Tag Archives: Naturopathic Medicine

NMW Day 6: Peeling the layers off

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Dr Aoife

I am in the office on Saturday morn­ings. I enjoy these morn­ings often more than the reg­u­lar week because every­one who comes in the door has chosen to spend some of their pre­cious week­end time on them­selves. They are work­ing towards … Continue read­ing →

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NMW Day 3: 5 ways we inspire a better you

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Dr Aoife

My nature is always to want people to be bet­ter and to feel bet­ter, body, mind and soul. This isn’t to say that I always want the change to occur when I think it should (although this approach is much newer as … Continue read­ing →

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NMW Day 1: Gaining Personal Power with Naturopathic Medicine

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Dr Aoife

Today is the first day of Naturopathic Medicine Week, a cel­eb­ra­tion of natur­o­pathic medi­cine across Canada. To cel­eb­rate this week, I will be post­ing a short post each day to give some insight to the beauty of natur­o­pathic medi­cine. If any of you, … Continue read­ing →

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Hives: Not just a quick fix

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Dr Aoife

Hives are itchy, raised bumps (also known as welts and wheals) that appear on the skin after expos­ure to any­thing the body sees as foreign. The med­ical word for hives is urticaria. It is derived from urtica dioica, a latin name for … Continue read­ing →

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Online Booking brought to you by Genbook

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Dr Aoife

Effective now you can book your own appoint­ments online! There is a new page added to the site called “Appointment Bookings”. Clicking the “boo­know!” but­ton will take you to the self-​service book­ing page. You can also click the “BookNow!” link on the … Continue read­ing →

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Gluten: What You Don’t Know Might Kill You

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Dr Aoife

I am not sure if you have noticed, but I have been high­light­ing other doc­tors and their good research and art­icles as of late. One per­son blab­bing about their opin­ion is not always as inter­est­ing as hear­ing the ideas from the … Continue read­ing →

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Eczema: What your dermatologist won’t tell you

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Dr Aoife

November is Canada’s national eczema month. EASE is an organ­iz­a­tion that sup­ports eczema aware­ness in Canada, and tonight they will be hav­ing a dis­cus­sion about what it means to live with eczema. Unfortunately I can­not attend due to clinic com­mit­ments, but wanted … Continue read­ing →

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Naturopathic medicine as a part of our new integrated health care model

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Dr Aoife

I have had this topic come up quite often in the past few weeks. So much so, that I feel the need to com­ment and lend addi­tional per­spect­ive. Myth: Conventional medi­cine and com­ple­ment­ary medi­cine do not come from the same place One … Continue read­ing →

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Fretting and worrying? Managing your anxiety

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Dr Aoife

Getting anxi­ety man­aged rather than under con­trol is the topic of today’s post. Anxiety can stem from the good inten­tions of want­ing to do everything right, for things to go smoothly or the way we ima­gined them, and life just does … Continue read­ing →

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Just common sense

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Dr Aoife

A patient walks in feel­ing tired. Do they need: A nutri­tional check An explor­a­tion of blood work A refer­ral to a psy­cho­lo­gist for their inab­il­ity to deal with stress A good night’s sleep All of the above Answer : e) all of the above One of the … Continue read­ing →

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