As a child Christine read a book on how to cure various health issues by drinking fresh vegetable juices. This inspired her to resolve some of her own health issues using food as medicine. In her late 20s, Christine became involved in a variety of business endeavors and began to burn the candle at both ends. The result – an acute case of severe hepatitis leaving her unable to work.
After the initial shock, she recalled how using food as medicine had helped resolve her childhood respiratory health issues and had also provided her with the vigor that initially supported her early work ethic and creativity. Christine returned to wellness principles and began refining various approaches to fit her individual genetic predisposition, health goals and diagnosis. Not only was the hepatitis resolved within weeks (much to the amazement of her doctor), Christine returned to work with more energy, inspiration and creativeness than ever before.
Unfortunately, cancer had not finished with Christine, and despite being extremely fit with a very healthy diet, her genetic make-up eventually came to the fore with a tumor in her own bowel. Whilst focusing on chronic illness, cancer survival and private clinical therapy, Christine also became motivated to create a comprehensive yet simple to use program, “The Body Guard”, to enable her to improve not only her own and her clients’ health, but empower all individuals to work towards their own state of dynamic health and optimal well-being as a preventative to illness. As part of The Body Guard program, Christine uses nutritional medicine, herbal medicine, homeopathy, naturopathy, yoga, meditation, complimentary alternate medicinal therapies and many other techniques to reach her and her patients’ health and wellness goals.
In her personal life, Christine has overcome the early abrupt loss of her father and brother, the intrusion of cancer, the loss of two fortunes (walking away from one and the other through the GFC), and several unfulfilling relationships. She married for the first time the day before her 50th birthday (she made her own organic chocolate wedding cake), completed her Master of Wellness (RMIT), continues to develop her personal yoga and meditation practice, and has established her naturopathic clinic in Noosa Heads, Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Here Christine specializes in treating gut and mind disorders that cause anxiety and stress including OCD, Autism, Anxiety, Depression, Pyroluria amongst others.
Find Christine Barnes here:
Email: christine@thebodyguard.com.au
Internet: www.thebodyguard.com.au
Facebook: thebodyguard.com.au/ChristineTheBodyGuard
Skype: thebodyguard.com.au
