
The Northwood Practice
Janet E. Spence N.D.

Today's society is experiencing what could be
termed 'Modern Disease Syndrome'. One disease with different manifestations. In
this syndrome could be included heart disease, cancer, AIDS, diabetes,
arthritis, colitis, mental disorders etc. Underlying the syndrome are
imbalances in the regulatory mechanisms in the body resulting from changes in
lifestyle factors. These changes involve stress levels, exercise, smoking,
drugs, pollutants and especially a multiplicity of interacting dietary
modifications which have not, to date, been evaluated for their collective
effect.
Researchers into heart disease and cancer see a dietary
and life style component to each of these diseases. However, they do not share
each other's findings, as though cancer and heart disease were unrelated
illnesses, instead of just different genetic manifestations of the same
nutritional and life style problem.
Natural healing seeks to
create health by eliminating the imbalance (or disease) that produced the
illness in the first place. This process begins with the premise that the body
is designed to heal itself, given the appropriate support.
Determining what is appropriate nutritional support requires
active participation on your part, to become aware of what your own 'inner
healer' is telling you. If you are ready to make that commitment to yourself
then this is what you need to know.
1. Healing is a long process.
It took time to get you where you are now, it will take time to reverse. To
rebuild a body to te cellular level takes a while, and this process is
different from person to person.
2. The body is a living,
multidimensional organism not a machine. The dynamics, manifestations
and mechanisms of the physical body are based on it's blue print or energy
pattern, and not solely on its chemical and physiological reactions. Emotions
and mental attitudes have a great deal to do with the state of the body.
Sometimes a disease can be a part of a spiritual; transformative process, in
which case a physical treatment method may be only partially
successful.
3. Healing is a process, and may not always be
comfortable.
Each consultation takes about one hour and includes
a 10SG urine test and blood pressure check.