ANNOUNCING NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE AT INNERPEACE NATURAL HEALTHCARRE

Bio For:  STEVEN MOORE, DC ND

Dr. Moore is a graduate of National University of Health Sciences, having graduated with honors in Chiropractic (2008) and Naturopathic (2009) medicine.  He has served as an executive board member for ‘Integrate Chicago’ which included working with RUSH, UIC, Loyola, and Midwestern University medical students to educate them on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).  In addition, while completing his undergraduate work at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent 4 years in clinical research and practice in Allergy and Immunology. 

He offers a wide range of programs and services – from nutritional/diet counseling and homeopathy*.  Other areas of interest include environmental medicine, functional medicine, and their application within homeopathic practice.  The type of practice he maintains can be described as family practice/general practice.

Naturopathic medicine is a system of medicine, with ideological roots dating back to the time of the Greek physician Hippocrates, which bases it therapeutic framework around the idea that the human body has mechanisms inherent toward health.  For example, if you cut yourself, with proper hygiene and bandaging, the body will do the work of repairing and restoring the damaged tissue.  Naturopathic physicians view the patient as a complex, interrelated system (a whole person), not as a clogged artery or a tumor. Naturopathic physicians craft comprehensive treatment plans that blend the best of modern medical science and traditional natural medical approaches to not only treat disease, but to also restore health.[1]

Naturopathic physicians base their practice on six timeless principles founded on medical tradition and scientific evidence.

• Let nature heal. Our bodies have such a powerful, innate instinct for self-healing. By finding and removing the barriers to this self-healing—such as poor diet or unhealthy habits—naturopathic physicians can nurture this process.
   
• Identify and treat causes. Naturopathic physicians understand that symptoms will only return unless the root illness is addressed. Rather than cover up symptoms, they seek to find and treat the cause of these symptoms.
   
• First, do no harm. Naturopathic physicians follow three precepts to ensure their patients’ safety:
  • Use low-risk procedures and healing compounds—such as dietary supplements, herbal extracts and homeopathy—with few or no side effects.
  • When possible, do not suppress symptoms, which are the body’s efforts to self-heal. For example, the body may cook up a fever in reaction to a bacterial infection. Fever creates an inhospitable environment for the harmful bacteria, thereby destroying it. Of course, the naturopathic physician would not allow the fever to get dangerously high.
  • Customize each diagnosis and treatment plan to fit each patient. We all heal in different ways and the naturopathic physician respects our differences.
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• Educate patients. Naturopathic medicine believes that doctors must be educators, as well as physicians. That’s why naturopathic physicians teach their patients how to eat, exercise, relax and nurture themselves physically and emotionally. They also encourage self-responsibility and work closely with each patient.
   
• Treat the whole person. We each have a unique physical, mental, emotional, genetic, environmental, social, sexual and spiritual makeup. The naturopathic physician knows that all these factors affect our health. That’s why he or she includes them in a carefully tailored treatment strategy.
   
• Prevent illness. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" has never been truer. Proactive medicine saves money, pain, misery and lives. That’s why naturopathic physicians evaluate risk factors, heredity and vulnerability to disease. By getting treatment for greater wellness, we’re less likely to need treatment for future illness.

The past 30 years has seen an extraordinary increase in consumer demand for safe, effective and cost-effective natural healthcare.  It almost disappeared in the mid-twentieth century because of the popularity of drugs and surgery. The therapies used by naturopathic doctors include clinical nutrition, botanical medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine, physical medicine, hydrotherapy, lifestyle counseling, and pharmaceutical/surgical techniques when appropriate.
 

Naturopathic physicians are trained in the art and science of natural healthcare at accredited medical colleges.  A licensed naturopathic physician (N.D.) attends a four-year graduate-level naturopathic medical school and is educated in all of the same basic sciences as an M.D., but also studies holistic and nontoxic approaches to therapy with a strong emphasis on disease prevention and optimizing wellness. In addition to a standard medical curriculum, the naturopathic physician is required to complete four years of training in clinical nutrition, acupuncture, homeopathic medicine, botanical medicine, psychology, and counseling (to encourage people to make lifestyle changes in support of their personal health). A naturopathic physician takes rigorous professional board exams so that he or she may be licensed by a state or jurisdiction as a primary care general practice physician. 

Integrative partnerships between conventional medical doctors and licensed NDs are becoming more available. This cooperation makes more effective therapies available to consumers. It increases patient satisfaction in their relationships with their care providers. More people are recovering their health by adding naturopathic medicine to their health care options.[2]

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*Homeopathy is defined as a therapeutic method that uses micro-doeses of natural substances to relieve symptoms.  These treatments are used for conditions such as allergies, coughs, colds, flu, stress, arthritis, pain, teething, etc. 

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