Personal Training in Bahrain

The Aspartame Scandal

Link: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation.

For those of you who still drink diet soda as a means to curb your appetite and keep the calorie intake down, read this article about Aspartame. Studies are coming out all the time with relation to how aspartame can cause fat to be stored on the hips and thighs and with continued use can lead to seizures and depression. The best choice would be to cut out sugar and all it's derivatives and stick to whole, organic foods which will keep your hunger at bay. If you do have to have something sweet you are better off choosing real cane sugar than artificial substitute. Read the ingredients and STOP drinking diet sodas!!

Taken from the Price -Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, follow the link to read all of the article.

My Food Phone...

What a great idea! Have you seen this? You take a photo of your food and send it through to your coach, health advisor, nutritionist. Saves having to write everything down and record each and every component to your meal!
Hope it catches on in Bahrain!
Check it out

Fasting guidelines for Ramadan

To all our esteemed neighbours and hosts of the Gulf; may I say 'Ramadan Kareem" and wish you all well in your holy month of fasting. Here are my tips for our fasting friends...

New Audio added to Core-PTS

For all of you who that don't know what I sound like; may I introduce my new audio snippets that are now a part of the Core-PTS website homepage.

I am proud to give you;

1. An introduction from me and a Welcome to Core-PTS

2. Why so many current Health programmes FAIL

3. The Secret to the success of a Health programme

4. My Success Story

5. How my health approach works

I hope you enjoy listening and tell your friends about Holistic Nutrition! It WORKS!

Finally Science Confirms The Secret To Weight Loss

Many of you have subsribed to mercola.com which I recommend to all my new clients. If you haven't done so I advise you do so as soon as possible.

This fascinating website allows you to learn the truth about your health and the controversy that appears in many of our governments health policies.

Here is an interesting article which supports the Core-PTS approach to healthy living and eating plans.

written by Dr Mercola and taken from his website-  www.mercola.com

Preventative health care catching attention in Dubai

Its so exciting to be a part of the huge wave of health practitioners focusing on healing clients in the Gulf. This area has a huge market of people wanting to improve their health and vitality through natural and holistic ways rather than relying on medications. The following aspects of my business have been generating a huge interest and I can see it is the future of preventative health for this part of the world in particular Dubai.

1. Metabolic Typing in Dubai has become so popular in the last couple of months and I have seen a huge wave of interest in this field. Those of you who understand the principles will be pleased to know that I offer in depth metabolic typing assessments and support packs to help you find the right nutritional requirements for your unique biochemistry.
2. Diagnostic Testing has also received a lot of interest in Dubai, as I have recently had a number of enquiries regarding this natural and comprehensive solution to health complaints backed by science.
3. My lose weight naturally programme has generated interest from those in Bahrain, It's interesting to see as I can see that ALL members of the Gulf community can benefit from a long term health plan that educates you the correct eating plan for your genetics and lifestyle.
4. Diabetes prevention in Dubai has again caused a stir amongst my contacts. People are so aware that it is rising in epidemic proportions that parents are finally taking note that they have to target their children with a preventative means in mind. I plan to publish my Diabetes prevention articles soon so watch this space!
5. More and more of you are telling me that you feel fat, fatigued and depressed, yet you put a great amount of pressure on yourselves by expecting to be endlessly happy for finally living the dream! One of the main reasons I find that Expats come to me with fat, fatigued and depressed symptoms is that they have picked up a parasite or intestinal bug that is contributing to their symptoms. Over 80% of my clients have an unwelcome invader contributing to their weight gain!

Here is to my goal of healing all our wonderful Dubai Expats from Diabetes

Here is my goal of treating all our wonderful Bahrain Expats from feeling fat, fatigued and depressed.

Here is to my goal of introducing Metabolic Typing to our neighbouring states such as Qatar and Oman.

Spread the word all you wonderful healed people!

Lab tests; an example of one

Identifying the cause of chronic illness is the first step toward achieving a favorable outcome. Integrative clinicians rely on the Organix™ Profile to reveal the nutritional and metabolic basis of patient symptoms, just as traditional practitioners might use a serum chemistry to establish a diagnostic baseline. The Organix Profile provides a view into the bodys cellular metabolic processes and the efficiency of metabolic function. Identifying metabolic blocks that can be treated nutritionally allows individual tailoring of interventions that maximize patient responses and lead to improved patient outcomes.

Organic acids are metabolic intermediates produced in pathways of central energy production, detoxification, neurotransmitter breakdown, or intestinal microbial activity. Accumulation of specific organic acids in urine often signals a metabolic inhibition or block. This may be due to a nutrient deficiency, an inherited enzyme deficit, toxic build-up, or drug effect.

From a single urine specimen, the Organix Profile provides important information in the areas of:

Vitamin and mineral insufficiencies
Amino acid insufficiencies like Carnitine and NAC
Oxidative damage and anti-oxidant sufficiency markers
Indicators to assess detoxification sufficiency
The best functional markers of B-complex deficiency
Neurotransmitter metabolites to assess CNS function
Mitochondrial energy production assessment via citric acid cycle components
Methylation sufficiency status
Lipoic acid and CoQ10 sufficiency markers
Specific dysbiosis markers for bacterial and yeast overgrowth

Article source: metametrix.com

The test takes an overnight sample of your urine and can be sent back to the Lab in the States for analysis. You will then receive a comprehensive report outlining where your nutritional insufficiencies lie and understand what deficiencies are contributing to your chronic ill health.

To order a test kit, contact me through this blog or sign up through my website for your 15 minute consultation. www.core-pts.com

The British left behind again.......

So when you feel as passionately as I do about your health and your work, you expect the whole world to feel the same and take whatever steps and pay whatever costs to sort their health out as they know, like I do, that their health is the most important commodity that they share with their family!

Funny how it doesn't work like this!

I noticed a huge difference in the British approach to health on this last trip. I saw people with chronic health conditions, or far from healthy lifestyles stuck in a rut eating incorrectly or suffering unnecessarily with aches and pains. Unfortunately, people have learnt to accept that their less than adequate health is part of life and something to plod along with rather then do whatever it takes to get better.

Somebody told me recently that perhaps targeting the UK with my preventative health care approach would not be as lucrative as the US. Something I had not considered before this visit.

I certainly believe that the difference in the UK and US approach to health is that, for years, we Brits have not had to take responsibility for our own health. Having a predominantly free health service, we can safely put the onus and trust into someone else, namely the NHS. However, when you have to pay for your health care such as in the States, the public has to take more of an interest of how they are going to pay and who to choose as a health care provider. In addition, as North Americans are becoming more aware of the benefits of preventative health care they are prepared to invest time and money into looking after themselves NOW in order to promote a longer and healthier life.

I’m not saying that the UK is not ready for this approach, we have certainly caught up in recent years and the UK has a wealth of health resources and alternative means for the public to try, but I feel that we are behind as we still believe that spending money on our health as a preventative means before anything serious happens is an extra financial burden.

To me I can’t think of anything more interesting than establishing what is going on inside my body to help understand the reason for years of ill health and prevent disease. For example, if I were to find out that I am pre-diabetic or that my liver is not functioning correctly, this is, in my opinion, pretty much saving my life and most importantly preventing me from spending time & money in and out of hospital suffering from a disease in my later years.

I am confident that Functional Medicine will be common practice and weekend national newspaper middle spreads will regularly focus on the importance of natural preventative health. I just hope that those of you reading this now will have been in contact with me and will be able to write beautiful testimonials at how you now lead a life full of health, vitality and happiness.

Here is to the future of Functional Medicine!

Preventative Health care explained

Rob my fiancé and I have just got back from our annual trip to the UK. It was great to see friends and family and we spent a lovely day at a friends wedding in Nottinghamshire. Unfortunately, but not a surprise the weather was overcast for pretty much the whole 10 days and my dad had to let me know that it was 30 degrees where he was in Spain. But Dad... I'm now back in the Gulf where the sun shines pretty much everyday!:-)

I managed to talk to friends and family about my online business, and I got the overall impression that most of you wanted to find out more about my approach in a simpler way; particularly when the treatment is so effective and yet can be done from anywhere in the world. Therefore, I'd like to give you a simple version of my approach...

We generally assume that as we get older we will suffer from a whole host of ailments and take it for granted that taking daily medication to prevent disease and spending a fortune on health care recommended by our MD's is 'normal' for our elder years. Fortunately, there has been a big shift in attitude towards health and we are now empowered to make choices about our own health care. In addition, there has been a vast increase in preventative health care and continuous research being published confirming the importance of nutrition and the effects it has on our health both physically and mentally.

We are also becoming more aware of the consequences of our lifestyle choices the affect they can have on our health. We all know that smoking & alcohol are killers, and that we need to eat more fruit and veg to stay healthy, Right?

So imagine finding out that your weekend drinking is putting a strain on your liver or that the processed microwave meals you have regularly aren’t providing you the essential nutrients that you need to stay awake during your day.

Unfortunately, we are still in the mind set that those niggling ailments that we suffer on a daily basis are part of life and something we just learn to cope with! This is just not true!

Imagine finding out that the reason you can’t lose weight is NOT because you don’t have any will power but it is due to an intestinal parasite?

Imagine finding out that the reason you are tired all the time is because you are not able to absorb the energy from the foods you are eating.

Imagine that your so called 'irrational behaviour', mood swings or PMS is due to insufficient hormones or too much of a particular hormone in your body!

Imagine that the reason you are sad all the time is not because of your outlook towards life or that you are just too fat or miserable, it is actually due to your body’s deficiency in essential fatty acids (you see these written as Omega 3 and 6)

By taking the lab tests we can find out exactly what is going on inside your body and then prepare a treatment programme for you to follow taking anywhere from 3 to 52 weeks.

Not only will you feel so much better in your self but you will prevent further complications that may contribute to your early death as you get older! How important is that!

Many of us are having families so much older and so we will be older parents to our children, I am confident that the majority of us want to be free from aches and pains so that we can enjoy watching our children grow and become grandparents to their children, Right?

The future is prevention! I look forward to helping more of you soon.

LOSE WEIGHT NATURALLY

Here is a sneak peak at one of our exciting programmes soon to be launched on my upcoming online health site. WATCH THIS SPACE! LOSE WEIGHT NATURALLY...

Have you spent a small fortune on diets only to gain it all back, and more? Do you start a diet but can only last a week and then you find you cant control your eating? Do you feel a failure because you can't seem to take control of your eating habits? Would you like to finally be able to take control of your eating and have the body that you can love? Perhaps you would like to... Feel more attractive about your body Improve your weight for medical reasons and longevity Wear the clothes you really want to Feel comfortable round the pool or beach in your swimwear If this is you, then we can help. Having had weight issues for most of my life, I can empathise with the pressure that women have in order to be slim. Not only the social implications, but we have to look after our bodies for health reasons and a longer, healthier life. Just imagine, eating the right foods, eradicating sweet cravings, ensuring that you are receiving the essential nutrients that your body needs AND lose weight and take back control of your weight for good. Every person has a unique biochemistry and as a result different daily nutrient requirements. When we crave foods its our bodies way of saying- 'hey you havent provided me with enough of this vitamin' (for example) and so your body craves the foods that it needs. But, then you ask, well how come after a full course meal in a restaurant, I know I am full, but I still crave something sweet at the end? This means that the quality of the food may not have been high enough to provide you with the essential nutrients, or that your blood sugar levels may have been overworked and so now you need a 'pick me up'. Why is this programme any different? First of all our 'lose weight naturally' programmes will teach and educate you to 'listen' to your body and discover what foods work best to encourage optimum energy and weight loss. Secondly, we have scientific evidence that can support what nutrients you are deficient in and WHY you are craving a certain food. We don't guess the dosages, we know from supported laboratory reports exactly what you need. All programmes are integrative and we look at the body as a 'whole' and as a result we may find that Stress is a major reason in your life attributing to excess fat, so these areas in your life will also be addressed. Who are these programmes most suited for: If you are ready to adopt a healthy eating plan for life not just for your holiday in 2 weeks You are ready to find ways that can help you and your family's health You are ready to commit and adopt the principles suggested You understand that other areas of your life may need to be addressed You have the commitment and dedication to follow a supplement regime for the necessary length of time required. In the meantime, if you would like to ask more about or start one of the existing programmes then please contact me now, you can start today if you wish! ( well perhaps tomorrow;-) Have a happy and healthy day!