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Sue Kira

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About Naturopathy With Sue Kira

Formerly known as Sue Pollock from Ballina Naturopthics, Sue wrote a monthly naturopathic columm for the now defunct Here & Now which was widely apprecated in the Byron Bay area. In these columms she explained to the layman/woman the ins and outs of...

Acid alkaline balance

Acid alkaline balance: What does pH mean to the body? Sue Kira writes about the effects of acid alkaline imbalances in the body. pH is the ‘potential of hydrogen’, but in lay terms we are referring to the acid/alkaline balance of the body. pH is...

Ageing and the endocrine system

The endocrine system is involved in all of the integrative aspects of life, including growth, sex differentiation, metabolism and adaptation to an ever changing environment. This system is connected with your feelings and emotions. Whether you feel...

Allergy or intolerance?

Over the years many people have come to me wondering if they have an allergy or intolerance to food(s) that may be causing their symptoms. Symptoms that are often many and varied, such as headaches, rashes, runny nose, skin complaints, bloating and...

Auto iso nosode therapy

These organisms can remain in your body, buried in your organs and tissues, doing damage to your health. Years later, life-threatening illnesses can...

Bio Energy, PH and Ionisation

All matter is made of atoms, molecules and compounds joined together in various patterns and united by energy in a common union. This is the relative cosmic energy of the universe and can be expressed by Einstein’s relative mass equation, E =mc2....

Bio-oxidative therapies

In an age of increasing medical specialisation, complex medical procedures and expensive medications, many health-care consumers are interested in getting back to basics. They are looking for safe and effective medical therapies that will naturally...

Coeliac or non-coeliac gluten intolerance?

Coeliac disease, (also called non-tropical spru, gluten sensitive enteropathy, or celiac spru) is a condition that involves an inability to digest gluten. Gluten is a tough elastic protein found in the glutinous grains such as wheat, rye, barley,...

Coffee, the great liver detoxifier

Many people these days are in to doing a liver and gall bladder flush using a heroic combination of olive oil and lemon juice, drunk in large quantities and followed by a chaser of Epsom salts. There is no dispute as to the effectiveness of this...

Coming Clean In A Toxic World

The body uses a great deal of energy, processing and eliminating the vast number of toxins that our body produces each day. The body’s elimination system does not occur by chance, but by a chain of biochemical step by step processes. Any break in...

Essential Fatty Acids

In my naturopathic clinic one of the most widely prescribed supplements is the essential fatty acids — fish oils, vitamin E and evening primrose oil. Because essential fatty acids deficiencies are commonly observed during client consultations or a...

Far infra red sauna

Many of you are aware of my great interest in the importance of detoxification of the body to regain or maintain good health, and with this in mind I have in the past and now employed the use of colonic irrigation and detox programs to facilitate...

Fat Locked Toxins

As a clinician who specialises in detoxification I have employed over the last 11 years the use of various methods to detoxify the body. The addition to the clinic of live blood analysis as a tool to identify what needs to be addressed has been...

Green Foods

The power of green plants in healing has been recognised throughout history. Many indigenous peoples — and all mammals except modern man — live primarily on grasses and green plants in times of disease. In more recent years a number of green...

Ileovecal Valve Syndrome

There are a lot of people with problems with their ileocecal valve. The ileocecal valve (ICV) is the joining point between the large and small intestines. The valve has two primary...

Magnificent Magnesium

Twenty years ago when I first started out in the world of naturopathy and was doing my clinic hours with a GP/naturopath in Sydney, the main observation that I noted was in his use of...

Mind Over Disease

There is a definite correlation between the functioning of the mind and the body, and the mind has the dominant role. Conscious life has its beginnings within our own feelings, and emotions within our make-up and within what we make up; through what...

Parasites

I started using live blood analysis in my naturopathic clinic over two years ago and hardly ever saw parasites in people’s blood, and yes I was looking, but in the last two months I have been seeing parasites in about 7 out of 10 blood films....

Psychoneuroimmunology

Psychoneuroimmunology is the study of how the mind effects the nervous system and immune system to eventually effect the body by creating a physical manifestation of dis-ease or unwellness. There are many authors that have shown us this, such as...

Stress hormones

Most practitioners like myself find ourselves talking about the effects of stress to clients more often than not. Stress can be physical, mental and/or emotional, and is seen as a major contributor to many serious diseases....

Symbiosis Or Dysbiosis

A healthy person is home to hundreds of different kinds of beneficial and friendly bacteria that inhabit mainly the digestive tract. It is estimated that there are more bacteria in the gut than there are cells in our entire body. In return for a...

The Digestive Process

During the process of giving a client colonic irrigation, we often see (through the waste outlet tube) undigested and often fermented food wastes (as well as the usual “old” compacted waste that breaks off the bowel wall), and I am asked how...

The Good Word On Summer Sun

With summer upon us once again we often have thoughts of going to the beach and generally getting out in the fresh air and sunshine. But then there’s the nagging in the back of the mind of how bad the effects of the sun can be for...

The Immune System

Recently there have been some interesting programs about parasites on television. This has raised a lot of interest in my clinic during Live Blood Analysis sessions, as quite often we see parasites in my clients’ blood....

The Tao Of Proteins And Carbohydrates

Despite major changes in food production and technology, the eating habits of Western society over the last few decades have resulted in record levels of chronic degenerative disease as well as a myriad of ‘minor disorders’ of...

The Value Of Juices

We have all had such a long hot summer and many people have been feeling overly tired from the effects of the heat. I have had practically every person who has come in for a live blood analysis complain of being excessively...

Water, The Lubricant Of Life

One of the main causes of fatigue, toxemia, constipation, and premature aging is simply that most people don’t drink enough water. A common statement found in literature...

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