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.
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.
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.