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Dr. Stengler: Naturopathic medicine is very, very effective for mild to moderate depression. Of course, anyone with depression — especially suicidal or severe depression — needs to be monitored by a doctor or specialist. But with naturopathic medicine, we can address the whole person: why do you have depression? Is it because of situational things in your life?
All too often, you go in to the doctor with depression and they just want to give you a medication but not find out why you have it in the first place. Maybe you have depression because you're a menopausal woman and you've got hormone imbalance, or a man and you've got hormone imbalance as well as low testosterone. Maybe you have it because you have nutritional deficiencies like omega-3 fatty acids or vitamin B12, which can cause depression. Maybe you have it because you've had a head injury in the past. There are many different reasons why a person can have depression. If you look at studies, naturopathic medicine is comparable to, or better than, conventional medicine for the treatment of mild to moderate depression.
How can naturopathic medicine help a cancer patient? You cannot get the best type of care if you're just doing conventional medicine only. Radiation, surgery, chemotherapy -- whatever kind of cancer treatment you're undergoing, naturopathic medicine can help your body recover from treatments and fight cancer more effectively. It's not just a philosophical viewpoint -- several studies show that naturopathic treatments do help accomplish this. At the Stengler Center for Integrative Medicine, we partner with patients and their doctors and give them much better care while undergoing cancer treatments. If you're undergoing cancer treatment and need the help of a naturopathic doctor in San Diego for supporting your immune system as you undergo the therapies, call the Stengler Center today!
Something that we've talked about in the past is cancer, Integrative Cancer approach how can naturopathic medicine help cancer patients? Dr. Mark Stengler: Well its so important, cancer is also just skyrocketed in our country and around the world. And so in my opinion many other naturopathic doctors opinion, you cannot get the best type of care if you're just doing conventional medicine only. Radiation, surgery, chemotherapy, for some types of cancer those can be helpful, but whatever treatment you're undergoing, naturopathic medicine always has some solutions for you to do better. So for example, patients undergoing chemotherapy radiation we can reduce their symptoms, their side effects, like fatigue, hair loss, digestive problems. We can help stimulate their immune system so their body can fight cancer more effectively, which by the way this isn't all just philosophical. Many many studies show the things that we use actually accomplished this. So, again we can partner with a patient and their other doctors and just give them much better care.
