, which may range from minor hot flushes and slight mood changes to severe night sweats, weight gain or mood swings.

Naturopathic and Chinese medicine treatments have a long tradition of successfully treating the symptoms associated with menopause.

At Salus, our naturopaths and Chinese medicine practitioners use specialised diagnostic techniques to assess your hormonal status and overall health and to develop a treatment plan which may include prescription only herbal or nutritional medicine and or acupuncture. Salus treatments are therapeutic, effective and individually tailored for you.

Our bodies are exposed to a cocktail of toxins daily, especially our livers which process them. From lipstick to your morning coffee, peak hour traffic, pesticides in foods and the stress hormones we produce, we can’t avoid them … but we can purge them.

Salus’ approach to detoxification is different to most. After assessing and testing your toxic load, your naturopath will structure a program, and prescribe medicines, which work for you. While dietary and lifestyle changes are a must – you’ll feel so good by the end of it you’ll want to make it an annual event!

We are not only what we eat – but also how we digest our food, absorb the nutrients and eliminate the wastes. There are many health problems that inhibit the body’s ability to carry out these integral processes, such as irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, reflux, bloating, heart burn, constipation or diarrhoea and general digestive upsets.

The Salus Digestive Health Program includes an assessment by your naturopath of the cause of your digestive problem, which may include specialised testing, followed by an individually tailored program to treat your symptoms and the underlying cause of your digestive problem.

Tired? Grumpy? Test results show nothing wrong? There is always a reason for tiredness.

Fatigue or tiredness is one of the most common symptoms reported to naturopaths. There are many reasons why you may be feeling that you have lost your bounce. Your Salus naturopath has a range of diagnostic techniques available to identify those of your body processes which are underperforming, so that an individually tailored treatment plan can be structured for you.

“Stress” is a word which many consider to be overused and abused.

Sound familiar?

Stress is a very real physiological event which causes an array of chemicals and hormones which affect our bodies’ processes. Common conditions and diseases such as cancers, heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, infertility, to name a few, have all been linked to stress.

But we live in a stressful world – what are we to do? At Salus, our team of practitioners can assess the level of stress and the effect it has on your body to devise treatment strategies to empower you to deal with the stressors which affect you. While we may not be able to reduce your stress, we can change the way your body responds to it. This may include prescription only herbal and nutritional medicine, acupuncture, counselling or life coaching and dietary and lifestyle changes such as incorporating yoga and tai chi into your week.

No, it doesn’t hurt and yes, it does work.

Mens’ health issues are often overlooked and rated secondary to womens’ health issues. However, men make up half the population, so your health concerns are equally important.

There are many things you can do now to make you feel better, look better, perform at work and at home and have energy for your leisure time. It’s never too late to get cholesterol under control, regulate your blood pressure, lose that middle tyre or control your mood…naturally.

There are also things that you can and should be doing to treat the cause of current disease, rather than band-aiding it, and to prevent the onslaught of future disease, such as testicular and other cancer, prostate disease and cardiovascular disease, for which you may have a family history or predisposition. Prescription only complementary medicines have well known efficacy in addressing these concerns.

And by the way, you won’t find female only magazines in our waiting room…

PMS, acne, problematic periods, endometriosis, dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia, fibroids, cysts, polycystic ovaries, abnormal hair growth, loss of libido … oh to be a woman!

These and other problems can plague women during and after their reproductive years – caused by imbalances in the delicate series of events that dictate hormonal levels. This sensitive hormonal balance can be upset at any stage by dietary factors, stress, artificial hormones, hereditary factors and illnesses.

At Salus we have a team of practitioners who specialise in gynaecological health, and draw on a range of specialised diagnostic techniques to tailor treatment packages for every woman. Treatments may include prescription only herbal or nutritional medicine, acupuncture and or dietary and lifestyle management.

Diets…tried them all? We all know that losing weight and maintaining healthy weight balance goes beyond a fad diet.

There are many reasons why people gain weight. At your first consultation with a Salus practitioner, a thorough health analysis will be undertaken to establish possible metabolic, dietary, lifestyle and or emotional causes of your weight gain. Relevant pathology tests may also be undertaken.

Your Salus practitioner will then decide which of the specially formulated Salus Weight Management Programs is suitable for you.

In addition to teaching you how to eat well and achieve fat loss, your Salus practitioner will teach you how to eat for wellness, to prevent disease and to achieve optimal vitality for life.

The incidence of adult onset (type 2) diabetes is on the up and up in western society – it is commonly referred to as the disease of the well fed!

Diets filled with sugars, highly refined carbohydrates, soft drinks, alcohol and fast foods require continual insulin production by the pancreas. Over a period of time the pancreas becomes less effective due to the continual onslaught and fails to regulate insulin adequately, resulting in diabetes.

Research demonstrates that everyone can reduce the risk of developing diabetes or manage their diabetes effectively. Salus practitioners can assist you to do this by helping you to manage your diet and lifestyle and by using highly effective prescription only complementary medicine.

Cancer – one in three of us will get it, but nobody thinks it will be them. Dealing with cancer can be a tumultuous journey. However, there are many therapies that can be integrated with conventional therapies to support your mind and body and your ability to fight.

Salus practitioners are committed to working together with a patient’s general practitioner and oncologist to provide the patient with a truly complementary approach.

Prescription only complementary medicines, along with treatments such as acupuncture, massage and counselling, can be used to enhance the effectiveness of conventional cancer treatment, to minimise common side effects of treatment and to keep healthy cells healthy.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure! Are you feeling well and want to stay that way?

Salus’ Wellness Program is for those who are interested in staying well and achieving optimal health – for life. It is for people who realise that health is more than the absence of disease. It’s about having a great night’s sleep, waking up with boundless energy, feeling true relaxation and living the best life you can. It’s about incorporating the right food, the right exercise and the right prevention plan for you. It’s about ensuring quantity and quality of life.

After a full assessment with your Salus naturopath, you will be advised on using food as medicine, on the right nutritional supplementation for you, immune boosters when you need it, acupuncture for maintenance and of course, having a regular massage if that’s your thing.

After your initial consultation, your Salus naturopath will keep you on track with periodic visits and regular information updates.

Isn’t it ironic that we spend all our working lives planning for a financially secure retirement, but not necessarily a healthy retirement? Retirement is the time when we need to be fit and active – to enjoy the grandchildren, to enjoy golf, to travel...

Salus’ Healthy Ageing Program has been devised to help you plan a healthy retirement. It is designed to help you prevent and manage common age onset conditions such as arthritis and musculoskeletal problems, memory loss and dementias, to reduce the risk of heart diseases such as heart attacks and strokes and to keep fit, flexible and energetic.

Your Salus practitioner will identify the areas in which you are most at risk, in light of any current health problems, and devise a long term prevention or management strategy that will be monitored along the way.

At Salus, we believe longevity is more than about extending life span. It’s about feeling well in every stage of your life – especially retirement when you have the time to enjoy it.

Despite our best efforts to keep well, most people will go through surgery at some time, be it the removal of wisdom teeth, a nip or tuck, the removal of skin lesions, caesarean section, exploratory surgery or sports injury repairs.

All surgical procedures represent injury to the body that require healing. Drugs administered during any surgical procedure, be it major or minor, must be processed by the liver, substantially increasing its load.

The Salus Pre and Post Operative Care Program begins prior to any scheduled procedure (ideally two to four weeks prior, depending on the procedure). It involves preparing your body to ensure optimal immune function to prevent post operative infection, tissue and cellular repair capacity, to increase skin and tissue healing and minimise scarring, and liver support to ensure adequate recovery. All of which enhance a rapid recovery and therefore fewer days in hospital or out of action.

Your Salus naturopath will only prescribe medicines that are safe and that will not interact with any drugs used throughout your operative procedure, including anaesthetics.

Sneezing at the slightest wind? Sniffling at the change of season? Unexplained tiredness? Rashes? Inability to concentrate? Asthma? Dependent on antihistamines? Allergic to everything?

Often, trying to find the cause of allergies is like trying to find the Holy Grail. As Salus, we have a number of diagnostic techniques which go beyond the usual blood and skin scratch tests to find the relevant cause or causes.

At Salus, treatment goes beyond the simple exclusion of the offending allergen. Our therapeutic approach addresses the body’s over reactivity by working with the whole immune system. Treatments may involve specific nutritional supplements, herbs, acupuncture and or homeopathic medicine that deal with the symptoms of allergy and the underlying cause of the over reaction or intolerance.

Your knee bone’s connected to your thigh bone…but sometimes you wish it wasn’t!

The pain of arthritis, be it osteoarthritis or rheumatoid, can be debilitating, as can the pain and debilitation caused by hip or other fractures associated with osteoporosis. While these diseases rarely cause death, they often seriously compromise a sufferer’s quality of life.

Research shows that natural medicines can arrest early onset arthritis and retard its development. Likewise, the symptoms of well established arthritis can be effectively managed with natural medicines that are free of the common side effects such as gastric upset caused by commonly prescribed anti inflammatory medication.

At Salus, in addition to natural medicines, acupuncture is often recommended to treat the pain and inflammation caused by arthritis.

All Salus practitioners are aware of drug herb and drug nutrient interactions and will work together with your conventional treatments.

Defend yourself! Our bodies are under continual attack. Bugs. Parasites. Bacteria. Viruses. Worms. Even the best led army needs support.

Everyone knows that you are more susceptible to infection when you are tired, run down and stressed, but not everyone knows about Salus’ secret weapons!

Whether you want to boost your immune system at the beginning of cold and flu season, prevent continual infections or treat a current infection (because everyone knows that antibiotics are ineffective against viruses) –Salus practitioners are specialists in addressing immune dysfunction and problems.

Treatment is aimed at decreasing the life of the bug, enabling you to recover more quickly and to enhance your immune system so that you are not a ready target!