Are you ready to take control of your health?
Now that you are ready to make a change in your life and you’re ready to make that first appointment with your Naturopathic health specialist we will give you a small packet of information and forms to fill out. There will be a standard personal information and health history form much like the one you’ve filled out for your M.D. or dentist, a consent and waiver form, and an eating history sheet for you to fill out. This last sheet will have spaces for you to put down everything you put into your mouth for an entire week.

When you come to the office the consultant will quickly go over your paperwork and ask you a few initial questions. You will be asked about your health history, your current complaint(s), your current work and home situations, and the stresses in your life. We will talk about your eating habits, and talk about any medicines and/or vitamins and other nutritional products you are taking. Finally we will discuss your options for changes you can make that might help you get healthy, ease your symptoms, lower the stress in your life, and might even prevent you from getting ill in the future. These options will include short term and long term goals for a healthier life. But please keep in mind that there is no such thing as a miracle cure or a magic bullet, so you must be prepared and willing to make healthy changes in your life to achieve your goals. If you’ve had this health problem for a long time, it might have been building up for a long time before you knew you had a problem, and it will take time for your body to heal itself once we take away the obstacles to health.

Be prepared to learn about different things that you can do everyday to make your life better. From simple exercises that you can do while cooking or cleaning your house, learning how to use hydrotherapy to help increase your circulation and help detoxify you skin, learning how to sneak healthier foods into your finicky family members diets, to learning about stress reducing techniques including yoga, spiritual studies, and even spending time alone every day. We will go beyond nutrition and look at your whole body as well as your whole life to find solutions to what is affecting your whole self.

We will not suggest that you use naturopathy and the lessons of natural health as an alternative to your M.D., but you may find it complements the main stream health field very well and that you can use the two together. We ask you to keep your M.D. up to date with all natural products that you decide to take, and any new eating habits or exercising regimens that you decide to begin.

Please be prepared to be amazed at how simple it can be to live a healthier lifestyle, and how much better you can feel.

Maggie’s schooling, experience, and history: Maggie has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. She received her Doctorate of Naturopathy from Clayton College of Natural Health which opened its doors in 1981. She managed a health food store in St. Louis from the beginning of 1990 to the end of 1991. It was while working here that she met a Naturopathic Doctor and decided to get that degree “someday”. She then moved back to West Michigan to begin her career in a small company that imports vitamins, herbs, and nutraceutical products in bulk and sells them to companies in North America which make the bulk products into pills, food supplements, breakfast cereals, pet foods and snacks, large animal foods, and sports drinks, to name a few industries. This profession had given her many opportunities to understand exactly how the supplement industry works, in addition to getting to know which manufacturers are highly interested in excellent quality products and which manufacturers are more interested in making products with the lowest costs (and thus quality). We have picked the supplements offered in this office in direct response to the quality products and quality control of each company. Maggie completed the Doctor of Naturopathy program at Clayton College of Natural Health and graduated with Honors. She recently became Assistant Director at Coltsfoot College of Natural Health and spends much of her time helping students become the next generation of natural healers.