John Arts Abundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz

Stop reading now and do a 10 minute health check. Think of every part of your body and write a list of the body parts and systems that are not doing so well in order of priority.

Some of the problems may be permanent while others can be improved or eliminated with the right type of therapy. I call this striving for perfect imperfection. My discipline of nutritional medicine identifies problems that can be influenced by nutritional therapy, usually in conjunction with conventional medicine.

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. Other diseases increase the need for antioxidants such as osteoarthritis where cartilage damage is mostly from free radical damage to joint cells.

I've been helping someone with arthritis, muscular pain and low energy. After an investigation, we found she had long-standing arthritis and had developed statin myopathy, the muscular weakness and pain from long-term cholesterol lowering medications. We made sure her diet is anti-inflammatory then added a broad spectrum multi-nutritional supplement plus a high grade CoQ10 supplement.

Within a few months she has 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 is nothing particularly difficult about what we did. We just identified the healing processes, compromised by disease and medication, then aided these through both supplements and a good diet. She is not perfect but she feels like a different person.

If you are unwell, it maybe your body telling you things are not well. It may be time to review what you are doing and then to implement measures to re-build your healing processes. Give me a call if you need more information. To join my weekly newsletter at: www.johnarts.co.nz and visit: www.abundant.co.nz

John Arts is a Nutritional Therapist and founder of Abundant Health. Contact John on 0800 423 559. To read more go to www.sunlive.co.nz