About Me

While conventional medicine primarily addresses only the physiological components of health, naturopathic medicine addresses the mental, spiritual, and physical components. While conventional medicine all too often does not seek the underlying causes of disease but instead manages symptoms, naturopathic medicine endeavors to identify and treat a condition at its root thereby eliminating symptoms and healing from within. While conventional medicine relies almost entirely upon invasive and suppressive pharmaceutical and surgical interventions, naturopathic medicine utilizes modalities such as nutrition, exercise, lifestyle adjustments, and holistic remedies. In this way I see naturopathic medicine as being the most inclusive, sensible, and effective method of treating a medical condition, especially chronic illnesses such as autoimmune diseases.

Being a patient for most of my adult life has given me a unique perspective to the healthcare system in place today. I have dealt and battled with endless invasive tests, procedures and treatments. I felt like a lab rat being shuffled along given test after test with only compounding adverse effects, which ultimately led to five different surgeries. These procedures did in fact save my life, but I was left wondering if something could have been done to prevent such events from ever happening. This spurred my curiosity towards alternative medicine and the pure simplicity of treating oneself without the use of medications or invasive procedures.

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I have always wanted to heal people, but never liked the idea of allopathic medicine, maybe because of my firsthand experience with it. I truly believe in the healing power of nature, exercise and good lifestyle choices as well as a healthy and positive mind. I want to help those that are heading down the same path that I was, to