Balanced Concepts

Balanced Concepts “Guiding you to Optimal Health!”

My goal is to create awareness about the healing powers of nature and your mind! She is also a health and wellness coach.

Trish Leclair is a Registered Nutritional Therapist, trained in holistic and functional nutrition. Trish has a passion for empowering people to train their mind and help them develop skills to create health and a happy and fulfilling life for themselves. Trish combines the variety of knowledge and skills that she gained over the years. She is a dynamic and diverse person who has found a way to com

bine science with spirituality, in her teachings. Trish has a designation Career Development Practitioner and as a Registered Nutritional Therapist. Over the years, Trish has accumulated knowledge to help her to better understand the connection between the mind, body, spirit and how these can be in balance so that a person can best function in every day life and in society. Some of the things she studied in the health and wellness area are:
- Diploma in Holistic Nutrition
- Diploma in Career Development

Certifications in various other modalities, such as:
- Certified in FDN (Functional Diagnostic Nutrition),
- Certified in Live and Dry Blood Analysis,
- Certified in herbal therapy,
- 6 certifications in various Specialized Kinesiology modalities
- Certifications in Life Coaching, DBT, CBT, NLP, Mindfulness, PTSD and Trauma Counselling

All these help Trish to look at all they dynamic factors that impact a person and contribute to their health and wellbeing. Then Trish can teach people some helpful tools that lead a person on a path to wellbeing.

“Nutritional therapists are trained to look for the potential underlying causes of health problems, using a combination of clinical skills and, where necessary, biochemical tests. They then work with each client to produce a tailor-made program to address specific issues and help you reach your health goals. This could be clearer skin, more energy, improved digestion or weight loss. Nutritional therapy can also help more complex issues such as overcoming infertility, alleviating migraines or supporting a particular medical condition.”

Source: http://www.patrickholford.com/index.php/health100/nutritionaltherapists

Favorite quotes:

"Education, not Medication"

"Every disease is a manifestation of energy blockages from: unhealed emotions, nutritional deficiencies, injuries or toxic overload. Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it simply manifests into different forms." "It is more important to know what type of patient has a disease, than to know what type of disease a patient has." Hippocrates

“The doctor of the future will give no drugs, but will interest patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.” - Thomas Edison

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Lead is only one of the heavy metals we are exposed to regularly so thanks to this man’s efforts 🙏

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He could not stop thinking about the children who came back.

Not the ones who died. The ones who survived and came home and then returned to his office months later, quieter than before, slower, struggling in school in ways nobody could name. The medical establishment had an answer for this: if a child survived the acute phase of lead poisoning, they were fine. Case closed.
Herbert Needleman was not so sure.

He had spent years practicing pediatrics in Philadelphia, and what he was watching in his patients did not look like fine. It looked like something small and invisible was still at work inside them, long after the crisis had passed. He had no way to prove it. He barely had a way to measure it.

To understand what low-level lead exposure was doing to children's developing brains, he needed to know how much lead a child had absorbed over years, not just in the past week. Blood tests showed current exposure. Bone biopsies could give him longer-term data but no parent would consent to that for a research study. He was stuck for years.

The answer came from the most unexpected place.
In the late 1960s, Needleman began asking teachers in Boston-area schools to collect something their students lost naturally every year. Baby teeth. Just the small ones that fell out on their own, the ones children tucked under pillows and traded for coins in the morning. Painless. Ordinary. Unremarkable to everyone except him.

A baby tooth, it turned out, carries inside it a detailed chemical record of every year it spent forming. Every month of exposure. Every trace of what a child breathed and swallowed and absorbed from the air and the walls and the ground around them.

His team collected thousands of teeth.
They analyzed the lead content in every one.
What he found, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1979, was devastating in its simplicity. Children with higher lead in their teeth had lower IQ scores. Shorter attention spans. Poorer language function. Delayed reading ability. These were not children who had ever been diagnosed with anything. They had never been hospitalized. Never flagged. They were considered perfectly healthy.
Lead was not killing them. It was quietly taking the edges off their minds.

It was everywhere in American life. In the paint on the walls of older homes. In the pipes carrying drinking water into kitchens. Most pervasively in the gasoline burning in every car on every road in every city in the country. Every time a vehicle accelerated, it exhaled a fine mist of lead into the air. Children breathed it in playgrounds. They played in soil saturated with decades of it. They lived their entire childhoods inside a low-level lead fog, and nobody had ever seriously asked what that was doing to their developing brains.

Needleman had asked. And answered.
The lead industry responded with everything it had.
They funded their own researchers. Commissioned their own studies. Worked methodically to dismantle his credibility. Formal scientific misconduct charges were filed against him at his own university. His reputation, his career, his livelihood placed in jeopardy. Not because his data was flawed. Because it was accurate, and the implications were expensive.

He demanded a full open hearing. Won the right to one. The EPA re-examined his data independently and reached the same conclusions. He was exonerated. Every charge dismissed.

The science held.
In 1986, the EPA reduced the allowable lead content in American gasoline by 91 percent, the single largest regulatory step in the phase-out. The complete ban on leaded gasoline for road vehicles followed in 1996. Lead paint had already been banned from residential use in 1978. Federal guidelines for diagnosing and treating childhood lead poisoning were issued and updated in the years that followed.

The results, measured over the following decades, were almost difficult to believe.
Blood lead levels in American children fell by 94 percent. Researchers modeling the cognitive effects estimated that average IQ scores in American children rose by approximately 5 points as lead came out of the environment. Millions of children grew up sharper, more capable, more fully themselves than they would otherwise have been.

Dr. Herbert Needleman died on July 18, 2017. He was 89 years old.
He had spent six decades thinking about children he would never meet, fighting for minds he would never be able to measure individually, against an industry that spent years and considerable resources trying to ensure no one believed him.
He was attacked. Investigated. Formally accused of fraud.
Exonerated every time.

If someone you love grew up in an American city after 1990, there is a reasonable chance their mind is sharper because a pediatrician in Philadelphia could not stop thinking about the children who came back changed. He never knew their names. He spent his life on them anyway.

The children whose teeth he collected are grandparents now.
They lost a small tooth. They grew up sharper. They never knew his name.
He was the reason anyway.

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Trish is a Natural Health Practitioner and has a variety of certifications and has her diploma in Holistic Nutrition, providing her with the title of Registered Nutritional Therapist. Other certifications include Herbalist, Specialized Kinesiologist, Metabolic Typing, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, Live and Dry Blood Analysis. Trish also has her certification as a Life Coach, NLP Practitioner, CBT Practitioner and Past Life Regression Therapist. These all combine Eastern and Western philosophies, providing a more holistic and integrative approach to helping the body to heal. Trish is a member of different associations, which support her various certifications.

Trish has done a variety of workshops for various organizations over the years since first becoming a Natural Health Practitioner in 2007. She has done workshops on Weight Maintenance, Healthy Cooking Tips, How to read food labels, How to Balance Hormones, How to Improve Mental Health, Brain Retraining for Healthy Lifestyle Habits, Healthy Coping Strategies and Stress Management Skills, etc... She also did 2 years of workshops for the Parole Office in Victoria for the inmates who were in transition to going back to the community.

At the clinic where she works, Trish's main focus is to educate her clients on the possible "root causes" of their symptoms and health issues. Trish does not diagnose or treat diseases. Trish has studied the books of Patrick Holford, and appreciates the information and research he provides. Here is a brief description of a Nutritional Therapist from his website: