Your first visit consists of a thorough intake of your medical history, current health status, health concerns, and top health goals. A focused physical exam is performed and lab testing or functional testing may be recommended as a further assessment if indicated by your case. Your naturopathic physician will then formulate a custom treatment plan that addresses both your short term and long term goals, the recommended treatments and rationale for each treatment, and an explanation on how your progress will be monitored.
An evidence-based method to support the body through a wide variety of health concerns including pain, fertility issues, digestion, skin issues, stress, and adrenal response.
Conventional lab tests can be ordered by providing a Lifelabs requisition. Labs requested by a naturopathic physician in BC are not covered by MSP and would therefore be an out of pocket expense.
Functional tests are those not offered by conventional labs and include testing such as urine hormone testing, saliva hormone testing, food sensitivity testing, comprehensive stool tests, heavy metal toxicity, and more.
This involves infusing high doses of vitamins and micronutrients that are custom tailored to your specific case, in order to achieve one or several therapeutic goals in a much smaller amount of time than would be possible through oral supplementation.
Red light therapy (RLT) is a therapeutic technique that uses red low-level wavelengths of light to treat skin issues, such as wrinkles, scars, and persistent wounds, among other conditions. Some of the therapeutic goals are to boost immunity, heal faster, recover quicker, and slow down aging.
All of our treatment plans will involve some level of dietary and lifestyle recommendations. Your diet and lifestyle are the foundation and the fundamental building blocks of your overall health. Our goal is to help you make effective but realistic changes in both your diet and lifestyle so that you have the best chance of succeeding in your health goals.
Otherwise known as supplement prescriptions, this involves the use of combined or isolated vitamins and/or nutrients at specific doses in order to achieve one or several therapeutic effects.
Using the active ingredients of certain plants that are known to have medicinal properties in an evidence-based way in order to achieve a desired therapeutic outcome.