Programme options

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Nadia trained as a Hippocrates Health Educator at the Hippocrates Wellness Institute in West Palm Beach in 2003 (www.hippocrateswellness.org).  She is thrilled to be offering the incredible Hippocrates transformation programme at her retreat centre in the Brecon Beacons.  It encompasses a serious immersion in to a vegan raw and living food detoxification health programme created by Dr Ann Wigmore over 70 years ago. It has since been run by Brian and Anna Maria Clement in Florida for the past 50 years. It is designed to replenish nutritional deficiencies and optimise health on a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level through this famous organic raw and living food programme.  The programme focuses on consuming large amounts of enzyme rich green nutrition using green juices, wheatgrass, many different living sprouted seeds and pulses, salads, seaweeds, raw vegetables, the Hippocrates raw green soup and dehydrated crackers. This all helps to restore metabolic health, up-regulate your immune system, mobilize vitality, optimize energy, improve oxygen delivery and nutrient absorption, while detoxifying and reducing inflammation, balancing blood glucose levels, restoring a healthy pH, increasing the body's strength and ability to heal and fully restore to health.

The Hippocrates Wellness Institute offers online plant-based nutrition & wellness programmes.  It would enhance your experience while on your Cwmdu retreat to enrol on one of the Hippocrates Institute online courses during your stay so that you can consume the living food cuisine effortlessly whilst also learning hands on how to continue the programme when you get home. Minimum stay is 7 nights but 21 nights is the optimum length of stay.

For more information see our Hippocrates Details Page.

A juice fast can act as a wonderful body/mind reset.  It consists of only consumingorganic vegetable juices throughout the day together with wheatgrass, water and herb teas. Utilising water enemas are recommended but optional.  A juice fast can last from one day to 40 days depending on individual requirements and health status.  A juice fast is a great way to help the body and mind heal itself by releasing waste products and toxins accumulated on a daily basis from our food and environment and generally living as we do in a stressful modern toxic world. Benefits can include improved energy, better sleep, reduction in symptoms, improved overall health and immune health, better joint flexibility, clearer thinking, less stressed, calmer mind, weight loss, more zest for life, improved fitness, reduced bloating and a happier healthier you. Retreat dates are ongoing to suit you.  Come with friends, partner or solo. Combine a juice fast with relaxing treatments, meditation, cardiovascular exercise in the fresh mountain air or just chilling with a book in front of the log burner.  Make your stay as transformative as you wish and leave all your stresses and strains behind you.

Minimum stay is 3 nights.

For inspiration please watch this film on one person's journey juice fasting: Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

Histamine is a chemical that occurs naturally in the body and some foods. There is no medical test to diagnose a histamine intolerance which are symptoms in response to foods that contain or release histamine or block the enzyme (DAO) that breaks down histamine in the body.  However, a low histamine diet for 1-4 weeks can be a way to diagnose and treat a histamine intolerance. A low histamine diet helps todiscover which foods to avoid to improve symptoms.  Symptoms can be far ranging from allergies, inflammation, skin conditions, itching, hives, sneezing, swelling, watery eyes, asthma, headaches, hormonal, neurological, gastrointestinal, immune, cardiac and more.  The gut lining and gut flora seem to play a role in histamine intolerance as do some medications, stress, health status and even some probiotics.  The low histamine dietary programme looks to help resolve and support an individual towards vibrant health through eating delicious individually prescribed low histamine cooked and raw vegan meals, juices and smoothies and addressing gut health. Minimum stay is 4 nights but at least 7-21 nights would be the recommended to achieve the best outcome.

This blood glucose awareness and diabetes programme is based on a Diabetes research programme undertaken by Nadia Brydon at the University of Westminster as part of her Master's degree in International Public Health Nutrition alongside the work of Dr Gabriel Cousins and working at his retreat centre at the Tree of Life in Arizona, attending 3 of his juice fasting programmes, his film 'Simply Raw - Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days' and his book 'There is a Cure for Diabetes'.Alongside her training as an Hippocrates Health Educator at the world renowned Hippocrates Health institute in West Palm Beach, Florida, Nadia has put together a programme mainly based on delicious raw food recipes, wheatgrass, juices and smoothies with some cooked soups and foods.  Completely eliminating sugar and carbs together with education and healthy recipes can all go towards addressingblood sugar concerns, and helping to stabilize and reverse diabetes.  Nadia's programme includes exercise in the fresh mountain air of the Brecon Beacons withmeditation, relaxing treatments and stress management techniques. Self awareness through using the Freestyle Libre 2 continuous blood sugar monitoring app is recommended to be utilised to help manage responsible dietary choices through the programme and beyond. The programme is open to diagnosed type 1 and type 2 diabetics as well as anyone concerned about insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.  

21 days is the recommended length of stay.

For inspiration please watch Dr Gabriel Cousens' film 'Reversing Diabetes in 30 days':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukbXR70LTpE  

A personalised programme can be designed to suit a person's specific needs, supported by Nadia's experience over 35 years as a natural health educator with qualifications in Western Herbal Medicine, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Acupuncture, an Hippocrates Raw and Living Food Educator, Nutrition, detoxification, NES Health computer system, Aromatherapy, Reflexology, Ayurveda, long time lecturer at the CNM and her own journey from disease back to health over 35 years ago all based on Naturopathic principles and her belief that nature is our greatest healer and teacher. A personalized programme would be based on vegan principles, with the focus on addressing specific needs.  It can be as intensive or as relaxed as required whether it is simply requiring R and R in this peaceful, back to nature environment away from the stresses of modern life, convalescing after surgery or nutritional and therapeutic support through a serious health challenge. Please discuss with Nadia your needs and requirements.  Minimum stay is 3 nights.