Naturopathy and your Health
September 27, 2024
Hosted by Susan Downs, MD
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Naturopathy is a healthcare system that recognises the healing power of nature present in all living things. As a holistic system, it aims to promote and restore health by employing various natural treatment approaches that may include: naturopathic nutrition, lifestyle advice, hydrotherapy, physical therapy, naturopathic psychosocial support and other appropriate techniques. Naturopathic practitioners interpret presenting symptoms as the individual’s unique response to physical, emotional, environmental or genetic stress factors which can be identified by examining family medical history and various test results. The practitioner’s role is to identify underlying causes and to promote the inherent self-healing power within the individual. Naturopathy is also a way of life and the naturopath will help empower each individual through education about lifestyle, diet and exercise, and self-care. Naturopathic medicine and nutrition provide invaluable methods to identify the root causes of dysfunction in your body, the provision of essential nutrients to support life, and your ability to absorb them. Current research suggests that many of the common and chronic health conditions may be prevented and possibly reversed with a healthy diet and lifestyle, and stress management (e.g., mindfulness, gratefulness and journaling). He discusses diet, nutrition and their relationship with health both physical and mental. Website: www.nutrunity.com Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@nutrunity Instagram: <116426497_215710006449074_4247510528091082070_n.jpg> Twitter. https://x.com/NutrunityUK/ Tik tok. https://www.tiktok.com/@nutrunity.uk Link to his book Energize. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Energise-Vitality-Inflammation-Clarity-resilience/dp/B0B5Y5ZQ4J/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2M45PDPUT1HPE&keywords=energise&qid=1667928475&s=books&sprefix=energis%2Cstripbooks%2C204&sr=1-5
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Susan Downs, MD
Dr. Susan is boarded in Integrative Medicine and in Psychiatry, is a certified IFM practitioner and certified in the American Academy of Antiaging Medicine. She works at the University of California, San Francisco and is on the Psychiatry Consultant Registry (UK). She has Masters Degrees in engineering from MIT and Stanford and a Masters in Public Health from Loma Linda Medical Center.
Based between San Francisco and Bloomsbury (London), she is the president of the cutting edge, Silicon Valley Health Institute (SVHI), has worked in ten countries and studied many healing modalities. Previously, she worked for the NHS in the UK, was an assistant professor at INSEAD (European School for Business Administration), and was a foreign service officer managing alternative energy projects in Asia. She is also a film-maker with two multi award winning films on health. Her interests include medicine, economics, spirituality and making the world a better place.
