Support Your Genes To Maximise Your Health!

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Do you want to improve your health? Are you wishing to be proactive and avoid familial tendency toward ill health or disease such as cancer, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, arthritis or osteoporosis? Have you tried “everything” to lose weight and still struggling to lose or worse yet still gaining weight?  Are you frustrated because the “usual fix” for your health issue hasn’t “fixed” it and you don’t know where to turn?  The answer could lie in understanding your genetic predispositions and variations so you can “tailor make” a nutrition, exercise and lifestyle management program to suit YOU.
Our genes can’t be changed but the GREAT news is our gene function can be influenced to better our health and well-being! Our genes can be “up-regulated” or “down-regulated” and the relatively new science of Nutrigenomics focuses on how nutritional interventions can do just that to our health benefit.  These days technology allows us to easily identify genes we inherited from our parents that influence our ...
... health such as genes affecting inflammation and immunity, cell defence, cardiovascular health, fat metabolism, cholesterol regulation and bone health.  These parameters can then be considered in light of existing or potential illnesses.  In the case of recovering from or avoiding cancer for example, identifying your genetics in relation to inflammation, immunity and cell defence can help your health practitioner individually tailor a supportive Cancer Nutrition program. Another example is women’s health and the menopause.  If you have a genetic predisposition to poor cholesterol management or poor bone health, for example, you may decide to take a proactive nutrition, exercise and lifestyle approach in the peri-menopause years.
The tests only require a swab of the inner cheek and results are available in a couple of weeks. Once the genetic makeup is identified specific interventions can be suggested to maximise health and well-being.   Knowing your genetic predispositions and gene variations is a powerful tool to help you make more informed nutritional, exercise and lifetstyle choices to maximise your potential for healthy living. The future of individualised effective health care is here!
If you are interested please contact Belle McCaleb, Adelaide Naturopath, Herbalist, Counsellor, Registered Nurse and Yoga Instructor specialising in Cancer Support & Women’s Health including Natural Hormone Treatment. Belle is the consultant Naturopath for Cancer Care Centre in Unley SA specialising in cancer support since 2003 and a women’s health specialist and registered nurse since 1986. Telephone (08) 8379 0220. Web: www.mccalebhealth.com.au