The Naturopathic Triad is a way of looking at how we can help ourselves recover from illness by re-creating our health and also a way to see how we may have become ill or at dis-ease.
It shows three different aspects of our whole being;
Our structure or physical body
Our chemistry or the fluids within us
Our emotional state
It is easy to see how these aspects can be a starting point for us to become ill, for example if we have a fall we may injury our muscles or ligaments, if we eat poorly the vitamins and minerals in our fluids become deficient and if we are under great stress emotionally we can become anxious or depressed. You can also include in this aspect the electro-magnetic insults we are exposed to on a daily basis such as mobile phone frequencies or interference from wireless technology.
These are all highly interlinked and in most cases a person will ideally require help or treatment from all three directions.
I’d like to illustrate this point using stress as an example and see how it could hypothetically cause us harm on all three aspects of the Naturopathic Triad. It is easy to see how stress can cause us to emotionally feel strained and most people understand that stress does this. What is less understood is that all our feelings are actually physical chemicals in our nervous system or hormones secreted from glands. These are therefore from the biochemical side of the Naturopathic Triad.
These chemicals must be constructed and then broken down within us which requires amino acids, vitamins and minerals etc. Through a period of stress more adrenalin and cortisol is made and subsequently has to be detoxified once the body has processed it. Both processes consume vitamins, minerals, protein, fats etc. If this process goes on for some time and our dietary intake is unable to fully supply the required nutrients from this increased need then eventually a deficiency will occur. This deficiency may then be responsible for other symptoms, such as increased tiredness or lethargy, fertility problems, anxiety, hormone problems, weight gain and lots more.
There are of course physical symptoms often associated with stress too. These could be tight shoulders, headaches or migraines and joint problems associated with inflammation. Stress could also trigger physical symptoms in other organ systems too, like the digestive system. You may have physical symptoms of acid reflux or IBS. And so we see how stress could be helped with emotional, chemical and physical treatments.
Hopefully you can see how all parts of the Naturopathic Triad are interlinked. A patient may visit their osteopath to ease their neck and shoulder tension but they may also need advice on relaxation (emotional aspect) through a mindfulness course and use nutritional supplementation to correct a deficiency (biochemical aspect). Only by looking at all three aspects can a complete restoration of their problems be achieved.
The Perrymount Clinic Wellness Club is working towards helping you on all aspects of the Naturopathic Triad +
Your monthly treatment looks at the physical, crossing into the emotional with relaxation and even the internal chemical by shifting lymph around.
Following soon will be weekly recipes to look after your nutrition. Also a 21 day Health Re-creation full lifestyle plan. This is the sort of thing you would pay decent money for if a functional medicine practitioner was prescribing it. Also I am preparing a series of Naturopathic Health Hacks that you can gently implement into your daily lifestyle to help you achieve better health.
