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FAQ
What
is Complementary & Alternative Health (CAM)?
– CAM is a group
of diverse health care systems,
practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of
conventional medicine.
What
is a Naturopath?
– A Naturopath is
a health
practitioner who, without the use of drugs or surgery, uses natural
substances
in order to help enable the body to heal itself. These substances
include food,
herbs, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, homeopathic preparations, glandular
extracts, amino acids, antioxidants, etc. Stress reduction, exercise
and other
lifestyle changes are also frequently employed. Your body is always its
own
best healer. For more information,
please view the following video, produced in conjunction with AHI
Productions™.
What
if I am already seeing a conventional doctor?
– The therapies
and remedies employed by the practitioners and staff of
Life Energy Holistic Partners all fall under the FDA category of
“generally
recognized as safe.” As such, they may
be used in conjunction with the treatment offered by your medical
doctor. However, please keep in mind that the
average medical doctor receives virtually no formal training in
complementary
or alternative therapies. As such,
he/she may be hesitant to allow such therapies to be used in
conjunction with
medical procedures.
What
is the controversy about CAM?
– According to
the medical community, while
some scientific evidence exists regarding some CAM therapies, for most
there
are key questions that are yet to be answered through scientific
studies--questions such as whether these therapies are safe and whether
they
work for the diseases or medical conditions for which they are
used. However, conventional medicine virtually
ignores the vast amount of empirical (Webster: originating in or based
on
observation or experience) evidence that supports the use and
effectiveness of
CAM. Much of this evidence has been
gathered over centuries or millennia of other societies’
collective experiences
with their native natural healing practices.
We at Life Energy Holistic Partners highly value this collective
experience, and believe it is of equal or greater value to the studies
touted
by the medical community, many of which have been proven to be
intentionally
biased against CAM.
Working
Together
What
types of clients do you usually see?
– We see a wide
variety of clients, from all walks of life. Frequently, they
come to us after having
received little meaningful help from the medical community.
We work with each one to construct a set of
recommendations that makes sense to and empowers them to make the
necessary
changes to transform their health.
What
if I don't live near your office location?
– Our practice
offers off-site, in-depth consultations by phone in every
area of the country. Please see our Services
page for more information.
The
doctors say they've done everything – is there anything else
you can do?
– Although we
hold the conventional medical community in the highest
esteem, please join us in recognizing that their entire philosophy is
based on
the suppression of symptoms via
either drugs or surgery. We view
symptoms as a manifestation of the body’s marvelous
adaptation mechanisms, and
just one data point of many that we use in our assessment and
recommendation
process. We look beneath the obvious
pattern of symptoms, and identify the foundational
imbalances that impact one’s health.
We then work with the client to construct an achievable, individualized
protocol to address those imbalances and start their journey back to
improved
health.
How
quickly can I expect to see results?
– Because every
client is
biologically unique, and responds differently to the protocols we
recommend, it
is difficult to provide a 100% accurate timeframe for the resolution of
health
concerns that frequently have developed over a period of years,
sometimes
decades. A general rule of thumb is
that the more chronic the nature of the health concern, the longer it
will take
to resolve itself. This is especially
true with regard to hormonal imbalances, which manifest in very small
increments over long periods of time.
– Additionally,
we all need to
be aware that our culture, and the expectations created by the action
of
prescription drugs, have created almost a
“fast-food” mentality with regard to
the resolution of health concerns: give it to me now, and give it to me
fast. However, the body’s adaptive
mechanisms take time to readjust themselves to normal operation.
Therefore, it is not unusual for chronic
health concerns to take several months of working with us to resolve
themselves
satisfactorily.
Can
you explain a little more about how your process works?
– Please see the Services web page for a
comprehensive explanation
of how our consultation process works.
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