Sept 2014
How are you?   Thought that as it was the school holidays it made for a good time to drop you  a quick line to let you know how well B is getting on.  He started school end of Feb and is doing so so so well.  He is at standards for everything and has lots of lil friends, goes for play dates, participates appropriately in the classroom and is like a very normal child – other than his behaviour- due to all the ABA he would probably be the best behaved child in the classroom.  He tries to write stories, independently tells me about his day and independently asks questions about mine. He is a caring loving boy, who is also a great supportive friend.  Great eye contact, answers  when spoken to, is extremely “connected” and is just so freakin happy!!!!!!!  We can not be more proud of him!!  The food on the other hand is always going to be a freakin challenge – which it is here that his autism shines thru lol.  Continue reading →

May 2014
Thanks so much GIna! You and Leila are the dynamic (and gorgeous might I add) duo of biomed intervention. You are shining lights and the complete opposite of most of the “stuffed shirts” we’ve come across who diagnosed our children with the doom and gloom news and offered no hope.

May 2014
I just wanted to say thank you so much for doing the seminar on Saturday. C and I thoroughly enjoyed it and it was very beneficial to us both. Although L isn’t autistic we certainly have huge challenges with him. C had been querying the money I have been spending on supplements and change of diet etc as we have been on a tight budget lately but after coming along on Saturday he can now see that there is method to my madness and he now thoroughly backs it. He even said after we left that he was really pleased he went along and it was definitely worth the money. We have been struggling a bit with L diet and he has been upset eating different food to C and my other son so C suggested that we all eat GFCF while L is on his 3 month trial. That will definitely make shopping and cooking a lot easier!

Anyway thanks again.

August 2014
Hi Gina
Thanks again for the awesome conference yesterday. Great coming away inspired and re-energised re family nutrition!

August 2014
Firstly thank you so much for the seminar on Saturday.    It was just fantastic to say the very least, it was worth the day trip down from Whangarei!

August 2014
Hi Gina
> Thank you so much for last weekends seminar. It was the refresher I needed to get us back on track. I’ve made quite a few changes this week and I’m feeling motivated more than ever! …..

August 2013
As a parent of children with autism I feel we are so lucky to have you both work with our children. I would have hate to think of what would have had to us as a family if you hadn’t been there to help us.I think you both do a great job and give so much back.

August 2013
Thank you so much for the fantastic Seminar on the weekend.. I found it so helpful, and it gave me so much faith and hope for my little boy to recover from Autism.. I have already started putting into practice all the great advice I was given, and hopefully the results will show in my son.

August 2013
Thank you for a great seminar on Saturday – very enlightening and it filled in a lot of gaps that I didn’t even realise were issues, or potential issues for the long term.  So much makes sense now!!!
August 2013
Dear Gina and Leila,

Just a quick email to thank you for the seminar on the weekend.  It was great to get a better understanding of what we are doing for our child.  It was also great to speak to other parents in the same boat as us.
We particularly enjoyed the talk that Helen gave as we had somewhat neglected our own health in favour of our child’s health.  So it was a good wake up call for us as parents.

ACNEM
I just want to offer a big huge thank you from all of us at ACNEM for your very professional and well received presentation.  ACNEM Thank You 17/11/11

Hi Gina, Well I can’t believe 3 months have shot past! We have seen a BIG change in G and I have to put it mostly down to the strict GF side of things (maybe Soy free too). Our usual diet has improved slightly on the vegie and nutritious baking front but was pretty good already. After 2 weeks GF we saw a slow but steady improvement in energy, behaviour, no more yawning and fainty, pale child in mornings. No more continuous nagging to get ready for school. One much more relaxed Mum!G previously would never go and play outside willingly, after one month on GF she shocked us one weekend by getting dressed ! without being asked and headed out to the trampoline straight after brekky. Went out 4 more times during the same day for a 15 min bounce by herself!! Excuse all the exclamation marks but this is very exciting. For the last 10 years I have had a difficult kid and even avoiding all chemicals, excess sugar, dairy products and most gluten containing food I knew she still wasn’t quite right.THANK YOU!!We had one muck up when she ate dumplings at an asian friends house (little English spoken). All her old symptoms came back and although I was mad about the mistake it was probably a good reminder for her as to why she needs to be careful.
Kind regards,J Greenidge.

01/08/2010
I would like to offer my gratitude and thanks to Gina (Naturopath) who offered us a wealth of knowledge and information, and a successful out come when our baby had an acute out break of eczema. At six months of age I introduced solids to my baby and at ten months he was weened, during this time he began to develop small persistent patches of eczema which wouldn’t clear. By the time he was eleven months old he had an aggressive out break of weeping, itchy eczema sores from head to toe. Gina explained that this was a build up of toxins in the body due to food issues and that’s the body’s way of trying to eradicate the over load.
After three GP visits and two referrals to pediatric dermatologists, we finally got diagnosis of a rare type of Discoid Ecema.
Gina came highly recommended to me and proved to be an extremely professional and empathetic Naturopath, who’s extensive knowledge and training has proved to be an absolute god send.
Gina recommended some drastic dietary changes and a range of natural supplements, and the results were highly visible within the first few days of implementation. We noticed an extreme improvement in not only our baby’s skin but also his happy little personality returned, he was no longer agitated by the severe itching of his skin, he was able to sleep through the night, and was generally so much more settled.
Eczema can bring huge stress to not only the little one suffering from the condition, but also to parents who suffer alongside their children, we are always continually searching for a cure or treatment to bring back normality for our children.
So we would like to give our heartfelt thanks to Gina for sharing wisdom with us, her passion for her work shines through, and is an absolute credit to her, and as a family we are immensely grateful for such a successful outcome for our precious son.
Kindest regards
L Yates
Auckland

June 2010
We have a son that was just over 2yrs old and we had a  6 week old when S was diagnosed with autism. We started doing biomedical but we were having huge issues with our son. We were doing gluten dairy free at this stage. Our son did not sleep , 1am every morning he would scream and scream it could go onto 5am every morning. My husband and I were exhausted as it had been going on for a year. We tried so many things then we met an angel called Gina. I will never forget our first conversation. I was desperate. It was surprising our marriage was still together.
Gina changed the diet completely onto GAPS. She told us about coconut juice , beef stock , vegetable juicing. She told us exactly what to buy and how to do it.
Gina guided us through what to do and we followed it to the letter of the law. If Gina said it had to be done it was done, and within a period of 8 weeks slowly S slept longer and the screaming periods got shorter. It does take some time but we could see we were getting head way. Then when S slept all night my husband and I woke up we thought he was dead. We had to check and see.  Today we are almost two years down the track and our son is doing so well and looks so healthy and sleeps all night.
S goes to kindy four mornings week, and we get asked often are you sure he has autism because the symptoms are less and less now.
All through this time Gina supported us through e-mail and phone and she came to see S as well.   She always responded quickly and was so caring towards us. She saved my sanity, marriage and S health.  Gina also guided us through our young baby’s life, how to feed her and gave us plans which we have followed so both children are doing so well to the stage we never see a G.P. The children are rarely sick, I put it down to biomedical and diet.
I myself see such huge changes I have gone dairy and gluten free and feeling better and better all the time.
Regards
Anita

Do you know the Green Goddess from British TV? It takes on a whole new meaning when we talk about Gina.
Easy!
My kids have recovered from biomed alone. No other intervention was needed. We have removed tummy pains and head aches as well as anxiety and tantrums.
My children are amazing thanks to a diet which is gf/cf and free from anything artificial, colours and numbers. They eat like queens – a huge breakfast of protein and vegetables, they have 3 small meals at school and they eat vegetables or soup for dinner.
We take vitamins and minerals to supplement the diet, as well as omega 3 and digestive enzymes. Kefir and fermented veggies feature every day.
Any accidents result in the children retreating back to autism, such as 2 weeks ago when the school gave my daughter a “treat” for being good – a flavoured ice pop! Alice went crazy on it.
Biomed is the best thing I ever discovered. What a pity we all lost sight of eating well. Our diet wouldn’t look out of place 150 years ago.
Sam Walker
Proud biomed parent of 2 thriving angels

Sept 09
We have been doing the biomedical and diet intervention for three months. In this time we have seen significant changes.
When we went to Gina we were very desperate as our son was very unwell (severely constipated) and had restricted his diet to milk, toast, fruit breakfast bars, and bananas. He was waking continuously throughout the night; he was upset grumpy and unsettled a lot of the time. He would have tantrums throughout the day and was very difficult for us to manage.
Gina advised us to start by changing both our children to a gluten and casein free diet. Our son was very addicted to milk and we knew this would be a challenge but through guidance from Gina we gradually weaned him off milk and onto beef and chicken broth. The only things he would eat was gluten free chocolate muffins with chicken and veges hidden in them and honey. This carried on for about four weeks before he would eat anything else. After three months of starting the diet he is now eating meat and vegetables amongst other foods, he is nearly fully on the GAPS diet which is great.
We have seen great changes in the last three months, he is now sleeping through the night, he has excellent eye contact, we now get spontaneous hugs and he is talking a lot more. His teachers at daycare say they have noticed dramatic changes. He now asks to go to “playschool” and when we get there he looks for his friend and runs off to play. Before we started the diet he would get so upset and scream and cry when we arrived at daycare. It would sometimes take half an hour for me to leave it would take that long to calm him down. He is generally more alert and aware of his surroundings and people. Three months ago he would scream if we didn’t turn on the same nursery rhyme CD in the car, now he is happy to listen to different music on the radio.
These are some of the many changes that we have seen in our 2 year old after three months of changing to the gluten/casein and grain free diet and using biomedical supplements. We have achieved all this through the guidance and support of Gina, it has been a tough three months but it has definitely been worth it.

Date: 27th September 2009
I will be 22 in November. I have had numerous diagnosis over my life.
I had chronic ear infections as a kid. They originally thought I was deaf but hearing tests ruled that out. And I had other immune problems as well. I had speech and language therapy from the ages of 3 1/2 to about 8 1/2. At age 10 I was diagnosed with Dyspraxia and Dyslexia.
At age 12 I was diagnosed with Asperger’s over in Australia at the ISADD. But my mum did not want to believe it at the time because Dad only tested me to try and keep me in Australia saying my mum was a bad mum. So I don’t blame my mum for not wanting to believe. At age 16 I was diagnosed with Asperger’s and borderline Global Intellectual Impairment. But I believe that the diagnosis should of been High Functioning Autism as I showed many signs of Autism as a baby. Continue reading →