John Arts Abundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz

Last week we started to look at our built-in repair systems. Without these our first health problem may well have been our last!

The health issues that we experience are often the result of these repair processes not working properly or at worst even working against healing. When unwell we need to make sure these repair processes are able to work as well as possible. If not, you may be consigning yourself to a lifetime of poor health.

Every health problem creates its own nutritional requirements. For example, people with inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis have a lower level of vitamin and mineral absorption because their digestive system has been compromised by the disease. This is especially true of some B vitamins, notably B12 and folic acid, vitamin D, calcium and zinc. These can be obtained from a good multi-nutritional supplement. Additionally anti-inflammatory compounds such as those in acai, grape seed and turmeric can be useful if given in the right combinations and doses.

As an example of how this works in practice, I have been helping someone with arthritis, muscular pain and low energy. After investigation we found she had longstanding arthritis and had developed statin myopathy – muscular weakness and pain from long-term cholesterol lowering medications. These can also interfere with normal energy metabolism as they restrict co enzyme Q10 needed for energy conversion within cell mitochondria. We made sure her diet was anti-inflammatory then added a broad spectrum multi-nutritional supplement plus a high grade CoQ10 supplement.

I have just spoken to her and after only two months has had a major reduction in muscle and joint pain and has had a significant increase in her energy levels. While her results have been excellent, there was nothing particularly difficult about what we did. We just identified the healing processes compromised by disease and medication then added these from both supplements and a good diet.

If you are unwell, it maybe your body telling you things are not well. If things are not what you would want them to be it may pay to review what you are doing and then to implement measures to re-build your healing processes. Give me a call if you need help. To join my weekly newsletter go to www.johnarts.co.nz and visit www.abundant.co.nz

John Arts is the founder of Abundant Health. To contact John phone (local) 578 9051 or 0800 423 559.