Naturopathy

She is well known in the Body Psychotherapy industry of Brisbane and Australia as the naturopath to assist with stress and mental health.  She offers many years of experience with rewarding and positive results.  Her experience in assisting  stress and mental health combines naturopathic and body psychotherapy trainings. Along side these clinical skills she is able to bring her own personal history of stress, insomnia, anxiety, depression and exhaustion.  Deanne is uniquely qualified to assist people in moving forward to experience life in a different way, providing relief from symptoms naturally.

Deanne loves working with hormonal issues and female health. Optimal hormonal functioning involves multiple interactions and reactions requiring many nutrients at different stages to work properly.  Herbs are used medicinally to repair, heal and moderate. Deanne’s philosophy is to correct these deficiency and encourage the body to make the right amount of hormones needed and re-gain health and balance.  All hormones inter-connect in the body and can affect each other such as when longterm stress results in thyroid issues.  Hormonal health problems that we treat regularly at Elixir & Life are listed below.

Traditional naturopathic belief is that when the GUT health is unwell and out of balance it will affect everything else and that to be in great health the whole digestive system and it’s processes must be healthy and functioning well.

If you have poor digestion you become nutrient depleted due to poor absorption. These nutritional deficiencies can then lead to multiple problems.

If your GUT has become more permeable or leaky, known as ‘leaky gut’ undigested particles of food or toxins will be getting absorbed rather than being digested properly or eliminated. This situation occurring can manifest as food sensitivities, allergies, bloating or  constipation.  Because the intestinal wall is more permeable it means things that would normally be eliminated are absorbed more readily such as toxins, heavy metals and by-products such as oestrogen. There is a strong connection between Leaky Gut and many health diseases and feeling generally unwell.

You may have heard of the Gut Ecology or our natural bacterial Biome, this often occurs in correlation with Leaky Gut or on its own.  YES this is of such importance for good health to be a happy healthy balance of the right environment. Testing in the form of specialised stool samples from specific laboratories can be used to correctly diagnose overgrowths of parasites, yeast, candida, bacteria or an imbalance or low levels of certain good bacterias. Treatment can then be specifically targeted.

Other digestive issues can also exist and  investigations through specialised questioning and naturopathic knowledge can pinpoint why your digestive symptoms are causing you problems.

Conditions such as acute colds and flus are treated regularly at Elixir & Life, by encouraging your own immunity to strengthen and heal, your own immune system becomes stronger going forward. If you can use nutrients and herbs to prevent or heal colds and flus you can often avoid antibiotics and the side affects that go with antibiotics such as the affect on healthy Gut flora and becoming antibiotic resistant.

It is a naturopathic belief to get a cold or flu once a year is a way the body cleanses but if you are becoming sick more easily or more often and taking a long time to recover then your immunity is weakened and can be strengthened.

Post viral syndrome and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome usually occur when people are under longterm stress and become immune weakened.  Serious viral infections such as glandular fever, ross river fever and Lyme’s Disease result in people feeling like they have never really recovered from the original infection.  Serious viruses in a vulnerable person can leave them exhausted, immune depleted and constantly getting sick.  Naturopathic medicine is able to assist expediently in returning to good health. These conditions affect multiple systems of the body and this is one of the reasons naturopathic medicine offers answers.  By building immunity,  and supporting energy pathways you will have greater energy, fight infections, resume a normal life and recover faster.

Allergies such as hayfever, asthma, eczema, sinus, and food sensitivities are a dysfunction of the immune system and digestive systems and can be assisted naturally.

Naturopathy and Nutrition are very affective support for cancer patients. However Deanne does not specialise in supporting patient during cancer treatment. the reason for this is that Deanne believes cancer patients should see a Naturopath who has a great deal of experience in this area. Deanne has chosen to dedicate her practice to other area’s of passion. She does assist patient post cancer to repair the system of the body that have been affected by medical treatment as well as address correcting the underlying reasons cancer has occurred.

For cancer patients she recommends:

• Manuella
• Katrina Ellis
• Janeth Schol

Pregnancy care and support is an area that has a major impact on a women’s health and the babies health and a time where special care is needed. After completing additional studies in pregnancy care Elixir & Life offers a specialised Pregnancy Program. Elixir & Life website has a special page dedicated to helping you understand the assistance we can offer you and your baby before, during and after pregnancy.