Brando's Blog

WELCOME...

Hello, I'm Leigh Brandon. As the founder of BodyCHEK and a leading UK CHEK Practitioner, I specialise in injury rehabilitation, weight loss and sports conditioning.

I'm passionate about helping you achieve your health & performance goals and my holistic approach ensures results every time.

I'm hoping you can get to know me through this blog and that I can also share the knowledge & information I learn as I help my clients achieve success.

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BodyCHEK in the USA

Hi Everyone,

The reason I have not blogged for a few weeks is because I have been in the USA for the last two weeks.

  I spent the first week teaching CHEK Exercise Coach at the CHEK Institute with Josh Rubin. It's a really great course and a really great setting for teaching and for students to learn. I briefly caught up with my teacher, mentor and friend Paul Chek, the Founder of The CHEK Institute. A little time with Paul is always an experience.

  The second week I spent relaxing and catching up with friends in Miami Beach. It was great to spend time with friends that I haven't seen for a while, to relax the brain and get some sun. As you can see from the picture, the beaches are stunning. I also managed to take part in my friends yoga class and had a tennis session at Bolletieri's tennis centre in Flamingo Park in 85 degree heat and 67% humidity. That was interesting!.

Stay tuned as I will be continuing with some client's stories and I hope to get some videos on You Tube in the next month.

Keep well!

Public or Private Healthcare?

I recently received a leaflet from my local Member of Parliament warning us all not to vote Conservative as they are going to cut funding to the NHS and introduce an American style medical insurance scheme.

Indeed she quotes two Conservative MPs as saying, "I wouldn't wish the NHS on anyone" and "The NHS has been a 60 year mistake". But I couldn't agree more with these statements. Now, I do not have any allegiance to any major political party. However, when you step back and review the success of the NHS, how successful has it been?

Well, one success has been the fact that it has been the biggest employer in the UK. It provides jobs for people. However, its prime purpose was to provide healthcare. How well has it done in this sense? How much more healthy are we than at the end of the second world war? The rate of infant mortality seems to have reduced as has the level of death from infectious disease. But is this due to better health care or just improved hygiene levels? The level of emergency medical care, for instance, road traffic accident victims has improved greatly.

The truth is that heart disease is now in epidemic levels, as is cancer, diabetes, obesity and on and on and on. We have become a much more sick nation. So has the NHS been a success? Absolutely not!!!

Now, I'm not suggesting that a private medical system would be any better either.

What I am suggesting is that if you wish to become healthy, you need to follow a model of health, not a model of disease. The medical industry (it is an industry more than it is a service) is obsessed with disease. If you focus on disease, guess what you are going to create? Yes, more disease.

If you wish to achieve optimal health and vitality, you cannot expect someone else to heal you. Every cell in your body already knows what perfect health is. All you need to do is give your cells the right environment in which they have the opportunity to be healthy.

By choosing to give your body what it needs physically, mentally and emotionally you can achieve optimal health. It is not imperative that you pay huge taxes or medical insurance to live a healthy, vibrant and happy life. It's all down to the choices you make in life. What you choose to do today will make who you become tomorrow.

Great Healthy Young Looking Skin - Part 4

In this final part, I will details the final factors that require attention in order to achieve greathy healthy, young looking skin.

Detoxification & Elimination

Your skin is an organ of detoxification. If you are experiencing problems with your skin, it is likely that you have a toxic load that your detoxification system is unable to cope with. Therefore, the toxins are trying to escape via the skin. A toxic gut can lead to skin problems.

 

If you are constipated you will have autointoxication (self poisoning). Stools in the large intestine are squeezed as they pass through to recycle water and not allow any to escape as a survival mechanism to ensure you stay hydrated.

 

However, when you are constipated the same stools get continually squeezed and this releases toxic waste back into the blood stream that the detoxification system has to deal with.

 

What can be very useful to do to help the detoxification process are a series of cleanses. They should always be done with professional advice and support. It is recommended that you speak with your Doctor before beginning a cleansing procedure. Cleanses should be done twice per year and include:

 

•      Coffee enemas (can be performed more frequently)

•      Colon cleanses

•      Liver/gall bladder flushes

•      Fungal cleanses

•      Bacterial cleanses

•      Parasite cleanses

•      Skin cleanses (can be performed more frequently)

 

Other things that you can do to reduce your toxic load are to:

 

•      Replace metal fillings with a good holistic or biological dentist who is trained in toxicology

•      Replace toxic cookware with glass, ceramic and high quality metal cookware

•      Replace toxic cosmetics and toiletries with natural, safe organic ranges. I personally use the Mi Essence range which is fantastic.

•      Use a whole-house water, drinking water and shower filtration systems.

•      Eliminate alcohol

•      Eliminate/reduce medical drugs (in communication with your Medical Doctor)

•      Eliminate cigarettes and being around second-hand smoke.

 

Hormone Balance

We also know that skin conditions may be caused by hormonal imbalances. It is advised to have your hormone balance checked.

 

If anyone would like any of the tests discussed above, I can arrange them for you.

 

Now, at age 40, I can at last say that my skin is pretty good. Compared to how it was 15 years ago, I am ecstatic. At age 31, I went to a Chinese herbalist who ran some tests on me. He told me that I had Candida Albicans (yeast infection) and a whole host of food intolerances. He suggested that I stop using anti-biotics and go on an anti-Candida diet and eliminate my intolerant foods.

 

After just two weeks my skin improved dramatically. Over the subsequent years, I have learned a great deal and have indeed discovered better ways of testing and better ways of eating, healing the gut and detoxifying the body. I would say it has been a nine year project to heal my insides from the damage caused by the anti-biotics.

 

So if you would like better, healthier or younger-looking skin, I am in great position to help you. Feel free to contact me for more details.