By NICOLE VALICEK
SINCE arriving on Australian shores from New Zealand nearly 30 years ago Graeme Johnstone has been on a mission to help others be healthy.
The 48-year-old Newport resident created his business Kapai Puku after an alarming health scare in 2001.
The son of an Irish father and Maori mother, Graeme immigrated to Australia at the age of 20 with only $100 dollars in his back pocket and his surfboard.
It wasn’t until illness struck and Graeme started researching possible remedies that he realised just how little people take care of their minds and bodies.
“I began to think about the importance in life. The food I was eating – was it processed? How did it affect my energy levels and mood?
Previously I didn’t understand the synergy of good food and nor do 80 Australians who unnecessarily die each week due colon cancer diseases that may be preventable by a healthy diet,” Graeme said.
“I started examining it like a crime scene. The tide of change was positively coercing me to change my actions. The seeds were being sown.”
Graeme started to feel a deep connection with his great-great-grandfather, who was a respected ancient Maori chief who was one with the land.
“I began to study many seed origins, the minerals and vitamins they so naturally provide. The more I examined the closer I was unwinding Kapai Puku ‘The Seed Of Life’.
And so the roots of Kapai Puku were sewn.
“Kapai Puku is a blend of raw ingredients that are handpicked by Indigenous tribes across the world to bring a product that is only sourced of raw ingredients that exfoliate and cleanse the intestinal tract,” Graeme said.
Graeme has had great success since registering the business in 2004 with the product becoming the number one selling brands across high profile retail outlets and some of the leading health food shops across the country.
Graeme is a deep believer of ’the more we think of others the richer we are, the less we think of others the poorer we are’.
“I feel a deep sense of purpose and a spiritual calling to help others be healthy. Instead of feeding diseases, start fighting them.”
