Tues/Wed/Fri 9:00 - 4:00 by Appointment 250-368-6999

Tag: skin inflammation

Heart Health and Related Health Conditions

Heart Health and Related Health Conditions

Sticky

Benefits of Chelation

  • Helps to prevent Arteriosclerosis (Hardening of the arteries)
  • Helps to rejuvenate your cardiovascular system
  • Helps to improve conduction in all degrees of AV heart block
  • Helps to abolish extra heart beats, skipped beats and rapid heart beats
  • Helps as a pre-operative preparation
  • Helps remove lead and heavy metals from the system
  • Reduces toxic lead and metal deposits and abnormal calcium deposits
  • Reduces blood pressure and blood cholesterol
  • Improves circulation
  • Improves vision and hearing
  • Improves liver function
  • Improves skin texture and tone
  • Helps prevent abnormal cross linking of molecules that age tissue
  • Helps to relieve symptoms of senility by increasing circulation to the brain
  • Helps to relieve hypoglycemia, phlebitis and scleroderma
  • Dissolves fats in plaque lined arteries
  • Helps make blood slippery and prevents abnormal blood clotting
  • Helps increase tissue oxygenation

The Ultimate Question is: Can It Help You?

read more

The Importance of a Personalized Diet

At Hunt Naturopathic Clinic a patient’s appropriate diet is based on their biochemical individuality. Just as each person is unique, so too is their dietary plan.

There are diets that are “generally healthy,” but it is just that. They are general and not specific for the individual person.

The ways to assess the correct diet for each patient is based upon the patient’s health condition (pathology) and laboratory test information.

A patient with specific health conditions such as gout, obesity, high blood pressure, skin issues (eczema, psoriasis), inflammatory bowel disease, atonic constipation, anemia, etc. may receive a diet plan that is individualized to their disease.

Other ways of assessing the proper diet may be through complete blood count, ferritin, food allergy testing, blood typing, stool testing for infectious microbes such as candida, low levels of short chain fatty acids and malabsorption.

With diet being such a critical factor in a person’s health, we invest a great deal of time to make sure we have the correct food plan/diet for each patient.

read more

Dermatological Conditions

Acne Rosacea

Eczema is a superficial inflammation of the skin characterized by vesicles (when acute), redness, edema, oozing, crusting, scaling and usually itchy. Treatment involves removing the underlying causes of the skin inflammation.

Psoriasis is an extremely common skin disorder. Its incidence in Canada is between 2 – 4% of the population. Psoriasis is an example of hyperproliferative skin disorders. The cell division is 10000 times greater than in normal skin. Therapeutic consideration may revolve around intestinal microbiology (infection), digestion, liver function, food allergies and nutritional and herbal therapies.

Urticaria (hives) presents with red raised welts, these welts are consistent with histamine released via mast cells (white blood cells). Certain drugs are the most common causes of urticaria, as well as food related allergies. Infections such as yeast, bacterial and viral are also a major cause of urticaria. Treatment is usually ways in which we can detect substance which trigger the overreaction of the immune system, and then remove or desensitize these substances. Certain herbal medicines inhibit mast cell.

read more