Tevnatek Consulting

I've been a licensed naturopathic physician in the US since 2008. In case you don't know what that is, it is a lot like a regular general practice or internal medicine doctor but with additional training in alternative and integrative medical diagnosis and treatment. Our goal is to get to the root cause of your health problems so that - hopefully - you can clear them. Or, at the very least, the goal is to help you manage them better. We attend 4 full years of onsite medical school - including summers - complete with cadaver and microbiology labs, courses on prescribing pharmaceutical medications, and 2 years of various clinical rotations. Our licensing varies but in some states we have regular prescribing rights and are included as PCPs in Medicaid and other insurance plans. In other states, we have less ability to act as a doctor but we still have the training. The base philosophy of naturopathic medicine varies in that we approach symptoms like your intelligent body's logical response to some situation that it is attempting to work around. We don't view the body as a "broken machine" that needs to have symptoms controlled as a primary treatment option, although we support that for comfort while we work on finding the root cause.