Therapies
Consultations
• Together we explore what in your life contributes to your health, and what detracts from it. Education and counseling regarding physiology, risk factors, healthy lifestyles, diet, physical activity, sleep, and stress management.
Food
• Food as Medicine: healthy ways to eat, therapeutic diets for particular purposes.
• Food Allergies: can be investigated in a variety of ways. The Elimination-Challenge diet can be done at home. There are also laboratory tests that use blood or saliva samples to identify reactions to foods.
• Food Allergies: can be investigated in a variety of ways. The Elimination-Challenge diet can be done at home. There are also laboratory tests that use blood or saliva samples to identify reactions to foods.
Nutritional Supplements
• Using vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, amino acids, and digestive aids such as enzymes, fiber, and probiotics (beneficial microbes). These enhance our ability to deal with stress, resist disease and degeneration, help modulate autoimmune disease, and deal with chronic symptoms.
Herbal Medicine
• Using plant allies in various forms, including tinctures, capsules, tablets, teas, infused oils, poultices. Herbs are very effective to help resolve acute infections and to reduce the frequency of infections. Herbs are helpful for treating many organ systems. They are rich in anti-oxidants, bioflavonoids, carotenoids, and other phytonutrients beneficial to connective tissue, vision, circulation, and more.
Bio-identical Hormone Therapy
• Using hormones identical to those made by the human body, in doses no greater than the body would produce in a state of health, to maintain balance within the endocrine system. These can be used to treat conditions such as hypothyroidism, adrenal imbalance or insufficiency, diabetes mellitus type 2, pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS), perimenopause and menopause, certain headaches, and endometriosis.
Homeopathy
• Very dilute remedies made from naturally occurring substances used in a system of medicine developed originally by Samuel Hahnemann, a German doctor, in the early 1800's.
Pharmaceutical Drugs
• if needed. The state of Washington allows naturopathic doctors to prescribe most pharmaceutical medications except for controlled substances such as narcotics, sedatives, and some sleep medications.