Arthur’s Seat Natural Medicine
Biography Andy Carpmael - Naturopath
My quest into health began during the early 80's, at this time I was devoted to physical training, working as a gym instructor and later, part owner of a gymnasium that we labeled the '300 Club', for it's exclusivity and dedicated 1 on 1 instruction, where my gym partner and I, before it had a name, pioneered the early concepts of personal training. My time here culminated with preparations for the Mr Natural Australia, which also sparked an interest in body work (due to the many injuries that the rigours of body building invoked).
Completing a Diploma of Remedial Massage in 1991, the gymnasium industry was the perfect place to hone my art on the many chiselled bodies in need of regular remedial massage.
I then became motivated to discover more about Nutrition and in early 1991 began a Diploma of Clinical Nutrition, at Melbourne College of Natural Medicine.
During this time I was instructing at the most revered gym in Australia, Findlay's Fitness Centre, an icon of the 50's (which produced the likes of a 3rd place at one of the Mr Olympia's, something that has not been emulated by an Australian since), where as an instructor I introduced nutritional concepts as part of fitness assessments I was responsible for.
In late 1992 I moved to the Mornington Peninsula completing my Diploma of Clinical Nutrition in 1994 and then a Diploma of Naturopathy in late 1997, practising from my home base in Arthurs Seat.
I have maintained a keen interest in physical fitness over the years, learning along the way that 'less is more'. You cant have supreme fitness and supreme health, it's one or the other.
Having seen the many faces of dietary fads come & go over the years; unfortunately ever present today; there is one constant I have come to learn above all else, the wisdom of dietary nutrition and the need to implement it in healing of any disease state is paramount and underestimated. Optimal health & the treatment of disease requires optimal nutrition; that is what I seek and that is what I bring to my patients in the restoration of their health. This journey takes them down a road, that I describe as 'Native Nutrition'.
Completing a Diploma of Remedial Massage in 1991, the gymnasium industry was the perfect place to hone my art on the many chiselled bodies in need of regular remedial massage.
I then became motivated to discover more about Nutrition and in early 1991 began a Diploma of Clinical Nutrition, at Melbourne College of Natural Medicine.
During this time I was instructing at the most revered gym in Australia, Findlay's Fitness Centre, an icon of the 50's (which produced the likes of a 3rd place at one of the Mr Olympia's, something that has not been emulated by an Australian since), where as an instructor I introduced nutritional concepts as part of fitness assessments I was responsible for.
In late 1992 I moved to the Mornington Peninsula completing my Diploma of Clinical Nutrition in 1994 and then a Diploma of Naturopathy in late 1997, practising from my home base in Arthurs Seat.
I have maintained a keen interest in physical fitness over the years, learning along the way that 'less is more'. You cant have supreme fitness and supreme health, it's one or the other.
Having seen the many faces of dietary fads come & go over the years; unfortunately ever present today; there is one constant I have come to learn above all else, the wisdom of dietary nutrition and the need to implement it in healing of any disease state is paramount and underestimated. Optimal health & the treatment of disease requires optimal nutrition; that is what I seek and that is what I bring to my patients in the restoration of their health. This journey takes them down a road, that I describe as 'Native Nutrition'.
