David Getoff, Naturopath and Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist

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David Getoff, Naturopath and Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist

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Naturopathy, traditional naturopathy, naturopathic medicine, medical naturopaths, power, greed and the twisting of facts. (The Art of Healing and the Art (science?) and Politics of Medicine.)

It is close to impossible to find any area of health or medicine (or most any other profession for that matter) in which all of the actual professionals agree on most topics or issues in their areas of expertise. This is especially true in medicine. I have numerous patients who have been astonished when three or four different “expert” rheumatologists , or oncologists or cardiologists have completely disagreed on their recommended treatment protocol! And physicians call themselves scientific. Hah.

I have also had four patients in a 12 month period, who all lived in San Diego county, that were referred by their physicians, to “the best cardiologist in the state”, and yet no two were even referred to the same cardiologist!!!! Nonetheless, naturopathy is so divided and the public is so misinformed (what else is new) that the problem has become even worse than it is in many other occupations.

My goal, with this article, is to greatly reduce this confusion. I fully understand (and accept) that due to the rather fierce and divided opinions on both side of these issues, that my article may possibly lead to even more arguments and get some “naturopaths” upset. Be that as it may, I write this from my heart, with my own objectivity, ethics and accuracy and as many facts as there are available to me..

I have been in full time private practice in this profession, naturopathy, for over 20 years. For over 15 years, I have also been teaching classes and giving lectures in the fields of nutrition and holistic health and medicine. I am flown in and paid to lecture at medical conferences, dental conferences, nutrition conferences, organic farming conferences, public health conferences, and others venues across the United States. Although we may call it holistic, complimentary, alternative (which it is not), nutrition based, or some new as yet to be coined descriptive term, the facts remain the same.

To the public, we are practicing a form of health care, which they believe is NOT drug based and which is designed to locate the cause, rather than to simply suppress undesirable symptoms (while letting the causes continue without ever being addressed). Many of the severely misinformed public, as well as most of the medical profession, also sadly believe that none of what we do is based in sound science, and that it generally does not work. They also believe that the vast majority (or everything) that allopathic medicine does with its drugs, surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation, is in fact based on sound repeatable and well researched science. What a pity, since neither of those two statements is even remotely correct.

There is far more published research on nutrients, than there is on pharmaceuticals. A great deal of both, however, are of poor quality, and were purposely misdirected in order to give false information, so as to misdirect or even lie to both the public and the medical profession. Numerous excellent articles and books have been written to expose this travesty but most never get much of any coverage. You can find some of these books listed in the Recommended Reading section of my web site under the heading of What’s Wrong with our Medical Establishment and more titles are added there every few years.

Naturopathy has been around for a great deal longer than any of the current four year “Naturopathic Medical” Colleges, such as Bastyr, National and Southwest and more recently Bridgeport. Traditional naturopathy (not necessarily naturopathic “medicine”) generally involves investigating a patient’s diet, lifestyle and symptoms, and then helping educate the patient to improve both diet and lifestyle while at the same time often utilizing various nutritional supplements.

These extremely useful products might include vitamins, minerals, homeopathic remedies, flower essences, super foods, essential oils, Enderlein remedies, probiotics, adequate good quality water and others. They often also include special products for supporting specific organs or organ systems, or for helping to remove toxins from various parts of the body. In addition, this should include educating the patient/client to use healthier and less toxic, soaps, cleansers, skin creams, shampoos, sun screens, toothpastes, detergents, etc. Although this is a rather simplistic explanation, it gives a general idea of what I consider to be the original principles of traditional naturopathy or traditional naturopathic medicine.

***To read the rest of this article on my site, click here.***

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