Brando's Blog

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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 am also a member of The CHEK Institute Faculty, presenter and author. 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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I will be closing down this blog account soon as my blogs are now being posted on the new BodyCHEK website at http://bodychek.co.uk/blog/  

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Darren Fletcher's Ulcerative Colitis

It was anounced this week that Darren Fletcher, the Manchester United and Scotland midefielder has had to take time off due to suffering from Ulcerative Colitis.

Some medical experts have suggested that he might not ever be able to return to top level football with this condition.

As a top international footballer worth millions of pounds, you naturally assume he has the best experts around him to help, right?

Well, my good friend Jade Johnson, an Olympic Long Jumper, thought she had the best team around her before she met the likes of Warren Williams, CHEK Practitioner, Bruce Butler, ART Practitioner, Paul Chek, founder of the CHEK Institute and myself. She now calls us, along with her 'Jumps' coach and 'sprint' coach, her dream team.

So what's that got to do with Darren Fletcher. Well, in my clinical experience, a medical approach is not effective at curing ulcerative colitis. It requires a holistic, lifestyle and functional diagnostic nutrition approach.

Acute problems like broken legs and life-threatening conditions require a medical approach. However, chronic conditions, like bowel issues, require a lifestyle approach.

I have worked with many clients with bowel problems including Crohn's Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Ulcerative Colitis and they are all doing great now. Knowing how to become a Health Detective and finding out the cause of the problem and knowing how to stamp out the causes is the way to go.

Treating the symptoms with medication, in my opinion, means we might never see Darren Fletcher on the football pitch again which would be a shame for him and all footaball fans, especially when there are ways to erradicate the problem naturally without harmful drugs or surgery.   

Jade Johnson's 2012 Comeback

Yesterday's Metro Newspaper in London ran an article on long jumper Jade Johnson.

The article talked about her knee injury and how she has suffered from adrenal fatigue.

The article also dicussed how she is working with Paul Chek and her jump coach John Herbert to help her get into shape for next year's Olympics.

Knowing Jade, I can tell you that she is one of the most determined people I know and I have great hope for her next year. 

As you may have read in a previous post, I am also working with Jade to help her with her Adrenal Fatigue and Warren Williams, CHEK Practitioner Level 3, has been working with her for the past year and has helped her greatly to improve joint stability and strength. 

I think we might need to call in Air Traffic Control when Jade lines up on the runway at the Olympics next year! 

A Healthy Lifestyle Reduces The Risk of Cancer Shocker!

Today it was announced that according the The British Journal of Cancer, 40% of all cancers in the UK can be prevented by following a healthier lifestyle.

Those of you who follow my blog regularly will probably say, "Tell me something I don't already know", right?

I am pleased that this information has been released by the Journal of Cancer rather than the constant brain-washing of the population from medical and media organisations that the only answer to cancer is chemo, radiotherapy or surgery. None of those approaches deals with cause and often times are ineffective in the long term.

However, I think the effects of lifestyle can reduce cancers by far more than the stated 40%. Dr William Kelley had a near to 100% success rate with cancer patients using diet and lifestyle factors only. 

Dr Bruce Liption, a world leading micro-biologist suggests that less than 5% of all diseases are genetic, which means that over 95% of all chronic diseases are caused by the environment (which includes lifestyle).

Just this morning I saw a video (below) of Dr Terry Wahl's explaining how she overcome the so-called incurable Multiple Sclerosis through diet and lifestyle alone. Diet and lifestyle really are the best medicine.

 

This is why I get so much reward from my work. I help people improve their lifestyles and then sit back and watch how their health and quality of life increases. After being in this profession for over 15 years, it still amazes me how diet and lifestyle can change someone's health and outlook on life so much.

Some people would describe their improvements in health as miracles, as many would with Dr Wahls' achievement! It's not a miracle, it's just how we how evolved over millions of years. Give your cells what they are designed to be fueled by and they do their job amazingly well. Filling them full of poision isn't the recipe for health and happiness!