Performance

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…

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.

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.

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.

To help you be the best of the best, Salus has designed a personalised executive performance program to keep you on the edge – because it takes more than your morning caffeine injection!

With the assistance of powerful prescription only herbal and nutritional medicine, your Salus practitioner will help you to enhance your memory, your mental clarity and focus and your mental energy and manage your stress so you can see the deal through and consistently perform at your competitive best.

And then there’s that other finely tuned machine – your body. To be mentally fit you have to be physically fit. At Salus we understand the challenge this represents to the busy working executive who is trying to maintain a work life balance. Your Salus practitioner will devise a fitness and dietary program that works for you – and your schedule.

To help you train to win, Salus has devised a Sports and Training Program to help you to maximise your training and avoid training fatigue.

Your Salus practitioner is your training partner who will assess your training requirements and your body’s functional capacity to maintain or increase your desired training level – to help you go the extra mile.

Whether it be to help you achieve peak performance by increasing your energy reserves, aiding in muscle recovery and preventing muscle loss, or enhancing your immunity and decreasing your risk of injury – or all of the above - your Salus practitioner can help you raise the bar.

Because your personal best isn’t the same as everyone else’s – neither should your training enhancement regime. With prescription only herbal and nutritional medicines, including those specifically designed for athletes, your Salus practitioner will tailor a program especially for you.

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!