If the body is provided with the right resources, it is intelligent enough to repair and heal itself. Add in good lifestyle and nutrition and instead of just suppressing disease, you can obtain health. Listening to the patient, their story and their clinical picture – this is how naturopathy achieves that goal.
There is a large gap between being healthy on paper and feeling healthy. Medicine as a whole has drifted away from how the patient feels and is more concerned about this and that test or image. At the end of the day, if all the lab values are normal and the images are clear, where does that leave the patient who still doesn’t feel right? For too long health has been defined as the absence of disease – this could not be further from the truth. It is time to live optimally, to live healthy, and naturopathy provides a way.