Lawrence Natural Medicine

Naturopathic Medicine

Welcome to Lawrence Natural Medicine, a naturopathic medicine office, dedicated to offering Cape Cod natural treatment options for enhancing health and well-being since 1998.

Our primary objective is to deliver compassionate care by partnering with you as a team. Together, we delve into both lifestyle and biochemistry to identify and address the underlying causes of your current health concerns. By healing these root causes, we aim to pave the way for a healthier future.

At Lawrence Natural Medicine, we prioritize providing expert medical advice and safe treatments. For further details, please explore our website. We look forward to seeing you soon.

Rebecca Lawrence

Naturopathic Doctor

Dr. Rebecca Lawrence earned her Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from University of Illinois followed by a Master of Science in Physiology. In 1998, alongside her husband, George Lawrence, she founded Lawrence Natural Medicine. Dr. Lawrence specializes in addressing hormonal imbalances (including menopause, adrenal and thyroid issues), sleep disorders, anxiety/depression, and various digestive issues such as IBS, SIBO, chronic constipation, and diverticulosis. Dr. Lawrence prioritizes the importance of the doctor-patient relationship to support the wellness journey. Beyond her work, Dr. Lawrence enjoys being a mother of three, playing in her garden, cooking, practicing yoga, hiking trails, sailing, and caring for their 200-year-old home.

George Lawrence

Office Manager

George Lawrence, alongside his wife Rebecca, co-founded Lawrence Natural Medicine. They collaborate closely to provide quality care for their patients. George is a welcoming face at the front desk and also adeptly manages various administrative responsibilities essential to patient support and the smooth operation of our practice. Together, they enjoy providing the Cape Cod community with holistic naturopathic healthcare. When not working, George is an avid gardener, carpenter, steward of our 200 year old house, plays ultimate Frisbee, performs in the Falmouth Theater Guild plays, is a Town Meeting member, enjoys yoga, hiking, sailing, listening to lots of podcasts (ask for recommendations!) and enjoys being a father of three.

Naturopathic Health Care

Your body possesses an incredible ability to self-heal. Symptoms act as signals indicating internal imbalances. By employing food, herbal remedies, and nutritional support, our goal is to restore your health. We craft personalized treatment plans designed to re-establish your body's natural equilibrium, resulting in a safe, gentle, and effective treatment that enhances your body's resilience against illnesses. My medical approach revolves around addressing systems and functionality to alleviate both diseases and symptoms. Often, chronic health issues stem from multiple underlying factors, interconnected within our nervous, hormonal, and digestive systems. This approach offers holistic insights into the influences on our biology, covering lifestyle, environment, and genetics, encouraging internal balance. Health and wellness is an active processes that each of us embraces throughout life. My focus is on educating you about healthy lifestyle practices and supporting throughout your journey towards and maintaining wellness.

Nutritional Medicine

The foundation of a healthy body is a healthy diet. Simple changes in diet or targeted supplementation of specific nutrients can resolve persistent health problems. Many chronic health conditions prevalent in today's society, such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and gastrointestinal disorders, stem from poor dietary and lifestyle choices. Altering our diet often holds the power to reverse or alter the trajectory of an illness and restore health. Advancements in genomics (gene analysis) have allowed us to comprehend biochemical individualities, enabling us to utilize nutrients like vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, and amino acids to balance our biochemistry and regulate bodily functions. Ongoing research continues to unveil the role of specific nutrients in fundamental biological processes, including enzymes, cofactors, hormones, connective tissues, and neurotransmitters.

Herbal Medicine

Plants have been used for millennia for their healing properties. For thousands of years, plants have been harnessed for their therapeutic properties. Many herbs have undergone extensive research, with their active compounds scientifically identified. Forty percent of the drugs in the Western world are derived from plants, including the top twenty best selling prescription drugs in the United States today. These pharmaceutical medications are derived from synthetic versions of natural compounds found in plants. For instance, the heart medication digitalis originates from the foxglove plant, while aspirin stems from salicylic acid found in many foods and plants like white willow bark. The history of aspirin actually dates back more than 3500 years, when willow bark was used as a painkiller and antipyretic by Sumerians and Egyptians. By combining ancient wisdom with contemporary herbal research, we prescribe plant-based medicines to enhance your body's inherent healing capabilities. Medicinal plants are chosen for their low toxicity, non-accumulative nature in the body, and lack of addiction or withdrawal symptoms. Herbs are employed to fortify immune function, enhance digestion, regulate bodily functions, combat bacteria, viruses, and fungi, alleviate tissue irritation, soothe nerves, and relax muscles. Naturopathic physicians uniquely possess training in both pharmaceutical medicine and botanical medicine, setting them apart as practitioners proficient in these both of these areas.

Naturopathic Pharmacy

Our clinic offers a natural medicine pharmacy for the convenience of our patients. Ensuring the quality and effectiveness of the products we prescribe is paramount to us. To uphold these standards, we source our products from manufacturers who furnish certificates of analysis from independent laboratories. These certificates certify that each product aligns with our strict criteria: meeting the strength and potency indicated on the label, free from rancidity, and devoid of contaminants, including heavy metals. This is our clinic's standard requirement for pharmacological quality assurance.

Purchasing items at our clinic is optional and we will be happy to work with you to purchase recommended items from our local nutrition store in Falmouth, Vital Nutrition. http://www.vitalnutritioncapecod.com/

Payment and Insurance

We recommend you contact your insurance provider prior to visiting us to learn if they cover naturopathic medicine. We hope that you would consider our services well-worth the out of pocket expense. The cost of natural health care now is far less than the cost of poor health later.

We require payment at the time of service to keep our operating costs down and thus keep our fees fair and reasonable. We will give you an invoice from our office to submit your insurance provider for reimbursement.

Naturopathic Doctor

A naturopathic doctor has a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (ND) degree from a four-year graduate level naturopathic medical college. In states where they are regulated, naturopathic doctors must pass a national examination, kept their state license current with yearly continuing education, and their actions are subject to review by a State Board of Examiners.

Naturopathic doctors (NDs) are trained primary care physicians that specialize in natural medicine. They are educated in the conventional medical sciences, but they are not medical doctors (MDs). Naturopathic physicians treat disease and restore health using therapies from the sciences of clinical nutrition, herbal medicine, homeopathy, physical medicine, exercise therapy, counseling, acupuncture, natural childbirth and hydrotherapy. NDs tailor these approaches to the needs of an individual patient. Naturopathic doctors cooperate with all other branches of medical science, referring patients to other practitioners for diagnosis or treatment when appropriate.

In practice, naturopathic doctors perform physical examinations, laboratory testing, gynecological exams, nutritional and dietary assessments, metabolic analysis, allergy testing, and other diagnostic tests. They are the only doctors clinically trained in the use of a wide variety of natural therapeutics. They combine and tailor these treatments to the needs of the individual based on the philosophy that acknowledges the patient as a participant.

NDs are part of a medical movement that is shifting our scientific model to focus on systems and function to solve disease and symptoms. This model provides a way of understanding all the influences on our biology – lifestyle, environment and genetics.

Conditions Treated

Low energy
Poor sleep
Poor mental clarity
Digestive issues
Poor immunity
Inflammation (joints, muscles, skin)
Hormone imbalances (hot flashes, thyroid dysfunction)
Anxiety/Depression
Cardiovascular Disease (co-treat)