What to Expect at Your Visit
Initial Consult
Your first visit is scheduled for 90 minutes:
We will review your history including recent blood work, scans, current medications, past and current oncology treatments and any other pertinent medical history.
Additionally we will ask you about your current diet and lifestyle including your exercise, stressors, and nutritional supplements.
Specific questions will help us assess your digestive health, sleep, energy, immune function, environmental exposures, and emotional stresses.
We will perform any pertinent physical exams.
By the end of your first visit, we will provide you with an individualized treatment plan for you to initiate as soon as you are able to. This may include any or all of the following:
Nutritional/herbal supplements.
Homeopathic remedies.
Therapeutic diet plan.
Exercise and stress management.
Possibly IV nutritional therapy.
Prescription medications.
Determine appropriate follow up
We may also suggest other supportive care such as acupuncture, massage, nutritional counseling with a dietitian or stress management/ neurofeedback support
Follow up visits
Follow up visits are scheduled for 60 minutes:
We review and ask you for updates on your current conventional treatment plan including any recent blood work, scans, and changes in treatments/medications.
We will review any side effects you have developed from your treatment.
We will check in how your naturopathic plan is going and any challenges you may have had implementing your plan.
By the end of your visit, we will adjust your plan as indicated by all of the above as well as try to trouble-shoot any issues/challenges you may have experienced with your plan.
Additional Info
To make our time together most efficient:
Please fax or submit through our patient portal the following information prior to your visit: (If you are unable to provide these records, we can request them from your current doctors once we see you at your visit. However, this may delay finalizing portions your treatment plan)
Medical Records including:
Recent blood work - CBC, metabolic panel, tumor markers or any other labs which have been run.
Recent oncology scans (just the reports, imaging not needed)
Pathology reports
Chart notes from your oncologists.