Ashlea Howard had been in the Navy for more than four years when she stumbled across naturopathy. It drew her in, and she started gathering books about natural health. Having grown up around conventional medicine, Ashlea had no idea what a naturopath was.
When she was growing up, Annabelle Delir was puzzled by her relatives. They had various health complaints and took medications but just didn’t seem to get better. It got her thinking about why.
International student Emma van Leenen worked in kitchens for years and even ran her own small catering business in the Netherlands. But she also dreamt of learning to surf. That dream led her across the oceans to Australia and natural health study.
When it comes to enhancing physical performance and recovery, the goal is to increase time to exhaustion, reduce muscle damage and optimise recovery. We do this by reducing inflammation, increasing blood flow to the muscles and decreasing oxidative stress through a variety of foods packed with phytonutrients, flavonoids and all that good stuff.
Marketing yourself is vital in attracting clients when you’re in the clinic, when you’ve graduated as a practitioner and when you’re looking for a job.
Inflammation is a major driver of the most common skin conditions such as acne and eczema.
Many people already know about Acupuncture and the use of needles in Chinese medicine. What many people do not realise is that there are a variety of other implements that Acupuncturists and Chinese medicine practitioners have in their tool kit.