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Health Plans Less Traveled: Natural Medicine  Social tides have turned. Increasing numbers of women feel empowered to live single and independently. These strong, innovative women are also looking at non-traditional ways of staying healthy. Naturopathic medicine is by no means new, but as more people struggle to find affordable health care, the growth of naturopathic practices is booming... Continue reading. |
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What is a Naturopathic Physician? He or she is a doctor that practices naturopathic medicine. Naturopathic medicine is a distinct method of primary health care - an art, science, philosophy and practice of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of illness. Naturopathic physicians seek to restore and maintain optimum health in their patients by emphasizing nature's inherent self-healing process, the vis medicatrix naturae. This is accomplished through education and the rational use of natural therapeutics. |
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Doctors, Patients Turn to Food as Medicine On a June night in 2008, Colleen Juhara climbed into bed, and stumbled into a medical mystery. “I went to sleep, and woke at 2:15...that’s when the seizures started," she recalls. "I felt like my throat was closing. I tried to get up to get to the phone, but made it three steps, and then, when I came to it, it was 90 minutes later...and there began my journey.” Juhara was in her early forties, with no known health problems. But suddenly she was suffering nightly grand mal seizures that left her exhausted, ill and terrified of falling asleep. Despite countless tests and visits to specialists to track the root of Juhara's seizures, no one could figure out what was causing them. “The doctor said, ‘I had all my colleagues check this and we cannot find any reason for your seizures. Nothing,’" Juhara says. A neurologist put Juhara on medication keeping the worst of her seizures at bay. But she still suffered smaller seizures that kept her from driving or working outside her home. Then, after four years of mounting frustration, she met Michael Uzick, a naturopathic physician who saw Juhara's health in a very different way. Continue reading. |
