New Team Members

We are thrilled to have these experts joining our team:

Karen is a counsellor practising psychosynthesis

Alex is a sports massage therapist specialising in deep tissue massage, aromatherapy, indian head massage and reflexology.

Welcome to our Newsletter



It's a new look this month, I hope you like it. My first attempt at programming HTML - what a pain! If you can't read any of it, please let me know. Trust me to go overboard though. You can also check out our new web-site at www.naturality.org.uk and (hopefully) the new website for the Institute of Proprioceptive Medicine at www.proprioception.co.uk.

The Institute is being established as a charity to teach and research proprioceptive medicine. The website is really a portal to allow anybody to contribute their experiences and knowledge relating to proprioception in clinical practice. You can sign up for free right now and set up your own website and homepage. If you want to help spread the word about proprioceptive medicine, just let me know.

- Simon

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What Everyone Who Takes a Cholesterol-Lowering Drug Should Know

As you probably know, statins are the new "aspirin". These cholesterol-lowering drugs are being handed out like jelly-beans, but as we are all aware, drugs have side-effects (why are they called "side-effects," they are effects)? Recently, many of my patients are showing up with "all-over weakness" and many of those patients are on statins. If you take these drugs or know someone who does, it's important to understand the risks.

Here is just one of them ...

By blocking the production of cholesterol in the liver, statins also block the production of Coenzyme-Q10. A Columbia University study found that CoQ10 levels were reduced by half after only 30 days of statin treatments. People who take statins need to know this, because CoQ10 is vital for producing muscular energy. A lack of this nutrient can cause the heart (which is a muscle) to function improperly, resulting in heart failure.

Lack of muscular energy or loss muscle tone is one of the most important things we check with Proprioceptive Medicine.

Often, patients will have only one or two weak muscles but occasionally we find patients where every muscle in their body is weak or inhibited. This is a serious problem that is totally unrecognised in medicine. These patients really don't have enough strength to get through the day. They usually feel as though they are living their life through treacle.

Their lack of muscle tone means that they are much more likely to twist ankles, sprain backs, get tennis elbow or repetitive strain injury, fall or be injured in many other ways. Since muscles burn energy, they tend to be tired, listless and put on weight and have any number of digestive complaints as well as stiffness and soreness. Unfortunately, the first time they really know they have a problem is after they are injured. They don't realise that without the weakness, they would never have been injured in the first place.They were an injury waiting to happen. These patients are often lacking a vital nutrient like Co Q10. It is amazing to see their energy and vitality returning after only a couple of days on the supplement.

For more on The Dangers of Statin Drugs and What You Haven't Been Told About Cholesterol-Lowering Medication - click on these links:
Part I, Part II, Part III

After reading all about it, if you still believe you should be taking a statin drug ... it is imperative that you also supplement with CoQ10.

We carry and recommend a very good Atioxidant with Co-Enzyme Q10 from Cytoplan.


CoQ10 Antioxidant Formula (4007)

This supplement is available from us or you can order it here.

Do you need it?

Are sick of buying the latest Amazonian Rainforest tree monkey's tailhair supplement, only to find you take it and it makes absolutely no difference? Then waste money no longer.

At Naturality, we can test any food supplement to see whether or not you actually need it; and we can test whether it is toxic to you. For instance, you may need vitamin E, but if the tablet you buycontains artificial sweetener, you may do far more harm than good by taking it. How do you know you need it? Rather than guess, the first step is to find whether you have a proprioceptive weakness that is being caused by a deficiency. Then tasting a nutrient will cause the inhibition to be eliminated temporarily, as long as you are still tasting the nutrient. Proprioception is all to do with messages to and from the brain, taste is just one type of message. That is how we found out this woman's shoulder problem was actually caused by a deficiency of magnesium.

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Magnesium is also very important for preventing heart attacks which just goes to show that you never predict what future nasties you are preventing when you aim for 100% health.

If you want to know what you should be taking, just bring your supplements with you on your next visit.

Did you know that:

HALF OF ALL HEALTH SUPPLEMENTS HAVE BEEN IRRADIATED

New study highlights the importance of a safe source for your vitamins.

Half of all health vitamins and supplements contain irradiated ingredients, the UK's Food Standards Agency has announced this week. It's illegal to sell irradiated foods in the UK as the process changes the composition of products - and may present a health risk.

Tests on 48 well-known vitamins found that half were wholly or partly irradiated. Irradiation is used to kill bugs and also to extend the shelf life of products, and is allowed only on a few herbs and spices, which have to be clearly labelled.

But there was no warning on any of the labels of some big-name brands the FSA tested, including products sold at Superdrug and Boots.

An FSA spokesman said that people were being 'duped', as they believed they were buying products that were good for their health.

Food State

We stock a range of "food-state" vitamins and minerals that are different to the normal varieties. A food state supplement has had the nutrient fed to yeast, and then it is made into a tablet. The yeast is completely broken down so there is no chance of an allergic reaction, but the nutrient is already assimilated into the yeast and therefore ready to be used by us.

Food State is a natural, safe and effective way to take supplements.

Clinical Tip



That's it for this month.

Hope you're well, and if you're not, I hope you'll give me a call.

Kindest regards

Simon King

Chiropractor
Consultant Kinesiologist