5 Things I Do as Your Naturopathic Doctor

I have had a burst of new patients scheduling lately who have never seen a functional medicine naturopathic doctor before. If you have never seen a naturopathic doctor before, you are not alone.

Here are the 5 things I do as your Naturopathic Doctor:

1. I review your symptoms, medical history, and family history to help give us a full picture of your health. I spend 60 minutes with you during your initial visit and 30 minutes with you for follow up visits to make sure all of your questions are answered.

2. I ALWAYS discuss nutrition, movement, stress management, and sleep as part of your treatment plan.

3. I order standard and in-depth specialized testing to help get to the root cause of your symptoms.

4. I provide guidance on supplements, like nutraceuticals and botanicals. For some of my patients, this means that I actually reduce the number of supplements that they are taking and work with them to optimize the dosages of what they are already taking. Some of my patients are on the right track with the supplements that they have begun to take, but often are WAY under-dosing and likely not getting a therapeutic effect. For others, we use supplements as a way to get them feeling better while we are working on addressing the underlying cause of their symptoms through nutrition and lifestyle changes.

5. I work collaboratively with your healthcare team. Prior to re-locating to Canada, I spent five years practicing in a primary care setting in the US, where I was able to prescribe medications, refer to specialists, order diagnostic testing & imaging AND talk to patients about the role that food, stress, sleep, and movement were playing in their health. So - I am not anti-conventional medicine or anti-natural medicine. I like to do what I can to bring all members of someone’s healthcare team together as we all have the same goal - to get you feeling better, regardless of the tools that are used.

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