Botanical Medicine: The use of plant based medicines according to their chemical constituents (e.g. phytosterols, bioflavonoids, alkaloids, tannins, etc.) which provide support for metabolic and physiologic processes in the body. These medicines can be used in the form of teas, liquid or solid extracts, essential oils, or tinctures.
Homeopathy: A method of treating disease processes using extremely dilute preparations of substances that would, in crude doses, induce the symptoms they are used to treat. These specially prepared remedies stimulate the body’s own mechanisms of healing to return to a state of health and balance.
Hydrotherapy: The therapeutic use of hot and cold water applications. This therapy utilizes the intrinsic and reactive responses of the body to changes in temperature, including the increase of blood and lymph flow, decrease in inflammation and increase in metabolic rate.
IV Therapy: Intravenous application of vitamins and minerals to boost the immune system for the treatment of acute colds and flues, as well as for chronic infections (e.g. bronchiectasis, Hepatitis C, chronic Lyme’s disease, etc.).
Lifestyle Counseling: Assessing the areas of each patient’s lifestyle that are serving as obstacles to his/her health, wellbeing and personal goals. Through education, and identifying the needs, preferences and limitations of each patient, we work towards making more healthful and life-affirming habits and choices.
Medication: The limited use of pharmaceutical medications as a last resort. Synthetic medications are used for as short a duration and lowest dose possible.
Nutrition: Using food as medicine; Optimizing the function of the body’s systems by providing the micro and macronutrient intake for preventive wellness maintenance, as well as to provide the cornerstone for treatment of health challenges and disease processes including autoimmune conditions, gastrointestinal disorders, allergies, metabolic issues among many others.
Progressive Laboratory Testing: The use of specialty laboratory assessments to help identify the root cause of the problem. Specialty labs include food sensitivity assessment (elevated immunoglobulin G responses to food), NeuroScience testing (indirect assessment of neurotransmitter levels), Adrenal function analysis (salivary cortisol assessment), stool analyses (to assess GI inflammation, digestion, dysbiosis, candida, etc.), and Igenex lab testing for Lyme’s disease.
Supplementation: The application of high quality nutrient, botanical (plant based), enzyme or glandular-based supplements for wellness maintenance or for therapeutic intervention according to the specific needs and conditions of each patient.
Therapeutic Exercise: The application of appropriate exercises to optimize health and body function through the increase in metabolism, enhancement of strength and endurance, improvement in hormone balance and sleep quality, increase in cardiovascular and bone health, and gaining a sense of empowerment and accomplishment by adopting healthful and life-affirming habits.
