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UPENDI HEALTH
Since we are natural biological organisms, we can only maintain, or regain good health through a natural approach; through foods and lifestyles in keeping with our individual biological needs that nature gives each of us. We all must learn to care for our own bodies, since we alone live in it, we feed and direct it, and we bear the direct consequences of eating habits and lifestyle practice out of line with our natural biological requirements.
Simply stated, the foods that you eat, the water you drink, and the air you breathe make up your chemical intake and your body’s fuel supply. A properly working nervous system determines our health. Any chemical imbalances we may have can only be a direct response to one or more of these. Modern day approaches to disease management are slowly yielding to overwhelming amounts of new research evidence that supports the importance of food and nutrients, a proper nerve supply, exercise, clean air, and emotional security.
Upendi Health is driven to providing individuals with 100% natural products and caring support that stimulates personal growth, self-love, enhancing self-esteem and healthy lifestyle, by creating empowering programs that educate, coach, motivate, inspire and encourage mindful nutrition and healthy living that will feed individuals body, mind and soul.
“The greatest wealth is health.” –Virgil.
HEALING WITH ESSENTIAL OILS AND HERBS
Extracted through careful steam distillation, resin tapping, and cold pressing, the purest essential oils are far more powerful than the botanicals from which they come.
Each essential oil’s complex, pleasant and unique scent triggers emotions and memories, which can help in your search for a more fulfilling and balanced life.
Essential oils from plants have always played an important part in spiritual ceremonies, helping participants transcend the trivial and connect with the spiritual self.
The pure constituents in these oils stimulate olfactory receptors and activate regions in the brain’s limbic system associated with memory, emotion and state of mind.
Herbal medicines contain active ingredients. Some pharmaceutical medications are based on a single active ingredient derived from a plant source. Practitioners of herbal medicine believe that an active ingredient can lose its impact or become less safe if used in isolation from the rest of the plant.
HEALING WITH OXYGEN
Oxygen is vital for healing wounds. It is intricately involved in numerous biological processes including cell proliferation, angiogenesis, and protein synthesis, which are required for restoration of tissue function and integrity. Adequate wound tissue oxygenation can trigger healing responses and favorably influence the outcomes of other treatment modalities.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Chambers, have air pressure increased two to three times higher than normal air pressure. Under these conditions, your lungs can gather much more oxygen than would be possible breathing pure oxygen at normal air pressure. When your blood carries this extra oxygen throughout your body, this helps fight bacteria and stimulate the release of substances called growth factors and stem cells, which promote healing.
Ozone Therapy (Tri-atomic Oxygen, Ozone). It is a revolutionary medical treatment producing far reaching results in human health care, has now become a reality in South Africa and is being practiced all over the world today.
HEALING WITH EXERCISE AND NUTRITION
Exercise improves mental health by reducing anxiety, depression and negative mood, by improving self-esteem and cognitive function. Exercise has been found to alleviate symptoms such as low self-esteem and social withdrawal. Exercise has shown to reduce the level of inflammatory markers in the blood, thus helping to reduce the level of inflammation and promote rapid healing. Reduced inflammation may also provide palliative benefits by decreasing pain and discomfort in wounds.
Nutrition plays an essential role in wound healing and care. Nutritional support needs to be considered a fundamental part of wound management. Poor nutrition before or during the healing process can delay healing and impair wound strength, making the wound more prone to breakdown.
HEALING THROUGH MINDFULLNESS AND MEDITATION
Mindfulness & Meditation is bringing the body into a place where the power of Source can flow into the affliction and also into the places of affliction. We are also presenting ourselves to be used as channels of that healing power. Source is not only able to physically heal us but is also able to emotionally heal us.
Over the long term, the relaxation response that results from meditation reduces stress-related inflammation and improves insulin resistance. Meditation also causes the body to produce more of the immune system's helper cells, which assist in fighting infections.
DISABILITY EQUIPMENT
Share house at each of the Upendi Communities, with equipment for individuals that have injuries and disabilities.
Long waiting lists or difficulty accessing funds or wheelchair services in some areas prevent many people with mobility impairments having the wheelchair they need to live life to the full.
Individuals can help us address some of these needs or shortfalls by donating any used wheelchairs or other disability equipment from individuals or organizations, when no longer required.
We aim to ensure any equipment we receive is in good condition before it is donated. In cases where it is not fit for re-issue, we will disassemble the equipment and use parts in our custom projects or repairs.
All equipment will be donated to individuals in need.
MINI CLINICS
Mini Clinic at each of the Upendi Communities that treat dis-ease holistically, as well as Mobile Clinic’s (Vans and busses will be equipped as a consulting rooms) that go out into the outlying communities.
Mini Clinic in a container
