What to Expect on Your First Visit

Here is the sequence of what you might expect from a typical first visit

When you arrive at the clinic my staff will ask you to complete a medical history form. You may prepare ahead for your first visit by printing and completing our Medical History Form PDF. Once this is complete we will meet in my office and discuss your concerns. I will probably do a little Vega Testing (Vega is described on its own page) while we chat. I use Vega to help me confirm my assessment. As an example you might tell me you have a tummy ache and a back ache. After asking you more questions I think you might have a gall stone. Vega testing will confirm for me that yes, your gall bladder is indeed your most stressed organ. Next I might ask you to do some further testing with my staff to determine what sensitivities might be contributing to your problem. In the case of the gall stone patient we might see something like sensitivity to dairy products and wheat. When you have completed testing with my staff you will return to see me with your test result and I will review it with you and make some recommendations for your treatment. I might ask you to be desensitized for the dairy products and wheat in the clinic and take some medication at home.

All-Natural Medications

Now we have choices of medicines that will help with a gall stone and I might use Vega again to determine which of those choices is best for you. The medicine needs to be both effective and compatible, meaning hopefully, we can make a choice which will give you the least or no side effects, with the speediest possible recovery. Vega helps me with confirming areas of stress and the fine tuning of treatment choices.

The kind of treatment and medicine I offer is all natural. I do not use pharmaceutical drugs in my practice.

I keep a natural pharmacy on the premises and stock it with a variety of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, homeopathy, botanicals or herbals and beneficial fats and oils. Mostly I stock medicines from professional lines, meaning they are available only to professional practitioners and can’t be purchased at a health food store. I prefer to partner with health food stores as opposed to competing with them. I stock a few of the same medicines you might pick up at the health food store, but generally speaking, I will ask you to pick it up yourself if it is a health food store item. An example is: I often ask people with muscle spasms or high blood pressure or heart disease to take some magnesium and that would be something readily available at any health food store, so I would ask you to go there to pick up magnesium.

One of my favourite types of medication is homeopathy. The German homeopathic product lines I use most frequently include Sanum Kehlbeck, Heel, Pasco, Wala and Weleda. These products come in a variety of treatment modalities from drops and tablets to suppositories and injections. Sometimes I will start treatment with an injection in the clinic then follow up with drops to take at home. Other than the German homeopathy I try to stick mainly to products manufactured here at home in Canada. I am particularly impressed with products from AOR out of Calgary and herbals from Nature Tech from Kelowna and St. Francis Herb Farm from Ontario.

Allergies & Sensitivities

One of the most common conditions people see me for is allergies or sensitivities. People can be sensitive to anything under the sun, including the sun itself. Besides having hundreds of test ampoules for food, inhalants, venoms, pollens, moulds, human hair and pet hair and dander, some prescription drugs, chemicals and hormones produced in your own body, I have the capacity to test any sample you care to bring with you. Sometimes a patient with chronic disease will require ever increasing doses of their medication to continue getting an effect from it. This situation can often arise with insulin or blood pressure medications. The patient needs to take the medication over the long term and builds up a resistance to it or even an immune response. I have the ability to test your medications and if you have become resistant to it, desensitize you for the medication, which will once again make your usual dose or a smaller effective. Sometimes medications are effective, but not compatible with your system. This may cause medication side effects or discomforts. Again a desensitizing treatment has the potential to relieve the discomfort of some side effects.

Anything that can be tested can also be desensitized. For ladies suffering from PMS or menopause I can desensitize estrogen or progesterone providing some excellent relief from symptoms. For people with insomnia, I can desensitize a variety of adrenal hormones (cortisol, epinephrine, norepinephrine) a variety of neurotransmitters (GABA, serotonin, acetylcholine chloride, tryptophan, melatonin).

One of the major contributors to food allergies is leaky gut caused by an over growth of one or several varieties of fungus or yeast. Modern lifestyle is a major influence on development of fungal-yeast conditions. Things that make yeast grow include sugars and foods that contain that contain sugar, alcoholic beverages and processed foods. Other contributors to yeast over growth include prescription drugs like birth control pills, steroids and antibiotics that kill off friendly bacteria and encourage yeast proliferation. Yeast can be sexually transmitted. If one partner has yeast then usually the other will too. Yeast over growth is one of the first things I test and treat for at the time of the first visit. I talk more in depth about this specific condition elsewhere in this web site.

That fairly well summarizes a typical first visit: Fill out a form, chat with me a little, complete some testing, chat again, make a treatment plan for the next month, see the front desk to pick up your medicine and book a follow up appointment.

If you've had no previous experience with natural medicine you might find the process overwhelming in terms of new information. In that case, I suggest you go home and review the written information we have given you in the clinic, look at your medication and decide what you need to take when. Usually that will answer some of the points you have forgotten. If that fails call the clinic. My staff is always happy to answer your questions and if they can’t your question will be passed on to me and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Now together, you and I are collaborating partners in your health care, working together to make you the best you can be.