Acupuncture, Kinesiology & Nutrition
About My Holistic Health
Philosophy
At My Holistic Health, I combine acupuncture, nutrition, kinesiology and singing bowls to help you find better health. A holistic approach treats each patient as one whole person (body, mind and spirit).
About Clare
After 3 and a half years of training Clare Venters graduated with a first class degree from the world renowned College of Integrated Chinese Medicine where she studied both TCM and Five Element styles of acupuncture and where she now teaches.
Passionate about using diet to improve health she has also qualified as a naturopathic nutritionist and kinesiologist. This is offered both alongside acupuncture and as an offering on its own for patients who are unsure about having acupuncture.
Clare treats a broad range of conditions and have specialist training in musco skeletal conditions and in fertility and gynaecology. It was whilst undergoing IVF treatment that she discovered the benefits of acupuncture and has used it ever since. For Clare acupuncture and nutrition are natural and effective ways to get well and stay well.
Clare is a fully insured member of the Acupuncture Association one of the full membership organisations under the umbrella of the British Acupuncture Federation (BAF). BAF is the largest independent collaboration of acupuncture organisations in the UK, representing leading professional acupuncturists and who secured members acceptance as healthcare professionals with Public Health England
Services
Acupuncture
Acupuncture
Acupuncture
During your first visit Clare will ask about your main complaint and your general health and lifestyle. This involves asking questions about your symptoms and your medical history, as well as such things as your sleeping pattern, your appetite and digestion, and your emotional wellbeing.
You might feel that some questions appear unrela
During your first visit Clare will ask about your main complaint and your general health and lifestyle. This involves asking questions about your symptoms and your medical history, as well as such things as your sleeping pattern, your appetite and digestion, and your emotional wellbeing.
You might feel that some questions appear unrelated to your condition but the information you give helps Clare to form a more complete picture of your health. As a result you may find that several things get better together alongside your main complaint
Acupuncture is a gentle and effective treatment that focuses on helping the whole person, aiming to improve their overall health and well-being .
The needles are single use, sterile and extremely fine - patients often feel nothing when the needle is inserted. You can fit 15-20 acupuncture needles into a syringe and so the feeling is nothing like having an injection or giving blood. Patients often report this is the only time they can relax - they often fall asleep during treatment
The most commonly used points are on the lower leg and arm and Clare always explains where they will be placed before you have treatment.
Nutrition
Acupuncture
Acupuncture
Nutrition is key to health. Every cell in the body functions based on biochemistry and this is fuelled from the food we eat. Provided the food we eat has the vitamins, minerals, oils and proteins we require health can be maintained through a balanced diet.
Where the body is already deficient in some nutrition good quality supplements m
Nutrition is key to health. Every cell in the body functions based on biochemistry and this is fuelled from the food we eat. Provided the food we eat has the vitamins, minerals, oils and proteins we require health can be maintained through a balanced diet.
Where the body is already deficient in some nutrition good quality supplements may be necessary to rebuild and in some cases to maintain healthy levels.
The quality of supplementation is key as they must be in a form that the body can be used (bioavailable) and has the necessary cofactors (for example iron needs vitamin C to be absorbed) to enable them to be utilised.
Lots of cheaper supplements contain fillers to bulk out the capsule or tablet and this can not only be unhelpful but in some case detrimental.
Pro-biotics should have strains that are native to our small and large intestine and compatible with each other, flax oil should be unrefined and presented along with the phospholipids that naturally accompany the oil in nature, etc…. If a nutrient is presented to the body in the form it occurs in nature then it will enter the biological pathways that have evolved over eons to optimally uptake and use it beneficially.
People often think of vitamins and minerals in isolation, e.g. vitamin E is good for the skin, vitamin A is good for the eyes, calcium is good for the bones, omega oils are good for hormones and so on.
However no nutrient acts in isolation. Vitamins, minerals and other nutrients act in concert.
A common example is calcium. Most people know that calcium is important for healthy bones, and millions of people take a calcium supplement. However, there are some very important considerations.
Most calcium supplements come in the form of calcium carbonate. This is the same salt that furs up kettles and other kitchen appliances. Because calcium is used within the body to neutralise acid toxin, much of it ends up as a calcified salt around the body, including the joints and arteries. For this reason, the first and most important thing that you should know about calcium is not to use or prescribe calcium carbonate. If a person needs to supplement their calcium intake, this is best done using food-state calcium supplement.
So many people are taking a daily calcium supplement, and yet little of this is reaching the intended destination, the bones. Other minerals play a very important role in how the body uses calcium and ensures that it arrives in the bone matrix. Vitamin D is required for the uptake of calcium over the gut wall. Magnesium is then required to chaperone calcium into the bone. The trace mineral boron is required to lay down calcium inside the bone matrix.
Contact Clare to find out more about how nutrition may be able to help you.
Kinesiology
Acupuncture
Kinesiology
Kinesiology uses muscle testing to identify from our bodies to find where health issues stem from, where imbalances/energy drains are and what particular stresses are affecting you. We then correct those imbalances using specialised lymphatic massage, nutrition, electrical balancing and emotional work.
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