Stan, Clarence, Barry, and the Health Chatter team chat with Andrew Litchy, N.D., about naturopathic medicine and its role in modern healthcare.Dr. Litchy is a naturopathic doctor who treats people of all ages, focusing on digestive and cardiovascular health, chronic illnesses, and overall wellness. He is also a faculty member, meditation teacher, and collaborator with research programs aimed at integrating naturopathic approaches and mindfulness practices into broader healthcare solutions.Join us for an enlightening discussion about the principles and applications of naturopathic medicine, and stay tuned to gain fresh perspectives on holistic health.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at huemanpartnership.org.
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. And today's show is on naturopathic medicine, which is a really interesting twist, given all the different shows that we've had. And now we're going to talk about it from a naturopathic medicine point of view. We have a great guest with us. I'll get to him in just a moment. As you probably know, we have a great crew
that makes our shows very, very successful. Maddie Levine-Wolfe, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, our researchers, Matthew Campbell, production, marketing, and research, Sheridan Nygaard, our medical advisors, Dr. Barry Baines on the show today, and also my partner in crime on this show, co-host, Clarence Jones, thank you to all of you.
Again, I've said this many, many times, you're second to none and you're wonderful colleagues. Human Partnership is our sponsor for our shows. It's a great community health organization that Clarence has certainly been involved with for many, many years and helps us get these shows out to you, the listening audience. You can check them out at humanpartnership.com.
And check us, wait, I take that back, humanpartnership.org. And our show is healthchatterpodcast.com, where you can see all of the research that we do for these shows. And you can also put in questions that you might have, and we certainly can get back to you. So thank you all for listening in to today's show. Today we have Dr. Drew Litchey, who's a naturopathic physician doctor.
He's a graduate at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. I believe there's just a couple of these in the country, which you'll probably talk to us about. People of all ages utilizing modern biomedical research and time-tested naturopathic approaches at his clinic here in Minnesota.
He's a graduate faculty at the University of Minnesota, adjunct faculty at the National University of Natural Medicine. He does a lot of things with his family, which I'm sure he'll talk about a little bit. But it's great having you. We've talked about a lot of health-related issues on Health Chatter. To be quite blunt, we've never come at it from this angle.
And so, you know, it's really good having you. So thanks for being with us, Drew. It's really a pleasure. So, all right, let me get the ball rolling here. Naturopathic medicine. Why don't you just start out with a good definition of it for our listening audience?
Well, sure. Well, a naturopathic physician, naturopathic doctor, it's someone trained in both conventional medicine as well as naturopathic or alternative modalities. And so we're a mid or physician level provider, depending on the state, that really we have one foot in both worlds of alternative, complementary and conventional treatment.
We have a pretty broad type of practice we may find ourselves in. Depending on the state, we could be acting as primary care providers, doing medication management, taking care of things that you see in a primary care setting. And also we act as adjunctive specialists or specialists in more serious and chronic conditions where we complement conventional treatment and conventional approaches.
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