Dr. Kandis Lock ND | Naturopathic Therapies

Naturopathic Therapies

Dr. Kandis is licensed in the following modalities:

Clinical nutrition

Hippocrates, the founding father or medicine said, “Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food”. Foods are our building blocks and can be tailored to meet specific goals or to treat a specific illness. A nutritional assessment followed by modifications, dietary protocols and supplements are used to optimize your health.

Lifestyle counseling

The way in which we live our lives and the habits we can either positively or negatively affect our health. We look at time management, stress management and other life habits and assess whether they are working for or against you.

Botanical medicine

Plant medicines have been prescribed for thousands of years and are often the basis for current prescription medications. The difference is that using the whole herb is how this particular medicine was designed to work best, often with fewer side effects.

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a complete medical system that has been used to diagnose, treat and prevent illness for thousands of years. The aim of TCM is to promote the smooth flow of energy (or Qi), yin and yang, which when out of balance cause illness. By taking a detailed history of your symptoms, assessing the quality of your pulses and looking at your tongue, Dr. Kandis will come up with a Chinese Medical Diagnosis. Acupuncture, herbs and diet are used to treat.

Homeopathy

Homeopathy, as with other natural medicines, focuses on your physical and emotional symptoms. It is based on the principle of “like cures like” and uses minute amounts of natural substances to stimulate the self-healing abilities of the body.

Intravenous Therapy

The intravenous delivery of nutrients is a very safe and effective way to provide the body with therapeutic and nutritional agents. The advantage of IV therapy over taking oral doses is that the vitamins or nutrients bypass the digestive system and get delivered directly into the bloodstream and to the cells in the body.

In conditions where there is a poor absorption of nutrients orally, IV therapy can become a powerful tool. IV therapy allows for the patient to receive much higher doses than would ever be achieved orally, achieving a greater pharmacologic action. Each IV therapy is also tailored to meet the specific needs of the patient.

IV therapy is commonly used for the following (although is not limited to these conditions):

Acute infections (colds, flu’s, etc.)
Allergies
Asthma
Cancer
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn’s and Colitis) or IBS
Migraines
Neurological diseases (MS, Parkinson’s, Neuralgia, shingles, etc)
Recovery enhancement for athletes

IV is also used generally for balancing the immune system and increasing energy levels

IV vitamin therapy is a specialized treatment that can provide effective results that may not be found in other therapies. Dr. Lock, ND is licensed and board certified to practice IV therapy in Ontario.