Whenever I meet a new client who has back pain the very first thing I am looking for is what caused their pain. Over 95% of back pain problems are caused from poor movement, lack of movement, and repetitive behaviours that cause irritation of nerves and the discs in the lower back. Some cases are from catastrophic injuries like car accidents or a collision in sports but these are very rare. The majority of these injuries are due to the way we live our life. If you can identify the underlying root cause of your problem you are halfway towards finding the answers to your problem. The big question is where you do you look?

The long held belief for many, and what we have been told to believe is true for weight loss, is that to lose weight it is all about energy in versus energy out. I remember being taught this in my Personal Training course and even being shown how to get my clients to use software like Calorie King to help people track how many calories they have eaten. It is one of the biggest weight loss myths ever created and the source of frustration for so many people trying to lose weight, and unfortunately many so called weight loss experts, personal trainers and health practitioners still teach this ridiculous method. Which only adds to the confusion. 

Since 2000 I have suffered with Psoriasis on my skin and tried almost every type of ointment, cream or remedy to get rid of it permanently and have normal looking skin. I have seen several Naturopaths, Homeopaths, GP's, Skin Specialists, Chinese Medicine practitioners, you name it, I have seen them all. And no matter what I did nothing seemed to work. Then in 2011 I decided enough was enough and I wanted to really find out what I can do myself to find the answers to my problem. I had devoted my career and my life to helping people become healthy, lose weight and improve fitness but I was really struggling to find the answer to my own health problem. One of the things that has really built my business and my reputation as a great trainer is my ability to try and test everything on myself. My own body and the results from my sporting activities was living proof that my programs with weight loss, running, cycling, weight training, tennis, basketball all worked. I was calling myself a Holistic Lifestyle Coach yet I could not find the answer to this one thing I had had for so long. So I started researching endlessly with books and different experts in the fields of skin problems. And I came across some interesting facts with regards to digestion, toxicity from modern foods and how stress can significantly affect the skin. So I put together a plan to rid myself of this problem by the end of the year.