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Only few days left for this workshop, for craniosacral therapists only!
Last chance to sign up for this wonderful tool for body therapists. A tool to use from babies/children and adults!
Nutrition and craniosacral talk for pregnancy for parents 19th/11/23 at 11am in North London
Nutrition and craniosacral talk for pregnancy/breastfeeding and post-natal
Nutrition & craniosacral talk for Pregnancy and breastfeeding parents
New date in February 2024, enquire via email or by phone if interested
Venue: Life By Margot clinic 84 Park Road. Crouch End London N8 8JQ.
It is an hour. Cost is 10 pounds per person paid in advance only to Life By Margot, click here to book your place. Places are limited.
The talk will include what nutrition you and your baby will need extra during pregnancy and breastfeeding. Where you can find it in food and the extra supplements suggested for a healthier baby and mother.
What craniosacral can do for you and your baby while you are pregnant and post-natal, for colic, reflux, breastfeeding problems, after a tongue tie and for possible birth trauma of any kind, including in utero possible trauma.
This will be a friendly chat; question can be asked during the talk and answers. Email with the main essential nutrients and supplement suggestions will be sent after the talk to the participants.
Just a warning that there will not be chairs to sit on, but you are well to do some pacing if you need to and lean on the walls (or yoga ball are around).
I will do a moving breathing meditation so to keep moving a bit, and I will email the most of the information after the chat if we do not cover things up.
For Pilates and Yoga pregnancy and post-natal classes in Crouch End, click on Life By Margot click here
© Maria Esposito BSc (Hons) R-Nutritional Therapists – NAET – R-Craniosacral therapist – PCI NLP Coaching programme (health coach) – Certified Angel Guide – Mindfulness Meditation teacher – HeartMath meditation -Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) – Trauma certification (PESI) – MBant – M-CSTA – CHNC registered
The liver, the handyman of your body!
Liver detox and genetic make-up
I have talked in the past about liver and the detox. How important the liver is and how much we undervalue it for what we think about it.
The liver is the essential part of our body and organs, it is the one that protects you from the outside world in the food way. Anything that you eat will go through the liver first and than we pass through the blood and then where it needs to go.
The liver is the one that break down and make up things and compounds. Makes the protein that you need for everything that you do, and most of all detoxifies all the things that you absorb and gets read of everything that you need to let go.
There is phase I that I consider it as the adding the garbage into the bin. Quite often this phase of the liver can be more dangerous, especially if it is too fast compare to the Phase II, which is the garbage man taking the rubbish out, either through urine or through stools.
Genetically Phase I and II unfortunately can be slow in clearing things, which it means that if one of the 6 pathways in Phase II is slow or not working at all, then one of the other pathway needs to work much more.
For example if the pathway called glucoronidation does not work well or slow, if you drink too much or eat heavy food, or do not eat any food for more than 3 hours, you start getting a bit yellow or the jaundice. This is called Gilbert’s Syndrome. Luckily this pathway is supported by glutathione pathway, and if you take the extra glutathione then the jaundice reduces and you feel light and less tired and grumpy! However, if the glutathione pathway does not work well or is slow and the one of the methylation pathway do not work well, than the result could be headache, low mood, tiredness and feeling heavy. This is just a small sample of the possibility. The other coin could be that the phase I is too slow, then the coffee that you drink at 9am in the morning, will still be affecting you by midnight, or if you drink it at 3pm, than is an all night awake. If this is too slow, than it is advisable that you do not eat any Grapefruit, as this will slow down the phase I even more!
Then there the Methylation pathway, which is involved in any of the detox, and making things in our body, including getting rid of the homocysteine and hence affecting the heart and brain. This has also been connected to the epilepsy and autism. Methylation is also involved in making glutathione, this powerful antioxidant, as well as with arginine is involved in making nitric oxide, another powerful antioxidant.
You get the enzymes for the detox and methylation from both your parents, so usually you should get at least one that work, it is slower but it works. But if you get both of your parents SNP that do not work for any of the pathway and especially the methylation, than you are in trouble. And that trouble can start from when you are a baby, as you will not detoxifying any extra toxins that you would inject or ingest.
If you do have either one of the liver detox problem or Gilbert’s Syndrome (a test of total bilirubine from the doctor will tell you if you have it very high), then there is a possibility that you might get a non-alcoholic fatty liver, even if you eat well. Stress or high stress I would say, could lead to extra building stress hormones, which can affect the liver detox pathway. The bile also can start having problems breaking down fat (bilirubine, is from bile and elimination of fatty food into feces), if you do not eat enough vegetables fibers, the fat is not eliminated well enough and the liver might also build up some cholesterol. You might also get a bile reflux, when the sphincter of Oddi is not relaxed enough or closes and opens easily. This can be due to extreme stress, or holding emotions in leading to tight muscles.
The sphincter of Oddi, regulates the flow of digestion, by releasing the bile from the liver and the pancreatic juice from the pancreas to enter the duodenum (the next part of the stomach, where they mix with food to aid digestion. It is a one way valve, preventing the duodenal contents to backflow to the bile and pancreatic ducts.
It is important to seek medical advice if you feel nausea, pain on the right side upper stomach and belly, especially after eating or eating fatty food. If you are under stress from work, and family and more, you might cause the vagal nerve that deals with digestion to shut down leading to the valve and the digestive system to work poorly, and leading the valve to either staying open or shut.
Before getting to that, you might feel food and the stomach looks like you are pregnant within few minutes to half an hour of your meals (this could also be due to low stomach acid). You feel extremely tired, yellowish if you have or do not have Gilbert’s Syndrome, your stools float (you need to flash few times to go down) or are sticky or shiny. This means you are not breaking down your fat. Your urine is a bit more yellow, as you can not flush the bilirubine enough or eliminate enough toxins.
Once you are at this point you need a proper liver diet with plenty of fiber, being strict, with no alcohol drinking and sugar and more, as well a liver support, for about 6 months or more.
As a nutritionist, I would advice the diet, and supplements to go on, as well as having sessions of craniosacral therapy to reduce the stress and vagal nerve sympathetic constant activation, hence regulation of stress and relaxation. This can be a session of at least 5 to 10.
Lifestyle changes is essential in this cases, and understanding your health is more important that anything else!
Email Maria Esposito or call her to make an appointment for a nutritional session and a craniosacral therapy combination.
© Maria Esposito BSc (Hons) R-Nutritional Therapists – NAET – R-Craniosacral therapist – NLP practitioner – Certified Angel Guide – Mindfulness Meditation teacher – HeartMath meditation -Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) – Trauma certification (PESI) – MBant – M-CSTA – CHNC registered
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Venues for Private sessions
Monday to Friday we are open week day from 9am till 5pm as last session, for online and face to face therapies.
Working from (my Home) North London N15 6HA. Full address given on booking.
One or two Saturdays available for working from 9am till 5pm.
Sundays closed.
Crouch end Life by Margo clinic only for craniosacral therapy and pregnancy consultation, for NAET is N15 clinic.
Life By Margot clinic address is 84 Park Road Crouch End London N8 8JQ.
Price for 1 hour at the clinics is 80 pounds to be paid on booking via bank transfer to
Payment via bank transfer to Maria Esposito TSB sort code 308472 account 24603860 at booking.
Invoice on request. Payment on booking as there is a 48 hours cancellation policy and a 30 pounds administration fee after the for cancellation fee if not.
Please download the heath check for you as an adult if you are having a session, for your baby is the file below.
Baby form please download if your baby is having a session.
Email me for any problems downloading the form to esposito_m@yahoo.co.uk
Or Call 07956662954.
Maria Esposito BSc (Hons)
Craniosacral Healing /Nutrition NAET/Mindfulness living/ NlP health coach /mind body and soul 