blow everyone and welcome to relax with joan my name is joan kaylor i'd like to welcome you all and i am so excited about the show today wait till you see what we're going to do  our ways if you have any health care questions please consult your health care provider or your physician today i am absolutely thrilled to have both dr heidi weinhold who is a doctor of natural path madison and maggie who we will meet later and she is a licensed acupuncturist so for the first half of the show i'm going to talk with dr heidi about what she does hi dr heidi welcome to the show specialize in natural or holistic medicine nature path that doctors are training is very similar to other medical doctors we go through for your medical training programs we work on physiology biochemistry we learn about pharmacology but where we differ from other medical doctors is our training our philosophy we're tight heavily things like nutrition home that's a really good point because there right now in pennsylvania there isn't anything to discern in nature path that dr that has completed a post doctorate level education we've had four years of college an additional four years of medical training we've had a pastor board exams in arizona where nature path the doctors are licensed you can actually do minor surgery wow have hospital privileges you work in conjunction with other doctors  whereas here there isn't a license for nature path to doctors and it's very frustrating and we're really trying to push for licensure in pennsylvania because it would allow more access for for people to have access to alternative care nature a path to care and it's a much needed if we're really filling a void and this medical community and people are looking for you know accurate information far as they wish for tional supplements dosages what if these herbs or will they interact with my medications and that's where that's where we come in and here we're we're not here to replace anything we're here to compliment and you know i have worked together yes a lot in treating children with autism spectrum disorder with really good results and obsessive compulsive disorder and it's you know today three hundred million doses of ritalin are dispense daily to children one in five boys are taking ritalin or some kind of prescription stimulant and it's just outrageous and we don't know the consequences of all of this medication special in such a young age and then i don't know i before and after you know they come in with with patches and then they and then a couple weeks later they have a full head of hair sometimes it works that fast and sometimes that there isn't what i'm so excited about is  you and i have worked together with various patients and also dr heidi help me i had very high cholesterol and chose this avenue as a complement to regular medical care and my cholesterol felt greatly so this can happen sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't in my case it did happen so that's why i just i'm so excited to know dr heidi and to work with her and to refer clients back and forth with her and it really cholesterols a common problem and a lot of people can't take the medications i mean they may have muscle cramping or just they just don't feel quite right but there are so many other natural supplements available extract is one that is really helpful knowing cholesterol without the side effects just for one second getting back to what we originally discussed about your training so if somebody is looking for a doctor of natural path medicine hopefully they'd call you they would or they could actually they could have gone on the web say ok and that's w w w dot dr it's all spelled out community there's there's definitely a time in a place for medications but i really believe that this whole society is over medicating i mean there's far too many prescription drugs the average american is on fifteen different medications wow yeah and then when sure on you have to real when you take a medication you're also choosing your side effects because each medication has has side effects and so you know someone comes in with with a certain symptom instead of you know really trying to figure out ok what's the cause was causing the problem doctors are too quick to prescribe a pill just to mask the symptom in not really treating china figure out the whole case you know doctors there and they are trained in things like nutrition nutritional supplements only up at the herbal medicine when you ask them questions they're they're afraid to answer you because they don't know they're just it's not wasn't part of their training or what i love so much about combining you i have a team i have you i have my primary care physician i have my current practice and i am taking high blood pressure medication but then i also know that if i want to add something to it for another situation you understand and you and in causes leads to a lot of other autoimmune conditions and what you do is so wonderful so things like meditation and stress management learning how to breathe in just controlling your stress healthier way to live and that's why we work so well together because we're both holistic in our philosophies exactly  it's safe it's nontoxic and it's based on the principle that like treats like it's almost like an allergy shot you're given something very similar to eat it like a healthy person if you gave that substance it could actually cause their symptoms but if you have those symptoms and take that remedy it actually relieves them give you an example like coffee let me think of coffee if you drink it late at night it would keep you up be awa homeopathic coffee is actually really good for sleeplessness and it actually is very calming it can help people get a deeper sleep they actually brought a tube of a of a homeopathic remedy just to show people what it what it looks like the only up with you they come in these little little tubes and you just press it is little pellets come out in there they're just little white pellets and they just dissolve under the tongue they're very safe they're safer with kids with thing w in civil war kids because they felt that it gave soldiers courage to go on the battlefield so this is giving you kurds to talk to us not this you're  so how do you know how to combine how many opera feet with medication that's part of your various raining ok and that's part of our training and hold me up it's really complicated and initial intake it will take anywhere results using this for things like like autism mountains and spectrum disorders other autoimmune diseases things like lupus allergies health what would be some typical questions you would ask somebody on their first meeting with you i mean and some of them are bizarre it's it all has a need meaning but you know a lot of it is is very similar to like a regular a standard intake and then ask you a lot about your diet everyone brings in a list of their medications dosages so that we can check for for interactions and just us ask about your history cities overall review assists systems that is a really thorough conversation now with folks wow and i know it was about an hour and a half when i first met dr heidi as well but it was a lot of fun dr heidi how important are supplements vitamins i think they're really important today in today's society because so many people are running for fast food you know not many people or are really just cooking meals they like they used to anymore there's so many preservatives and we're not getting enough really nutrition in our food so it is a good idea to  take insurance and it's frustrating and you know that won't happen and so we're license distance of a ticket and that's a really why we're pushing for that to really have to give people access to this type of care but it's well worth it it is emphasis prevented if and it's not something you have to come in like weekly right you know you come in for initial intake and then we'll enough follow up for one month maybe two or three months afterwards and they do offer patients like free five minute phone call it starts in the morning a half hour lots in that they can just call me at any time during that half hour with their questions they're not sure about dosages or if they have a cold there's something comes up great i know i i'm a big advocate of fish oil i take a teaspoon of liquid fish oil every day and i take now i started taking a tablespoon of flax seed oil so i'm just slipping on through peter's township i'm a little like that but i'm very healthy thanks to you and the lifestyle i've chosen i think we're going to go to our commercial break fairly soon and i have several enjoyed this conversation with you and so thrilled that both of us could be together talking about this and helping to let the community now what natural path medicine is all about so when we come back we'll talk about acupuncture and be all do our part together we can provide hope across the world to learn more check out siyad yeah dot org helping people just like you get smart about their money smart about money that are today and start taking control of your financial li successfully train a lot of people of all this problem well and also for the pain relief you know and also for just talking today it's acupuncture for patients going through chemotherapy to have a lot of you go through chemotherapy and you would get nausea and a warm body you know and then they will cover this problem without further ado why don't we go ahead and start some acupuncture and then you can explain to the audience and acupuncture treatments you know the first thing i would do is for their relaxation and i will put the needle is on the top of the had actually this is a point you can use for  definitely help about that and the special point you know i mean that we have some points on the years you know special points in years and on the wrist and they can help you about that they can help you use certain points you know on the by the way and the twi to you know first relax your mind and then we will try to surprise your appetite to suppress surprise surprise that is probably the same i know when i came into your office you had very relaxing music and i am on a table and i had needles in the top of my head on my face in the wrist on the back of my and  comfortable right now i don't even know these needles are in me i just know i'm very lucky to know maggie and that she is just flowing beautifully right now and i was having so much fun talking with maggie and dr heidi and talking with you so this is something that you can add as a complement to your health care which we should tell them also where they can and we have that would help me to think that all of these services myself are nature path take care and junkyard hotmail dot com i'm also linked to appalachian botanicals and please feel free to call dr heidi your maggie if you would like a consultation with them this is been so much fun today and i thank you all for watching and look forward to the next show over lax with joan you never know what i'm going to come up with next so have a great day and happy new year to everyone